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31 March 2025

Google launches TxGemma, entering in Healthcare

Google is excited to release TxGemma, a collection of open models designed to improve the efficiency of therapeutic development by leveraging the power of large language models. Developing a new therapeutic is risky, notoriously slow, and can cost billions of dollars. 90% of drug candidates fail beyond phase 1 trials.

27 March 2025

Surprising New Role for Lungs : Making Blood

Using video microscopy in the living mouse lung, UC San Francisco scientists have revealed that the lungs play a previously unrecognized role in blood production. As reported online March 22, 2017, in Nature, the researchers found that the lungs produced more than half of the platelets – blood components required for the clotting that stanches bleeding – in the mouse circulation.

11 March 2025

Cryo-Electron Microscopy reveals hidden mechanics of DNA Replication, sheds new light on cancer target

Every day, billions of cells in your body divide, helping to replace old and injured cells with new ones. And each time this happens, your entire genetic library your genome, which totals more than 3 billion base pairs of DNA has to be copied, precisely, from the parent cell to the new daughter cell.

7 March 2025

Exosomes in Cosmetics

Vinay Kumar Singh.
Head-Formulation
Kumar Organic Products Research Centre Pvt. Ltd.,
Bengaluru
Email : formulation_krc@kopresearchcentre.net

20 February 2025

Dysfunctional B Cells is a new Cancer Immunotherapy Target

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center scientists have discovered a novel subset of cancer-fighting immune cells that reside outside of their normal neighborhood, known as the tertiary lymphoid structure, where they become frustratingly dysfunctional when in close contact with tumors.

10 January 2025

Koprosteine (Procysteine) : Multifunctional active

Vinay Kumar Singh.
Head-Formulation
Kumar Organic Products Research Centre Pvt. Ltd.,
Bengaluru
Email : formulation_krc@kopresearchcentre.net

13 December 2024

Antidepressants may act in gut to reduce depression and anxiety

Most of us have experienced the effects of moods and emotions on our gastrointestinal tract, from “butterflies” in the stomach caused by nervousness to a loss of appetite when we’re feeling blue.

12 December 2024

Stanford scientists transform ubiquitous skin bacterium into a topical vaccine

Imagine a world in which a vaccine is a cream you rub onto your skin instead of a needle a health care worker pushes into your one of your muscles. Even better, it’s entirely pain-free and not followed by fever, swelling, redness or a sore arm. No standing in a long line to get it. Plus, it’s cheap.

3 December 2024

Bacteria modify ribosomes to dodge antibiotics

Bacteria modify their ribosomes when exposed to widely used antibiotics, according to research published in Nature Communications. The subtle changes might be enough to alter the binding site of drug targets and constitute a possible new mechanism of antibiotic resistance.