Contributed by Dr. Krunal Khobragade, Consultant – Surgical Oncology, HCG NCHRI Cancer Hospital Nagpur Gastric cancer/ stomach cancer is the 3rd most common cancer in men in India and the second most common cause of cancer-related deaths among Indian men and women between the age 15 and 44. Recent statistics suggest that the cumulative risk […]
Bangalore, 24 August 2021: A 63-year-old Somalian patient, Zenab Duale, recently received a new lease of life with a revision total knee replacement (TKR) surgery at Aster RV Hospital. Due to a faulty surgery and complications occurring in her left knee from a TKR surgery a year ago in another state, Zenab was unable to walk properly and […]
A team of researchers at Stanford University has used the gene-editing tool commonly known as CRISPR to repair the gene that causes cystic fibrosis in airway stem cells, which they say is a critical step to develop a gene therapy for the disorder. The researchers showed that the repaired airway stem cells could give rise […]