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Replacement Drivers Lend a Helping Hand to the Drunk and Stranded in Korea

Drunk and stranded in the middle of the night ? You wont have to worry if you are in Seoul, capital of South Korea. For you will have replacement drivers on call .Thousands of Koreans these days make a living by delivering inebriated people and their cars home. Their...

This is Why DNA Has Its Famous Helix Shape

...ned. "Based on the known structure of the single stranded DNA molecules, they had expected to see only one such plateau as the stacking forces severed. Exactly what happens at the molecular level at each of the two plateaus will be the subject of continued investigation," he said. The study is published ...

After Bringing Cheer Rains Choke Delhi's Roads

...vel to walk across the road. A couple of cars were stranded but that is a normal sight during the rains," said Nazvi Ahmed. The officials at the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said that the city could get some more rain during the course of the day. "The skies will remain partly cloudy throughout th...

Nanoparticles can Damage DNA, Increase Cancer Risk

...met assay) to quantify breaks in single and double stranded DNA. The team chose these particular nanoparticle types because they are commonly used commercially – in electronics, textiles and sporting goods – and easy to work with in the laboratory setting. "We observed both dose-dependent and time-dependent...

Health Secretary Apologizes For Failed Online Recruitment System

...red an apology to thousands of junior doctors left stranded without jobs. // Speaking on a BBC program, Hewitt acknowledged that the new online system had caused “terrible anxiety” and that it was “nowhere near where it should have been”. She was quoted: “That is exactly why junior doctors have been cau...

To Patent or Not-A Question of Life

...veloping countries resulting in millions of people stranded without life saving drugs. In defense Novartis says that patents enable income needed for drug research and production. The company says that AIDS affected persons soon grow resistant to antiretroviral drugs and newer ones need to be developed. This...

Ailing Indian doctor in Britain to return to Kolkata

...002 to work in the National Health Service but was stranded when he had to quit his job due to an incurable brain disease, will now be// able to return to India thanks to a campaign by a local newspaper in Sunderland. Kaushik Chatterjee, a doctor from Kolkata, came to Britain in the spring of 2002 and initi...

NHS De-addiction, Rehabilitation waiting time ticking into months

...alth Service) Scotland ,causing countless patients stranded and helpless . Most of the centers earmarked for drug and alcohol de-addiction have pointed out that most of the in- patient wards are empty and that referral rates have dramatically dropped. It has been noted by surveys that the addicts who have c...

Nobel Prize for Gene ‘Silencing

...ference’ involves the silencing of DNA by double- stranded RNA.This process plays a vital role in the regulat...and the ‘anti sense’ RNAs paired and formed double stranded RNA that activated the RNA interference machinery and silenced the gene whose codes matched that of ...

Charity Hospital - A year after Katrina hit New Orleans…

...a year back, hundreds of patients and doctors were stranded for days at the Charity Hospital, when the hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans.// On the 1-year anniversary of the storm, Charles Gibson reports from that hospital. “When you look around at where I'm standing, you might think you're in a warehouse...

A Royal Flush And A White Elephant

...al couple and putting up welcome arches, which are stranded procedure for such VIP tours. The irony of the whole situation is that after having built such a costly bathroom, the government does not know what to do with it. Following the departure of the royal couple, it stands like a monument, unused and lo...

Streptococcus Bacterium Enzyme Identified

...team from Newcastle University have found a triple stranded beta helix shaped enzyme which is responsible for the increased pathogenicity produced by Streptococcus bacterium. // Streptococcus is a gram positive bacterium which is the main cause of sore throat and is also responsible for causing Toxic shock sy...

Harsh British Winter Could Kill Upto 90,000 Pensioners

...or snow is expected. Several instances of people stranded in heavy snow have been reported. Electricity company Scottish Hydro Electric warned of possible widespread damage to the electricity network and has deployed extra engineers into strategic points throughout Scotland, including the Western Isles. ...

Toll-like Receptor (Tlr3) Attachment Leads To Lethal Encephalitis

...B) and cause lethal encephalitis. WNV is a single stranded RNA (ssRNA) flavivirus with a life cycle that primarily involves birds and mosquitoes; however, humans and horses can become infected. In humans, infection is generally asymptomatic and if West Nile fever does develop then the illness is generally mi...

Anthrax Scare In Tamil Nadu State of India

...tle that are meant to be slaughtered in Kerala are stranded at the Pollachi cattle market. With no government intervention the losses that have already amounted to 50 million rupees (1.15 million dollar) are likely to further rise. "Every week I used to purchase 30 cows from this cattle market. Now I had ...

Anthrax Scare In Tamil Nadu State of India

...tle that are meant to be slaughtered in Kerala are stranded at the Pollachi cattle market. With no government intervention the losses that have already amounted to 50 million rupees (1.15 million dollar) are likely to further rise. "Every week I used to purchase 30 cows from this cattle market. Now I had ...

Developing HIV fighter

...ecent years scientists have discovered that double stranded RNA can silence genes in a process called RNA interference. The component that accomplishes this - small interfering RNA, or siRNA . Sharp's team made two different siRNAs that targeted cell surface proteins essential for the HIV virus to infect a ce...

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