Author: Nara Ito
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The Health Benefits of Saliva
Unbeknownst to many, saliva has many purposes, both inside and outside of our mouths. Aside from it allowing for the mastication and swallowing of food, saliva from humans and other organisms have health benefits behind them.
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Can Humans Use Smell to Detect Cancer?
Olfactory receptors, their involvement, and their potential to act as targets for treating colon/colorectal cancer, more so than many other types of cancer, seems to be promising as being efficacious. Nevertheless, whether humans would be able to find a way to consciously recognize the scent of specific cancer directly is heavily questionable.
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MicroRNA-146a: A Potential Target for Treating Neurological Disease
MicroRNAs (MiRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that regulate the expression of most of the genes in humans. This review depicts the potential for MicroRNAs, more specifically, MiRNA-146a as a potential target and biomarker for the treatment of neurological diseases, focusing on its involvement within Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in particular.
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Combination Ab/Ag Paper-Based Lateral Flow Assay for COVID-19
Through our test, we aim to significantly increase testing capacity globally so that people, are not deprived of the resources necessary to combat COVID-19. Our hypothesis states that with our combination of antibody-antigen tests, we can provide researchers, labs, and hospitals a ‘truer’ indication of the severity of the virus outbreak so that the strain…
