Yluu A day after arrest, #FixIt campaigner gets bail KARACHI:The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) on Friday reacted strongly to the activities of its rival London group (MQM-L) in the United States, calling it a plot to tarnish the image of the patriotic Muhajir community.MQM-P head Farooq Sattar lambasted MQM-L spearhead Nadeem Nusrat for meeting US Republican congressmen - believed to have an anti-Pakistan agenda - in a presser at the headquarters of his faction of the party in Bahadurabad.'Muhajir parties should band together for the good of the community'“The <recent> audio messages from London and the activities of Nusrat in US with an anti-Pakistan lobby are highly alarming and matter of natio nal security,” Sattar told reporters.The MQM-P ‘strongly’ condemns these activities as they are tantamount to hatching a conspirac y against the country and against the Muhajirs, he said, adding that his party won’t allow the London group to use the name of the community.Referring to the August 22 incident which divided MQM into two fa Scientists show that a protein synthesis dependent process blocks new learning just after waking, thereby preventing the disruption of memory stabilization which occurs during sleep -Throughout our waking lives we are exposed to a continuous stream of stimuli and experiences. Some of the se experiences trigger the strengthening of connections between neurons in the brain, and begin the process of forming memories.See Also: No dream: Electric brain stimulation during sleep can boost memory However, these initial memory traces are fragile and only a small number will become long-term memories with the potential to last a lifetime. For this transition to occur, the brain must stabilize the memory traces through a process called consolidation.Let's sleep on itDuring consolidation, the brain produces new proteins that strengthen the fragile memory traces. However, if a new experience occurs whil e an existing memory trace is being consolidated, the new stimuli could disrupt or even hijack
Cxpi Security huddle: Sindh set to launch operation against terror PESHAWAR:Community awareness about dengue virus is essential to contr ol the spread of the disease as 70 per cent of the job <to>protect themselves as a neighborhood] needs to be performed by the community itself.These observations were made by the officials involved in the Dengue Control ProgrammeSome 240 cases have so far been confirmed by initial testing which further needs to be probed however with fresh cases being reported, officials claim the department has been doing all it can in requesting the community to also play their due role.Officials informed that the area where maximum number of cases have been reported from comprises shops with different businesses adding a large number of people run businesses like dealing in tyres, furniture which provides a safe shelter for mosquitoes carrying the virus to breed“Tehkal area is densly inhabited by people engaged in the tyre business and a tyre is an ideal breeding ground for the virus, ” Peshawar’s Deputy Commissioner Saqib Raza Asla Applied Biosystemshas announced an initiative to support life scientists and independent software vendors (ISVs) in the development and potential commercialization of bioinformatics applications for next-generation D NA sequencing platforms.As part of this initiative, the company is expanding its Software Development Community to include sample data sets, data file formats and data conversion tools for its SOLiD System.Applied Biosystems expects this initiative to drive innovation and speed up the development of new tools that will enable researchers to find more answers, thereby helping life scientists to realize the full potential of next-generation sequencing.The promise of next-generation sequencing technology is to broaden the applications of genomic information in medical research and health care, reduce the cost of DNA sequencing without sacrificing quality, and enable discoveries that may revolutionize the practice of medicine.The Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is an Applied Biosy
Zarl Researchers probing potential power of meditation as therapy KARACHI:A total of 21 wickets fell on the opening day at the UBL Sports Complex as SNGPL fought back to get in the game a gainst Karachi Whites on the first day of the fourth round in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, yesterday.SNGPL, after being put into bat first, were bundled out for 128 following a fiery five-wicket haul by fast-bowler Tabish Khan — the 31-year-old just conceded 23 runs in his five-for.Quaid-e-Azam Trophy begins todayIn reply, Azizullah Khan led the fightback with figures of 5-42 as SNGPL confined their opponents to 118 runs, securing a 10-run lead. In their second innings, they were 39-1 at stumps.At the National Stadium of Karachi, hosts Karachi Blues compiled 206 runs in 84.2 overs against SSGC with Owais Rehmani (68) finishin g as the top scorer. Ziaul Haq grabbed four wickets for SSGC, while Shoaib Malik and fast-bowler Ahmed Jamal claimed a brace apiece.Meanwhile, Shahid Yousuf was the star of the day for Islamabad Region with a brisk century at the Diamond Ground in Is Anyone who lives in Okinawa, a subtropical island in Japan, has an appreciation of the intensity of its pig farming industry. The farms have a large effect on the island's economy and culture. According to Japan's Cabinet Office, as of 2018, there were over 225,000 pigs in Okinawa. Pork is a staple in the local diet and is found in many dishes in traditional restaurants. But the presence of the pig farms has another, less welcome, impact - the odor-y kind. Drive through some particularly farm-filled areas with the car's windows wound down and you're sure to be filled with regret.This smell is, at least in part, caused by a byproduct of the pig farming. Across Okinawa, large amounts of wastewater are produced by the farms. Now, researchers from the Biological Systems Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have created a new system for treating this wastewater, which they've successfully tested on a local swine farm in Okinawa."Our new system u
Yedp This or that: Kardashian vs Kardashian BREDA:Fran Kirby and Jodie Taylor handed England a 2-0 win over Spain in a game marred by heavy rain in Breda on Sunday, to make it back-to-back victories at the women's Euro tournament.Earlier in the day, Carolina Mendes and substitute Ana Leite gave Portugal a 2-1 win over Scotland in a clash of Euro newcomers in Rotterdam.England are all but into the quarter-finals and sit at the Group D summit, having thrashed Scotland 6-0 in their opener.France frustrated by minnows AustriaThe second knock-out round spot is likely to go t o Spain or Portugal, with the former the favourites as they take on bottom team Scotland in their final group game on Thursday.The Scots appear destined for an early exit, and will have to beat Sp ain by two goals to have any chance of progressing.Chelsea striker Kirby picked up a pass from Ellie White in the second minute and stormed into the box, beating Spain keeper Sandra Panos with a low shot to score her seventh international goal.Taylor scored her fourth goa Lanner announced that Complete Genom ics has invested in its WITNESS predictive simulation platform. The agreement means WITNESS will simulate and optimise business processes at Complete Genomics to enhance the provision of highly accurate, human genome data, ready for interpretation, to biological researchers.Having selected WITNESS based on its ability to rapidly model the complex, interconnected processes used to deliver accurate DNA sequencing, Matt Morenzoni, Biomolecular Systems Scientist, Complete Genomics comments, “In an industry driven by innovation, precision and speed it is imperative that the best business outcomes are found most effectively.”Mandy Tague, Lanner director of business development, says, “By choosing predictive simulation to gain insight into the operations of their business, Complete Genomics will be able to make confident decisions that will allow them to meet the increasing demand for their services.”She continue s, “Experimenting with the firm's end-to-end
Njjc Imam among two men killed in New York shooting India is pressing Microsoft Corp to offer a sharply discounted one-time deal to the more than 50 million Windows users in the country so that they can upgrade to the latest Windows 10 operating s ystem in the wake of ransomware attacks.Microsoft officials in India have "in principle agreed" to the request, Gulshan Rai, India's cyber security coordinator, told Reuters over the phone on Friday.A spokeswoman for Microsoft in India declined to comment on the matter. Officials at the company's headquarters in the United States and regional headquarters in Asia also declined to co mment.If Microsoft agreed to such a discount, it could open up the global software giant to similar requests from around the world. Rai said the government was in talks with Microsoft management in India. It is not immediately cl ear whether any other countries were seeking similar deals.India's largest container port disrupted by global cyber attackRai said India began talks with Microsoft after the WannaCry ransomwa The Wellcome Trust and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) have announced joint funding for four new Centres of Excellence in Medical Engineering to transform the future of healthcare.Engineers have been at the forefront of medical innovation throughout the history of medicine, benefiting millions of people with tools such as implants and prosthetic limbs, devices to monitor the physiological state of patients, and instruments to maintain bodily functions, such as the implantable pacemaker.As both medicine and engineering continue to advance at great pace, it is crucial that the links between these disciplines are maintained, especially with the potential for groundbreaking advances in fields such as imaging and genetics .In the UK, the population is ageing - people are living longer thanks to modern medicine. But as we get older, our bodies need more help to support us. Medical engineering will play an important role in meeting this growing demand:• It's esti
Gmzg India;s mini space shuttle blasts off LAHORE:The Lahore School of Economics (LSE) hosted its 13th International Annual Conference on Management of Pakistan Economy at its main Burki Campus on March 29, 2017. The theme of the conference is “Igniting technology-led growth in Pakistan: role of monetary, fiscal and investm ent policies”. The two-day event is devoted to discussions on past successes and constraints to technology-led growth. The conference started wi th keynote address of Dr Shahid Amjad Chaudhry, Rector LSE, to set the stage for comprehensive discussions to explore how monetary, fiscal, investment and governance policies could help ignite technology-led growth in Pakistan. He pointed out that the is sues the conference aimed to address were very relevant to the issues confronted by Pakistan’s economy at present. The first session focused on ensuring macroeconomic stability with micro firm level dynamism. The second session of the conference focused on the monetary policy, external capital and exchange rate managem Ken Stier, Time, June 28, 2010 Few companies spin financial growth out of crop growth better than Monsanto. By making an early, successful R&D-heavy bet on biotechnology, Monsanto transformed itself from an agricultural-chemicals company in an increasingly commoditized sector into a cutting-edge seed-and-biotech firm. Because its rivals ar e still catching up to its prowess in creating biotech traits — the software of seeds — Monsanto has become the standard bearer and lightning rod for the controversial advance of genetically modified (GM) crops, sometimes derisively described as Frankenstein foods.But it looks as if the monster has prevailed. The company's juggernaut is so impressive that the usually levelheaded market bible Barron's hyperbolically referred to "Monsanto's stranglehold on the planet's food chain." Some 740 million acres (300 m illion hectares) are planted with GM crop s, about equally divided between North America and the rest of the world — primarily Argentina and B
Wrbc Single Test Can Predict Cancer Immunotherapy Side Effects and Risk of Recurrence LAHORE:In absence of drug testing labs in the province, substandard and spurious medicines were being supplied openly to public hospitals, however, the he alth department has claimed that it ha s a strong mechanism to check the quality of drugs.Secretary Primary and Secondary Health Punjab Ali Jan Khan said the government has already set up the upgraded testing labs in Lahore, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Multan and Bahawalpur at par with international standa rds. He said ISO certification target for DTLs would also be achieved by June 2018 while procurement of equipment for DTLs and recruitment of staff also be completed within three months.Meanwhile, sources at Mayo Hospital on Wednesday said if one was admitted in any government hospital and was being provided free medicines, then he must be more cautious about his health as substandard and spurious drugs were being supplied openly to these hospitals.“Unfortunately the health department could not set up any monitoring mechanism to check the Kiel U niversity research team proves, for the first time, that there is close cooperation between the nervous system and the microbial population of the body. A central aspect of life sciences is to explore the symbiotic cohabitation of animals, plants and humans with their specific bacterial communities. Scientists refer to the full set of microorganisms living on and inside a host organism as the microbiome. Over the past years, evidence has accumulated that the composition and balance of this microbiome contributes to the organism’s health. For instance, alterations in the composition of the bacterial community are impli cated in the origin of various so-called environmental diseases. However, it is still largely unknown just how the cooperation between organism and bacteria works at the molecular level and how the microbiome and body exactly act as a functional unit.An important breakthrough in deciphering these highly complex relationships has now been achieved by a research team f
Zzzx The defining salute to gender equality ISLAMABAD:Beset by grief over murder of her daughter, an aggrieved mother from a village in Punjab’s Jhang district approached her public representative more than a decade back.Genuinely outraged, she, too, is in a d ilemma. In the same gathering at this representative’s ‘dera’ are some other members of the same family and relatives, pleading the mother to pa rdon the culprit.The public representative herself a woman, backs the mother and asks her to let the law take its course and the mother stays the course. A few months later, the public representative comes to know the hapless mother capitulated under family pressure and ‘forgave’ the perpetrator – her son who had killed his sister in the name of ‘honour’.Such cases are commonplace; in most cases, the whole family is accomplice to the crime, says Sugra Imam who encounters such cases in her constituency. The pli ght of this destitute mother and many others she dealt with, made her realise the loopholes in extant laws.Former Senator Sug Researchers have developed a unique 3D printed system for harvesting stem cells from bioreactors, offering the potential for high quality, wide-scale production of stem cells in Australia at a lower cost.Stem cells offer great promise in the treatment of many diseases and injuries, from arthritis and diabetes to cancer, due to their ability to replace damaged cells. However, current technology used to harvest stem cells is labour intensive, time consuming and expens ive.Biomedical engineerProfessor Majid Warkianifrom the University of Technology Sydneyled the translational research, in collaboration with industry partnerRegeneus– an Australian biotechnology company developing stem cell therapies to treat inflammatory conditions and pain.“Our cutting-edge technology, which uses 3D printing and microfluidics to integrate a number of production steps into one device can help make stem cell therapies more widely available to patients at a lower cost,” said Prof essor Warkiani.“While this wor
Posu Screening Tools Aim To Predict Depression and PTSD Risk After Trauma At least five children and a woman were killed when their home in Muzaffargarh district of Punjab caught fire on Friday.The fire broke out due to a short-circuit which immediately engulfed the house in Kot Addu area of Sanawan. It also left another person critically injured, Express News reported.Rescue teams recovered bodies of the deceased – children, said to be of ages between one to 14 years and the 25-year-old woman – from wreckage of the hous e.Conflagration: Woman and three children burn in house fireAccording a police official, flames took control of the entire house after fire erupted in one of the rooms containing wood and plasti c material.Meanwhile, Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif took notice of the incident and sought an inquiry report in this regard.On March 8, a woman and three of her children died and her husband and a son were seriously injured in a fire that erupted at their house in Millat town of Faisalabad. The study was designed to investigate the safety, tolerability and efficacy of single ascending doses of Somatoprim (DG3173) in up to 20 treatment-naïve acromegaly patients.Analysis of the results shows that Somatoprim demonstrated a dose-dependent effect on lowering excess growth hormone (hGH) on treatment-naïve patients suffering from acro megaly. No serious adverse events were reported and the reported adverse events were mild to moderate and of transient nature.Carsten Dehning, CEO of Aspireo said: “The result of this clinical study provides proof-of-concept that Somatoprim has the potential to be a safe and effective treatment for acromegaly. An analysis of the pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic relationship gives us further valuable insight into the dose dependent effectiveness of Somatoprim in reducing growth hormone secretion.”!ENDVALUE!
Shwu Microscopes Improved With Artificial Intelligence ISLAMABAD:Concerns over Pakistan’s external trade statistics were renewed as exports plunged 7% in the first month of the new fiscal yea r alone while imports continued to grow, wors ening the deficit situation.Receipts from exports slipped below $1.5 billion in July - a decrease of 6.9% or $109 million from the comparative period of the previous year, according to figures released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics Wednesday.As against contraction in exports, imports saw a growth of 6.2% as payments against goods increased to $3.6 billion - $209 million more than payments made in July last year.Resultantly, the trade deficit for July 2016 widened 18% to $2.1 billion. The deficit was $318 million more than posted in the first mon th of the previous fiscal year.The negative growth in exports highlights the difficulties the country may have to face in balancing external accounts in the longer run. While the short-term outlook remains stable, the widening trade deficit is alarming if it pe MDRNA, Inc. has announced the extension and expansion of its collaboration with the Vancouver Prostate Centre (VPC), covering the discovery and development of RNAi-based therapeutics for the treatment of bladder cancer.Research conducted by scientists and surgeons f rom both institutions demonstrated that MDRNA's UsiRNA targeting human survivin and delivered via DiLA2 liposomes achieved up to 90% tar get knockdown in a mouse model of orthotopic bladder cancer.The effects of UsiRNA persisted for the duration of the three week study, and the level of survivin mRNA knockdown was associated with a significant reduction in tumor growth as measured by fluorescence from luciferase-expressing tumor cells. "Intravesical delivery o f the survivin UsiRNA using MDRNA's DiLA2 liposome formulation specifically targeted to a bladder tumor has yielded encouraging results that could lead to the development of useful therapies in patients with bladder cancer," said Dr. Alan. So, an Assistant Professor in t
