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Drugs for Zika virus (ZIKV) infection : Zika Virus Disease in India New Delhi, Jan 06: New drugs could soon be in the offing for Zika virus (ZIKV) infection with a team of scientists at the Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS) in Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, getting new insights …

The research was carried out extensively on various laboratory animals such as mice, rabbits, and monkeys. They used mice as a breast cancer model and found that the nanomicelle based drug delivery system reduced the size of the tumour in mice without producing toxic effects.

p53 is one of the most well studied proteins in cancer biology. Like all proteins, its levels and activity are tightly controlled andthey go through cycles of birth-existence-death: the protein is synthesised, it does its function and then it is degraded.

Scientists review influenza vaccine research progress and opportunities