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Ayurveda’s unlikely solution for a very common disease; treating diabetes with lead based compounds.
This blog serves to simplify the following article: Characterization and effect of Naga Bhasma on hypoglycemic, antihyperglycemic, and antidiabetic activities in Charles Foster diabetic rats , published in the Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine. In 2022, the World Health Organization reported that more than 830 million people were suffering from diabetes, worldwide. That’s over 10% of the world’s population! These statistics are quite horrifying, if you ask me. Bu
Verain Mahajan
Jan 1011 min read


Stitches Without the Scars: A New Approach to Facial Wound Closure
This blog post aims to simplify the following scholarly research article: Zip Stitch Adhesive Bandage for Maxillofacial Wounds - An Evaluative Study , published in the Journal Annals of Maxillofacial Surgery Many people obtain scars in a variety of areas throughout their lifetime. Of the many areas, the face continues to be one of the most sensitive and requires extra delicacy and carefulness when tending to it, with being the center of your appearance. That leaves you wi

Omar Sultani
Jan 55 min read


AI in Medicine: From Predicting Research to Guiding Patient Care
This blog post aims to simplify the following scholarly research articles: Large Language Models Surpass Human Experts in Predicting Neuroscience Results , published in Nature Human Behaviour An Active Inference Strategy for Prompting Reliable Responses From Large Language Models in Medical Practice , published in Nature Human Behaviour. Introduction: BrainGPT Sets a New Standard Imagine if an AI could predict how neuroscience experiments will turn out better than expert re
Maleeha Ilyas
Dec 13, 20257 min read


A One-of-a-Kind Gene Therapy: How Scientists Edited a Baby’s DNA to Treat a Fatal Metabolic Disorder
This blog post serves to simplify the scholarly article “ Patient-Specific in Vivo Gene Editing to Treat a Rare Genetic Disease ” by Kiran Musunuru from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania. Within 48 hours of birth, a baby boy's life hung in the balance. His body couldn't process ammonia, a toxic byproduct that was poisoning his brain with every feeding. Standard treatments could only buy time, and a liver transplant would take far too
Daksha Chandragiri
Dec 12, 20254 min read


A New Era of Gene Editing: One Tool to Edit, Activate, and Silence Genes at Once
This blog post serves to simplify this scholarly article: " Orthogonal and multiplexable genetic perturbations with an engineered prime editor and a diverse RNA array " published in the Nature Communications Journal by Qichen Yuan and other authors Imagine being able to fix a genetic mutation that causes disease, activates a protective gene, and silences a harmful one; all in the same cell, at the same time. That’s exactly what researchers have achieved with a new gene-edi
Amatullah Hassanali
Dec 3, 20253 min read


Using 3D-Printers to Engineer Bone Tissue
This blog post serves to simplify this scholarly paper: 3D-printed polymeric biomaterials in bone tissue engineering , published in the Biomedical Materials Journal by Tianyi Xia, Xianglong Zhou, Haoran Zhou, Jiheng Xiao, Jianhui Xiang, Hanhong Fang, Liming Xiong, and Fan Ding. Boney Problems Far from being static, each bone in our body acts as a living, active tissue; always being broken down and rebuilt to maintain strength and function. But when the formation of new tiss
Nabiha Kashfee
Nov 29, 202510 min read
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