STD - Sexually Transmitted Diseases

 

STDs refer to more than 35 infectious organisms that are transmitted primarily through sexual activity. STD prevention is an essential primary care strategy for improving reproductive health.

Despite their burdens, costs, and complications, and the fact that they are largely preventable, STDs remain a significant public health problem in the United States. This problem is largely unrecognized by the public, policymakers, and health care professionals. STDs cause many harmful, often irreversible, and costly clinical complications, such as:

• Reproductive health problems
• Fetal and perinatal health problems
• Cancer
• Facilitation of the sexual transmission of HIV infection

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Aquaculture is the fastest growing sector of agriculture in the world

Aquaculture is the fastest growing sector of agriculture in the world. Since 2005, global aquaculture has grown at an impressive rate of 5.8% annually. Over the next decade, all indications show continued growth.

Many major industries have a certain level of reliance on aquaculture production to stimulate their economic expansion. The food industry, especially, is influenced by changes that occur in aquaculture—for example, more than half of seafood consumed worldwide is produced by the aquaculture sector.

Some of the biggest changes expected to take effect in 2020 include:

1. Less antibiotics
2. Continued industry growth
3. A focus on sustainability
4. The evolution of aquaculture systems and equipment

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A Tiny But Efficient Cas Protein is Discovered in a Bacteriophage

The microbes of the world are locked in a struggle for survival and a battle for resources. They can compete directly in different ways; there are viruses that can infect bacteria, called bacteriophages, and bacterial defense mechanisms that can cut up viral DNA. The gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 is derived from a kind of bacterial immune system. As research on CRISPR has expanded, scientists have looked to other bacteria and found different kinds of Cas proteins that can cut DNA as well as RNA. Now scientists have identified a new kind of Cas protein in bacteriophages.

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Yale researchers develop new genetic tool to analyze diseases

A team of researchers at the Yale School of Medicine have developed a new tool that opens the door for the genetic analysis of a wide range of human diseases.

The group has pioneered a way of understanding endogenous retroviruses, known as ERVs, which are remnants of retroviruses — a type of RNA virus that inserts its DNA into a host cell — that have integrated into the genome of the human body over millennia. This tool, called ERVmap, enables researchers to explore these pieces of retroviral RNA that have invaded the human genome but largely remain mysterious in terms of their function. 

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The Practical Consideration of Poliovirus as an Oncolytic Virotherapy

The inauguration of novel treatment strategies into the clinical setting faces a number of hurdles. In addition to treatment efficacy and safety, acceptance by doctors and patients is paramount to the success of novel therapies. Although viruses are the cause of numerous infectious diseases, these acellular entities have been harnessed over the years to benefit mankind. Recently, a recombinant Poliovirus-Rhinovirus Chimera (PVSRIPO) has shown promise for the treatment of glioblastoma in clinical trials as well as other cancer types in animal model

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