Gene-editing tool CRISPR/Cas9 shown to limit impact of certain parasitic diseases
GW researchers successfully used CRISPR/Cas9 to limit the impact of schistosomiasis and liver fluke infection, affecting more than a quarter of a billion people in...
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Bear necessities: New study highlights importance of water resources for Andean bears
A new study is shedding light on the importance of one critical resource for Andean bears living in the dry mountain forests of Peru: water....
Muscle stem cells can drive cancer that arises in Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) LA JOLLA, CALIF. - Jan. 15, 2019 - People with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) can develop an...
MD Anderson Cancer Center and Dragonfly Therapeutics announce strategic collaboration to take new immunotherapy candidates into clinical trials
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Dragonfly Therapeutics, Inc., today announced a strategic collaboration to bring Dragonfly's TriNKET™ (tri-specific natural killer cell...
New study shows animals may get used to drones
A new study in Conservation Physiology shows that over time, bears get used to drones. Previous work indicated that animals behave fearfully or show a...
EU and Canada award 8.65 million to project to ease genomic and health data sharing
New collaborative international project, headed by Bar-Ilan University, aims to promote human immunological data storage, integration and controlled sharing to enable personalized medicine The European...
Engineered T cells promote long-term organ transplant acceptance
Credit: Image: Swiss Nanoscience Institute/University of Basel, Biozentrum Organ transplant rejection is a major problem in transplantation medicine. Suppressing the immune system to prevent organ...
Protective effects of ADM-RAMP2 system make it a new therapeutic target for retinal vein occlusion
A model of central retinal vein occlusion that mimics many of its clinical features has been developed to test new therapies using ADM-RAMP2 for this...
States with fewer melanoma diagnoses have higher death rates
Using state-by-state data, researchers found that melanoma survival varies regionallya) Melanoma incidence per 100,000 (darker states indicate higher incidence of melanoma) Skin cancer is the...
JAMA report outlines recommendations for evaluation and management of penicillin allergy
Verifying the accuracy of a documented penicillin allergy can improve treatment outcomes, avoid spread of antibiotic resistance While more than 32 million individuals in the...
Gene-editing tool CRISPR repurposed to develop better antibiotics
MADISON, Wis. -- A University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher and his collaborators at the University of California, San Francisco have repurposed the gene-editing tool CRISPR to...
Emergency/urgent hospitalizations linked to accelerated cognitive decline in older adults
Emergency and urgent hospitalizations are associated with an increased rate of cognitive decline in older adults, report researchers at Rush University Medical Center. Results of...
'Realistic' new model points the way to more efficient and profitable fracking
Accurately predicting fracture mechanics can help industry optimize pumping, fracturing-fluid viscosity, other parametersCredit: Northwestern University A new computational model could potentially boost efficiencies and profits...
Racial disparities in asthma related to health care access, environmental factors
Analysis of data from NHBLI Severe Asthma Research Program In the United States, there are persistent racial disparities in asthma prevalence, morbidity and mortality. These...
Harnessing multiple data streams and artificial intelligence to better predict flu
'Nowcasting' technique enables highly accurate local flu surveillance Influenza is highly contagious and easily spreads as people move about and travel, making tracking and forecasting...
