Background: Adverse events involve unintended injuries or complications resulting in death, disability, harm or prolonged hospital stay that arise from health care management. This paper aims at giving insight into the ...

Advances in high-throughput sequencing technologies have resulted in an exponential growth of publicly accessible biological datasets. In the ‘big data’ driven ‘post-genomic’ context, much work is being done to explore ...

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is an essential but not a sufficient cervical cancer etiological factor. Cancer promoters, such as host genetic mutations, significantly modulate therapeutic responses and susceptibility. ...

Mesenchymal stromal/stem cells (MSCs) represent an area being intensively researched for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications. MSCs may provide the opportunity to treat diseases and injuries that ...

Objective: HIV positive individuals infected with viral hepatitis B (HBV) or C (HCV) are at an increased risk of progres‑ sion to kidney and liver failures. Therefore, prior to initiation of antiretroviral therapy, early ...

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) requires the tnaA-encoded enzyme tryptophanase and its sub- strate tryptophan to synthesize diffusible exotoxins that kill the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Here, we demonstrate ...

Caenorhabditis elegans exhibits avoidance behavior when presented with diverse bacterial pathogens. We hypothesized that exposure to pathogens might not only cause worms to move away but also simulta- neously activate ...

Background: Congenital heart defects (CHD) are the singular most common congenital anomalies and account for a significant fraction of childhood mortality and morbidity. CHD occurs in ~ 1% of livebirths globally and ...

Background. What cheaper alternative breast screening procedures are available to younger women in addition to clinical breast examination (CBE) in Sub-Saharan countries? In 2009, we first described BreastLight for screening ...

he ongoing Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is raising unprecedented health concerns, with potential to wipe out large propor- tions of the population in this part of the ...