According to Professor MATSUYAMA Hideto at Kobe University, their team has created anovelseawater desalination membrane. The researchers developed the membrane by laminating 2D carbon material on a porous polymer membrane surface. The urgent need for desalinated membranes is to start using seawater as well. This newly developed membrane has the potential to produce fresh water from seawater. The new study is projected to solve global freshwater water insufficiency. The current goal is to creat
Researchers are on the run find a perfect treatment for severe red blood congenital diseases such as sickle cell anemia or Thalassemia. Recently, a team from theUniversity of Illinois Chicago has found the modification of the DNA of blood cells from the patients to help develop an improved sickle cell disease treatment.According to Dr. Damiano Rondelli, the latest study shows the role of CRISPR and CRISPR-associated genes (Cas) technology CRISPR-Cas9 technique in editing the genes in the blood
Researchers at Duke and Mt. Sinai have found a molecular pathway that helps stop a viral infection during the pregnancy from affected the baby inside the womb. It has been observed that when an individual is infected the immune system naturally releases chemical signals termed type I interferon which informs the adjacent cells about increasing their anti-viral defenses such as developing inflammation. The immune response helps avoid the virus from multiplying and thereby, gives the immune syst
The latest study shows the effect of a hematopoietic stem cell transplantationalong withintense immunosuppression to helpprevent the disability associated with multiple sclerosis (MS) as it is found to not only worsen with time but also relapses 10 Years after the treatment. But, there are many who show an improvement in their disability over 10 years after the treatment. The transplantation is found to lower the chances of secondary progressive form of MS. Currently, there are many people wit
Gold nanoparticles generally tend to clump thereby avoiding its use as an anti-cancer therapy. Thus, the researchers from Hokkaido University have found a technique to prevent gold nanoparticles from clumping. The researchers found the attaching of ring-shaped synthetic compounds to the gold nanoparticles to assist it from preserving the essential light-absorbing properties. The study published in the journal Nature Communications I explains the importance of the unique light-absorbing propert
People are suffering from a lot of back and osteoarthritis pain owing to the constant habit of sitting in a single place working glued to the laptop amid the lockdown. The increasing cases of back pain in people has encouraged the doctors to create more awareness about exercising, posture correction, and constant movement of the limbs, hands, and neck within every 1015 Minutes. However, people have been using antidepressant drugsto treat these conditions instead of taking the necessary care. I
Researchers from Rush University Medical Center have developed a new method of inhibiting the symptoms of COVID-19 symptoms. The study showed the small peptide when introduced nasally to offer positive effects in the mice. This peptidewas found to be effective in protecting the lungs, lowering fever, improving heart function, and also in reversing cytokine storm. At the time of cytokine storm, there is an infection that activates the immune system to fill the bloodstream with inflammatory prot
Recently, a team from the University of Torontos Institute has found statins which are common cholesterol-lowering medications to help protect the heart of women undergoing chemotherapy for early-stage breast cancer. According to the lead researcher Husam Abdel-Qadir, their article published in the Journal of the American Heart Association clearly explains the risks of cancer medications such as anthracyclines and trastuzumab on the breast cancer patients as these drugs are found to affect the
In children, the narrowing of the airway that is Pediatric laryngotracheal stenosis (LTS) is currently found to be increasing. And this serious medical condition is found to be going unnoticed by majority of the parents. According to the medical staff, it can be either innate or caused due to some sort of injury. The major risk is that it can be life threatening in some cases if not treated well. The doctors use tracheostomy, surgical repair, endoscopic techniques, or deployment of stents to o
Researchers have lately found a new way of creating fuels that too using microgravity. This way of creating fuel is anticipated to be a very promising method that can help save fossil fuels and also meet the increasing demands of the widely growing population. Microgravity helps refine the fuel generation process by resourcefully burning the solid fuel including iron dust. It is thus predicted that we are entering the Iron Age and are most likely to use metal power to create fuels for cars. Ge
