Groundbreaking discoveries and inventions in the Life Sciences advancing Evidence Based Medicine
Researchers at McMaster University have found a way to make pediatric brain cancer respond better to treatment. The most common type of brain cancer in children is medulloblastoma (MB), which…
New research suggests that the severity of COVID-19 is linked to the complement system, one of the oldest parts of the innate immune system and also coagulation dysfunction. Researchers at…
Three recent studies suggest using the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tool to make changes to the DNA of human embryos results in large unwanted changes to the DNA near the target…
When a foreign invader enters the body, natural killer (NK) cells of the immune system are mobilized and attack the invader, but they are not so effective at attacking and…
Scientists in China have isolated a pair of neutralizing antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The antibodies bind to the glycoprotein spike of the virus and prevent it…
A tool that was developed to study nerve cells in flies has been repurposed to study proteins in the blood of mammals that bind to the RNA in the process…
The 2019 Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, originated in China in late 2019 and has since spread around the globe at an incredible pace. At the time of writing,…
Humans have harnessed the CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) system that bacteria use to remove foreign DNA from their genomes that has been inserted by viruses. Scientists are…
Image: Elias Zambidis, Johns Hopkins Medicine – Human vascular progenitor cells (green) created from naïve stem cells Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have used advanced regenerative medicine techniques to reverse…
The debate about whether egg stem cells exist could be at an end after a study conducted by researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden strongly suggests there is no…