The studies suggest that compounds extracted from traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) could be effective therapies against a range of diseases.Peer-Reviewed Publication CACTUS COMMUNICATIONS LATEST RESEARCH UNVEILS THE POTENTIAL OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE COMPOUNDS FOR THE TREATMENT OF HUMAN DISEASESCREDIT: JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL ANALYSIS Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) compounds have demonstrated significant clinical efficacy against various...
by University College London Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A world-first treatment for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), developed by scientists at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Prion Unit at UCL, has shown “very encouraging” early results following its use in six patients at University College London Hospitals (UCLH) NHS Foundation Trust. CJD is a rare but devastating...
by Arizona State University Tian’s research reveals a novel winner-takes-all resource competition between synthetic gene circuits within one host cell. Credit: Xiaojun Tian/ASU. A new process for inserting synthetic gene circuits into host cells, developed by a team of bioengineers at Arizona State University, has broad implications for improving the effectiveness of a range of disease therapies. Synthetic...
A Purdue research project is taking an engineering approach to build synthetic neurons. The body can recover from many things, but the damage caused by Parkinson’s disease isn’t one of them. No cure exists for Parkinson’s, which 1 million people in the U.S. are expected to be living with by 2020. But an outright cure...
