Study subtleties how glutamate flagging functions in the brain to empower neuronal communication Kumar Jeetendra | January 31, 2021 The most powerful substance in the human brain for neuronal communication is glutamate. It’s by far the most abundant, and it’s implicated in all kinds of operations. One of the most amazing is the slow restructuring of neural networks because of memory and learning acquisition, a process called synaptic plasticity. Glutamate is also of deep …
Research investigate how the current practice of nephrology may have bigoted philosophies Kumar Jeetendra | January 31, 2021 There is a growing awareness of systematic inequality and structural racism in American society. Science and medicine are no exception, as evidenced by historical cases of discrimination and overt racism. In a perspective piece in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), take an honest look …
WHO specialists visit Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan Kumar Jeetendra | January 31, 2021 The WHO experts, probing the origins of this COVID-19, on Sunday visited the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, where the mortal coronavirus was presumably transmitted from animals to humans in the late 2019 and spiralled into a pandemic. The wet market was where a range of live animals were traded before it was closed down …
Coronavirus antibody: AstraZeneca applies for full regulatory endorsement in Brazil Kumar Jeetendra | January 30, 2021 Brazilian health regulator Anvisa said on January 29 that a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca had applied for full regulatory approval, in a positive development for the nation’s beleaguered vaccine rollout. The entry, the first of its kind in Brazil, was made by the federally funded Fiocruz Institute, which will manufacture the …
New gene based vaccine procedure gets award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Kumar Jeetendra | January 29, 2021 The AAVCOVID vaccine application, a novel gene-based vaccine plan that utilizes an adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector, was granted an award for up to $2.1 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will assist the effort to bring further preclinical validation into the AAV vaccine platform. An AAVCOVID vaccine candidate is set to …
Substances in tick spit actuate insusceptible reaction smothering proteins in cattles Kumar Jeetendra | January 28, 2021 Scientists from Hokkaido University, Japan and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, have revealed that substances in tick saliva trigger immune response-suppressing proteins in cows that facilitates the transmission of tick-borne diseases. The finding was published in the journal Scientific Reports and could assist in the …
Biased appropriation of Covid antibodies chances fueling financial vulnerability: IMF Kumar Jeetendra | January 28, 2021 The IMF has warned that the inequitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines risks exacerbating financial vulnerabilities, particularly for frontier market economies, though their approval and rollout have boosted expectations of a global recovery and increased risk asset rates. In its Global Financial Stability update published on Wednesday, the International Monetary Fund underlined that before the coronavirus …
Study shows why children of obese moms have inclination to create metabolic illnesses Kumar Jeetendra | January 27, 2021 A Brazilian study published in the journal Molecular Human Reproduction helps understand why overweight mothers often have children with a propensity to develop metabolic disease during their lifetime, according to previous research. According to the authors,”transgenerational transmission of metabolic disorders” may be associated with Mfn2 deficiency in the mother’s oocytes (immature eggs). Mfn2 refers to …
‘Next-gen’ COVID-19 immunizations might be expected to handle arising variants, say researchers Kumar Jeetendra | January 27, 2021 The spread of COVID-19 variants is not an immediate problem but it’s time already for next-gen preventives to handle them, say scientists as nations fine-tune their vaccine dissemination programmes and the race to place additional vaccines in the market gathers pace. Work on vaccines will have to continue on parallel tracks — one to undertake …
UNSW builds up a clay based ink to 3D-print bone parts with living cells Kumar Jeetendra | January 26, 2021 3D printers may one day become a permanent fixture of the operating theatre after UNSW scientists showed they could print bone-like structures comprising living cells. Researchers from UNSW Sydney have developed a ceramic-based ink which may allow surgeons in the long run to 3D-print bone elements complete with living cells which could be used to …
World’s first completely reversible control of the circadian clock Kumar Jeetendra | January 26, 2021 The Nagoya University Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM) research team of Designated Associate Professor Tsuyoshi Hirota, Postdoctoral Fellow Simon Miller, Professor Kenichiro Itami and grad student Tsuyoshi Oshima (Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, JSPS), in collaboration with the team of Professor Ben Feringa and Postdoctoral Fellow Dušan Kolarski of Groningen University in the Netherlands, have …
Rersearch shows quick period of vein rebuilding after aneurysm Kumar Jeetendra | January 26, 2021 Hitting a pothole on the road in only the wrong way might create a bulge on the tire, a weakened spot that will almost certainly result in an eventual flat tire. But what if that tire could immediately begin reknitting its rubber, strengthening the bulge and preventing it from bursting? That’s exactly what blood vessels …
