Harwinder Sidhu

United States Research

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Commented on BAD SCIENCE: Oil pulling
Oil pulling comes from Ayurveda and many people swear by it. This Nature paper calls it ‘pseudoscience’ due to lacking scientific evidence. I hope more research comes out soon.

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Commented on U OF MICHIGAN BUYS PFIZER SITE
University of Michigan bought the Pfizer site to create lost jobs!

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Commented on Purification and analysis of DNA from low DNA content food samples
The researchers used Zeolite y to isolate very low amounts of DNA from food samples.

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Commented on In vitro assessment of antitumor immune responses using tumor antigen proteins produced by transgenic silkworms
Interesting article! TG silkworms to prepare cancer antigens! I have never heard of this before.

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Commented on Abstract 454: Glucocorticoids enhance metastatsis and tumorigenicity in a triple negative breast cancer cell line
According to this paper, ‘treatment with Dexamethasone lead to early auxiliary lymph node metastasis’. This is concerning since glucocorticoids are commonly administered Qing with chemotherapy drugs to cancer patients in order to ease the side effects such as allergic reaction to medications, nausea, or vomiting etc.

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Commented on Personalized T cells fight cancer
Personalized T-cells! I believe Kite Pharma is working on similar therapies.

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Commented on Knockout mice
Knockout mice are widely used in creating various mouse models by literally 'knocking out' certain genes to study their function better!

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Commented on Singing mice
According to this article, the males of these unique mice stand in an 'operatic posture' to sing notes that are audible to humans and can be confused with small birds and insects!!

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Commented on Molecular Mechanisms Underlying St. Johns Wort Drug Interactions
St. John's wort as antidepressant and in cancer research! Here is a basic information link about St. John's wort from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center website: https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/integrative-medicine/herbs/st-john-wort

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Commented on Gingko biloba extract EGb 761®: clinical data in dementia
Interesting article! This herb has been in use and widely studied for many years now. Per this article, Gingko biloba extract faired better than placebo in improving symptoms of dementia and the drug for dementia performed better in combination with gingko biloba than individually.

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Commented on Herbal Remedies and Nutritional Supplements in the Treatment of Depression: A Review
Gingko biloba has been widely used as a depression remedy along with St. John's wort.

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Commented on Brain Structure & Function
One of the oldest journals established in 1891. Very interesting content!

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Commented on Human adenovirus infections
adenoviruses keep on mutating and new variants of ad4 and ad7 have been discovered in USA and Asia.

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Commented on SFP P-082 – Brain DHA protection by dairy-fat of rats born from omega3-deficient or omega3-rich mothers
omega3 is very beneficial for brain health and is widely studied. Salmon, avocado and walnuts are the best sources of omega-3.