If you want to take clear photographs, you don’t use sandpaper to clear a smudge from your camera’s lens. Similarly, if you want to see clearly, the lens of your eye has to be free of obstruction. For that reason a curious thing happens during the development of eye lenses. Instead of closely guarding their...
Post
Diamond ‘spin-off’ tech could lead to low-cost medical imaging and drug discovery tools
Team led by Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley researchers exploits tiny defects in diamonds to pave the way for enhanced biological imaging and drug studies IMAGE: A MICROSCOPIC IMAGE OF DIAMOND PARTICLES WITH NITROGEN-VACANCY DEFECTS. THESE SAMPLES, WHICH EXHIBIT A TRUNCATED OCTAHEDRAL SHAPE, WERE USED IN EXPERIMENTS THAT SOUGHT NEW WAYS TO TUNE AND CONTROL It may sound...
Post
Is a cancer cure close? Researchers at Fred Hutchinson think so
The microscopic particles that might change the world are being carted about on a medical campus near Seattle’s Lake Union. The mode of transport: a plastic lunch cooler. The little coolers are ubiquitous at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, which four decades ago pioneered a groundbreaking treatment for blood cancers — the bone-marrow transplant, now an older...
Post
Researchers Test Common Cold Cure To Be Taken 1 Hour Before Or 1 Hour After The Infection
Millions of people suffer from the common cold every year, but researchers believe that they have finally stumbled upon a potential cure for this uncomfortable illness. What Did Researchers Discover About The Common Cold? Researchers from Imperial College London said that they have discovered a treatment to the common cold. Their proposed cure attacks the human host, instead of the actual virus. Their...
Post
Robots Can Grow Humanoid Mini-Organs From Stem Cells Faster And Better Than People
Automated robots now have the tools to grow imitation, simplified human organs out of stem cells. Thankfully, we weren’t transported to a sci-fi dystopia where the machines have risen up and started to farm humans, but rather a world where pharmaceutical and other biomedical researchjust became much easier and faster. Give these robots some pluripotent stem...
Post
Implant rewires stroke survivors’ brains to help them regain use of their paralyzed limbs – even after it is ‘too late’ for them to get better
Nine out of 10 stroke victims suffer some degree of paralysis after the event Most of them, will recover as much function as they will ever get back in nine months Ken Meeks has lost most control over his left arm and leg since a 2016 car accident induced a stroke in the Ohio native’s brain ...
Post
A mix of Viagra and the flu vaccine could treat cancer: Bizarre cocktail is now being tested in humans after reducing the disease by 90% in mice
Erectile dysfunction drugs block suppressor cells, which allows natural killer cells to do their cancer-fighting job The flu vaccine further invigorates the natural killer cells, they found A combination of Viagra and a flu vaccine could treat cancer, surprising new research suggests. The unconventional strategy invigorates the immune system to attack tumor cells left lingering after surgery, when...
Post
Biotin supplements caused misleading test results, almost led to unnecessary procedure
FDA issued warning about biotin interference with lab tests in November 2017 IMAGE: THIS IS MAYA STYNER, M.D., ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. May 18, 2018 – A new case report in the Journal of the Endocrine Society documents how a patient’s use of a common biotin supplement, also known as vitamin B7, caused...
Post
Definitive Guide to Perinatal Stem Cells
There are many types of perinatal stem cells, including those derived from the umbilical cord blood and tissue, placental blood and tissue, and the amnion and amniotic fluid. However, when stem cells were first identified, only two types of stem cells were described, adult stem cells and embryonic stem cells. The reason a diverse range of...
Post
Very Low-Carbohydrate Diet Could Help Diabetics Manage Blood Sugar: What To Know About The Diet
New research finds that a very low-carbohydrate diet actually helps patients with Type 1 diabetes to manage their blood sugar levels. What are some important things to know about low-carbohydrate diets? Very Low-Carb Diet For Diabetics A new study published in the journal Pediatrics shows how a group of patients with Type 1 diabetes were able to control their blood sugar...