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23 August 2024
Dr. Arivusudar Everad John
5 Applications of miRNA Research: A Deeper Dive
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are emerging as pivotal regulators in cellular proc...
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08 May 2024
Dr. Jannatul Ferdous
Understanding Ovarian Cancer: Risks, Symptoms, and...
Ovarian cancer, often dubbed as the "silent killer," poses a significa...
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04 February 2024
Dr Ankit Batra
HRD and PARP Inhibitors: A Promising Treatment App...
When it comes to understanding cancer at a molecular level, we delve i...
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15 December 2023
Sanjna Banerjee
Cardiovascular Diseases in India: A Silent Genetic...
Exploring the genetic factors behind the high prevalence of cardiovasc...
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14 December 2023
Sanjna Banerjee
Unmasking Silent Threats: Genetic Mutations and Su...
A study from 2013 titled ‘Lives forever changed: Family bereavement ex...
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09 November 2023
Sanjna Banerjee
Genetic Testing: Your Personalized Path to Wellnes...
Science today has progressed enough to enable us to economically harne...
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03 April 2023
Dr Ramesh Hariharan
Why is Genomics Key to the Future of Preventive He...
The costs of Genome Sequencing have decreased in the last decade from ...
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27 March 2023
Dr Ramesh Hariharan
Chris Hemsworth & The Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease
Australian actor Chris Hemsworth was recently informed by his doctor ...
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27 January 2023
Lung Cancer Panel – Top 5 Questions Oncologists Ne...
Lung cancer remains the leading cause of all cancer-related deaths wor...
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20 January 2023
What is Pharmacogenomics? | फार्माकोजेनोमिक्स क्या...
The world today is increasingly gravitating towards individuality than...
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01 December 2022
Sakshi Shinghal
Covid Treatments: New Uses of Old Pills
In the last few weeks 2 big pharma companies — Merck and Pfizer — have...
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18 March 2022
Strand Editorial Team
Don’t Blame Your Genes
“Alright, let’s beat them with a difference of 10 points”, I told my p...
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23 February 2022
Sakshi Divija Shinghal
dd-cfDNA — The Alphabet Soup of Transplant Rejecti...
With the advent of the first successful xenotransplantation of a pig h...
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31 January 2022
Sakshi Divija Shinghal
First Successful Pig Heart Transplant
While most of us were hunkering down and hearing about yet another rel...
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06 January 2022
Sakshi Shinghal
Cancer mRNA Vaccines
Are cancer vaccines possible? While mRNA vaccines are helping vaccinat...
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17 November 2021
Sakshi Shinghal
mRNA Vaccines: Back to the Basics
While research on mRNA vaccines has been ongoing for years, the advent...
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05 November 2021
Sakshi Shinghal
World Hepatitis Day
Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver, which can lead to functiona...
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15 February 2021
Sakshi Divija Shinghal
Why Aren’t All Blue Whales Ridden with Cancer?
Why aren’t all blue whales ridden with cancer? As mammals that have 1,...
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14 January 2021
Sakshi Shinghal
Ultrasensitive Detection of Tumour-Specific Mutati...
India has one of the highest incidences of oral cavity squamous cell c...
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05 January 2021
Sakshi Divija Shinghal
Liquid Biopsies: Non-Invasive Cancer Detection
When it comes to diagnosing a cancer, clinicians typically choose to b...
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02 January 2021
Strand Editorial Team
Strand Life Sciences’ DNA Testing Plans
There are certain genetic mutations that are highly prevalent in the I...
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31 December 2020
Sakshi Divija Shinghal
Turning Evolution on Its Head
Evolution is a push and pull of selective pressures that leads to cert...
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18 December 2020
Sakshi Divija Shinghal
Case Study: Patients with variants that are not of...
Not all variants have the same levels of evidence behind them, (see ou...
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09 December 2020
Sakshi Divija Shinghal
Recommending Targeted Therapies for Patients with ...
Cancers are often caused by an activating mutation in a specific gene....
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18 November 2020
Sakshi Divija Shinghal
Single Cell Transcriptomics
While all cells may contain the same gene (excluding somatic, or non-i...
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10 November 2020
Sakshi Divija Shinghal
The Story of Osimertinib
NSCLC is the most common subtype of lung cancer in the world, accounti...
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19 October 2020
Strand Editorial Team
Breast Cancer: Choosing Facts Over Myths
Nothing could be farther from the truth. Lumps or knots in breast tiss...
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08 October 2020
Sakshi Divija Shinghal
Darwinian Evolution and Cancer Treatment
One of the first things we learn in Bio 101 is Darwin’s Theory of Evol...
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16 September 2020
Sakshi Divija Shinghal
StrandIRIS: Automated Interpretation of Somatic Va...
The DNA of cancer cells is different from that of normal cells, and mu...
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15 May 2020
Sakshi Shinghal
AiArthritis — Autoimmune and Auto-Inflammatory Art...
Autoimmune and autoinflammatory arthritis (AiArthritis) are forms of a...
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10 November 2019
Strand Editorial Team
Life In The Time Of Genetic Decoding
Genes rarely hold the secrets to who we are, nor are they the final ar...
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