by Delthia Ricks , Medical Xpress Credit: CC0 Public Domain Immunobiologists in China have designed a synthetic T cell receptor for anticancer therapy, engineering the protein not only with a capability to seek and destroy solid tumors, but endowing this cancer fighting weapon with potent endurance to get the job done. So far, the Beijing-based research has...
by Patti Verbanas, Rutgers University Credit: CC0 Public Domain Volunteer firefighters—who comprise more than 65 percent of the U.S. fire service—have higher levels of “forever chemicals,” per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), in their bodies than the general public, according to a Rutgers study. The study, which was published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and...
INSTITUTE FOR BIOENGINEERING OF CATALONIA (IBEC) IMAGE: FRONTAL VIEW OF THE HIPPOCAMPUS AND ITS MAIN FIBER TRACTS FRONTAL (A). v CREDIT: BRAINX3.COM, SPECS LAB. Thanks to the so-called deep learning, a subset of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms inspired by the brain, machines can match human performance in perception and language recognition and even outperform humans in certain tasks....
by Niigata University Increased levels of annexin A1, lactotransferrin, and aminopeptidase N. Increase the counts of anti-inflammatory macrophages with high motility and phagocytic ability, which increase repair of damaged tissue. Induces regulatory T cells and fibrolysis. b) The γ-sEVs also have the ability to reduce inflammation as well as downregulate fibrogenesis. Credit: Niigata University Researchers from...
by UT Southwestern Medical Center In a mouse model and in human heart muscle cells, researchers used gene editing to modify specific DNA sequences and restore dystrophin production in mutant dystrophin genes. Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center UT Southwestern scientists successfully employed a new type of gene therapy to treat mice with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD),...
UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA Customised medicines could one day be manufactured to patients’ individual needs, with University of East Anglia (UEA) researchers investigating technology to 3D ‘print’ pills. The team, including Dr Andy Gleadall and Prof Richard Bibb at Loughborough University, identified a new additive manufacturing method to allow the 3D printing of medicine in highly porous...
by Autonomous University of Barcelona Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A research team from the Institut de Neurociències at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (INc-UAB) has showed that inhibition of the Tac2 neuronal circuit, involved in the formation of the memory of fear, has opposite effects according to sex on the ability to remember aversive events in mice, reducing...
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA IMAGE: 3D ILLUSTRATION OF A NANOBOT ATTACKING A CANCER CELL. CREDIT: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA Bowel cancer survival rates could be improved if chemotherapy drugs were delivered via tiny nanoparticles to the diseased organs rather than oral treatment. That’s the finding from Indian and Australian scientists who have undertaken the first...
by Northwestern University The image shows two ADAM sensors measuring scratching and sleep quality in a child with eczema. Credit: Jan-Kai Chang Itch torments its sufferers and can be as debilitating as chronic pain. But it’s a hard symptom to measure—particularly for the 10 million U.S. children with atopic dermatitis, also known as eczema. They can’t...
by Salk Institute Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, isolated from a patient. Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH Scientists have known for a while that SARS-CoV-2’s distinctive “spike” proteins help the virus infect its host...
