Uveitis is a potentially blinding condition whereby inflammation may irreversibly damage the delicate intraocular structures. It can be associated with infections, other systemic autoimmune conditions,…
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In the mid-1950s, Dr. Denham Harman, MD, Ph.D., proposed the free radical theory of aging while a resident in internal medicine. Dr. Harman had studied…
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Morphogenesis is the process through which organs and organisms acquire their shape during development. These changes in shape are the result of coordinated cellular movements…
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In 2015, a large number of cases of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection were reported in Brazil. Until that moment, ZIKV was not found in the…
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Exposure of deoxyribonucleic acid to endogenous or exogenous chemical and physical agents often leads to conformational changes in DNA structure. Small inorganic and organic molecules…
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Faced with sudden external physical stress, e.g.temperature shifts, desiccation, pH changes, cells need to adapt rapidly. Part of the adaptation is to counter the cellular…
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Human disease can be loosely categorized into two broad categories, monogenic and polygenic diseases. The word monogenic means mutating a single gene is sufficient to…
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There is evidence for long-lasting negative effects of adverse birth characteristics such as low birth weight, short birth length, small head circumference, preterm birth, and…
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What causes asthma? At a time when global rates of asthma have reached alarming rates, this important question remains unanswered. This debilitating disease affects approximately…
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Neurological disorders remain one of the last frontiers of medicine. Available treatments are few; of those that exist, most only mitigate symptoms and do nothing…
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Most cases of malaria can be cured with a simple course of antimalarial drugs, but many of these drugs have lost their effectiveness because the…
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