Imperial College London Professor Christofer Toumazou with his Genealysis chip, which can analyze DNA within 30 minutes and without a laboratory. The chip is powered by a mechanism that uses biology input from DNA to run analysis. The patented mechanism is…
Clinical Trials Markedly Improved Public Perception
inVentiv Clinical Trial Recruitment Solutions (iCTRS), created to accelerate trials, in collaboration with The Center for Information and Study on Clinical Research Participation (CISCRP) has released the results of research showing public perceptions of clinical trials has improved – good news…
Breast Cancer Patients Stay Fertile Through Drug
Doctors may have found a way to help young breast cancer patients avoid infertility caused by chemotherapy. Giving a drug to shut down the ovaries temporarily seems to boost the odds they will work after treatment ends, and it might even…
New Area of Cancer Research Revealed by Green Tea Study
Green tea and its extracts have been widely researched as potential treatments for cancer, as well as several other diseases. But scientists have struggled to explain how the green tea and its extracts may work to reduce the risk of cancer…
New Way Cancer Extends Discovered by Scientists
UT Southwestern Medical Center cancer researchers have identified a protein critical to the spread of deadly cancer cells and determined how it works, paving the way for potential use in diagnosis and eventually possible therapeutic drugs to halt or slow the…
Cancer cells get drug cocktail delivered by nanodaisies
Biomedical engineering researchers have developed daisy-shaped, nanoscale structures that are made predominantly of anti-cancer drugs and are capable of introducing a “cocktail” of multiple drugs into cancer cells. The researchers are all part the joint biomedical engineering program at North Carolina…
DNA Editing understanding as breakthrough advances
An international team of scientists has made a major step forward in our understanding of how enzymes ‘edit’ genes, paving the way for correcting genetic diseases in patients. Researchers at the Universities of Bristol, Münster and the Lithuanian Institute of Biotechnology…
Old Bones Stronger with Melatonin
Faleh Tamimi, a professor in McGill’s School of Dentistry, is the leader of a research team that has just discovered that melatonin supplements improve bone health, making bones stronger in elderly rats and therefore, potentially, in elderly humans too. “Old rats…
Both Pain and Itching Blocked by One Molecule
An antibody that specifically blocks the NaV1.7 voltage-gated sodium channel and suppresses pain in mice has surprisingly been found to also suppress itching in mice, even though pain and itch sensations usually follow different paths. (Source: Seok-Yong Lee and Ben Chung,…
Genes Predict Alcoholism Risk at Indiana University
Alexander Niculescu, M.D., Ph.D. (Source: Indiana University) A group of 11 genes can successfully predict whether an individual is at increased risk of alcoholism, a research team from the United States and Germany reported. “This powerful panel of just 11 genes…