Groundbreaking discoveries and inventions in the Life Sciences advancing Evidence Based Medicine
Two trials using CRISPR-Cas9 to treat patients with sickle cell anemia and β-thalassemia have produced promising results. The patients have not had any vaso-occlusive crises following treatment and no longer…
Machine learning algorithms can help physicians with diagnoses and can detect precancerous lesions or cancer in the early stages, which could easily be missed, resulting in faster diagnosis. Early diagnosis…
Researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) have demonstrated the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tool is effective at treating metastatic cancers in vivo. CRISPR is already being used by researchers to make…
A new method of CRISPR delivery has been developed by scientists at UNSW Sydney which could prove to be a safer and more direct method of delivering the gene editing…
A flexible cardiac patch has been developed that monitors for heart disease risks and can provide treatment without the drawbacks of standard pacemakers and other implantable cardiac devices. Each year,…
A team of researchers from the Center for Regenerative Medicine at Boston Medical Center (CReM), Boston University, and University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston has, for the first…
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…
University of Illinois Chicago researchers have developed a new approach for controlling the deposition of hydrogel to direct single cell function. Hydrogels are water-soluble polymers that are used to mimic…
A new sequencing approach has been developed by scientists at KAUST that can be used to detect rare mutations in large groups of cells. The sequencing techniques currently being used lack…
Embryonic development starts when eggs are fertilized by sperm, and the resultant embryonic genome has half of its genes provided by the father and half from the mother, but the…