Groundbreaking discoveries and inventions in the Life Sciences advancing Evidence Based Medicine
For the first time, researchers at Michigan State University have created a miniature human heart model in the laboratory that includes all the primary heart cell types, vascular tissue, and…
An international team of researchers has discovered why certain gliomas develop resistance to the chemotherapy drug temozolomide. Gliomas are the most common type of brain tumor and can occur in…
Infection with SARS-CoV-2 can cause severe symptoms in some patients, while other are entirely asymptomatic. The reason why this is the case is one of the many mysteries of the…
Infection with SARS-CoV-2 causes the respiratory disease COVID-19 which, for the majority of individuals, is a relatively mild disease that will resolve on its own without intervention over the course…
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…
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide and a diagnosis of the condition usually means a relatively poor outlook for patients. The cancer is usually only detected…
One of the mysteries about SARS-CoV-2 is why some patients, even those with no underlying health conditions, become critically ill or die, while others are asymptomatic, even patients classed as…
A team of researchers at the RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences demonstrated inhibition of microRNAs accelerates bone repair by enhancing the regenerative capacity of bone-forming cells. MicroRNAs are…
A large-scale clinical trial in the United Kingdom has shown that the steroid dexamethasone decreases the rate of death in COVID-19 patients requiring oxygen, although the drug has no effect…
Image: Chatterjee et al, Nat. Commun, 2020 Certain cephalopods have the ability to become transparent and make their cells almost invisible, the opalescent inshore squid being one example. That impressive…