Monthly Archives: August 2017
Why animal trial results don’t always translate to humans
Ri Scarborough, Monash University. Throughout the era of modern medicine, animals have been used extensively to develop and test therapies before they are tested in humans....
FDA approves new treatment for kissing bug infection
Credit@ emaze.com The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval to benznidazole for use in children ages 2 to 12 years old with Chagas disease. It is the...
Newly discovered plant enzymes open the door to novel compound production
A wealth of previously undescribed plant enzymes have been discovered by an international team of scientists led by the John Innes Centre, in which bioinformatics experts of...
New Mode of miRNA Delivery in Flat-worm Sheds light on Brain Organisation
Liposomal mediated nucleic acid delivery in flatworm. Credit @ Dr. Praveen Kumar Vemula Lab Researchers have developed non-viral vectors to deliver nucleic acids into...
Less-pure forms of protein works better than pure-form sometimes
Credit @ Wageningen University Proteins extracted from potatoes, blood plasma and peas retain their functionality, even in less-pure forms. In fact, sometimes their...
‘Retraining’ the immune system to fight against Diabetes
Insulin inside cells/Credit @ Cardiff University It may be possible to ‘retrain’ the immune system to slow the progression of type 1 diabetes, according to a study by...
New diagnostic kit for DMD muscle loss disease – Healthcare
Researchers at Cardiff University and Cardiff and Vale University Health Board have developed a more reliable method of screening for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in...
Feeding Frenzy Behaviour Seen in Certain Worms – Study Reports
Mathematical model helps explain animals’ decision-making process. The C. elegans roundworm sees by eating, sucking in big gulps of bacteria to learn about its surrounding...
Mystery Solved: Children’s Neurological Disease Traced to a Single Error in One...
Scientists find that affected children’s cells are flooded with ribosomal RNA and are poisoned by it, the first time that an excess of ribosomal RNA has been linked to a...
50% Decline in Sperm Counts of Western men Since 1973 – 40 years Study...
Meta-analysis finds that among men from North America, Europe and Australia, sperm concentration has declined more than 50% in less than 40 years. A rigorous and...