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J Med Biogr
August 2024
Bengal Infertility & Reproductive Therapy Hospital (BIRTH), Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
The Indian journey of assisted reproductive therapy began in Calcutta on 3 October 1978, when Dr Subhas Mukhopadhyay discovered the technique of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) only 67 days following the birth of the world's first IVF baby, Louise Brown in the United Kingdom by Edwards and Steptoe. While Edwards won the Nobel Prize in 2010 for his groundbreaking work, Mukhopadhyay, the man behind the genesis of 'Durga', India's first IVF baby, never received any recognition. Instead, he faced severe humiliation from his peers.
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June 2024
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724.
In the mid-1950s, Arthur Kornberg elucidated the enzymatic synthesis of DNA by DNA polymerase, for which he was recognized with the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He then identified many of the proteins that cooperate with DNA polymerase to replicate duplex DNA of small bacteriophages. However, one major unanswered problem was understanding the mechanism and control of the initiation of chromosome replication in bacteria.
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March 2023
Material Science and Engineering Program, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.
Gan To Kagaku Ryoho
May 2023
Dept. of Immunology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine.
Traditionally, the 3 major standard treatments for cancers-surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy-have been applied and have saved many lives. However, malignancies have been the leading cause of death in Japan for more than 40 years since 1981, and the trend is still accelerating. According to the statistics report from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, cancers accounted for 26.
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November 2022
Division of Glycoscience, Department of Chemistry, School of Engineering Science in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH), AlbaNova University Center, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
Close to half of the world's pregnancies are still unplanned, reflecting a clear unmet need in contraception. Ideally, a contraceptive would provide the high efficacy of hormonal treatments, without systemic side effects. Here, we studied topical reinforcement of the cervical mucus by chitosan mucoadhesive polymers as a form of female contraceptive.
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