A clear example of the power of social media is the spread of the revolutionary outbreaks in the Arabic countries during 2011, where people used Facebook, YouTube and Skype to communicate, organise meetings and protest actions. Here I report how Doctor-Activists use these social media as an ...
Rare genetic diseases are becoming a public health concern in India because a large population size of close to a billion people would essentially translate to a huge disease burden for even the rarest of the rare diseases. Genomics-based approaches have been demonstrated to accelerate the diagnosis...
The Spanish flu pandemic that followed WWI killed up to 100 million people worldwide (about 5% of the global population), making it one of the worst outbreaks in history. Nor did it spare post-revolutionary Russia. Having penetrated the civil war-torn country in August 1918, the Spanish flu...
Although LAC is not completely free of infectious diseases, is well advanced in its demographic and epidemiological transitions, with health problems highly concentrated on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). People in the region are equally likely to die prematurely from just one NCD than from all commu...
Due to their unique characteristics, they are thought to be one of the revolutionary discoveries in medicine. Especially, cancer stem therapy has received attention because cancer treatment was only limited to drugs, surgery, antibiotics, and radiation. However, the stem cells have the capacity to ...
Significant changes in the expression profiles compared to pre-pregnancy were observed during the second trimester and were maintained during the third trimester. Examples of genes involved in immune system processes and defense response that displayed a marked pregnancy-related up-regulation included: ol...
The American Revolutionary War It has been alleged that smallpox was also used as a weapon during the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). During the winter of 1775-76, American forces were attempting to free Quebec from British control. After capturing Montréal, it looked as if they might...
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Nanotechnology and nanocarrier-based therapeutics have accelerated the development in the field of biomedicine when compared with traditional drugs, in terms of improved half-lives, retention, and targeting efficiency, and lesser adverse effects. Chemotherapeutic nanomedicines have brought a revolutionary ...
and most ecircRNAs are located in the cytoplasm. Two models have been proposed to explain the production of ecircRNAs (Fig.1A) (Chen,2016; Wu et al.,2017a; Kristensen et al.,2019; Xiao et al.,2020). The first model suggests that when the pre-mRNA is partially folded during transcript...