UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – LOS ANGELES HEALTH SCIENCES IMAGE: EVIE JUNIOR CREDIT: UCLA BROAD STEM CELL RESEARCH CENTER For Evie Junior, living with sickle cell disease has been like running a marathon. “But it’s a marathon where as you keep going, the trail gets rockier and then you lose your shoes,” the 27-year-old said. “It gets harder...
CITY OF HOPE DUARTE, Calif. — A cancer-killing virus that City of Hope scientists developed could one day improve the immune system’s ability to eradicate tumors in colon cancer patients, reports a new study in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. The preclinical research is a first step to showing that City of...
BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY IMAGE: SEOKHEUN “SEAN ” CHOI, AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING, HAS DEVELOPED A NEW DEVICE FOR FASTER TESTING OF ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT BACTERIA. v CREDIT: SEOKHEUN “SEAN ” CHOI BINGHAMTON, NY — Bacterial infections have become one of the biggest health problems worldwide, and a recent study shows that COVID-19 patients have a much...
PENN STATE IMAGE: RESEARCHERS HAVE FOUND THAT AN INEXPENSIVE, FDA-APPROVED DRUG FOR TREATING CHOLESTEROL — CHOLESTYRAMINE — TAKEN IN CONJUNCTION WITH AN ANTIBIOTIC PREVENTS THE ANTIBIOTIC FROM DRIVING ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE IN THE GUT. CREDIT: ANDREW CHESHIRE, PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — An inexpensive, FDA-approved drug — cholestyramine — taken in conjunction with an antibiotic...
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC./GENETIC ENGINEERING NEWS IMAGE: COVERS NEW TECHNOLOGY AND NEW PRODUCTS FOR THE TREATMENT, MONITORING, DIAGNOSIS, AND PREVENTION OF DIABETES AND ITS COMPLICATIONS. CREDIT: MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC., PUBLISHERS New Rochelle, NY, November 30, 2020–A standardized “Artificial Pancreas (AP) Dashboard” should provide easy to use single-page hybrid closed-loop system (HCL) reporting for insulin...
by Valérie Geneux, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Mechanical force of T cell automatically breaks the DNA – thereby releasing the drug. Credit: my SCImage / 2020 EPFL EPFL scientists have developed a cancer treatment method that destroys tumor cells using the mechanical force of our bodies’ own T cells. They have just completed a proof...
by Heather Buschman, PhD, University of California – San Diego Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Our gut microbiomes—the many bacteria, viruses and other microbes living in our digestive tracts—play important roles in our health and risk for disease in ways that are only beginning to be recognized. University of California San Diego researchers and collaborators recently demonstrated...
by Aalto University AI methods can help us perfect drug combinations. Credit: Matti Ahlgren, Aalto University When healthcare professionals treat patients suffering from advanced cancers, they usually need to use a combination of therapies. In addition to cancer surgery, the patients are often treated with radiation therapy, medication or both. Medication can be combined with drugs...
by Steven Schultz, Princeton University In this artist’s rendering, a component of the human immune system known as a T cell, in the lower left position, attacks a cancer cell, upper right. Credit: Lim Lab One of the most promising new cancer therapies involves engineering cells from the body’s own immune system to attack tumors, but...
by Anne Trafton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sensor can detect scarred or fatty liver tissue. MIT engineers have developed a diagnostic tool, based on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), that could be used to detect fatty liver disease and liver fibrosis. Credit: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAbout 25 percent of the U.S. population suffers from fatty liver...
