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Fusion reactor — KSTAR sets new world record by running for 20 seconds
Trendingdesk • 4 years agoThe main goal for KSTAR is to run for five minutes at a stretch at extreme temperature by 2025.
Maharashtra govt launches 'world's largest' plasma therapy project for COVID-19 patients; trials to be held in 21 medical colleges
• 5 years agoThe project, titled 'Platina', is the largest convalescent plasma therapy-cum-trial project in the world, a state medical education department official said
Health ministry recommends tocilizumab, HCQ, plasma therapy for patients in the moderate stage of COVID-19
• 5 years agoHCQ has demonstrated in-vitro activity against SARS-CoV-2 and shown to be clinically beneficial in several small single-centre studies with significant limitations.
Can plasma therapy help people who have been exposed to COVID-19, stave off the infection?
• 5 years agoA study with 150 volunteers will get either plasma from COVID-19 survivors or regular plasma, to find if the virus can be nipped in the bud.
Lilly's COVID-19 drug, specifically designed to treat the virus, could be authorized for use by September
• 5 years agoA monoclonal antibody drug developed against COVID-19 is likely to be more effective than repurposed medicines currently being tested against the virus.
Governments should not rely on a vaccine to ease the Coronavirus lockdown, says top HIV researchers
• 5 years agoWilliam Haseltine said to manage the disease through careful tracing of infections and strict isolation measures whenever it starts spreading.
Coronavirus Outbreak: Kanika Kapoor to donate plasma at King George’s Medical University, Lucknow for treating patients
Fp Staff • 5 years agoKanika Kapoor had tested positive for novel coronavirus on 20 March
Houston hospital tries blood transfusion therapy to cure coronavirus patients: How it works and what doctors are saying
Trendingdesk • 5 years agoA hospital in Houston has carried out a blood transfusion therapy in a bid to treat coronavirus patients.
NSF's Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope reveals Sun's surface in closest detail
• 5 years agoHot plasma can be seen, rising, cooling off and sinking below the surface in dark lanes, in a process called convection.
Hot gas feeds the formation of material, stars in the Milky Way's spiral arms: study
• 5 years agoMilky Way is a disc-shaped sea of stars in which the youngest and brightest stars cluster in the spiral arms.