A University of Central Florida professor has invented a way to use light to continuously monitor a surgical patient's blood, for the first time providing a…
“We created the I-Wire Heart-on-a-Chip so that we can understand why cardiac cells behave the way they do by asking the cells questions, instead of just…
The starting point for this discovery was a family in which two of six children dad been living with delayed motor development and muscle weakness since birth….
Trigeminal neuralgia is characterized by sharp, lancinating pain in the teeth or facial area. The standard treatment for this chronic nerve pain can cause…
Now, less than six years since its initial description, scientists have made great strides in understanding what hidden hearing loss is and what causes it. In…
In a randomized, controlled clinical trial — the first of its kind — a multi-institution research team reports that daptomycin, part of a new class of…
University of British Columbia researchers have developed a magnetic drug implant–the first of its kind in Canada–that could offer an alternative for…
Killer cells – called cytotoxic T cells in the technical jargon – are somewhat like a well-trained police dog: as long as they don’t know that an infection is…
A new therapeutic agent tested in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis (MS) produced anti-inflammatory activity and prevented loss of cells in the optic nerve,…
The team, which includes infection researchers, engineers and bioinformaticians in Southampton and University College London, have used an electrostatic…
Anxiety in social situations is not a rare problem: Around one in ten people are affected by social anxiety disorder during their lifetime. Social anxiety…
The research, conducted by a Rockefeller team led by Elizabeth Campbell, in collaboration with scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering, focuses on a cluster of…
Rabies and canine distemper are among the most dangerous and lethal viral diseases afflicting carnivores. Rabies can also be transmitted to humans via bite…
Understanding the details of this enzyme, and thus the Helicobacter pylori bacteria's metabolism and biological pathways, could be central to developing drugs…
When someone is HIV-positive and takes antiretroviral drugs, the virus persists in a reservoir of infected cells. Those cells hide out in germinal centers,…
The development of cerebral cortex plays a major role in the evolution of species and in particular for mankind. This is why scientists are studying the…
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