Potential New Treatment for Tinnitus Shows Promise
A potential new treatment for tinnitus has been developed that can reduce symptoms of the disorder. The new treatment also has potential to eliminate symptoms. Researchers at the Department of…
Groundbreaking discoveries and inventions in the Life Sciences advancing Evidence Based Medicine
A potential new treatment for tinnitus has been developed that can reduce symptoms of the disorder. The new treatment also has potential to eliminate symptoms. Researchers at the Department of…
FDA guidance on regenerative medicine has been issued covering the allowable uses of novel cellular therapies, when the use of such therapies is exempt from FDA regulation, and how the…
The damaging effect of alcohol on brain stem cells has been investigated by researchers at the University of Texas in Galveston. The study shows alcohol kills brain stem cells and…
Spinal cord injury often results in permanent impairment of limb function, although human stem cells have been used to repair spinal cord injury in rats. Scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute…
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) can show thought patterns associated with cognitive processes, but can fMRI identify suicidal thoughts? Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, where thought identification using fMRI was…
fMRI scans on ADHD patients suggest that rather than being a single condition, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder includes multiple disorders – with each displaying common symptoms caused by different neurobiological…
One of the biggest problems in medicine, and one which has potential to become a worldwide health crisis, is bacterial resistance to antibiotics. When our antibiotics cease to be effective,…
The treatment of diabetes requires patients to regularly monitor their blood sugar levels and administer insulin injections; however, if artificial-insulin releasing cells could be introduced, this would greatly improve the…
Scientists at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have used a new method to acquire cells from tissue samples for use in rheumatoid arthritis research, which could help with the development of…
Spanish researchers have proposed a new CrispR-Cas9 delivery mechanism that can be used to introduce the gene editing tool into cells via the endocytic pathway using a peptide vehicle. The…