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Can a Cancer Drug Shows Promise for Parkinson’s disease and Dementia

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is typically considered a chronic, progressive neurodegenerative movement disorder. The most obvious symptoms are shaking, rigidity, slowness of movement, and difficulty with walking. When this happens a drug nilotinib... Read more →

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Gene Therapy: Can Gene Therapy Finally Cure Hemophilia?

The ultimate goal of gene therapy is the replacement of a defective gene sequence with a corrected gene sequence to eliminate disease for the lifetime of the patient. Hemophilia is caused by mutations in one of the proteins that involved... Read more →

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Why Bacteria Become Resistant to Antibiotics

Antibiotic resistance has potential to affect everyone. Most people would have heard about antibiotics resistance and show many are aware the cause of the current crisis is due to their overuse. But few know how and where the resistance... Read more →

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Alopecia Areata

Alopecia areata an autoimmune disease, in which the immune system is designed to protect the body from foreign invaders such as viruses and bacteria, mistakenly attacks the hair follicles, the structures from which hairs grow. This can lead... Read more →

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Forensic Serology- People lie, Blood evidence doesn’t

Forensic serology is a scientific discipline directed to the recognition and identification of biological stains in matters pertaining to the law. It is a branch of forensic investigation that deals with the physical properties of blood... Read more →