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Nov 16, 2018

Actinic keratosis (AK) is a chronic and prevalent disease affecting areas of sun-exposed skin where visible and subclinical, non-visible lesions coexist. AK lesions are being represented as small scaly patches that can be flat or slightly raised. Their colour can range from one’s skin tone to a reddish-brown colour....

Nov 15, 2018

[caption id="attachment_3632" align="aligncenter" width="1387"]                                                                                                     COPD[/caption] Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ( COPD ) is a chronic inflammatory lung disease that causes obstructed airflow from the lung...

Nov 15, 2018

Preclinical biotech Synthorx needs a USD 100 Million IPO The early-stage Synthorx needs USD 100 million IPO.  A while ago, La Jolla, California-based biotech got off a USD 63 million series C, but now wants a USD 100 million from an IPO to progress its pipelines of synthetic cytokines, which are designed to improve ...

Nov 14, 2018

A new technique that makes dead mice transparent and hard like plastic is giving a cue to researchers an unprecedented view of how different types of cell interact in the body. The technique, called vDISCO, has already disclosed astonishing structural connections between organs, including cues about the extent to wh...

Nov 14, 2018

[caption id="attachment_3594" align="aligncenter" width="1360"] World Diabetes Day[/caption] Today we celebrate World Diabetes Day to raise global awareness of a disease that affects million people worldwide. In honor of this day, we have garnered myths & facts about diabetes.

Nov 14, 2018

[caption id="attachment_3575" align="aligncenter" width="1360"] World Diabetes Day[/caption] Caring for Diabetes involves family too. Education and awareness play the most important role in early diagnosis and management. World Diabetes Day is celebrated on 14 November each year.

Nov 13, 2018

The pancreatic cancer drug of GlaxoSmithKline moves to phase 1 The experimental drug, GSK095 of GlaxoSmithKline is made to work in order with a checkpoint that are inhibiting medicines in the empowerment of the immune system to introduce a more aggressive attack against tumours than with checkpoint inhibitors alone...

Nov 12, 2018

Could a virus be a treatment therapy? Confusing, isn't it? On the face value, it seems no; but on delving deeper, the confusion dissipates. There have been tireless efforts among a section of scientists to convert certain viruses through biotechnology techniques into anti-disease agents to infect and destroy cancer ...

Nov 09, 2018

What is Triple Negative Breast Cancer? Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) is defined as a heterogeneous breast cancer phenotype where the estrogen and progesterone receptor are negative, and there is a lack of overexpression of HER2, as assessed by immunohistochemistry (IHC), or the absence of its gene amplificati...

Nov 08, 2018

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation gives USD 85 Million to stop delayed, erroneous diagnostics The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is putting up money for improving diagnostics. The Foundation focuses on a plethora of areas, including those outside of healthcare, such as environmental conservation. It has an annua...