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Location: Michigan, United States
Artificial bone marrow that can continuously make red and white blood cells has been created in a University of Michigan lab.
This development could lead to simpler pharmaceutical drug testing, closer study of immune system defects and a...
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Location: Georgia, United States
Abstract: Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a prosthetic
vein valve to help improve the lives of those suffering from a condition known
as chronic venous insufficiency. The condition, which affects more...
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Location: Los Angeles, United States
Researchers-Aydogan Ozcan,
Abstracts- In many Third World and developing countries, the distance between
people in need of health care and the facilities capable of providing it
constitutes a major obstacle to...
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Location: University of California, Riverside, United States
A
University of California - Riverside -led study in the Mojave Desert,
Calif., has found that soils under “desert pavement” have an unusually high...
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Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
A new thin-film coating developed at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology can deliver controlled drug doses to specific
targets in the body following...
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Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
MIT researchers have
uncovered a critical difference between flu viruses that infect birds and
humans, a discovery that could help scientists monitor the evolution of avian
flu strains and...
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Location: University of Virginia, United States
Magnets have been touted for their healing properties since ancient Greece.
Magnetic therapy is still widely used today as an alternative method for
treating a number of conditions, from arthritis to depression, but there
hasn’t been...
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Location: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, United States
A new indicator of variations in hemoglobin level over time is a strong predictor of the risk of death among patients receiving dialysis for end-stage renal disease (ESRD), reports a study in the December Journal of the
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Location: 695 Charles Young Drive South ,Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
It is already known that a
person's social environment can affect his or her health, with those who are
socially isolated — that is, lonely — suffering from higher mortality than
people who are not.
Now, in the first study of its kind,...
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Location: Department of Chemistry,560 Oval Drive,West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2084, United States
Researchers from Purdue's Cancer Center,
Department of Chemistry and Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering collaborated
with cancer and biotechnology experts from the Mayo Clinic to develop technology
to detect tumor cells within the human...
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Location: 77 massachusetts avenue,cambridge, ma 02139-4307, United States
MIT researchers have developed a model that could predict how cells will respond to targeted drug therapies. Models based on this approach could help doctors make better treatment choices for individual patients, who often respond differently to...
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Location: Whitehead Institute,9 Cambridge Center,Cambridge, MA 02142, United States
Biologists have long thought that a simple on/off switch controls most genes
in human cells. Flip the switch and a cell starts or stops producing a
particular protein. But new evidence suggests that this model is too simple and
that our...
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Location: Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5080,University of California, United States
Polymeric nanoparticles are excellent carriers for delivering drugs. They protect drugs from degradation until they reach their target and provide sustained release of drugs. Polymeric nanoparticles, however, suffer from one major limitation: they...
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Location: 77 massachusetts avenue,,cambridge, ma 02139-4307, United States
During the first 24 hours of invasion by the malaria-inducing
parasite Plasmodium falciparum, red blood cells start to lose their ability to
deform and squeeze through tiny blood vessels--one of the hallmarks of the
deadly disease that infects...
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Location: EMBL Monterotondo,
Adriano Buzzati-Traverso Campus, Via Ramarini 32, 00016 Monterotondo, Italy
It's a massive understatement to say that stem cells have picky tastes. These choosy micrometer-sized underpinnings of life have long maintained an air of mystery about their predilections, initially refusing to rest on anything but a comfortable...
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