By Reginald Davey Reviewed by Dr. Mary Cooke, Ph.D. Biological organisms are incredibly complex machines made up of innumerable parts working in complementary ways. Understanding the complex, intricate interactions between tissues and cells is, therefore, key to a holistic understanding of the organism as a whole, and over the centuries that have encompassed the science...
By Sally Robertson, B.Sc The team says that as well as improving the sensitivity and specificity of serology tests for early diagnosis of current infection, the findings could aid the identification of previous infection, which is essential for determining the rate of infection spread. They could also lay the foundations for identifying which antigens should...
Antibody-based therapies can be used to protect at-risk populations, including medical workers, from the virus. The race to develop effective antibody-based treatments for COVID-19 is advancing at a rapid pace. Now, a Tel Aviv University laboratory reports it has successfully isolated two antibodies that would neutralize the virus’s ability to infect human cells. The two...
To more quickly identify drug combinations, such as those that might treat COVID-19, researchers have come up with an artificial intelligence platform called IDentif.AI. Traditionally, when dangerous new bacterial and viral infections emerge, the response is to develop a treatment that combines several different drugs. However, this process is laborious and time-consuming, with drug combinations...
By JENNIFER SMITH FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Researchers in San Francisco and some in Massachusetts studied 14 different antibody tests Among them, only three returned results that were more than 99% specific in detecting antibodies One test, made by Sure Biotech which is registered in both the US and Hong Kong, had a 100% accuracy rate The...
CREDIT: CENTER FOR NANOSCALE MATERIALS, ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, affecting one in 10 people over the age of 65. Scientists are engineering nanodevices to disrupt processes in the brain that lead to the disease. People who are affected by Alzheimer’s disease have a...
A team of researchers at the Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China, and collaborators report development of a rapid diagnostic assay for detection of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in human blood. They report accurate detection with patient samples, with only 10 minutes to get a readout per blood sample. The new method is a lateral flow assay, much...
Sadikshya Bhandari, a Ph.D. student in molecular and cell biology, ‘passing cells,’ or feeding them, to keep them from overgrowing. UConn molecular and cell biologist Michael Lynes and an international team of researchers have been awarded a patent for a novel antibody therapeutic that may prove to be safer in the treatment of Inflammatory...
Radiation therapy is part of the treatment regimen for about two thirds of cancer patients today. Radiotherapy is well tolerated in most cases, but it can also lead to damage in healthy tissues that are also irradiated. One debilitating side effect is radiation-induced fibrosis. Fibrosis is a process of scarring by which healthy tissue is...
