Biomedical Research Foundation Journal Club-BRFJC

14/11/2022

"World Diabetes Day"
14 November 2022

14/10/2022

October 15 is Global Handwashing Day, a global advocacy day dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding about the importance of handwashing with soap as an effective and affordable way to prevent diseases and save lives.

Global Handwashing Day is an opportunity to design, test, and replicate creative ways to encourage people to wash their hands with soap at critical times.

As the world moves beyond COVID-19 to our new normal, we must unite for universal hand hygiene.

No matter your role, you can celebrate Global Handwashing Day!

12/10/2022

Arthritis is the swelling and tenderness of one or more joints.

The main symptoms of arthritis are joint pain and stiffness, which typically worsen with age.

The most common types of arthritis are osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.

10/10/2022

03/10/2022

Breaking News:

The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute has today decided to award the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Svante Pääbo for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution. His research gave rise to an entirely new scientific discipline; paleogenomics.

He founded the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany in 1999.

He also holds a reputable position as adjunct Professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.

28/09/2022

"World Heart Day"
29 September 2022

Use heart for every heart.

12/09/2022

Irène Joliot-Curie was a battlefield radiologist, activist, politician, and daughter of two of the most famous scientists in the world: Marie Skłodowska and Pierre Curie.

Discover her journey to her own Nobel Prize: https://bit.ly/2D7FAzk

28/07/2022

"Bringing hepatitis care closer to you".

Call out:
World Hepatitis Day takes places every year on 28 July to raise awareness and promote global action on viral hepatitis.

Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver. There are five main types of the hepatitis virus – A, B, C, D and E. Hepatitis B and C lead to chronic disease in hundreds of millions of people globally, and together are the most common cause of liver cirrhosis, liver cancer and viral hepatitis-related deaths.

As of 2019, an estimated 116 million people in the Western Pacific are living with hepatitis B and 10 million with hepatitis C. While there are evidence-based, effective and safe interventions to diagnose, treat, and prevent chronic hepatitis B and C, most people remain undiagnosed and untreated. In the Western Pacific, only 18% of people living with hepatitis B have been diagnosed and 5% have received treatment. For hepatitis C, 25% of people have been diagnosed and 10% have received treatment.

Bringing hepatitis care closer to you
This year’s theme, “Bringing hepatitis care closer to you”, aims to raise awareness about the need to simplify and bring hepatitis care to primary health facilities, community-based venues and locations beyond hospital sites, so that care is closer to communities and people wherever they are.

The new Global Health Sector Strategies on, respectively, HIV, viral hepatitis and s*xually transmitted infections for the period 2022-2030 emphasizes the importance of person-centered care and alignment of systems and integration of services to reach the goal of elimination by 2030. To achieve hepatitis elimination at least 60% of people living with hepatitis B and C must be diagnosed and at least 50% eligible for treatment must be cured (hepatitis C) or receiving treatment (hepatitis B) by 2025.

For this to happen, those in need must have access to hepatitis services that are accessible, and that are equitable, effective, efficient, timely and of an acceptable quality.

5 actions to protect yourself against hepatitis:

1. Use sterile injections always.

2. Use your own razors and blades.

3. Practise safe s*x.

4. Use safe tattooing and piercing equipment

5. Vaccinate infants against Hepatitis B.

Link: https://www.who.int/westernpacific/news-room/events/detail/2022/07/28/western-pacific-events/world-hepatitis-day-2022 #:~:text=Bringing%20hepatitis%20care%20closer%20to%20you

12/07/2022

https://m.facebook.com/NASAWebb/photos/a.401585850048/10159844036385049/?type=3

Sneak a peek at the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken — all in a day’s work for the Webb telescope. (Literally! Webb was able to capture this image in less than one day, while similar deep field images from Hubble can take multiple weeks.)

This is Webb’s first image released as we begin to : nasa.gov/webbfirstimages/

If you held a grain of sand up to the sky at arm’s length, that tiny speck is the size of Webb’s view in this image. Imagine — galaxies galore within a grain, including light from galaxies that traveled billions of years to us! Why do some of the galaxies in this image appear bent? The combined mass of this galaxy cluster acts as a “gravitational lens,” bending light rays from more distant galaxies behind it, magnifying them.

This image isn’t the farthest back we’ve ever observed. Non-infrared missions like COBE and WMAP saw the universe much closer to the Big Bang (about 380,000 years after), when there was only microwave background radiation, but no stars or galaxies yet. Webb sees a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.

The James Webb Space Telescope is an international collaboration between NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the ESA - European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency. The Space Telescope Science Institute is the science and mission operations center for Webb.

Tune in tomorrow at 10:30 am ET (14:30 UTC) for the reveal of the rest of Webb’s First Images!

Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

09/06/2022

https://fb.watch/dxIelaafSr/

28/05/2022

Successfully completed another regular monthly session of BRFJC entitled - "Common mistakes in Lab and Field research".

Thank you all for you relentless love and support.

Special thanks to Mohammad Sorowar Hossain sir for being the resource person of the session.

Also thanks to Senjuti Seemanta for anchoring the session in the best possible way. Thanks to the team members of BRFJC as well.

Moreover, thanks to all the participants who stayed with us throughout the session.

Link to the recorded video of the session:
https://youtu.be/FjfzY14hM1g

19/05/2022

It is our pleasure to invite you to the session "Common Mistakes in Lab and Field Research" organized by Biomedical Research Foundation Journal Club (BRFJC).

The session will be crowned by our respected resource person:
Name: Mohammad Sorowar Hossain, PhD
Designation: Executive Director, Biomedical Research Foundation, Bangladesh ; Honorary Associate Professor, University of Wollongong, Australia ; Associate Professor, Independent University of Bangladesh, Bangladesh.

In this session, you will learn about the pros and cons of the usual mistakes that a beginner makes while conducting lab and field research. As a result, this session will provide you with real-world experiences, paving the path for your research career ahead.

The session will be held on:-
Date: 28th May 2022.
Time: 9:00-9:40pm (Bangladesh Time)

The session will be of a total of 40 minutes including a one-to-one Q/A session at the end, where participants will be allowed to ask their queries directly from the resource person.

To take part in the session, registration is mandatory.

SO COMPLETE YOUR REGISTRATION NOW!!!

While doing the registration, please ensure that the email id is correctly provided since the zoom link of the session will be provided to the participants via email.



Registration Link:
[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe7ME-RKZauNdPrG1gidvJL_vtYEopTg7-JzlxUXAS4MYPgrQ/viewform?usp=sf_link]

05/05/2022

"The life cycle of your manuscript: From submission to publication"

▪︎Download Full-Text here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1360859219303080

05/05/2022

"How to write a research proposal"

Find Full-Text here:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1002/edn.52

24/02/2022

"Twelve tips for getting your manuscript published".

Find Full-Text here:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/0142159X.2015.1074989