WHO APPROVES HISTORIC RTS,S MALARIA VACCINE
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WHO APPROVES HISTORIC RTS,S MALARIA VACCINE

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that children in Sub-Saharan Africa and other places with moderate to high Plasmodium falciparum malaria transmission get the RTS,S /AS01 (RTS,S) malaria vaccine. The proposal is based on the outcomes of a trial program that has touched over 800,000 children in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi since 2019.The mortality rate of malaria is over 500,000 people each year in Africa, with about half of them being children. The new vaccine…
U.S DUO DAVID JULIUS AND ARDEM PATAPOUTIAN AWARDED THE 2021 NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE
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U.S DUO DAVID JULIUS AND ARDEM PATAPOUTIAN AWARDED THE 2021 NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE

The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet decided on 04/10/2021 to award the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.” Our ability to sense heat, cold and touch is essential for survival and underpins our interaction with the world around us. In our daily lives we take these sensations for granted, but how are nerve impulses initiated so that…
Missing Dopamine Restored in Children With Atypical Brain Disorder by Gene Therapy
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Missing Dopamine Restored in Children With Atypical Brain Disorder by Gene Therapy

A girl who has lived 8 years of her life with a very uncommon genetic brain disease that made her unable to talk or walk, got enrolled in a clinical trial whose results suggests the course of such inherited disorders can be altered by gene therapy, even after many years. The patient had AADC deficiency, a disorder that prevents the brain from making dopamine and serotonin, which are important molecules that enable brain cells to…
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