Bioengineered Kidney Produces Urine (Artificial Kidney Discovery)
The problems of donor-organ shortage are well known in modern medicine. In case of kidney failure alone, only 18 out of 100 people receive a donor organ, the rest remain of waiting lists until critical...
View ArticleInhibiting interferons can clear the body of persistent infection
Study shows that inhibiting interferons may help clear the body of persistent viral infection. Persistent viral infections have long baffled virologists, who were unable to explain how some viruses...
View ArticleInfant Formula, but not Breastmilk, May Kill Intestinal Cells
Premature infants are susceptible to a number of different short and long term health problems. This is because various systems in the infant’s body have not fully matured. The lungs and digestive...
View ArticleOnline SAS Clinical Development Training @showtheropes
Course Details: In this course, you will learn basics and advanced SAS concepts to read and manipulate clinical data. Using the clinical features and basic concepts of clinical trials, this course...
View ArticleElectron Microscopy of Live Organisms
Electron microscopes are powerful tools for studying small cells, viruses, and molecules within cells. An electron microscope can magnify an image up to 10 million times, allowing scientists to view...
View Article"Vascular Health Profile" concept by CytoVas may help improve cadio-vascular...
A new company in the biotech sector, CytoVas, has developed a new concept for vascular health analysis, using a relatively new filed approach, cytomics, to screen the blood for viomarkers relating to...
View ArticleFirefly Bioworks and SomaGenics present new microRNA research technology
Biotech Company “Firefly BioWorks”, develops a new technology, FirePlex™, a method of miRNA detection that can been used for both academic and clinical research. miRNAs have recently emerged as key...
View ArticleStem Cells in ALS Treatment in Mice
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), common as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a neurological disease that affects the motor neurons. In ALS, both the upper motor neurons (UMNs) and the lower motor neurons...
View ArticleKidneys Grown In Vitro Transplanted into Rats
Almost 120,000 Americans are currently waiting for live-saving organ donations. However, there are far too few donors available, and finding appropriate matches between donor and recipient can be...
View ArticleYeast Produce Malaria Drug
Malaria is one of the top leading causes of death due to infectious disease worldwide. Every year, there are approximately 100 to 300 million cases of malaria, resulting in approximately one million...
View ArticlemiRNA Blood Diagnostics by Dr. Dominik M.Duelli
New progress in the field of evaluating miRNAs in Circulation Adittional to SomaGenics’ method for miRNA plasma measurement, other scientists are also working on new methods to measure the miRNA...
View ArticleUsing viral vectors to mediate miRNA therapeutics
miRNA’s can be utilized for a number of purposes, and recent research in this field has been prolific and detailed. Along with miRNA’s great potential as biomarkers for different pathological states...
View ArticleH7N9 Bird Flu Spreads in China
The recent outbreak of avian influenza in China is causing concern to public health officials. The H7N9 avian influenza virus has so far infected nearly 90 people, and has been fatal in 17 of these...
View ArticleConverting fibroblasts into functional oligodendrocytes
In a process dubbed “Cellular Alchemy” researchers at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine have succeeded at a technique that converts skin cells to the type of brain cells compromised or destroyed...
View ArticleSynthetic Antibody Recognizes Viruses
A virus is a small infectious agent that enters a host cell and uses the cellular machinery to replicate its genome. In order for the host to fight the viral infection, it uses components from the...
View ArticleBlock protein of the appetite reducing hormone Leptin identified
The appetite-regulation hormone called leptin was discovered in 1994, and ever since then scientists have been trying to understand the mechanisms that control and direct its action. It was known that...
View ArticleUniversal Flu Vaccine - Case Study Inovio Pharmaceuticals
Currently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that all Americans above the age of six months receive an annual flu vaccine. This is important, because the predominant strain...
View ArticleAlternative Splicing of Telomerase as a Target for Cancer Treatment
Whenever DNA is replicated, DNA polymerase, the enzyme that links together the nucleic acids, is unable to add nucleotides to the 3’ end of the chromosome. It requires several nucleotides as overlap in...
View ArticleEdible Algae as a Vaccine Vector
Malaria is one of the top three leading causes of death due to infectious disease worldwide. As many as 300 million people are infected with malaria worldwide every year, resulting in an estimated one...
View ArticleInterferon Levels Increased in Persistent Viral Infection
Interferons are a type of protein associated with the immune response to help protect the host against infection. Generally, Type I Interferons (IFN-I) will help put the cell in an antiviral state, by...
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