Reviews of hundreds of studies show that a growing number of chemicals—in pesticides, flame retardants, and certain plastics—are linked to widespread health problems, including infertility, diabetes, and impaired brain development. Researchers from the New York University Grossman School of Medicine led a team of environmental health experts in an analysis of research published in the...
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Researchers develop a portable blood ammonia detector
STANFORD UNIVERSITY A PROTOTYPE OF THE HANDHELD AMMONIA BLOOD DETECTOR AND ASSOCIATED TEST STRIPS, DEVELOPED BY RESEARCHERS AT STANFORD. view more CREDIT: THOMAS VELTMAN Seated around the dinner table, faculty affiliated with Stanford ChEM-H – one of Stanford University’s interdisciplinary institutes – spoke one-by-one, pitching ideas for collaborative research. Inspired by a recent medical conundrum,...
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Researchers test new treatment protocol for lymphoma
Lymphoma is a type of blood cancer that develops from lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell). It has many subtypes. A rare subtype, called intravascular large B-cell lymphoma (or IVLBCL) is notably hard to diagnose accurately because the cancerous lymphocytes grow inside small blood vessels, instead of at lymph nodes, and there is no...
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Could a drug combination prevent people with the eye disease uveitis lose their sight?
Two in 10,000 people are at risk of serious sight loss from a form of eye inflammation known as uveitis. A new clinical research study, led by the University of Bristol and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW), will evaluate a drug combination treatment for the eye disease thanks to the funding...
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Directional control of self-propelled protocells: The future of drug delivery?
Synthetic protocells can be made to move toward and away from chemical signals, an important step for the development of new drug-delivery systems that could target specific locations in the body. By coating the surface of the protocells with enzymes — proteins that catalyze chemical reactions — a team of researchers at Penn State was...