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Written by Subhasis Chatterjee
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Through a meticulous process of extensive research undertaken by the collaborative effort by the eminent researchers Dr. Zheng Dong and Craig Brooks it has come to the fore that when a cell is found to be gravely stressed by the sudden occurrence of heart attack, stroke or even cancer the sheer existence of a protein called Bak just may set it up for the suicidal process. It has been acknowledged from the duo that as part of a lethal twofold malediction, the presence of Bak in due course of action facilitates in the slicing of the finger-like filament shape of the cell's powerhouse or mitochondrion into a set of defenseless little spheres, to be followed by another protein called Bax in the poking of innumerable in those spheres, spilling their pro-death contents into the cell.
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Written by Subhasis Chatterjee
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From various sources it has been averred, that the unique technology thoroughly specialized in the truthful utilization of the enzymes of fireflies for the reading of the genetic code of DNA has been installed at the University of Liverpool in the recent days. It is to be noted in this regard, that the University of Liverpool happens to be one of the only two premiere universities in the in the national realm of the United Kingdom with the very machine and has enough potential to read up to 100 million DNA letters in a few hours in comparison to the ongoing technology that has the proficiency in the utilization of the methodology and can only process up to 50,000. The machine is called GS-Flex, which is unique in the utilization of an enzyme found in fireflies as a flash light so as to facilitate the reading of the DNA strand.
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Written by Subhasis Chatterjee
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It has come to the knowledge that an eminent group of researchers at the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids of the University of California, Santa Barbara has come out in the recent days with a discovery of the notion of the apposite utilization of plastics in the harvesting of the energy of the sun resulting into a prominent improvement, thanks to the display of general effectiveness. It has further been acknowledged, that the key persons involved in the group had been the Nobel Laureate Professor of Physics at UC Santa Barbara, Alan Heeger, who shared the working experience with Kwanghee Lee of Korea and a team of other thoroughly groomed and efficient scientists in the creation of an innovative "tandem" organic solar cell with competence greater than before.
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There is a striking evidence that with the immense escalation of the medical treatment elevating the general physique of common people at large there has also been a rising in the number of diseases, that were unknown even in the past decades. Take for example, Venous thrombosis, popularly known as VTE. It is a disease that relates to the formation of blood clots in a vein posing a great threat or health problem in respect of the very patients who remain hospitalized in the United States. So what s this disease in its entirety stands for? It has been found that the VTE possess enough potential in leading towards deep vein thrombosis or DVT, a distinctive syndrome that do happen in the legs. It also originates the pulmonary embolism or PE, which becomes evident with the slow but steady migration of a piece of the blood clot into an artery of the lungs. From an extensive research, it has come to the knowledge, that the ailment of PE accounts to10 percent of sudden in-hospital deaths. Moreover in the long term, the VTE has also the probability to move towards post-thrombotic syndrome or PTS, which are easily identified with the occurrence of consistent leg pain, swelling, and cramps, or pulmonary hypertension. However, it is to b note in this respect, that these serious crises can be tackled through the adoption of preventive strategies from compression boots to anti-clotting medications.
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After a long wait there is a new finding which has been able to pose a serious challenge to a firm conviction of long days. Till now there has been a general supposition that there many genes in human body that in real terms hang around between the aspects of "on" and "off" in any specified cell resulting into the readiness for further action. However, the new finding has been able to contradict this conjecture held for long that the sheer process of turning over a cell's "on-off" switch happens to control the production of a particular regulatory protein of a cell. The new study was undertaken by an eminent group of scientists in the lab of Richard Young at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Mass, where they came to the conclusion that these very genes do initiate the making of RNA templates for proteins, a distinct methodology that was termed transcription, though it was found to fail while finishing.
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