3D printers may save lives in the future!India.Com HealthSurgeon Anthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, recently demonstrated how 3D printing could someday soon solve the organ-donor problem. His research, which…
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Illumina Launches New Reagent Kits for the MiSeq® System
Fort Mills Times The benefits of increased paired-end read lengths include improving the quality of genome assemblies and advancing applications that require longer read lengths, such as metagenomics and human leukocyte antigen (HLA) typing. “The new MiSeq kits are … |
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Heart’s Own Stem Cells Can Be Used To Treat Heart Failure: Study
Headlines & Global News Heart Failure is the cause of 287,000 deaths a year with over 5 million Americans currently living with some form of heart diseases. Approximately, 550,000 new cases are diagnosed in the U.S. each year with this disease being the leading cause of death … Heart’s own stem cells could help treat cardiac failureIndia.Com Health |
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Ship of Theseus carries message about organ donation
The National Advocates of organ donation are hoping that the publicity around the film and the pledge by Khan (who featured in Time magazine’s list of 100 Most Influential People in 2013) will spread awareness and encourage more Indians to donate their organs, … |
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German organ donor scandal doctor goes on trial
BBC News A doctor accused of falsifying patients’ information to push them up an organ transplant list goes on trial in Germany on Monday. It is alleged the doctor falsified information in at least 25 cases, and accepted money from multiple patients outside … Donor scandal doctor blasts ‘absurd’ chargesThe Local.de Organ transplant fraud trial opens in GermanyDeutsche Welle |
New antibodies estimate risk of polyps developing into bowel cancerNews-Medical.netPolyps in the mucosa of the colon are a common finding during screening colonoscopies. Some sub-groups of polyps are classed as precursors of bowel cancer. Until now, it…
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Children’s Cancer Recovery Foundation Reveals New Antibodies that May Fight …
DigitalJournal.com The article explains that they “have developed two monoclonal antibodies called anti-4-1BB and anti-CD40 and investigated a third called anti-CTLA-4.” The antibodies bind to different molecules in the immune system and stimulate its response in … |
Blood donation camp held at GSVM, 28 units collectedTimes of IndiaKANPUR: The authorities of GaneshShankarVidyarthi Memorial Medical College (GSVM), in association with several NGOs, organized a blood donation camp on Sunday. Around 28 units of blood w…
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Children’s Cancer Recovery Foundation Reveals New Antibodies that May Fight …
EIN News (press release) The article explains that they “have developed two monoclonal antibodies called anti-4-1BB and anti-CD40 and investigated a third called anti-CTLA-4.” The antibodies bind to different molecules in the immune system and stimulate its response in … |
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‘Assam government will find it hard to ban all forms of tobacco’
India.Com Health It is well known that tobacco usage causes poor oral health and roughly accounts for 90% of mouth cancer, 80% of lung cancers, 50% of all human cancers, 70% of lung diseases and 60% of heart attacks. As per Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) … |