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Science Sparks @ ACTREC
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25 January 2021
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Vol. No. 10; Issue No. 459 |
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Publications
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1. Jose J, Al-Dorzi HM, Al-Omari A, Mandourah Y, Al-Hameed F, Sadat M, Al Qasim E, Alraddadi B, Al Harthy A, Al Mekhlafi GA, Almotairi A, Al Khatib K, Abdulmomen A, Qushmaq I, Sindi AA, Mady A, Solaiman O, Al-Raddadi R, Maghrabi K, Ragab A, Kharaba A, Shalhoub S, Al-Aithan AM, Vishwakarma GK, Bhattacharjee A, Arabi YM; Saudi Critical Care Trials Group (2021). Critically ill patients with diabetes and Middle East respiratory syndrome: a multi-center observational study. BMC Infectious Diseases. 21(1): 84.
2. Iwasaki K, Araki A, CM Krishna, Maruyama R, Yamamoto T, Noothalapati H (2021). Identification of molecular basis for objective discrimination of breast cancer cells (MCF-7) from normal human mammary epithelial cells by Raman Microspectroscopy and multivariate curve resolution analysis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(2): 800.
3. Desai S, Rashmi S, Rane A, Dharavath B, Sawant A, Dutt A (2021). An integrated approach to determine the abundance, mutation rate and phylogeny of the SARS-CoV-2 genome. Briefings in Bioinformatics.
4. Joshi S, Jaiswal D, Chougle Q, Wadasadawala T, Badwe R (2020). Transposition flap for the oncoplastic reconstruction of outer quadrant breast defects. . Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery.
Book
Bhattacharjee A. Bayesian Approches in Oncology Using R and Openbugs. 1st ed. Florida: CRC Press, 2021. (ISBN: 978-0-367-35050-5)
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Interesting Reads
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Pastushenko I, Mauri F, Song Y, de Cock F, Meeusen B, Swedlund B, Impens F, Van Haver D, Opitz M, Thery M, Bareche Y, Lapouge G, Vermeersch M, Van Eycke YR, Balsat C, Decaestecker C, Sokolow Y, Hassid S, Perez-Bustillo A, Agreda-Moreno B, Rios-Buceta L, Jaen P, Redondo P, Sieira-Gil R, Millan-Cayetano JF, Sanmatrtin O, D'Haene N, Moers V, Rozzi M, Blondeau J, Lemaire S, Scozzaro S, Janssens V, De Troya M, Dubois C, Pérez-Morga D, Salmon I, Sotiriou C, Helmbacher F, Blanpain C. Fat1 deletion promotes hybrid EMT state, tumour stemness and metastasis. Nature. 589(7842):448-455, 2021.
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Legends of Science
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Girindra Sekhar Bose
Bose obtained his DSc from the University of Calcutta (1921). He specialized in Psychoanalysis and Psychology. He mastered the technique of hypnotism to treat the mental patients. He helped surgeons by putting the patient in hypnotic trance. He made his own investigations into the unconscious regions of the mind. In General Psychology, he made a number of original contributions. He pioneered the Mental Hygiene Movement in India. He established the first Mental Diseases Department in the Carmichael Medical College. Bose was the President, Psychology Section of the Indian Science Congress (1933). He was the founder of the Indian Psychoanalytical Society.
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Maharaj Kishan Bhan
Maharaj Kishan Bhan was pediatrician. He obtained his M.D. from Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh. His areas of research were diarrheal diseases and child nutrition with an emphasis on public health issues. In collaboration with Bharat Biotech International, he developed Rota Viral Vaccine. Bhan conceived the newly formed BIRAC, which is expected to result in product development by industry in collaboration with academia. He served as the president of the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER). He was positioned as Secretary, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, until 2012. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (1990), Padma Bhushan (2013). He was Member of the Jury for nearly all major national science awards awarded by the Government of India.
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Do You Know?
In 2004, Azacitidine, an inhibitor of DNA methylation and a pioneering epigenetic therapy, became the first drug to gain US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the treatment of myelodysplastic syndrome.
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Cancer News
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New study helps understand molecular profile of tumors in cancer patients
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21 January 2021, News-Medical.net
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The "Tumor Profiler" project aims to derive the comprehensive molecular profile of tumors in cancer patients, which has the potential to predict the efficacy of a host of new cancer medications. It will therefore make it possible to offer treating physicians personalized and improved therapy recommendations…
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