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Bad mosquito population successfully suppressed using SIT - A study

Bad mosquito population successfully suppressed using SIT – A study

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The population of most invasive mosquito species was wiped out almost completely by a nuclear sterile insect technique (SIT) with the incompatible insect technique (IIT). This technology has successfully suppressed the mosquito population and can control dengue, Zika virus, and many other diseases. A study has been published in Nature on 17 July 2019. The …

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Menstrual cups are safe and inexpensive, and women like them - A Study

Menstrual cups are safe and inexpensive, and women like them – A Study

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Women need safe, affordable and effective menstrual products. Single-use products are not that effective but as an alternative menstrual cups are less known. In a new study found that menstrual cups are the safe, affordable and effective alternative way during the menstrual cycle. This study covered 43 studies and more than 3,300 females. And the …

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Alternate cell growth can lead to better treatment of cancer in advanced stages - A study

Alternate cell growth can lead to better treatment of cancer in advanced stages – A study

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Researchers have a basic understanding of how primary cells grow but they less know about metastasis, advanced stage of cell growth. Researchers have found a gene mEAK-7, that may play an important role in cancer metastasis at least in lung cancers. They started by comparing mEAK-7 expression level in normal cells to the cancer cell …

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DeepEC computational framework helps understand enzyme functions

DeepEC computational framework helps understand enzyme functions

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DeepEC which is a learning-powered computational framework that allows high quality and throughput prediction of enzyme commission number which is essential for the better and accurate understanding of enzyme function. A team of  Dr. Jae Yong Ryu and distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee reported that this computational framework predicts enzyme commission number with very high …

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Aedes aegypti mosquito attacks Singapore - 6,600 Cases of Dengue so far

Aedes aegypti mosquito attacks Singapore – 6,600 Cases of Dengue so far

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Singapore’s National Environment Agency (NEA) has warned that the dengue problem in the country will get worse as the summer comes.  Hot months are the prime seasons for the meetings of the mosquitoes that spread dengue.   Head of Singapore’s NEA chew Ming Fai has warned althoughs NEA and leaders has stepped up checks but citizens …

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Lifestyle causes obesity more than your genes do - study

Lifestyle causes obesity more than your genes do – study

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A study shows that obesity linked to a sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy diet than gene. Studies show that obviously genes play an important role in getting extra pounds but more than that obesity depends on diet, exercise and sedentary lifestyle. Genetics can cause wider girth but unhealthy lifestyles can result in higher rate of weight …

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Study shows that stomach cancer is also common in people under 40 especially women

Study shows that stomach cancer is also common in people under 40 especially women.

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Stomach cancer is not only the disease of older people, or patients with chronic digestive symptoms. In a study in Mexico showed that 1 in 7 of 2000 patients diagnosed with gastric cancer between 2004 to 2016 were under 40. These findings were reported in  ESMO World Congress  2019.  US National Cancer Institute data support …

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