Individuals who are at risk because of their family history or concerned about the possibility of having an affected child based any reasons are seeking solution approaches. Nowadays genetic counseling offers hope to prevent from suffering some genetic diseases. Advances in genetics diagnosis testing have played effective role in this regards. Interestingly, Preimplantation Genetic Testing woul...

Understanding the genetic structure of mosquito populations is important for addressing biological and public health issues such as evolution, spread insecticide resistance alleles epidemiology vector-borne diseases. Anopheles gambiae s.l. comprised genetically distinct species that are morphologically indistinguishable. This study therefore aims to establish sibling molecular characterization ...

EDITORIAL At present there are over 990 registered hereditary diseases involving only the eye or in the context of a disease involving other organs (1). Aniri-dia, primary congenital glaucoma, retinoblastoma, Leber's neuropathy or uveal melanoma are but a few examples. In some cases, the involvement is attributed to a mutation in a specific gene; in others, it is related to changes in different...

Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is an established alternative to prenatal testing for couples at risk of transmitting genetic disorders such as cystic fibrosis (CF).PGD screens pre-implantation embryos, allowing the safe transfer of those identified as unaffected. Awareness of CF carrier status in Ireland is increasing following the introduction of neonatal screening in 2011. PGD is th...

In this paper, a multipath routing scheme is proposed for data transmission in a packet-switched network to improve the reliability of data delivery to multicast destinations, and to reduce network congestion. A multi-objective optimization model is presented that utilizes FEC (Forward Error Correction) across multiple multicast trees for transmitting packets toward the destinations. This model...

aim: injury from needle is one of the main ways of transmitting blood diseases in the medical staff. prevention and reduction of such diseases' side effects have been emphasized by the health ministry. this study aimed to investigate factors influencing the behavior of the elam city medical staff when working with sharps instruments. methods: in a cross-sectional study, using a census method, a...