Potential Threat To Public Health From Nanomaterials Nanotechnology is now available in a store near you.Valued for it's antibacterial and odor-fighting properties, nanoparticle silver is becoming the star attraction in a range of products from socks to bandages to washing machines.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMore Awareness Needed To Address Black Girls' Higher STI Rates, Opinion Piece Says A recent CDC study that found that black teenage girls have "far greater rates of common" STIs, including human papillomavirus, chlamydia, herpes simplex virus and trichomoniasis than whites, is "an issue that blacks can't afford to ignore," Yolanda Young, host of the video blog spadeproject.com, writes in a USA Today opinion piece, adding, "We need more talking and less doing.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNational Kidney Foundation Introduces Plan To Track Patients In National Screening Program The National Kidney Foundation and Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) announced a new initiative of the Kidney Early Evaluation Program (KEEP) that will provide important data to help communities address the growing prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD).
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comYale Scientists Visualize The Machinery Of MRNA Splicing Recent research at Yale provided a glimpse of the ancient mechanism that helped diversify our genomes; it illuminated a relationship between gene processing in humans and the most primitive organisms by creating the first crystal structure of a crucial self-splicing region of RNA. Genes of higher organisms code for production of proteins through intermediary RNA molecules.
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