by Griffith University Credit: CC0 Public Domain A collaboration between the Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery (GRIDD) and multiple clinical research institutes has led to an exciting discovery in cancer research. The multi-disciplinary team, led by GRIDD’s Dr. Alexandre Cristino and Professor Maher Gandhi from Mater Research and including researchers from the Translational Research Institute, discovered a new mechanism in which the Epstein-Barr virus—which can...
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Scientists discover new drugs with potential to treat stubborn cancers
by Katie Willis, University of Alberta Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers at the University of Alberta have discovered a new class of drugs with the potential to make cancer treatment safer and more effective by preventing cancer cells from repairing themselves. “For patients with resistant cancer, these drugs could rescue them by rendering their cancer once again...
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Successful study of Swedish vaccine candidate against diarrhea
by University of Gothenburg Credit: CC0 Public Domain University of Gothenburg researchers have reported the first successful results of an oral, inactivated vaccine candidate ETVAX against enterotoxigenic E. coli diarrhea in a placebo-controlled phase I/II study in infants and children from six months to five years of age in Bangladesh. All predefined primary endpoints for the study were...
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Technique identifies T cells primed for certain allergies or infections
by Anne Trafton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT researchers have developed a method to isolate T cells that bind to different targets and then sequence their RNA. Credit: SciStories LLC When your immune system is exposed to a vaccine, an allergen, or an infectious microbe, subsets of T cells that can recognize a foreign intruder leap into action....
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Omega-3 fatty acids’ health benefit linked to stem cell control, researchers find
by Stanford University Medical Center Credit: CC0 Public Domain For years, researchers have known that defects in an ancient cellular antenna called the primary cilium are linked with obesity and insulin resistance. Now, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered that the strange little cellular appendage is sensing omega-3 fatty acids in the diet, and that this...
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Traditional Chinese medical herb may offer new anti-obesity strategy
by Chinese Academy of Sciences Credit: CC0 Public Domain Overweight and obesity have become a severe public health problem around the world. Current anti-obesity strategies are mainly aimed at restricting calorie intake and absorption. Now, Chinese scientists suggest in a new study that burning energy by activation of brown adipose tissue (BAT) might be an alternative...
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Protein protects the mitochondria and surprisingly rescues neurons from stroke-like damage
by Delthia Ricks , Medical Xpress Credit: CC0 Public Domain A protein newly discovered by scientists in China is aiding in the dramatic reversal of stroke-like damage in laboratory animals and may one day rescue humans from neurological injury, the research team is predicting. Their work is based on a series of breakthrough studies involving mitochondria, bean-shaped...
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In a medical first, a trauma patient was put into a state of suspended animation
by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress Credit: CC0 Public Domain New Scientist reports that a team of doctors working at the University of Maryland School of Medicine has, for the first time, put a trauma patient into a state of suspended animation to save the patient’s life. During a recent symposium in New York, Dr. Samuel Tisherman...
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Researchers identify a molecular mechanism involved in Huntington’s disease
by University of Barcelona A montage of three images of single striatal neurons transfected with a disease-associated version of huntingtin, the protein that causes Huntington’s disease. Nuclei of untransfected neurons are seen in the background (blue). The neuron in the center (yellow) contains an abnormal intracellular accumulation of huntingtin called an inclusion body (orange). Credit: Wikipedia/...
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Smart contacts: The future of the wearable you won’t even see
By Nick Lavars November 20, 2019 One day, contact lenses could do much more than just correct our visionGoogle The notion of wearing lenses over our eyes to correct our vision dates back hundreds of years, with some even crediting Leonardo da Vinci as one of the first proponents of the idea (though that remains...