On March 11, I did mention about the improvement for the existing BCG vaccine for tuberculosis. But this is something really intere...

          On Jan 25th, 2009  I did write a blog on "Insulin from Plants ?".  It has come true now and SemBioSys Genetics  has come...

We know that Artemision, is a drug to treat multi-drug resistant strains of falciparum malaria . And also fermenting artemisinin v...

We know that BCG (Bacille Calmette-Guérin) is a live but weakened form of a bacterium, M. bovis, which causes tuberculosis in cattle. It is ...

In India, turmeric ( Haldi-in Hindi, Arishin-in Kannada) has been used in food preparation. Curcumin (see the structure le...

Though as we Indians (and more in Karnatak), we might have seen in the last 1-2 years lots of news on Chikungunya . Like raids on ma...

We all knew that chloroquine derivatives are better known as antimalarials, but something new chloroquine can be used as ...

I heard from one of my friend a few days back, that a patient who was admitted to a hospital for the treatment for Parkinson...

We know that Phenylbutyrate is adrug, used to prescribe for patients suffering from alterations in the urea cycle. Now, Ana García-Osta ...

We know that Lovastatin is a member of the drug class of statins , used for lowering cho...

(1)-- alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), (2)- eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) (3)- docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) According to a...

In one of my earlier blog article, have written about how a modified e-coli is used to make biofuel, but this time by chemical react...

I used to wonder why, the medical practitioners recommend Vitamin B12 for canker sores, now thanks to the research group lead by D...

Everything nanotech .....its really interesting, now its the turn of Lithium-Ion batteries . Rice University researchers lead by P...

Oncostatin M , is a pleitropic cytokine that belongs to the Interleukin 6 group of cytokines. Of these cytokines it most closely resembl...