Daily aspirin can lessen danger of colorectal disease in adults Kumar Jeetendra | January 22, 2021 Regular aspirin use has clear benefits in reducing colorectal cancer incidence among middle-aged adults, but also comes with some risk, such as gastrointestinal bleeding. And when should adults start taking regular aspirin and for how long? There is substantial evidence that a daily aspirin can reduce risk of colorectal cancer in adults up to age …
Hester’s revenues remain un-impacted in the current Bird Flu (Avian Influenza) disease outbreaks Kumar Jeetendra | January 22, 2021 As all are aware, there have been Bird Flu outbreaks across India. The spread of Bird Flu has been mainly through migratory wild birds. In the winter months, wild birds migrate to the tropical areas, India being in the tropics. These birds may have been infected with Bird Flu. They carry the disease along their …
Viveo Health Partners with Doceree and Credihealth to Strengthen its Network in India Kumar Jeetendra | January 22, 2021 Mumbai, 22nd January, 2021: Within a month of setting its footprint in the Indian market, Estonia based global e-health innovator company Viveo Health, today announced two major partnerships with the Indian companies “Doceree” and “Credihealth”. Trusted by thousands of health professionals in over 40 countries around the world, Viveo Health is committed to provide world-class …
WHO says Pfizer arrangement could permit poor nations to begin immunizing in February Kumar Jeetendra | January 23, 2021 The World Health Organization said on Friday it had reached an agreement with Pfizer/BioNTech for 40 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine and should be able to start delivering vaccines to poor and lower-middle income countries next month under its own COVAX programme. Pfizer’s vaccine is up to now the only one which has WHO …
New upkeep treatment for AML shows solid advantage for patients Kumar Jeetendra | January 23, 2021 Patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), the most common form of leukemia in adults, that has gone into remission following initial chemotherapy remain in remission longer and have improved overall survival when they are given a pill form of the cancer drug azacitidine as a maintenance therapy, based on a randomized, international phase 3 clinical …
Sloan Kettering Institute specialists offer news answer to 100-year-old malignancy secret Kumar Jeetendra | January 23, 2021 The year 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of a basic discovery that is taught in every biochemistry textbook. In 1921, German doctor Otto Warburg observed that cancer cells harvest energy from sugar sugar in a strangely inefficient manner: instead of”burn” it using cancer cells do what yeast do — they ferment it. This oxygen-independent process …
Corning to feature most current product in 3D cell culture portfolio at SLAS2021 Kumar Jeetendra | January 23, 2021 Corning Incorporated will highlight its hottest technologies that support the advancement of 3D cell culture, automation, and drug discovery in this year’s virtual Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) seminar on Jan. 25 through 27. Now more than ever, tools used to ease scale-up, reproducibility, and consistency of 3D cell culture are helping empower …
Pancreatic β cell-inferred exosomal miR-29s control glucose homeostasis Kumar Jeetendra | January 24, 2021 In a new study published in Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, Chen-Yu Zhang’s team at Nanjing University, School of Life Sciences, and Antonio Vidal-Puig’s group at University of Cambridge report that pancreatic β cells secrete miR-29 family members (miR-29s) via exosomes in reaction to high levels of free fatty acids (FFAs). Formerly, Chen-Yu Zhang’s team identified …
UC research group utilizes zebrafish to contemplate a quality change that causes intrinsic scoliosis Kumar Jeetendra | January 24, 2021 Popular in aquariums throughout the world, the zebrafish is native to South Asia. But here in a Cincinnati Children’s laboratory, the freshwater variant plays a vital role in scientific discovery. The patterning of the zebrafish’s spine gives the appearance of stripes; it is controlled by segmentation genes which function as a clock. Zinani is part …
Japan liable to hit COVID-19 herd immunity in October, months after Olympics: Researcher Kumar Jeetendra | January 25, 2021 Japan is likely to achieve herd immunity to COVID-19 through mass inoculations just months after the planned Tokyo Olympics, even though it has locked in the largest quantity of vaccines in Asia, according to a London-based forecaster. That would be a blow to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga who has vowed to have enough shots for …
Strides Pharma gets USFDA gesture for conventional medication Kumar Jeetendra | January 25, 2021 New Delhi, Jan 25 (PTI) Strides Pharma Science on Monday said it has received approval from the US health regulator to market generic Ursodiol capsules, used in the treatment of Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC), in the American market. The company”s product is bioequivalent and therapeutically equivalent to Allergan Sales” Actigall capsules, it added. Based on …
Second-generation double antibody shields from SARS-CoV-2 and its tried variations Kumar Jeetendra | January 25, 2021 Additionally, it prevents the virus from mutating to resist the treatment . Antibody-based immunotherapy was already proven to work against COVID-19 but faces two chief obstacles: it requires to work against the circulating viral variants; it has to avoid formation of new variants, that can rapidly ensue using a mechanism similar to that leading to …
