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Medical Sciences: Recent discoveries to historical accomplishments
Scientists are the explorers and truth seekers, who create new knowledge to improve the life and environment on this planet and beyond. Get a little peek into their journey through our crossword – from recent discoveries of antibiotics in soil, pain killer in spider venom, cancer treatment by engineered microalgae – to revisiting some major accomplishments in history of medicine.
Key Areas: Medicine I Clinical Studies I Drug Discovery
Series: Medical Science Quizzes
CROSSWORD
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QUESTIONS
1. Antibiotics from soil microbiomes that act against multidrug-resistant bacteria
2. A spider, whose venom contains promising molecules to create strong pain killers (probable alternative to addictive opioids)
3. Engineered microalgae that radiosensitize and photosensitize hypoxic cancers
4. Acids from Brazilian pepper tree reducing virulence of Staphylococcus aureus
5. FDA approved monoclonal antibody to treat osteoporosis that increases bone formation and decreases bone resorption by inhibiting the activity of sclerostin protein
6. Plant derived bioactive compound that revolutionized the treatment of malaria, saved multiple lives and led to the awarding of 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Ms. Tu Youyou
7. “Red-Devil” chemotherapy drug
8. Medical imaging technique that uses high-frequency sound waves
9. Organ transplanted successfully by Dr. Joseph E. Murray in 1954 (First successful organ transplantation that led to 1990 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
10. Historically a chemical warfare agent, now a chemotherapy drug
Copyright © 2021 Qualiten Press
Cite this Content: Bhure P, Hussain A, Soni BL, Kumar A. Medical sciences: recent discoveries to historical accomplishments. Qualiten Insight. 2021; ID:09005000003
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