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Personalized Medicine

Personalized medicine is a form of medicine that uses information about a person’s genes, proteins, and environment in order to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases. Specific information about a person’s tumor may be used in personalized medicine to help diagnose a cancer, plan treatment, find out the efficacy of treatment,

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Cure from the past: Phage Therapy

In today’s modern world, the human race is losing the arm race with antibiotics. Ubiquitous bacterial pathogens have been continuously evolving to resist antibiotics. Hospitals, particularly intensive care units, are an important breeding ground for antibiotic-resistant bacteria because of factors like - over the counter antibiotic use, patient overcrowding, fraudulent infection control

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Translational Research for Societal Benefit

Dr. N.N. Barman, Professor Department of Microbiology   From genetic insights facilitated by the Human Genome Project and next generation DNA sequencing technologies to measurement of global nucleic acid and proteomic expression using new high-throughput methods, advances in biology are occurring at a breathtaking pace today. In the recent time, important biological insights

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GMO- An ecological boomerang?

Science and technology came a long way forward in the 21st century. To overcome the increasing demand of food products, pharmaceuticals and petrochemicals with the increasing population of the world, scientists had to look beyond the conventional products. It all started with the “Green revolution” initiated by the Nobel peace

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MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS

Dr Sophia M. Gogoi Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Microbiology, College of Veterinary Science, A.A.U., Khanapara, Guwahati-22 e-mail- sophiagogoi@gmail.com, Ph No. 9706072570 Energy resource depletion is a grave crisis threatening the modern world. The burgeoning human population coupled with the subsequent increase in energy consumption has brought us to the brink of exhausting the

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Vermitechnology: An overview

The branch of science that studies the importance and utilization of different epigeic earthworm species to answer problems related to ecology and environment is known as Vermitechnology. It is a useful technique for stabilization of both industrial and domestic organic waste, organic farming and waste water treatment. Vermitechnology is an

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