Saturday, March 18, 2017

Here are the top 5 posts this week.

Ovarian Transposition: A novel laparoscopic surgical method video by Cleveland Clinics.
A recent article published in forthcoming issue of Fertility and Sterility describes and demonstrate novel surgical method of laparoscopic ovarian transposition. This is a minimal invasive approach in which the ovary is tunneled through a peritoneum.

Treating Hypothyroidism and hypothyroxinemia in pregnancy? Clinical dilemma continues.
Treating antenatal patients with levothyroxine who have hypothyroidism or hypothyroxinemia between 8 to 20 weeks of pregnancy did not result in better cognitive outcome and IQ in children through 5 years of age as compared to women who received placebo.
The study was published online on March 2, 2017 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Vitamin B, a personal weapon to mitigate the effects of Air Pollution.
Vitamin B could attenuate the effects of most dangerous type of air pollution and could be used at personal level to protect against the ill effects. The study was recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Wow, new paper based test can tell your blood group in 30 seconds!
Researchers working at the Third Military Medical University in Chongqing, China have developed a quick and reliable test to know the blood type in seconds and rapidly determine the compatibility of donor and recipient blood samples before transfusion.

CRISPR co-inventor Jennifer Doudna keynote address about responsible use of gene editing in future.
“What if a cell’s DNA could be edited just like the text of a document so that you could actually erase letters, you could erase whole sentences, [you could] replace sentences, and you could do things that would enable scientists to change the mutations that might cause genetic disease, make changes that allow us to understand the function of DNA and different kinds of organisms and perhaps, enable us to really direct the way that organisms are evolving on the planet?”
With this promising words about future of CRISPR Cas9 technology Jennifer Doudna, co-inventor of CRISPR Cas9 technology started her keynote address at 2017 South by Southwest (SXSW) conference.


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