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Tag Archives: health
Bugs and infectious diseases
It’s well known that mosquitoes are carriers and transmitters of some of the most dreaded diseases like Malaria, Dongue fever, west nile fever etc. Ticks, Lice and Fleas cause Encephalitis, Lyme Disease, Typhus fever, Plague Flies carry all sorts of … Continue reading
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Tagged bed bugs, bugs, health, infections, science, science news
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Flu prevention and cure if infected close at hand?
A lot of people get sick every year due to the influenza virus. Some are hospitalized and a few even die. It’s intersting to see how the hospitalization rates varied over years CDC tracks this very closely as they do … Continue reading
Posted in biology, health, science
Tagged biology, Flu, GM-CSF, H1N1, health, immune system, influenza, science, science news, virus
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Playing the probability game and winning
Life is a game of probabilities. When it comes to health or wealth that’s especially true. In the world of investing everyone is guessing where the market goes next day, week, month, year, or whatever period. Being able to predict … Continue reading
Posted in biology, health, science
Tagged biology, health, immunization, prevention, science, science news, vaccine
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A better understanding of how Flu invades our bodies and cells helps give us better insight into prevention and mitigation
This is a very good article on the NSF website and research work on understanding common flu and also possibly H1N1 and other variants. In order to infect a healthy cell, a flu virus must enter the cell (upper left) … Continue reading
In general males have higher tendency to be autistic than females. New evidence for the genetic cause for this found by scientists from George Washington University.
George Washington University researcher, Dr. Valerie Hu, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and her team at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, found that male and female sex hormones regulate expression of an important gene RORA through a … Continue reading
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Tagged autism, biology, health, science, science news
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We know Bacteria can evolve. Is there emergence of intelligence in simple rules governing bacterial evolution?
Bacteria is the most successful life form we know of and has adopted very well. It will, most likely, out live any life form we know of. Probably the only thing that can outlive bacteria is virus. But by many … Continue reading
You are what’s in your gut
It’s been well known that serotonin production is regulated by bacteria (good bacteria) in the guts now new research seems to indicate that they also regulate synapse functioning. However, these effects were only confirmed in mice and it’s too early … Continue reading
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Tagged biology, happiness, health, science, science news, serotonin
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Genetically modified mosquitoes released into the wild – human manipulation like this has unpredictable results
Remember Jurassic Park? Ian Malcolm expresses the same surprise when he comes to know that John Hammond tells him how they took DNA of a dinosaur from mosquitoes preserved in amber since the Jurassic period. Ian says how could John … Continue reading
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Tagged biology, chaos, dengue fever, health, malaria, mosquito, mosquitoes, science
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Anti-malirial drug artensuate alone or combined with other cancer therapy effective in killing cancer cells especially if used in short bursts with drug free periods
Scientists investigating the cancer-fighting properties of artesunate a drug commonly used to treat malaria have found early evidence that combining it with an existing cancer drug has the potential to make each drug more effective than when used alone. The … Continue reading
Dongue fever and West Nile virus possible prevention through genetics?
By preventing the growth and egg production, is it possible to prevent the spread of mosquito borne viruses? Expanded abdomen of female Aedes aegypti with disrupted blood digestion. The mosquito Aedes aegypti transmits blood-borne viral pathogens that cause worldwide scourges such … Continue reading
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Tagged biology, dongue, health, mosquito, mosquitoes, mRNA, science, science news, westnile
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