August 2010
7 posts
Gene Therapy- An emerging tool of Biotechnology
Gene Therapy is the insertion of gene and biological tissues in the human body to treat disease such as cancer. This technique is very new and is still in its infancy, not ready to shower its blessings on us.But scientific breakthrough will take it a miles ahead and will make it a grand success towards the mainstream medicine.
The first approved gene therapy took place in United States at Sept14,...
Stem cells can produce unlimited supply of...
The ability to make unlimited quantities of Red blood cells- which carry vital oxygen around the body has been a dream of medical researchers for almost half a century.Now that dream is to reality with developments in stem cell research.In principle, it states that synthetic blood will be freed from virus such as HIV, and coul also prevent shortages at blood banks and in emergency operation.
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Huntington Chorea
Huntington’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative, adult onset, autosomal inherited disorder associated with cell loss in a specefic subset of neurons.Dr George Huntington first described this disease in 1872.It is an inherited disorder of the central nervous system caused by a dominant gene which means that everyone who inherits the gene from one of his/her parents will develop the...
Alzheimers...... the most dreaded disease
Alzheimer’s Disease or simply Alzheimers is a form of dementia.It is a curable,degenerative disease which was first described by a German psychiatrist and a neuropathologist, Alois Alzheimer in 1906 and was named after him.
The early symptoms of this disease is inability to acquire new memories,difficulty in recalling recent updates.When this disease is suspected, the diagnosis is confirmed...
Malaria
Malaria is a mosquito borne infectious disease which is very common and is found at every places.It is caused by a eukaryotic protist belonging to the genus Plasmodium.There are five species of this protist namely Plasmodium vivax,Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium ovale, Plasmodium malarie and Plasmodium knowlesi.Out of which, Plasmodium falciparum is most fatal in nature since it causes malignant...
