Groundbreaking discoveries and inventions in the Life Sciences advancing Evidence Based Medicine
A team of researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University have adapted the CRISPR associated RNA-cutting enzyme, Cas13, to seek out and destroy RNA-based viruses. The adapted…
Researchers at Northwestern Medicine have tested a new strategy for treating Parkinson’s disease with positive results. The study suggests the new approach could serve as viable treatment option for several…
A paper published in Nature that suggested babies born following treatment with CRISPR would have shorter lifespans has been retracted by the authors due to ‘technical errors’ made during analysis…
Researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed a new form of chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) T-cell therapy that could be used to treat patients with solid tumors. CAR T-cell therapy…
A new method of delivering CRISPR has been developed that allows scientists to deliver the gene editing tool into microorganisms and potentially develop highly personalized treatments for a wide range…
If healthy cells are harvested from a patient and introduced into another individual as a therapy to replace diseased or damaged cells, an immune response will be triggered. White blood…
Researchers at Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine (LKSOM) have characterized a new pathway involved in fibroblast activation and myofibroblast formation, which provides clues as to how pathological fibrosis…
Botanical medicines have been used for tens of thousands of years as a treatment for specific ailments such as high blood pressure, although the mechanisms by which these plant extracts…
Researchers at the University of Guelph in Canada have identified a potential new drug which controls the inflammatory response in mice and offers protection against heart failure following a heart…
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection used to be a death sentence; however today, thanks to antiretroviral therapy, patients with HIV can live long and healthy lives without developing acquired immune…