Tag: Medicine

spot_img

Second malaria vaccine R21/Matrix-M recommended by WHO

A new vaccine, R21/Matrix-M has been recommended by the WHO for the prevention of malaria in children.   Earlier in 2021, WHO had recommended RTS,S/AS01...

Nobel Prize in Medicine for COVID-19 vaccine  

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023 has been awarded jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman "for their discoveries concerning nucleoside...

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...

Stay in touch:

86,486FansLike
41,723FollowersFollow
1,772FollowersFollow
49SubscribersSubscribe

Newsletter

Don't miss

NASA Invites ISRO to Join Moon Base Programme

NASA has invited ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) to...

2026 Total Solar Eclipse

On 12 August 2026, a total solar eclipse was...

AI Designs Complete Functional Genomes

The genome language model Evo 2 has designed novel...

Voyager 2: The “Big Bang” Procedure Extends Life of Science Instruments

The “Big Bang” Energy-management procedure performed on Voyager 2...

A Black Hole That Is Not Formed from Stellar Collapse 

The black hole in the Little Red Dot (LRD)...