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Understanding the RNA binding protein and its functions inside the cell

... This molecule once inside the cells is not easily broken by the enzymes. To one end of the molecule is attached a peptide nucleic acid (PNA) which has a cell-penetrating peptide called transportan 10. This helps the PNA to pass through the cell membrane. After this the PNA binds to a specific target mess...

Male Contraceptive Pill Being Developed By Berlin Pharmaceutical

.... "If you swallow testosterone in pill form, it is broken up in the liver and rendered useless," Habenicht adds. Nevertheless, she is confident that men will accept this form of contraception. "For many, according to surveys, this is an alternative to cutting the vas deferens", the sperm duct that runs fro...

Additional Responsiblities To Be Taken Up By Allied Healthcare Professionals

...barrier related to shortage of workforce should be broken down without any hesitation. He has also expressed hope that quality medical services provided by doctors can be satisfactorily provided by allied health care workers without a compromise on the safety. "We are not going to fix the problem in tomor...

Measles Breaks Out In Kashmir

Measles is reported to have broken out in the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir, with 19 children falling seriously ill. A senior police officer said two children at Sangarwani village // in Pulwama District in south Kashmir died of measles, a highly infectious disease that has assume...

Rural Canadians travel far for specialists: study

...the remote communities of the territories. When broken down by category, the study shows that nearly 16 per cent of family physicians and slightly more than 2 per cent of specialists worked in rural areas. Report co-author Dr. Raymond Pong of the Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research says it i...

Metastasis of Neuroblastoma linked to Loss Of Caspase-8 gene

...ia// at San Diego (UCSD). Cancer cells that have broken itself from the main primary tumor have lost the function of this gene. Hence it is clear that caspase-8 gene is responsible for inhibiting metastasis. Neuroblastoma is addressed to all tumors present in the nervous system. It is commonly seen in c...

Skin Cancer Risk Increases With Ultraviolet-B Radiation Exposure

...d xeroderma pigmentosum are unable to repair these broken strands and hence are at increased risk of developing skin cancer. Li-E Wang, M.D., and Qingyi Wei, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and colleagues measured the chromatid breaks in a study involving chr...

Man Convicted For Spreading HIV

...aul McMurray also contends that his client has not broken any law, "Everybody I think accepts that you're supposed to disclose and you're supposed to wear condoms but this falls short of that and that's the difficulty here," he commented....

Fruitfly My Distant Cousin

...rs looked at their small intestines, where food is broken down into its constituent nutrients for the body to absorb. They focused on two cell types cells that line the small and large intestines in a single layer to help break up and transport food molecules, called enterocytes; and cells that produce pept...

Domestic Violence: The Silent Killer of Women Worldwide

...f her mistress at 2 am, with a bleeding head and a broken arm. Her husband, who saw her talk to a male neigh...ners, the results of which led to pain, dizziness, broken bones, bruises, burns, cracked skulls, dislocated jaws, vaginal discharge, rape and fear. In additio...

Chromosome Ends Trigger DNA Damage Response For Telomere Protection

...DNA repair machinery from confusing telomeres with broken strands of DNA that need to be repaired, the tips of chromosomes are tucked in and shielded by a phalanx of proteins, forming a protective "cap". The research team, led by Jan Karlseder, found that several well-known members of the DNA damage respo...

Vegetables And Garlic Confer Protection From Skin Cancer

...se vegetables contain glucosinolates, which can be broken down into sulphoraphane. This is the main chemical, which has anti-cancer properties. The researchers rubbed an extract from the broccoli onto the skin of hairless mice and found that this appeared to inhibit the carcinogenic effects of the ultra-vio...

Will you be willing to patch up your vertebrae with cement?

...ty, in which a form of cement is injected into the broken spinal bone has revolutionized the treatment of osteoarthritis. Vertebroplasty came to the United States in 1993, when Dr. Mary Jensen and Dr. Jacques Dion, interventional neuroradiologists at the University of Virginia Health System, were confront...

"An Armour against pleasure, and a cobweb against infection" – Has the condom withstood the test of time

... gonorrhea or Chlamydia. Men who said a condom had broken during the last 30 days were more than 90 percent more likely to have gonorrhea. The tendency to assume that consistent condom users are using condoms correctly seriously underestimates their risk of transmitting or contracting STDs or becoming preg...

Dentists Recommend Kids Use Mouthguard To Protect Them When Doing Sports

...ards help cushion blows that might otherwise cause broken teeth, and injuries to the lips, tongue, face or jaw. They also may reduce the severity and incidence of concussions. If a child wears braces or another fixed dental appliance on their lower jaw, the dentist may suggest a mouth protector for those te...

Discovery of World’s smallest laser

...n order to image single nanolasers, the wires were broken out of th earrays and spread onto a glass slide for imaging with a near-field optical microscope.Single nanowires are “pumped” with extremely short pulses -less than one-trillionth of a second - of ultraviolent radiation from a high power laser, afte...

DNA and clones

...thing wrong with the gene itself, as soon as it is broken and rejoined or inverted - as soon as its spatial condition changes in the nucleus - the condition arises."For the first time, thisenables us allows us to think about how human genetic diseases can result not just by mutating gene sequences, but also...

Teenage Obesity And Metabolic Syndrome

...ine happens when the tobacco smoke is biologically broken down in the body. This indicates the presence of nicotine in the body and researchers said that this is due to second hand smoking and exposure the teenagers get to tobacco smoke from the smoking habits of the family members. In comparison with the t...

Consumers Becoming More Health Conscious Than Calorie Conscious

...s foods based on the speed at which the sugars are broken down and released into the body, is emerging as the basis for a healthy diet, and as a means of losing weight. This is because the consumers are moving away from the deprivation model and becoming more interested in stabilizing blood sugar levels ...

Its Possible To Grow Bone To Replace The Damaged Bone

...e from a patient?s rib or hip and fuse them to the broken bone. They use the same method to fuse spinal vertebrae to treat serious spinal injuries and back pain. Although this works well at the repair site, the removal operation is extremely painful and can produce serious complications. If the new method i...

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