Author Affiliations: Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Dr PhamKanter); Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (Dr Pham-Kanter); Department of Health Systems, Management, and Policy, Colorado School of Public Health (Dr Pham-Kanter), and Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical...

In my early research career I considered random versions of combinatorial optimization problems; my doctoral thesis [17] resolved a long-standing conjecture about the assignment problem and my post-doctoral work resolved another conjecture about the number partitioning problem [6,7]. Upon joining as a faculty member in the Information Engineering department of The Chinese University of Hong Kon...

Carriers of bovine anaplasmosis in Northern Kerala, South India were detected using conventional microscopical and molecular techniques. PCR-RFLP and nested PCR techniques were used for detection of Anaplasma marginale and Anaplasma bovis respectively and the PCR products were confirmed by sequencing. Out of 150 samples tested, 25 were detected positive for A. marginale and five for A. bovis ba...

Dept. of Medicine, TN Medical College & BYL Nair Ch. Hospital, Mumbai 400 008 C Nicolle was born in Rouen, France, to a practising physician. He received his medical education in Rouen and completed his graduation from the hospital in Paris. In 1893, he further studied in the Pasteur Institute of Paris, under the direction of Metchnikoff and Roux. In 1902, he was appointed the first director of...

T cells represent a crucial component of the adaptive immune system and mediate anti-tumoral immunity as well protection against infections, including respiratory viruses such SARS-CoV-2. Next-generation sequencing T-cell receptors (TCRs) can be used to profile repertoire. We developed customized pipeline for Network Analysis Immune Repertoire (NAIR) with advanced statistical methods characteri...

Volume 2 | Issue 6 Complex Vesicovaginal Fistula Repair with Gracilis Muscle Interposition Flap Case Series of 5 Patients and Review of Literature Sharma A*, Chaudhari R, Shaikh I, Desai R, Andankar M and Pathak H Department of Urology, TNMC & BYL Nair Hospital, Mumbai 400008, Maharashtra, India *Corresponding author: Sharma A, Resident, Department of Urology, TNMC & BYL Nair Hospital, Mumbai, ...

An egg-enriched medium made selective by the addition of Polymyxin B and Mycostatin, for the isolation of N. gonorrhoeae was described by Chacko and Nair (1966). The evaluation of this medium has since been extended to further cases ofN.gonorrhoeae and also to N. meningitidis. The results indicate the usefulness of the Chacko-Nair medium, not only in the diagnosis of gonorrhoea, but also in the...

The Neurobiology of Social Cognition: Role of the Posterior Cingulate Cortex by Amrita Rajendra Nair Department of Neurobiology Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Michael Platt, Supervisor ___________________________ Richard Mooney, Chair ___________________________ R. Alison Adcock ___________________________ Elizabeth Brannon An abstract of a di...

Financial/nonfinancial disclosures: The authors have reported to CHEST the following conflicts of interest: Drs Hargreave and Nair have a patent on a filter device provided in a kit to process and examine sputum for quantitative inflammatory cell counts and fluid phase indices. This has not been marketed, and there is currently no profit from this. Drs Hargreave and Nair's university hospital l...