Groundbreaking discoveries and inventions in the Life Sciences advancing Evidence Based Medicine
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…
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…
One of the problems of using an adeno-associated virus (AAV) to deliver gene editing tools into cells, is the immune system may recognize the virus as foreign, develop antibodies against…
Researchers have identified how bacteria are able to colonize the gut and resist shear forces and stay attached to the cells of the intestine. Before the bacteria can proliferate, they…
A new cellular protection pathway has been identified that targets a vulnerability shared by several viruses including coronaviruses and Ebola. The vulnerability was identified by researchers at Benaroya Research Institute…
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…