Katra/Jammu, November 25 (Scoop News) – N. N. Vohra, Jammu and Kashmir Governor, today said that Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University has entered into collaborative understandings with twenty eminent national and international institutions for undertaking joint researches and exchanges of teachers and students enabling the faculty and the students to be engaged in […]
Conference on “Recent Trends in Biosciences” concludes at S. P. College
Srinagar, October 4 (Scoop News) – N. N. Vohra, Governor, today called upon the Colleges, Universities and other institutions of higher learning in Jammu and Kashmir to take up collaborative research projects in identified fields which have a bearing on the development of agriculture and its allied sectors, all of which have an […]
In Dialysis, Life-Saving Care at Great Risk and Cost
In 1972, after a month of deliberation, Congress launched the nation’s most ambitious experiment in universal health care: a change to the Social Security Act that granted comprehensive coverage under Medicare to virtually anyone diagnosed with kidney failure, regardless of age or income. It was a supremely hopeful moment. Although the technology to keep […]
The Structural Nuts and Bolts of The Great Leveling, Revisited
Some 13 months ago I first posited an oncoming phenomenon I identified as The Great Leveling — which referred to a four-to-six-year-long series of crises in America and abroad that were all tied to addiction, and featured a mass downward spiral leading to two more results: hitting bottom and then embracing a far-too-long absent Humility […]
China’s Controversial Stem Cell Treatment Helps Blind Girl See
Foreign Patients Head to China For Chance of Sight A two-year-old British girl who was born blind and spent most of her life in the hospital now has her eyesight, thanks to a new stem cell treatment offered in China. The treatment takes stem cells from an umbilical cord and injects them into a patient’s […]
Cancer protection secret revealed
Zebrafish share the p53 gene with humans Scientists say they have discovered a missing link in the way cells protect themselves against cancer. They have uncovered how cells switch a gene called p53, which can block the development of tumours, on and off. The researchers say the finding has important implications for cancer treatment and […]