Restriction Endonucleases Undergo Rigorous QC Testing to Ensure Optimal Performance
Stratagene Restriction endonucleases are used in many molecular biology protocols,making the functional purity of critical importance. Each restriction enzymepreparation must be free of contaminants that can potentiall...Antioxidants protect health tissue in people undergoing radiation therapy.
A recent finding by Indian scientists revealed that two antioxidants in black pepper and turmeric- piperine and curcumin were found to help protect the bacterial DNA from damage by irradiation in test organism. Spices with antioxidants property have radio protective effect and protecting organisms like Escherichia role and Bacillus megaterium organisms (taken for study) against of gamma...Avoid Coffee Before Undergoing PET/ CT scans
Researchers at Saint Louis University have suggested that patients going for PET or CT scan should avoid // drinking coffee as caffeine intake interferes with PET/CT image results when there is a known or suspected cancers, Dr. Osman from the university presented his study that looks at the relationship between caffeine intake and uptake by the hear of the tracer used in the PET scan c...Girls Who Undergo Genital Mutilation Can Become Infertile
A recent study that appears in the current edition of The Lancet said that girls who undergo genital mutilation might be at high risk from becoming infertile.// Female genital mutilation (FGM) is practiced in more than 30 countries. The World Health Organization estimates that more than 132 million women and girls in Africa have undergone FGM, and that about 2million procedures are don...AIDS Drug Found To Help Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy
Researchers say they discovered an anti-viral drug that helps reduce the risk of reactivating the hepatitis B virus in women who are being treated with chemotherapy for breast cancer.An estimated 12 percent // of breast cancer patients carry the hepatitis B virus and these patients are at risk of developing HBV reactivation during chemotherapy, which is a well-known complication resulting...Obese Adults Undergo Less Medical Tests And More Vulnerable To Diseases
Dr. Truls Ostbye and his colleagues from the Duke University of Medical Center has found that fat people had less preventive health care. Obese people had lower rate of medical testing and flu vaccination.// The study was conducted in 10,000 people who received mammography tests, Pap smear tests and flu vaccination. The researchers found that the results correlated with whites and no evi...