Groundbreaking discoveries and inventions in the Life Sciences advancing Evidence Based Medicine
The experimental monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID-19 developed by the New York company Regeneron has attracted a lot of press in the past two weeks, in part because it is…
University of Chicago researchers have identified a new method of treating multiple sclerosis which has been shown to be more effective that current treatments in studies on mice. Multiple sclerosis…
Epilepsy is a common neurological disease that causes seizures due to abnormal brain activity. The seizures can affect the whole brain or just one part, and can last for a…
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for the discovery of the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing tool. CRISPR, an acronym of Clustered…
Researchers from Cologne and Helsinki have identified a mechanism that prevents hair loss. Hair loss occurs when hair follicle stem cells are exhausted new hair follicles are not produced, leading…
Severe reactions to infection with SARS-CoV-2 are characterized by excessive inflammation in the lower airways, which has been linked to a pathological response of the immune system. Researchers at the…
Recently published research suggests vitamin D may help to protect individuals from developing severe symptoms of COVID-19 and can help to prevent COVID-19 deaths. The research was conducted at Tehran…
The cause of certain genetic form of Parkinson’s disease has been confirmed by a team of international researchers as part of a 7-year research effort. The researchers have also identified…
A team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have developed a new technique using CRISPR-Cas9 and have successfully reversed muscular dystrophy in mice….
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), also known as blood stem cells, are capable of differentiating into every type of blood cell and are essential for maintaining blood production. Blood stem cells…