The coming of age of gene therapy: A review of the past and path forward
Credit: US National Library of Medicine After three decades of hopes tempered by setbacks, gene therapy–the process of treating a disease by modifying a person's...
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SU2C awards $11M in grants to investigate immunotherapies using AI with Microsoft support
Credit: Stand Up To Cancer Santa Monica, CA (January 30, 2018) — Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) announces today a "Convergence 2.0" research initiative that...
New model may help science overcome the brain’s fortress-like barrier
Credit: Samah Jassam New model may help science overcome the brain's fortress-like barrier Scientists have helped provide a way to better understand how to enable...
Fast-cooking dry beans provide more protein, iron than ‘slower’ varieties
Credit: American Chemical Society Beans are a versatile, inexpensive staple that can boost essential nutrients in a diet, especially for people in low-resource areas where...
Targeted therapy for sleep disorders helps patients with muscular…
Credit: Newcastle Regional Sleep Service Amsterdam, NL, January 13, 2017 – Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is the most common adult muscular dystrophy, and many...
Finger prick test allows patients taking autoimmune drug to avoid blood draws
Credit: K Bloem A new study shows that patients with rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune conditions who take the drug adalimumab can monitor drug levels...
New butterfly species discovered in Israel for the first time in 109…
Credit: Dr Vladimir Lukhtanov Vladimir Lukhtanov, entomologist and evolutionary biologist at the Zoological Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia, made a startling discovery: what people had...
Researchers identify 6,500 genes that are expressed differently in men…
Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science Men and women differ in obvious and less obvious ways — for example, in the prevalence of certain diseases or...
Mouse arrest
Credit: Jessica Crowell The results of a new study reveal that a professional pest management intervention was no better in decreasing asthma symptoms in children...
Fetal mice with Zika infection get microcephaly
Credit: Li, Xu, Ye, and Hong et al./Cell Stem Cell 2016 Mouse fetuses injected with the Asian Zika virus strain and carried to term within...
Can sexual risk and behaviors among women help explain HIV disparities…
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 13, 2017 — Researchers examined the sexual behaviors of a nationally representative group of U.S....
Engineers design ‘living materials’
An artist's rendering of a bacterial cell engineered to produce amyloid nanofibers that incorporate particles such as quantum dots (red and green spheres) or gold...
First atlas of B-cell clones in body forms new foundation for infectious disease research
Credit: Alexander H. Farley PHILADELPHIA — A new “anatomic atlas” of how B cells – the immune system’s producer of antibodies – link up to...
The fight against tooth decay gets help with a new smart material from U of T researchers
Credit: Yodit Tedla/Faculty of Dentistry. When patients go to the dentist to fill a cavity, they're trying to solve a problem — not create a...
HIIT alters brain glucose metabolism in insulin resistant people
Credit: University of Turku Researchers at the University of Turku, Finland, studied how high-intensity interval training (HIIT) alters the brain's glucose metabolism in physically inactive...
