Harwinder Sidhu

United States Research

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Commented on Obesity: Ankyrin-B in susceptibility to obesity
Dysfunction of Ankyrin in adipocytes could have broad health implications.

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Commented on Where spectrin snuggles with ankyrin
Ankyrin plays an important role in membrane stability by connecting membrane spanning proteins to an underlying spectrum based membrane skeleton.

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Commented on Site-directed mutagenesis: colony growth
Informative answers to some of the common questions while trying to induce a mutation using site directed mutagenesis.

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Commented on Photo Quiz: Is Gardening Dangerous?
Kind of*

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Commented on Chemopreventive effects of tea in prostate cancer: Green tea versus black tea
This article discusses the effects of both green tea and black tea on prostate cancer. While effect of black tea consumption is much weaker, green tea is proven to be more beneficial.

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Commented on Tea
Very informative article on the origin, structure and benefits of tea.

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Commented on Wine Allergy in a Wine-Growing District
This article discusses the case study of a patient with pre existing grape allergy who accidentally got exposed to grapes via wine.

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Commented on Early peanut consumption is protective against peanut allergy development
This is very interesting and bit risky study done in UK. In a randomized control trial, infants of 4-10 months of age who were T high risk of developing a peanut allergy were fed peanuts before 60 months of age. Apparently early introduction of peanuts significantly reduced their chances of developing the allergy.

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Commented on Chocolate
Chocolate is no doubt loved by most people. In the olden times it was considered a delicacy to be offered to Gods by the Mayans.

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Commented on No Water No Coffee-Yes Coffee Yes Water
No water no coffee. No water no beer. No water no wine.

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Commented on Coffee dregs: is this the end of coffee?
Global warming is risking the free flowing supply of coffee.

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Commented on Coffee Science
I wonder if this is a real journal. The link to the website is not provided. I looked it up and it seems a university in Brazil publishes a similar name journal. Anyone know the working link?

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Commented on Genome Regulation by Long Noncoding RNAs
Long non coding RNA’s (lncRNA’s) were king thought to be not useful but revelry researchers discovered their importance in regulating proper gene control across all Kingdoms of life.

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Commented on A Selective Cannabinoid-1 Receptor Antagonist, PF-95453, Reduces Body Weight and Body Fat to a Greater Extent than Pair-Fed Controls in Obese Monkeys
According to this article, monkeys fed the selective Cannabinoid-1 receptor antagonist, PF-95453 had a decreased urge to eat as compared to control monkeys.

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Commented on Tea, coffee, caffeine intake and the risk of cardio-metabolic outcomes: findings from a population with low coffee and high tea consumption
It is recommended to not exceed four cups of coffee and six cups of tea a day. Very high coffee consumption can have negative impact on brain health so moderation is key.