By swapping replacement parts into the backbone of a synthetic hormone, UW-Madison graduate student Ross Cheloha and his mentor Sam Gellman, along with collaborators at Harvard Medical School, have built a version of a parathyroid hormone that resists degradation in laboratory…
Insulin Pump Outperformed by ‘Bionic Pancreas’
From right, researcher Dr. Steven Russell of Massachusetts General Hospital stands with Frank Spesia and Colby Clarizia, two participants in a type 1 diabetes trial testing an electronic device called a bionic pancreas – the cellphone-sized device shown – which replaces…
Drug Discovery May be Revolutionized by Scientists’ Findings
Proteins are chains of amino acids that, when folded into certain structural patterns and also when unfolded, exert functions within cells. Proteins receive signals that are transmitted from one to the next and that are essential for life. However, within a…
Researchers Discover New Breast Cancer Targets
Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have found new targets for potential intervention in breast cancer. These hormone cancer studies new targets could eventually increase effectiveness and reduce the undesirable side effects associated with current treatments….
Why Clinical Research in Latin America?
Many industry key opinion leaders thought healthcare among other systems in Latin America did not meet U.S. and European standards. But today, the region is valued for its time and cost efficiencies, more accessible and compliant customers and patients, and also…
NIDA review summarizes research on marijuana ’s negative health effects
Comprehensive review published in the New England Journal of Medicine also discusses why marijuana health risks are greatest for teen users. The current state of science on the adverse health effects of marijuana use links the drug to several significant adverse…
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…