News - November 10th 2007

Animation for Parkinson's Disease has been added in the Animations page under the New CNS Disorders section. An excellent animation showing what causes Parkinson's Disease and how parkinsonism is tackled now. It shows what goes wrong in the substantia nigra part of the brain and how acetylcholine (ACH) and Dopamine balance is lost to cause the disease. It talks of the symptoms of the disease, and treatments currently used for the treatment of the disease. View it at http://pharmaxchange.info/animations_cns.html

Notes added for Genetic Engineering and DNA Fingerprinting in the New Biotechnology section in notes.
http://pharmaxchange.info/notes_biotechnology.html

Classroom Presentation on Genetic Engineering:
Slides used by Prof. Vijaya Patil of MET Institute of Pharmacy to teach the topic of Genetic Engineering. It has everything needed to understand the basics of Genetic Engineering including its application, use of restriction enzymes and naming of restriction enzymes, steps in synthesizing a recombinant protein, DNA cloning, cleaving DNA and generating DNA fragments (using methods like mechanical shearing, shotgun method, restriction digest method, hybridization method, reverse transcriptase, and chemical synthesis methods), producing recombinant DNA/ insertion of target DNA into vectors, and Vectors such as plasmids, bacteriophages, cosmids, phage vectors, phasmid, yeast cloning vectors, bacterial and human artificial chromosomes, Shuttle vectors, and vectors used in plants - Ti plasmids. It also covers topics on screening techniques, and library screening.
http://pharmaxchange.info/notes_biotechnology.html

Classroom Presentation on DNA Fingerprinting
Slides used by Prof. Vijaya Patil of MET Institute of Pharmacy to teach the topic of DNA Fingerprinting. Covers topics such as Souther Blotting Technique, Southern Hybridization, Restriction fragment length polymorphism.
http://pharmaxchange.info/notes_biotechnology.html