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Tumour Treating Fields (TTFields) approved for Pancreatic cancer

Cancer cells have electrically charged parts hence are influenced by electric fields. Application of alternating electric fields (TTFields) to solid tumours selectively target and...

Two Novel Henipaviruses Detected in Fruit bats in China 

The henipaviruses, Hendra virus (HeV) and Nipah virus (NiV) are known to cause fatal diseases in humans. In 2022, Langya henipavirus (LayV), a novel henipavirus was identified in Eastern...

UK’s First Birth Following Living-donor Uterine Transplantation

The woman who had undergone the first living-donor uterus transplantation (LD UTx) in the UK earlier in 2023 for absolute uterine factor infertility (AUFI)...

Brain-eating Amoeba (Naegleria fowleri) 

Brain-eating Amoeba (Naegleria fowleri) is responsible for brain infection known as primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM). The infection rate is very low but highly fatal....

Dementia: Klotho Injection Improves Cognition in Monkey 

Researchers have found that memory in aged monkey improved following a single administration of low-dose Klotho protein. It is the first time that restoring...

Back pain: Ccn2a protein reversed Intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration in animal model

In a recent in-vivo study on Zebrafish, researchers successfully induced disc regeneration in a degenerated disc by activating an endogenous Ccn2a-FGFR1-SHH signalling cascade. This suggests...

Organ Shortage for Transplantation: Enzymatic Conversion of Blood Group of Donor Kidneys and Lungs 

Using appropriate enzymes, researchers removed ABO blood group antigens from donor kidney and lung ex-vivo, to overcome ABO blood group mismatch. This approach can...

Monkeypox virus (MPXV) variants given new names 

On 08 August 2022, the expert group of WHO arrived at consensus on nomenclature of known and new monkeypox virus (MPXV) variants or clades....

The Novel Langya virus (LayV) identified in China  

Two henipaviruses, Hendra virus (HeV) and the Nipah virus (NiV) are already known to cause fatal disease in humans. Now, a novel henipavirus has...

Will Monkeypox go Corona way? 

Monkeypox virus (MPXV) is closely related to smallpox, the deadliest virus in history responsible for unparalleled devastation of human population in the past centuries...

HIV/AIDS: mRNA Vaccine Shows Promise in Pre-clinical Trial  

Successful development of mRNA vaccines, BNT162b2 (of Pfizer/BioNTech) and mRNA-1273 (of Moderna) against the novel coronavirus SARS CoV-2 and the important role these vaccines...

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