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May 25

Drug Discovery in Science and Technology, one of the journals owned by the OMICS Publishing Group, is devoted to the task of uncovering the developments that take place across the globe. The current article is centered on the aspects of Drug Discovery in Science and Technology.

drugdiscoveryDrug Discovery is a method used by pharmaceutical researchers and scientists to recognize new products in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medicine sectors and develop them. This is an elaborative process and only a miniscule percentage of compounds of interest make it all the way from early exploration to approval regulatory agencies for use in planets.  The discovery process is costly especially when the pharmaceutical, biotechnological and medical companies make huge investment in the development of new drugs.

Traditionally, drugs were found through establishing the components from customary solutions. In current time, researchers lay emphasis on recognizing targets, such as exclusive types of cells that play a key role in fighting diseases and infection.  Research and drug discovery in the science field is a complicated business.

The intricacy of the modern scientific process seems to be a manifestation of the complexities of life and the processes aligned with ailments and treatment.  Also, as technologies become sophisticated, so too does the problem of managing the constantly expanding quantity of data being generated.

Now-a-days, pharmaceutical industries spend huge and duplicated expenditure aligning and integrating their inside information with public data sources. This process is broadly incompatible with large-scale computational concepts and the gigantic majority of drug delivery sources find it tough to complicate with each other.

Data-driven science research, including drug discovery, will more and more depend on a community of collaborating partners to gain knowledge from these sources to solve tricky questions.  Researchers may have numerous compounds in development at any point of time. They use different biotechnology techniques to discover potential chemical compounds of interest during the period of drug discovery.

The OMICS Publishing Group works with a unique mission of making scientific journals at free of cost. Information pertaining to various branches of science can be viewed online without any barriers.

At OMICS, the open access journals are peer-reviewed by scholars who are a composite of varied disciplines. In order to recognize the talent of scientists, the OMICS Group has instituted a reward program that gives scientific credits to the noted scientists.

 

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May 24

In order to provide free scientific and medicinal literature for the emerging research scholars and academicians, the OMICS Group has introduced the novel concept of offering scientific publications in the form of open access journal. The manuscripts submitted by the professors, scientists and post-doctoral fellows are approved for publication subject to the evaluation process taken by the OMICS Publishing Group-managed members of the editorial board.

Hypoglycemia is a state of condition wherein an individual has lower levels of blood sugar than what is clinically prescribed. Though it cannot be construed as a disease still is a sign of health setback. It has the potential to cause severe effects on all the organs in the body of the patient, in particular on the brain. There are striking similarities between hypoglycemia and diabetes. It can be cured by altering the eating patterns of a patient. The phrase basically means under-sweet blood.

hypoglycemiaThe causes of Hypoglycemia are

Hypoglycemia results when:

  • The patient’s body glucose level is exhausted too quickly.
  • The glucose is discharged into the bloodstream at a slow pace.
  • Excess insulin goes into the bloodstream.

Hypoglycemia & its Symptoms:

Hypoglycemia symptoms arise out of low blood glucose, which is either neuroglycopenic or autonomic. Autonomic symptoms result in the appearance of:

  • Hunger
  • Sweating
  • Trembling
  • Anxiety
  • Irritability
  • Pale face
  • Heart palpitations
  • High-speed heart rate
  • Prickling lips

In the case of Neuroglycopenic, the symptoms tend to vary:

  • Dizziness
  • Confusion
  • Stuttering speech
  • Headache
  • Inability to apply concentration on work tasks
  • Tiredness

Treatment:

Hypoglycemia treatment can be taken up in two stages, such as:

  • Immediate first treatment:

If the symptoms tend to be mild in nature, then Hypoglycemia can be arrested at once by bringing back the blood glucose level to normalcy by the administration of carbohydrate foods viz., cereals, bread and rice, fruits.

  • Treatment of the underlying condition:

At the outset the doctor has to determine the underlying cause that has led to Hypoglycemia. When the symptoms get aggravated then injection or the infusion of glucagon will give a quick relief to the patient. This condition can be prevented from recurring by enhancing the frequency of meals.

Surgical option will yield quick results in getting rid of insulin-releasing tumor in the pancreates. In some cases, the doctor can suggest a change in medications so as to keep the problem in control.

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May 21

OMICS Publishing Group is a mammoth open access journal production house that aims to cover all developments in sciences. It believes in disseminating scientific literature at free of cost. The articles presented by researchers, professors and post doctoral fellows are of high quality standards. OMICS Group is run by a battery of editorial panel members who evaluate the submitted work of scientific community ahead of publicizing them online. OMICS Publishing Group has published the journal of Biochips & Tissue Chips in Open access Policy.
Biochip and its functions:
A biochip is a small computer processor that is placed under the skin for establishing their identity. A Biochip is a technology that is capable of doing a wide range of physiological tasks when placed into the human body. Biochips have yielded positive results in some cases as these assuage the pain of the patients, who experience serious backbone injuries. Besides, biochips disabled individuals in restoring the original position of their motor skills, and help moderately blind people see clearly.
BiochipDue to the quick growth of biochips and biological condition recognition technology, changes in an individual’s biological state can be supervised by a biochip connected with their body area or included inside their human body and used to figure out whether he or she is ill. Then he or she can identify out what exactly is wrong with his or her human body.  A biochip consists of two components – transponder, scanner or reader.  This Article by OMICS Publishing Group covers information on Biochip-transponder and explores information on parts of biochip-transponder, such as, Computer Microchip, antenna coil, tuning capacitor and glass capsule.
Parts of Biochip-transponder:
The biochip-transponder contains four parts such as:
Computer Microchip:
The microchip stocks up a distinctive ID number ranging from 10-15 digits long. The storage potential of the current microchips is restricted and it is capable of saving mere a single ID number at a time. With the availability of nnn-nnn-nnn format, computer microchip has the ability to store as many as 70 billion unique numbers. The unique ID number is encoded through a laser onto the outer lining area of the micro-chip before assembly. Once the ID number is encoded it becomes difficult to make any changes to it. The microchip also contains the necessary electronic circuits to send the ID number to the reader.
Antenna Coil:
It is a simple, coil of copper wire around a ferrite or iron core. This minuscule, primitive and radio antenna receives and sends alerts from the scanner or reader.
Tuning Capacitor:
The capacitor stores the petite electric charge that is sent by the scanner or the reader, which sets in motion the transponder. This facilitates the transponder to return the ID number encoded in the computer chip. Since “radio waves” are employed to link between the transponder and reader, the capacitor is “set” to the same frequency as the reader.
 Glass capsule:
The glass capsule contains the microchip, antenna coil and capacitor. It has a tiny     size (as little as that of an uncooked grain of rice) admeasuring 11 mm in length and 2 mm in diameter. The capsule is prepared out of biocompatible material such as soda lime glass.

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