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From wastelands to wetlands: The fight to save Sri Lanka’s natural flood buffers

IWMI researchers comment on the importance of preserving Colombo's wetland ecosystem as the city becomes more vulnerable to flooding.

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India's Growing Heart Transplant Requirements: Fresh Insights

In India around 50,000 people require medlinkheart transplants/medlink annually, but merely 0.2 percent are fortunate enough to receive suitable donors, say experts.




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Higher Mortality Rates in Heart Transplant Patients from Low-Income Groups

Compared to those from non-distressed communities, patients from socioeconomically disadvantaged communities had a 10% higher relative risk of graft failure




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MOHAN Foundation's Golf Tournament Champions Organ Donation Awareness

bHighlights:/bul class="group-list punch-points"li MOHAN Foundation's "Drive to Save Lives" golf tournament was held on September 9, 2023/li liIt




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Seeing the Unseen: The Power of Eye Donations

Increasing medlinkeye donations/medlink is shown to be vital for sight-restoring surgeries as a study at the University of Southampton underscores




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World's First Whole-Eye Transplant Restores War Veteran's Vision

bHighlights:/bul class="group-list punch-points"li The world's first-ever complete eye transplant coupled with a partial face transplant conducted




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Organ Donation Disparity: 80% Women Donors, 80% Men Recipients

bHighlights:/bul class="group-list punch-points"li 93% of organ donations come from living donors, revealing a striking imbalance/li liWomen,




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Liver Transplantation Made Easy With Perfusion Machine

A hypothermic oxygenated perfusion machine can preserve donor livers safely for a longer time without compromising donor liver quality. This enabled to




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Resilience Rewritten: Painter Gets Bilateral Hand Transplantation

bHighlights:/bul class="group-list punch-points"li Tragic train accident renders Delhi painter handless/li liOrgan donation offers newfound




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Bloodless Liver Transplant Saves Two Young Girls in India

In a pioneering medical achievement, medical professionals in Faridabad, Haryana, have accomplished liver transplants in two young girls diagnosed with




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Two Kidneys, One Chance: India's First Dual Kidney Transplant

In a significant medical breakthrough, AIIMS Delhi recently accomplished its inaugural dual kidney transplant, presenting a beacon of hope for numerous




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World's First Pig Kidney Transplant Patient Dies Two Months After Surgery

Richard "Rick" Slayman became the first person to undergo a genetically modified pig kidney transplant. However, two months post-surgery, Slayman succumbed,




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More Transplants Possible: Study Offers Hope With New Technique

In the United States, around 30-40% of potential donor hearts are excluded from transplant consideration due to insufficient function. This limits available




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Making Heart Transplants Safer With Antibodies

Transplanted hearts functioned longer in mice when the recipients who received the organs were administered with the novel antibody treatment before the surgery.




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A New Lease on Life: Uterus Transplants Bring Hope to Infertility

medlinkUterine transplants/medlink (!--ref1--), though relatively new, have shown promising results. Since the first procedure in 2011, over 100 transplants have been performed globally.




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Fight Against Organ Rejection: What's Next?

medlinkOrgan transplantation/medlink represents a significant medical breakthrough, but one of the most significant challenges remains the body's immune system rejecting the transplanted organ.




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Gene Therapy Breaks Up New Dawn for Beta Thalassemia

With FDA approval, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland pioneers gene therapy for beta thalassemia, a rare genetic blood disorder, potentially alleviating




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World's First CRISPR-Based Gene Therapy for Blood Disorders

Nobel Prize-winning inventors of CRISPR, awarded in 2020, have seen their gene-editing tool gain approval in the UK for the first-ever therapy targeting




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New Gene Therapy to Treat Genetic Brain Disorder

Two girls with a rare genetic brain disorder called Rett Syndrome was successfully treated by a first-ever novel gene therapy- NGN-401, developed by US-based Neurogene.




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New Tool Enhances Precision in Uncovering Disease-Causing Genes

Researchers have introduced an innovative statistical tool enhancing the identification of disease-causing genetic variants. This tool combines information




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Gene Dyrk1a Linked to Heart Defects in Down Syndrome Identified

Leveraging genetic mapping, scientists pinpointed a gene on human chromosome 21 named Dyrk1a. In the mouse model of medlinkDown syndrome/medlink,




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New Gene Therapy for Children With Genetic Epilepsy

CDD - CDKL5 deficiency disorder, a most common type of medlinkgenetic epilepsy/medlink in children, occurs due to the loss of genes producing the CDKL5 enzyme.




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Children Born Via Frozen and Fresh Embryo Transfer Show Similar Metabolic Health

Children born through frozen embryo transfer have metabolic profiles similar to those born through fresh embryo transfer, according to a study published




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Genomic Insights into Women's Aging

Genomic analysis indicates that inherited DNA may affect how women's cells handle chromosomal changes with age, specifically mLOX, as per a study by researchers




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Genes Gone Wild: Common Gene Misbehavior in Healthy People

Scientists have discovered that genes often defy expectations, turning on when they should be off in healthy individuals. The team also identify several mechanisms behind these gene activity errors.




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Iron Overload Effects on Mitochondrial DNA in - Thalassemia : Way Forward

Beta-thalassemia, also known as (and) #946;-thalassemia is a genetic disorder marked by reduced or absent beta chain synthesis of medlinkhemoglobin/medlink,




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Low-Intensity Stem Cell Transplants May Prevent Lung Damage in Sickle Cell Disease

Sickle cell disease is an inherited red blood cell disorder that affects hemoglobin, the protein carrying oxygen through the body. In this condition,




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Genetic Variants Heighten Risk of Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome

Accessory conduction pathways in the heart, associated with medlinkWolff-Parkinson-White syndrome/medlink, can lead to rhythm disturbances uncovered




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ALS Diagnosis Simplified: New Blood Test Shows 98% Accuracy

medlinkAmyotrophic lateral sclerosis/medlink (ALS) is a medlinkneurodegenerative disease/medlink that affects neurons in the brain and spinal cord.




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How Genetic Research is Shaping Future Treatments for Mental Health?

Researchers have united in a consortium called SSPsyGene to investigate the genetic origins of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders (NPD), including




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New Study Reveals Risk Factors for Sepsis-Related Deaths

Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that happens when the body's response to infections causes adverse effects on the tissues and organs. Dr. Finn E.




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How Gene Technology Takes Newborn Screening to the Next Level

A groundbreaking study, GUARDIAN, is exploring the potential of DNA analysis for newborn screening (!--ref1--). Early findings suggest that genome sequencing




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Connection Between COVID-19 and Mortality Among Cancer Patients

More than 185 million people worldwide have been affected by COVID-19. There have been 4 million COVID-19-related deaths with more than 129,000 deaths in the UK alone.




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Chikungunya Nose: Doctors Say No Cause of Worry, Fades With Time

Medical professionals have advised the public to remain calm regarding the phenomenon known as 'chikungunya nose' amid the current outbreak in the city.




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New Semaglutide Hydrogel Could Cut Diabetes Shots to Monthly

Innovative semaglutide hydrogel may revolutionize diabetes treatment by reducing the need for injections to just once a month, improving patient convenience.