Scientists have made promising discoveries and the new insulin medicine is ready to be tested on humans in 2025Peer-Reviewed Publication UIT THE ARCTIC UNIVERSITY OF NORWAY THESE CAPSULES CONTAINING NANO-CARRIERS WITH INSULIN WILL BE TESTED ON HUMANS IN 2025.CREDIT: NICHOLAS HUNT There are approximately 425 million people worldwide with diabetes. Approximately 75 million of these...
Throughout the brain’s cortex, neurons are arranged in six distinctive layers, which can be readily seen with a microscope. A team of MIT and Vanderbilt University neuroscientists has now found that these layers also show distinct patterns of electrical activity, which are consistent over many brain regions and across several animal species, including humans. A...
Tumors constantly shed DNA from dying cells, which briefly circulates in the patient’s bloodstream before it is quickly broken down. Many companies have created blood tests that can pick out this tumor DNA, potentially helping doctors diagnose or monitor cancer or choose a treatment. A blood test procedure. Image credit: Max Pixel, CC0 Public Domain...
Northwestern University researchers have developed the first selective therapy to prevent allergic reactions, ranging in severity from itchy hives and watery eyes to trouble breathing and even death.A scanning electron microscope image of nanoparticles (colorized in purple) that have successfully entered a mast cell To develop the new therapy, researchers decorated nanoparticles with antibodies capable...
Researchers at UC San Diego have developed modular nanoparticles that can be customized to target biological entities such as tumors, viruses or toxins.The surfaces of the nanoparticles are engineered to host biological molecules, making it possible to tailor the nanoparticles for applications from targeted drug delivery to neutralizing biological agents. Live cell fluorescent visualization of...
Written by Christine Giordano, MD | Reviewed by Patricia Pinto-Garcia, MD, MPH Key takeaways: UTIs (urinary tract infections) are a bacterial infection of the bladder, urethra, or kidneys that usually need antibiotic treatment.Drinking fluids helps people recover from a UTI. The best things to drink when you have a UTI are water, electrolyte drinks that...
Moderna and Merck have presented promising results from their phase 2b clinical trial that investigated a combination of a messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine and a cancer drug for the treatment of melanoma. Is mRNA set to shake up the world of cancer treatment? This is certainly what Moderna seems to think; the pharmaceutical company has...
BY U. ZURICH Researchers have discovered that chronic symptoms in long COVID are, to some extent, due to a part of our immune system called the complement system. Long COVID patients have chronic symptoms such as fatigue or shortness of breath. The new study identified a pattern in the blood proteins that will improve the diagnosis...
Ruhr-Universitaet-BochumA simple blood test could perform better than a complex test thanks to mathematical modeling. Diabetes often remains undetected until it has already damaged organs or nerves. This is partly due to the fact that diagnosis at an early stage is time-consuming and difficult. An international team of researchers headed by Associate Professor Dr. Johannes...
Infection with COVID-19 conferred a nearly twofold risk of developing alopecia areata (AA), results from a large analysis of Korean patients demonstrated. “There is a growing number of reports on new onset, exacerbation, and recurrence of AA after COVID-19,” corresponding author Jin Park, MD, PhD, of the Department of dermatology at Jeonbuk National University Medical...
