While studying whales aboard an icebreaker in Antarctica, German researchers stumbled upon a whole different treasure. At the bottom of the Weddell Sea, more than 300 meters deep, were indeed the outlines of thousands of icefish nests, each guarded by a ghostly-looking relative whose dark pectoral fins were spread like bat wings on a clutch […]
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“Heart attack” and “cardiac arrest” are these two terms often used interchangeably, possibly because they both involve a malfunction of the heart. However, they designate different medical events. Let’s do a check in. The Heart Attack Coronary arteries are arteries that line the surface of the heart. They are what allow it to irrigate with […]
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Pangolins are natural hosts for coronaviruses. However, there is no evidence that they played the intermediaries in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in humans. Recent studies have shown that bats may be the main reservoir for SARS-CoV-2, which is responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic. In contrast, in these winged mammals, the virus does not have receptors […]
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The famous auction company Christie’s has been offering for a few days to buy a lunar meteorite named NWA 12691, found two years ago in the Sahara Desert by an anonymous researcher. With its 13.5 kilograms on the scale, this extraterrestrial stone is “the fifth-largest piece of the Moon ever found on Earth,” read the […]
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NASA has just awarded several contracts aimed at demonstrating the potential of nuclear fission systems to power lunar infrastructures. The agency and the US Department of Energy have selected three design proposals that could be deployed on the Moon by the end of the decade to support the Artemis lunar exploration program. NASA and its […]
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Although poliomyelitis was eradicated more than two decades ago, a strain has been identified several times this year in the sewers of a London district. The local health authorities as well as the WHO are very attentive to this discovery. A type 2 poliovirus in London Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious viral disease that […]
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A new therizinosaurus dinosaur from the Osoushinai Marine Formation in Japan provides insight into the function and evolution of these animals’ claws. It is also the youngest therizinosaurus fossil from Japan and the first in Asia to have been found in marine sediments. A new dinosaur in Japan Therizinosaurs were a large group of theropod […]
Continue ReadingMicro guide catheters are used as a support catheter to place guide wires and liquid embolic agent into target place. Micro guide catheters are also used for treatment of different disease category such as cardiovascular disease, neurovascular disease and other invasive surgery. Dramatic improvement in the micro guide cather will increase demand globally.The increasing demand […]
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The pharmaceutical companies Gilead and MSD (known as Merck in the US and Canada) announced this Monday that they will collaborate in the investigation of a long-term treatment for people with HIV that combines experimental drugs of both in advanced clinical phases. Pharmaceutical rivals are seeking to develop and commercialize a “two-drug regimen with the […]
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In a new study conducted by researchers at Mount Sinai Hospital said that a man’s vision turned red after having over consumed a popular drug for erectile dysfunction. The survey that examines erectile dysfunction drugs and their impact on perception is purely based upon the case of a 31-year-old patient who visited urgent care after […]
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