Category: news
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Is Pyramax the New COVID Treatment?
Recent reports have suggested a newly developed anti-malarial drug called Pyramax® with the ingredients of pyronaridine/artesunate, that people can use, which wouldn’t require them to receive the COVID vaccine (so basically like an alternative of the vaccine that makes the individual immune to the virus). The company of Pyramax®, Shinpoong Pharmaceutical, obtained FDA Philippines approval…
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Are you struggling to sleep? Scientists report DNA’s to blame
Experts from Oxford University, the Netherlands, and the US reviewed 36 studies on sleep duration and quality, one of which included a study of 400 sets of adult twins to observe if such sleep trends were caused by genetic factors. Findings published in the Sleep Medicine Reviews journal concluded with a recent study that discovered…
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Suspicions grow that nanoparticles in Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine trigger rare allergic reactions
Original article written by Jop de Vrieze (DECEMBER 21, 2020) Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation. Severe allergy-like reactions in at least eight people who received the COVID-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech over the past 2 weeks may be due to a compound in the packaging…
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Using CRISPR to Destroy Cancer Cells
Original article written by Carmen Leitch A few days ago, researchers and Professors Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier won the Nobel prize in Chemistry for their work developing the gene editor CRISPR/Cas9. Since it was created, the gene editor has been used in many ways in research labs and has even moved to human trials in the…
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Autism Spectrum Disorder Biomarker is Discovered
Original article written by Carmen Leitech (SEPTEMBER 15, 2020) Scientists may have identified a biomarker for autism spectrum disorder, which can be difficult to differentiate from other disorders like hyperactivity, and may be challenging to diagnose correctly because it can present so differently. Reporting in Brain Communications, researchers have determined that the levels of a molecule called FABP4 are lower in…
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Laser jolts microscopic electronic robots into motion
Original article written by David Nutt (AUGUST 26, 2020) In 1959, former Cornell physicist Richard Feynman delivered his famous lecture “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” in which he described the opportunity for shrinking technology, from machines to computer chips, to incredibly small sizes. Well, the bottom just got more crowded. A Cornell-led collaboration…
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Double Lung Transplant Saves Life Of Young Healthy Woman In Coronavirus First
Original article written by Tom Hale (JUNE 12, 2020 11:54 BST) A double lung transplant has saved the life of a previously healthy young woman who fell seriously ill with Covid-19. Doctors at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago performed the double-lung transplant on a patient, a Hispanic woman in her 20s who was otherwise healthy, after her lungs…
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Researchers Find Brain Cells that Shut Down Pain
Original article written by Annie Lennon (MAY 19, 2020 2:47 PM PDT) Researchers at Duke University have found that a small group of cells in the brain may be able to regulate our sense of pain. Using mouse models, they found the cells in the amygdala. The findings are a follow-up to earlier research investigating…
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