WELLNESS

New Delhi:A group of American scientists has found a new possibility to cure leukemia, a deadly disease that strikes patients as young as seven.
In a study published in the Journal Nature Medicine, the group from Stanford University and National Institute of Health (NIH) found that a molecule, called CD22, can serve as a potent target for the killer cells of acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

The development comes after the US Food and Drug Administration last year approved a cell-based gene therapy called the CAR T-cell treatment.
It works by genetically modifying a patient’s own immune cells to seek out and attack leukemia cells that have a molecule called CD19 on their surface. 

Stanford oncologist Crystal Mackall and NIH’s pediatric haematologist Terry Fry, discovered that a molecule called CD22 can be a similar target. 
Scientists treated 21 patients with treatment-resistant B-cell leukemia who are aged seven to 30 to test the new CD22-directed method.

New Delhi: Superfoods have been taking the world by storm–setting global food trends and featuring on social media feeds of Instagram-friendly hipsters. While new fads are added every year, for those of us in India, all we have to do is look at our backyards and listen to our grandmothers.

Superfoods have amazing qualities with it which can help your body to stay fit and healthy. There are endless international food items in this categories which are very expensive for everyday use. But these items can be easily replaced to few Indian foods giving same or more benefits.

Here are local alternatives to international food stars like chia, quinoa and kale that cost half the price and are twice as nice.

New Delhi: Menopause is that stage in woman's life where she doesn't go through a menstrual cycle for around twelve consecutive months. Menopause is a natural reaction to the aging process and marks the official end of a woman's fertile days. There are plenty of physical and emotional changes that come along with the process because of unbalanced hormonal levels in the body. Some of the most popular symptoms among menopausal women include irregular periods, night sweats, mood swings and fatigue. 

The menopause and menopausal symptoms will inevitably affect all women at some point in their lives – whether it’s premature menopause, surgically induced menopause or just the classic signs of ageing. In this article lets understand everything about Menopause.

New Delhi: Fluoridated drinking water is not monitored everywhere; thus, children in particular can ingest too much fluoride. For this reason, a very simple rapid colour test to help determine fluoride concentration more easily in the future has been developed.

A research team at the University of Bath's Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies, and the Water Innovation and Research Centre (WIRC), led by Simon Lewis, developed a simple colour-changing test that detects high levels of fluoride quickly and selectively. 

In this new test, a change in the colour of a paper strip immersed in a glass of water, for example, shows how much fluoride is dissolved in the water, similar to a litmus test to determine pH value. The concentration is indicated by yellow-green dots: the darker the dot, the more fluoride is present. In order to evaluate the colour change better than with the human eye, the test strip’s colour can also be detected with the built-in camera of a mobile phone.