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A community-based trial in Odisha finds that administrating synbiotics to newborns can halve sepsis-related deaths. That babies born by caesarean section are at a slightly higher risk of developing obesity, asthma and other…
Based on a study carried out in 2015, a team led by Dr. Manoj V. Murhekar, Director of the Chennai-based National Institute of Epidemiology, found scrub typhus to be responsible…
Stopping antibiotics half way through the course, when a patient feels better, may not guarantee cure of the infection. A single analysis piece published on July 26, 2017 in the journal…
In a first, researchers from the Oregon Health and Science University along with colleagues in California, China and South Korea repaired an error in the DNA sequence (mutation) in human…
Unlike current scaffolds, the 3D patch has high cell density, a foremost requirement for heart tissue. Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati have fabricated a 3D cardiac tissue…
As the drug delivery is better and bioavailability gets improved reduced dosage is sufficient to kill the bacteria. A new antibiotic drug-delivery system that improves the efficacy of drugs thereby…
Four-stranded DNA structures known as G-quadruplexes, which are present in human genome, can control the activities of cancer-causing genes and hence have emerged as anticancer drug targets. Scientists at the…
Questionable work published in predatory journals is being showcased by the Department of AYUSH as evidence of the benefits of panchagavya! No, it is not bullshit. It is Panchagavya. “One…
