CSIR-CSIO creates defensive eyewear for medicinal services experts rewarding COVID patients Kumar Jeetendra | June 27, 2020 The Central Scientific Instruments Organization (CSIR-CSIO) has built up an innovation for accuracy assembling of security goggles for the social insurance experts engaged with rewarding high-popular burden patients as on account of the COVID-19 pandemic. The current circumstance has drawn out the need and noteworthiness of powerful close to home defensive hardware (PPE) to secure …
Gym equipment in public rec centers have elevated levels of anti-toxin safe microbes Kumar Jeetendra | July 26, 2020 Research presented at ASM Microbe Online found that 43 percent of Staphylococcus bacteria discovered on exercise equipment in university gyms were ampicillin-resistant, with 73% of these isolates being resistant to multiple other medications. As stated by this U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, roughly 120,000 S. aureus bacteremia cases led to 20,000 deaths in …
Remedial got from turmeric shows guarantee in treating canine visual condition Kumar Jeetendra | September 5, 2020 Researchers in Texas A&M University have produced a curative derived from turmeric, a spice long-praised because of its natural anti-inflammatory properties, that shows promise in decreasing ocular inflammation in dogs suffering from uveitis, an inflammation of the eye that leads to pain and reduced vision. Uveitis — a frequent condition in dogs, humans, and other …
Female mosquitoes can distinguish a mix of four unique substances in blood Kumar Jeetendra | October 13, 2020 Mosquitoes spread diseases like malaria, dengue, and yellow fever that kill at least a half a million people each year. Researchers are learning what people taste like to mosquitoesdown to the individual neurons that sense blood’s distinctive, flavorful taste. Female mosquitoes have a sense of taste that is especially tuned to detect a combination of …
Study uncovers new and basic subtleties of how photoreceptors work Kumar Jeetendra | October 26, 2020 Moving around in the half-light is difficult but not impossible. To help us in this undertaking we have the rods, a type of light-sensitive cells (photoreceptors) present in the retina of vertebrates, capable of detecting very low lights that allow to move about even in poorly lit cellars or caves. They are biological wonders capable …
Washing hands and Halloween candy can diminish COVID-19 introduction hazard Kumar Jeetendra | November 2, 2020 New research indicates that COVID-19 exposure risk from contaminated candy might be successfully mitigated either by washing hands and washing candy with a simple at-home technique. A group of researchers published this work today in mSystems, an open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology. The researchers enrolled 10 recently diagnosed asymptomatic or mildly/moderately symptomatic …
Researchers use quality treatment to recover harmed optic nerve filaments Kumar Jeetendra | November 5, 2020 Scientists have used gene therapy to regenerate damaged nerve fibers from the eye, in a discovery that could aid the development of new treatments for glaucoma, one of the main causes of blindness worldwide. Axons – nerve pathways – in the adult central nervous system (CNS) do not normally regenerate after injury and disease, meaning …
Researchers grow first biohybrid fake retina with silk fibroin and retinal cells Kumar Jeetendra | December 13, 2020 An international research led by the Complutense University of Madrid has taken a further step to solve the age-related macular degeneration (AMD)-derived blidness problem with the development of the first biohybrid artificial retina constructed with silk fibroin and retinal cells. The biohybrid retina is a cell therapy for the reconstruction of the damaged retina by …
New information shows empowering results for patients with neuro-degenerative blinding eye illness Kumar Jeetendra | December 16, 2020 New data published in the Journal Science Translational Medicine shows encouraging results in a worldwide clinical trial for patients diagnosed with the neuro-degenerative blinding eye disease; Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON. The disease is an inherited type of vision loss estimated to affect 1 in 30,000 to 50,000 individuals. LHON most often afflicts individuals with …
Recently recognized supplement helps the gut review earlier diseases and execute attacking bacteria Kumar Jeetendra | January 17, 2021 Scientists studying the body’s natural defenses against bacterial disease have identified a nutritional supplement –taurine–that helps the gut recall prior infections and kill invading bacteria, such as Klebsiella pneumoniae (Kpn). The finding, published in the journal Cell by scientists from five institutes of the National Institutes of Health, could help efforts seeking alternatives to antibiotics. …
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 …
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 …
