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Re: BR Medical Topics Corner
Posted: 15 Nov 2024 01:55
by Amber G.
Infosys Prize2024 in Life Sciences is awarded to Prof. Siddhesh Kamat, IISER Pune.
...for his discoveries concerning bioactive lipids and their receptors, and their metabolic and signaling pathways.
Re: BR Medical Topics Corner
Posted: 02 Apr 2025 02:58
by Amber G.
From MIT: MIT researchers are developing tiny "wearable" devices for cells that could revolutionize brain health. These breakthroughs could help restore brain function and combat diseases like multiple scleros
Wearable” devices for cells
Re: BR Medical Topics Corner
Posted: 09 Aug 2025 01:33
by Amber G.
From MIT: MIT scientists may have unlocked potential new mechanisms in Alzheimer’s treatment. By studying fruit flies and human data, they’ve identified drug targets tied to DNA repair and RNA modification, moving beyond the usual suspects like amyloid plaques.
Scientists discover potential new targets for Alzheimer’s drugs
Re: BR Medical Topics Corner
Posted: 18 Sep 2025 05:38
by Amber G.
The first large language health model that predicts >1,000 diseases and the time they will occur in a person was just published Nature
Learning the natural history of human disease with generative transformers
This, along with other recent groundbreaking reports, represents the dawn of a new era of primary prevention in medicine
Re: BR Medical Topics Corner
Posted: 26 Dec 2025 23:28
by Amber G.
Backed by Zoho and Govt of India, Bengaluru start-up VoxelGrids builds first ‘Made In India’ MRI scanner, now installed at Chandrapur Cancer Care Foundation..
Re: BR Medical Topics Corner
Posted: 23 Jan 2026 00:36
by Amber G.
Re: BR Medical Topics Corner
Posted: 28 Jan 2026 23:36
by Amber G.
WHO’s declaration of India as a Trachoma-free nation, reflecting global recognition of the country’s sustained public health efforts and achievements.
Re: BR Medical Topics Corner
Posted: 25 Apr 2026 15:22
by uddu
https://x.com/i/status/1430172905263050760
@ARanganathan72
Happy to share exciting results from @dasgobardhan's and my lab, that the Ayurvedic herb component Luteolin when administered along with the anti-TB drug Isoniazid promotes anti-TB immunity, reduces the length of TB treatment, and prevents disease relapse.
https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens ... at.1009805
Re: BR Medical Topics Corner
Posted: 25 Apr 2026 23:38
by Amber G.
sharing:
Injectable “satellite livers” could offer an alternative to liver transplantation
MIT engineers have developed “mini livers” that could be injected into the body and take over the functions of the failing liver. This would help patients who are on a waitlist for a liver transplant or those who aren’t healthy enough to tolerate surgery.
Re: BR Medical Topics Corner
Posted: 25 May 2026 19:49
by A_Gupta
Not quite the right place, but where else?
India reviews Ebola preparedness.
Read more at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/arti ... aign=cppst
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An anecdote from the Kathmandu Post:
At a time when Ebola was spreading across several African countries in September 2015, a Niger national had come to Nepal without legal documents. When infrared thermal imaging cameras at the health desk at Tribhuvan International Airport detected a high temperature, health workers stationed there for temperature screening fled in panic. Even some police personnel reportedly fled from the scene.
Two policemen pointed their guns at the man and ordered him not to move. The frightened man started to cry.
“A kind of panic broke out at the airport. I myself had reached the airport to take stock of the situation,” said Dr Baburam Marasini, a public health expert who was then director at the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division. “The foreigner had entered the country illegally, and the fever was likely due to stress. We kept him in the custody room overnight and deported him on the same plane he arrived on.”