by Liz Fuller-Wright, Princeton University In mice and in human tissue, a new compound discovered by Yibin Kang, seen here in his lab in 2017, disables a key gene that’s implicated in breast, prostate, liver, lung, colon and other cancers. Credit: Denise Applewhite, Office of Communications Imagine you could cure cancer by targeting one tiny gene....
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Most side effects after a third dose of a COVID vaccine are mild or moderate and occur at about as often as after shot two, a US study showed Tuesday in a finding that was expected but nonetheless reassuring. The report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) came...
by University of Barcelona Team led by Professor Francisco Ciruela. Credit: UB-IDIBELL-UBNeuro Photopharmacology is an emerging area of science based on the development of photosensitive drugs, that is, drugs that activate with light. A team from IDIBELL and the University of Barcelona has worked on two treatments based on this innovative technology: a morphine derivative that...
When the two messenger RNA vaccines for COVID-19 first became readily available, many people talked about side effects, everything from headaches to chills to feeling exhausted for a couple days. Yet plenty of others seemed to take the shots in stride, barely registering much beyond a sore arm. It was popular to assume that feeling...
by Justin Vesser, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain While the COVID-19 vaccines currently available in the U.S. have been proved to be safe and effective, recent reports of rare adverse events, or side effects, have raised concerns. On July 12, 2021, the Food and Drug Administration approved an update to the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine fact sheet to...
By Stephani Sutherland on April 1, 2021 Credit: Jasmin Merdan Getty Images Last month Robert Duehmig and Bill Griesar—a married couple in their 50s who live in Astoria, Ore., and Portland, Ore.—were each relieved to get their second shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19. After the jab, Griesar felt nothing more than a sore arm. But for Duehmig, the...
Kelly Elterman, MDKelly Elterman, MD is an experienced and board-certified anesthesiologist in San Antonio, TX who is passionate about writing and education. March 17, 2021, 3:38PM (PT) Key takeaways: Most vaccinated people are protected from COVID-19 even if they don’t have side effects. Only about 50% of people vaccinated with either the Pfizer or Moderna...
By RACHEL ELLIS FOR THE DAILY MAIL PUBLISHED: 18:34 EST, 8 February 2021 | UPDATED: 18:36 EST, 8 February 2021 Eight million people in the UK take statins every day. But could inhaling them rather than taking them in pill form prevent common side-effects? Statins, one of the most widely prescribed drugs, are taken to reduce levels of ‘bad’ LDL...
MCMASTER UNIVERSITY IMAGE: MCMASTER ENGINEERING PROFESSOR TODD HOARE CREDIT: GEORGIA KIRKOS, MCMASTER UNIVERSITY HAMILTON, ON, Jan. 15, 2021 — A team of neuroscientists and engineers at McMaster University has created a nasal spray to deliver antipsychotic medication directly to the brain instead of having it pass through the body. The leap in efficiency means patients...
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA IMAGE: CANCER CELLS ARE TARGETED BY BIOENGINEERED IMMUNE CELLS IN THE PATIENT’S SYSTEM. CAR-T biotherapeutics company Carina Biotech and researchers at the University of South Australia have developed a novel approach based on microfluidic technology to “purify” the immune cells of patients in the fight against cancer. UniSA’s Future Industries Institute PhD student...
