Objective: Over the last decades, great advances in the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases have fostered complacency about infection in a society which has access to antibiotics.However, infections and also adverse reactions of such drugs remain.Also, due to the increasing demand for less toxic and more potent antibiotics, it is necess
Introduction: Typhoon Haiyan caused thousands of deaths and catastrophic destruction, leaving many homeless in Region 8 of the Philippines.A team from the Philippine Field Epidemiology Training Program conducted a rapid health assessment survey of evacuation centres severely affected by Haiyan.Methods: A descriptive study was conducted whereby a co
Vortex shedding phenomenon behind bluff bodies and its destructive unsteady wake can be controlled by employing active and passive flow control methods.In this quest, researchers employed experimental fluid dynamics (EFD), computational fluid socksmith santa cruz dynamics (CFD) and an analytical approach to investigate such phenomena to reach a des
Ninety percent of deaths from cancer are caused by metastasis.miRNAs are critical players in biological processes such as proliferation, metastasis, apoptosis, and self-renewal.We and others have previously demonstrated that miRNA-10b promotes metastatic cell migration and invasion.Importantly, we also showed that miR-10b is a critical driver of me