by Harvard University Eukaryotic Toeholds (eToeholds) are engineered RNA-based control elements that, as in this example, can be specifically activated by viral “trigger RNAs” to enable synthesis of a reporter protein and thus signal the presence of the virus. I the future, eToeholds could be used to design safer and more specific RNA therapeutics, RNA diagnostics,...
Dr. Abhishek Jain, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Medical Physiology in the College of Medicine, collaborated with researchers from the Departments of Gynecologic Oncology and Cancer Biology at MD Anderson Cancer Center to gain a better understanding of the interaction among ovarian cancer tumors, blood vessels and platelets....
particularly stark for breast cancer, which fell 51.8 percent during the lockdown compared to previous levels The number of cancers diagnosed weekly in the United States fell by almost fifty percent during March and April compared to the recent average, a study said Tuesday, the latest to examine the impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns. Emergency room...
by The Ottawa Hospital A Canadian collaboration led by Dr. Baptiste Lacoste has undertaken the first ever in-depth study of vasculature in the autistic brain. Credit: The Ottawa Hospital A Canadian collaboration led by Dr. Baptiste Lacoste has undertaken the first ever in-depth study of vasculature in the autistic brain. The product of four years...
The United States is still “knee-deep” in its first wave of COVID-19 infections and must act quickly to tackle the recent surge, a health expert warned. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the number of cases before the latest outbreak had never hit a sufficient level. Officials...
The United States is still “knee-deep” in its first wave of COVID-19 infections and must act quickly to tackle the recent surge, a health expert warned. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on efforts to get back to...
A MULTIVALVE SWEAT COLLECTOR FOR MONITORING HEALTH view more CREDIT: JENNIFER M. MCCANN/ PENN STATE A device that monitors health conditions in the body using a person’s sweat has been developed by Penn State and Xiangtan University researchers, according to Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics, Penn State. “We want to...
A technology developed initially at Case Western Reserve University is behind the global launch by a Portland, Oregon, company of a new, faster and low-cost diagnostic test for sickle cell disease (SCD). The announcement by Hemex Health comes just in advance of World Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Day. SCD is the most well-known among a...
Researchers from Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have developed a novel method for diagnosing and monitoring autoimmune disorders. Within a mere 25 minutes, their new biosensor not only measures the concentration of autoantibodies in human blood serum with extremely high sensitivity, but...
Updated at 11:16 p.m. ET The Food and Drug Administration is cautioning the public about the reliability of a widely used rapid test for the coronavirus. The test, made by Abbott Laboratories, has been linked with inaccurate results that could falsely reassure patients that they are not infected with the virus. The Trump administration has...
