PHARMA
Blockchain Revolutionizing the Pharmaceutical Industry: Ensuring Transparency, Security and Efficiency
Blockchain technology has emerged as a game-changer in various sectors, and the pharmaceutical industry is no exception. With its decentralized and transparent nature, blockchain holds tremendous potential to revolutionize drug development, supply chain management, clinical trials, and patient data security
The UK’s Prescription for the Future?
The Life Sciences sector now finds itself facing intensifying global competition, with other nations aggressively courting the industry's prized assets and expertise. Meanwhile, the National Health Service (NHS) has grappled with the dual challenge of constrained budgets and the rising costs of newer, more innovative medicines
WHO Model list of essential medcines
CLINDAMYCIN C18H33ClN2O5S
Clindamycin is a semi-synthetic lincosamide antibiotic used in the treatment of a variety of serious infections due to susceptible microorganisms as well as topically for acne vulgaris. It has a relatively narrow spectrum of activity that includes anaerobic bacteria as well s gram-positive cocci and bacilli and gram-negative bacilli. Interestingly, clindamycin appears to carry some activity against protozoans
HEALTH
The Digital Dilemma: How Screen Time Shapes the Developing Brain
A team of researchers led by Samson Nivins at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden sought to shed light on the effects of screen time anf how it shapes the developing brain. In a landmark longitudinal study published in the journal Scientific Reports, they examined how different types of DM usage - including social media, video games, and television/video viewing - impact the structural development of key brain regions in children over a 4-year period.
Rethinking the Role of Oxygen Saturation in Assessing Childhood Illness
Pulse oximeters has become an indispensable tools in hospital emergency rooms, operating theaters, and intensive care units allowing doctors to trreat dangerously low oxygen levels, known as hypoxemia. However, the role of pulse oximetry has remained less clear when it comes to assessing and managing childhood illness in primary care and outpatient settings. A new study looks at the role of pulse oximetry in this setting.
Gut Bacteria May Hold the Key to Preventing Severe Infections
The Global Burden of Disease study estimated that in 2019, approximately 25% of all deaths worldwide were due to infections. Emerging evidence suggests that the key to reducing susceptibility to infections may lie within the trillions of microbes that inhabit our gut - the gut microbiome
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Quenching the Thirst of the Arid World: Compact Fuel-Powered Atmospheric Water Harvesters
As the global population continues to surge and climate change disrupts traditional water sources, the need for innovative approaches to freshwater production has never been more pressing. Now a promising solution has emerged in the form of sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting (SAWH) devices
Autonomous vs Human-Driven Vehicle Accidents: What the Data Reveals
A new study published in Nature Communications provides a detailed comparative analysis of accidents involving AVs versus human-driven vehicles (HDVs). Researchers Mohamed Abdel-Aty and Shengxuan Ding, from the University of Central Florida, utilized a dataset of over 37,000 accidents to uncover the differential characteristics and risk factors between the two vehicle types.
A Single Therapy for Asthma: Engineering Long-Lived T Cells with Multi-Targeting Abilities
Researchers at Tsinghua University in Beijing may have found an alternative approach that could push severe asthma into long-term remission with just a single treatment: engineering long-lived T cells with the unique ability to target multiple drivers of the condition simultaneously.
Weaving Electronics into Living Systems
From smartphones to smart homes, digital devices have become deeply intertwined with how we work, play, and interact with the world. What if these electronics could form imperceptible bonds with skin, plants, and other biological materials? A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge may have found an innovative way to do just that.
Hidden Dangers Under Antarctic Ice
Satellite Radar Reveals Extensive Seawater Intrusions Beneath Thwaites Glacier. This may explain why the rate of glacial loss has been greater than expected from modelling
Gene Editing Gives Hope for Inherited Blindness
A landmark small safety study of a promising new gene therapy approach provides early evidence that directly editing the defective gene may restore some vision loss in people with CEP290-associated retinal degeneration.
From disorder to order: Flocking birds and ‘spinning’ particles
Research demonstrates a new mechanism of order formation in quantum systems, with potential applications for quantum technology. Researchers have demonstrated that ferromagnetism, an ordered state of atoms, can be induced by increasing particle motility and that repulsive forces between atoms are sufficient to maintain it
Cracking the Code of Quantum Mechanics
Quantum mechanical effects such as radioactive decay, or more generally: 'tunneling', display intriguing mathematical patterns. Two researchers at the University of Amsterdam now show that a 40-year-old mathematical discovery can be used to fully encode and understand this structure
A Wild Orangutan’s Self-Medication Secret
Deep in the forests of Sumatra, scientists made an unexpected discovery - a wild orangutan was treating its own wound using plants in a way that provided the first...
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