Portuguese hospitals under stress as COVID-19 cases touched record Kumar Jeetendra | January 17, 2021 Portugal’s fragile health system is under growing pressure because of worrying increase in coronavirus infections, with the nation reporting 10,947 new cases and 166 deaths on Saturday, the worst surge since the pandemic began last year. The cases, which come a day after a new lockdown was set in place, bring the whole number of …
Analysts build up a little, yet successful technique for forestalling premature birth Kumar Jeetendra | January 14, 2021 In a study in mice and human cells, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say that they have developed a little, yet effective method for preventing premature birth. The vaginally-delivered treatment contains nanosized (billionth of a meter) particles of drugs that easily penetrate the vaginal wall to reach the uterine muscles and keep them from contracting. If …
UH scientist attempting to recognize likely new therapeutic target for kidney sickness Kumar Jeetendra | January 14, 2021 In the past year, high serum suPAR levels also have been found to predict kidney and multiple organ failure in hospitalized patients with COVID-19. “FSGS is a particularly insidious kidney disease. In many patients, it inexorably leads to kidney failure and we don’t have much to offer to stop it, and worse still, in most …
109 individuals test positive for UK variant of Covid in India Kumar Jeetendra | January 14, 2021 The number of those who have tested positive for the new UK variant of SARS-CoV-2 in the nation has climbed to 109, the Union Health Ministry said on January 14. “The whole number of men found infected with the new UK variant genome stands at 109 now,” the ministry said. All these individuals are stored …
WHO team arrives in Wuhan to test sources of COVID-19 pandemic Kumar Jeetendra | January 14, 2021 A team of WHO experts arrived in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on Thursday to investigate the origins of the deadly coronavirus pandemic. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian on Tuesday reported that the team will fly from Singapore to Wuhan, where the virus first emerged in December 2019. The World Health Organisation team’s …
Analysts recognize interface among ALS and collection of DNA-RNA hybrids in the genome Kumar Jeetendra | January 13, 2021 Researchers from the University of Seville and the University of Pavia have identified a connection between Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and the accumulation of DNA-RNA hybrids in the genome. The accumulation of these hybrids causes increased genomic damage and boosts genetic instability. This finding will make it possible to better understand the molecular basis of …
Study shows distancing and mandatory masks can forestall 87% of grounds COVID-19 diseases Kumar Jeetendra | January 13, 2021 The combined effectiveness of three COVID-prevention strategies on college campuses–mask-wearing, social distancing, and routine testing–are equally as effective in preventing coronavirus infections as the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), according to a new study co-authored by a Case Western Reserve University researcher. The study, published in Annals …
Boosting a characteristic cell cycle could bring down ventilator-related lung damage Kumar Jeetendra | January 12, 2021 An unfortunate truth about the use of mechanical ventilation to save the lives of patients in respiratory distress is that the pressure used to inflate the lungs is very likely to cause further lung damage. In a new study, scientists identified a molecule that’s produced by immune cells during mechanical ventilation to try to decrease …
New fluorescence microscopy strategy produces nanoscale 3D pictures of living cells Kumar Jeetendra | January 12, 2021 A new fluorescence microscopy technique has produced the world’s first nanoscale 3D images of molecules in a whole, living cell, researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology reported. Ilaria Testa, an associate professor at KTH and researcher at the Science for Life Laboratory, says the technique is capable of generating images with precision that until …
Bharat Biotech dispatches first consignment of Covaxin; Kolkata gets the most noteworthy doses of Covishield Kumar Jeetendra | January 12, 2021 Bharat Biotech, which has received Emergency Use Authorisation approval from the Drug Controller General of India for its COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin, is set to dispatch it from the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport on January 12, in the day, a senior official of the Airports cargo branch told news agency PTI. “Today we have received the …
Scientists gives better comprehension of how antibiotic resistance emerges Kumar Jeetendra | January 11, 2021 Researchers at the Quadram Institute on the Norwich Research Park have shown how the development of antibiotic resistance by bacteria may have’side-effects’ for them including affecting their ability to induce disease. Antibiotic resistance is still one of the best challenges to global health with very few new antibiotics and widespread immunity. It’s been estimated that …
Researchers arrive at significant achievement in leishmaniasis immunization advancement Kumar Jeetendra | January 11, 2021 Scientists have taken an important step forward in creating a controlled human infection model to test leishmaniasis vaccines. The University of York-led study identified and characterized a new strain of Leishmania parasite that will form the basis of a new controlled human infection model for the disease which is transmitted by the bite of sand …
