GENETICS A team of Harvard Medical School scientists say they’ve come up with a new drug cocktail of molecules that they say can successfully regenerate the hair cells in the inner ear that enable hearing — a potentially groundbreaking treatment for hearing loss. As detailed in a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,...
Researchers in Korea have now developed a new method to power medical implants using an active photonic wireless system GIST(GWANGJU INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) THE USE OF MEDICAL IMPLANTS IN HUMAN BODIES GENERATES THE NEED FOR INVASIVE SURGERY TO REPLACE EXHAUSTED BATTERIES, LEADING TO A HIGHER RISK OF SURGICAL COMPLICATIONS IN PATIENTS view more...
by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Micrograph showing prostatic acinar adenocarcinoma (the most common form of prostate cancer) Credit: Wikipedia The standard treatment for men with advanced prostate cancer is androgen-deprivation therapy. Androgens are hormones that fuel prostate cell growth; removing them with either drugs or surgery causes the prostate gland to shrink by 90%....
by Genevieve Timmins, Imperial College London An Imperial-led study has provided new insights into the biological processes which determine nerve cells’ ability to regenerate after injury. The study, published today in Nature Neuroscience, sheds new light on why nerve cellsfound in our peripheral nervous system can regenerate following injury, whereas those found in our central...
A car accident leaves an aging patient with severe muscle injuries that won’t heal. Treatment with muscle stem cells from a donor might restore damaged tissue, but doctors are unable to deliver them effectively. A new method may help change this. Hydrogel delivered stem cells called muscle satellite cells integrate in new muscle strands, green,...
