Microplastics pollution is killing human life, contaminating our oceans, and lasting for longer in the environment than it is used. Microplastics have contaminated the geochemistry and turned the water system into trash barrel. Its detection in water is easy in comparison to soil and air so the attention of researchers is focused on it for now.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEssential oils are natural compounds extracted from plants that are volatile and sensitive to heat. Due to their therapeutic value, essential oils are now used in many industries, including the sanitary, cosmetic, agricultural, food, and pharmaceutical industries. These are complex mixtures of a wide range of volatile molecules, including phenol-derived aliphatic and aromatic compounds and terpenoids.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNature is full of a bundle of medicinal substances and its product perceived as a prerogative structure to collaborate with protein drug targets. The natural product's (NPs) structure heterogeneity and eccentric characteristics inspired scientists to work on natural product-inspired medicine. To gear NP drug-finding artificial intelligence (AI) to confront and excavate unexplored opportunities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA sustainable ceramic membrane embedded with silver has been developed using quartz, kaolin and calcium carbonate. All the chemicals involved in this process were commonly available, non-toxic and cheap. The process was very simple, convenient and does not involve any wastage of water.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPlant-based medicine actually restores the balance in the body instead of treating the source of the disease. The strain of coronavirus (SAR-CoV-2) going to be more serious due to the lack of a reliable treatment option. Holistic treatment for this disease is in the form of Ayurveda as traditional medicine.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs the transmission of novel corona virus (COVID-19) increases rapidly, the whole world adopted the curfew/lockdown activity with restriction of human mobility. The imposition of quarantine stopped all the commercial activity that greatly affects the various important environmental parameters which directly connected to human health. As all the types of social, economic, industrial and urbanization activity suddenly shut off, nature takes the advantages and showed improvement in the quality of air, cleaner rivers, less noise pollution, undisturbed and calm wildlife.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCorrection of Class II malocclusion by distalization of maxillary molars with intraoral appliances is a non-extraction treatment approach, which has been described as an alternative to Head Gear. From the past few years, the procedures have undergone rectification to achieve treatment objective more precisely. This has been made possible by a better understanding of bone physiology, tooth movement, biomechanics and newer biomaterials.
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