Xenotransplantation – Does it have a Future in Clinical Medicine?

Posted on Thu, 10 Sep 2015

Kaushik Bharati, PhD Transplantation generally means removal of tissue(s) or organ(s) from a recently deceased person (the donor), and replacing into a living person (the recipient) whose organ is non...

Women are More Susceptible than Men to Autoimmune Diseases – What is the Reason for this Gender Bias?

Posted on Wed, 02 Sep 2015

Kaushik Bharati, PhDIan Mackay and Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet in the early sixties, first identified the phenomenon of autoimmunity, which occurs as a result of the disruption of immune tolerance of ...

Simple Strategies to Prevent Infections by Food-borne Pathogens

Posted on Mon, 24 Aug 2015

Kaushik Bharati, PhD It is estimated that over two million people die annually from unsafe food (WHO, 2015). In India, over 300 disease outbreaks due to food-borne pathogens were reported in 2014 alon...

Targeted Cancer Therapies – Current Status and Future Prospects

Posted on Thu, 13 Aug 2015

Kaushik Bharati, PhDIn the field of anticancer therapy, a number of strategies for improving the therapeutic efficacy of anticancer agents have emerged over the past several decades. These strategies ...

What Should You Do If A Snake Bites?

Posted on Wed, 05 Aug 2015

Kaushik Bharati, PhD There are approximately 3000 species of snakes in the world, of which around 10% are venomous. In the Indian context, there are over 270 species of snakes of which approximately 6...

Japanese Encephalitis

Posted on Tue, 21 Jul 2015

Kaushik Bharati, PhD What is Japanese encephalitis? Japanese encephalitis (JE) is so called simply because of the fact that it was first reported from Japan, and the major complication is encephalitis...