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Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Yuliya Luchkina Paintings
Hep C vaccine breakthrough
| BURNET INSTITUTE |
Hepatitis C affects around 200 million people around the world, and has a great ability to change its structure and evade the immune response, making it hard to vaccinate against. But the new vaccine candidate only contains the most essential, conserved parts of the viral surface protein, so it works on a variety of strains. This is an illustration of a hepatitis B virus, which already has a preventative vaccine against it, as does hepatitis A.
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Researchers at the Burnet Institute have solved a hepatitis C vaccine mystery which, once developed could be the first ever preventative vaccine for the virus.
Currently undergoing formal preclinical studies, the vaccine is the result of breakthrough work done by Associate Professor Heidi Drummer with her team from the Institute’s Centre for Virology. Hepatitis C affects around 200 million people around the world – a preventative vaccine has the potential to have a significant global health impact. Associate Professor Drummer and her team have overcome a major hurdle in HCV vaccine research, developing a vaccine candidate that protects against a number of different HCV strains. “Hepatitis C has a great ability to change its structure and evade the immune response. This makes vaccine development challenging,” Associate Professor Drummer said. “Our vaccine is unique as it contains only the most essential, conserved parts of the major viral surface protein, eliciting antibodies that prevent both closely and distantly related hepatitis C viruses from entering cells, thereby preventing infection.” Associate Professor Drummer unveiled the details about her HCV vaccine project at the prestigious Immunotherapeutics and Vaccine Summit (ImVacS) in Cambridge, Massachussets on August 13.
Editor's Note: Original news release can be found here.
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Ghee Rice
Ghee rice as the name suggests is a very rich concoction and meant for special occasions. My mother who doesn’t believe in coconut milk has never cooked it. When at school my friends talked about ghee rice, I always thought that it meant white rice mixed with ghee. I can’t remember when I first tasted the actual Ghee rice or when I cooked it first or where I got this recipe from. But this is a pretty standard recipe, mildly flavored by spices and needless to say a little unfriendly around the hips.
Without much ado here is the recipe,
- Onion – 1 thinly sliced
- Green chillies – 5
- Cardamom – 2
- Cloves - 2
- Cinnamon – 1 inch stick
- Bay leaf – 1
- Ginger-garlic paste – 1 Tbsp
- Cashewnuts – 10 (optional)
- Basmati rice – 2 cups
- Ghee or butter – 50 gms
- Coconut milk – 1 cup
- Mixed chopped vegetables – 1 cup (carrot, peas and potato)
Heat the butter or ghee in a pan and add the spices. In recent years I use sunflower oil or Olive oil. Then add the onions and Chillies and fry until it is soft (don’t brown them). Then add the ginger and garlic paste and fry till the raw smell disappears. To this add the cashew nuts and the vegetables. Any vegetable can be added, to make it look nice include green and red colour vegetables like peas, beans, broccoli, carrot. I tend to add frozen vegetables, saves time on cutting the veggies. Saute them for a few minutes and then add the washed rice and fry it briefly in the ghee mixture. For 2 cups of rice, 4 cups of liquid is required. Add one cup of coconut milk (The tinned ones are very good) and add 3 cups of water. The general rule is to add one fourth of coconut milk and three fourths water. When the water starts boiling reduce the fire to the least possible level and close with a lid and cook until done. For 2 cups of rice, it generally takes 20 mins to cook thru. When done mix the rice gently with a fork or the back of a wooden spoon. Server hot with a raita and enjoy all the praise from the guests. If I use frozen veggies and coconut milk from a can, this rice gets ready in 30 minutes.
thanks http://tamilspice.blogspot.com
thanks http://tamilspice.blogspot.com
Top ten Anti Aging Foods
Here are other 10 of the best anti-aging foods to nourish your body for a glow that comes from within.
- Watercress. The health benefits of watercress don't disappoint
- Red bell pepper. Red bell peppers are loaded with antioxidants which reign supreme when it comes to anti-aging
- Papaya.
- Blueberries.
- Broccoli.
- Spinach.
- Nuts.
- Avocado.
- Sweet potatoes
- Pomegranate seeds
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