Groundbreaking discoveries and inventions in the Life Sciences advancing Evidence Based Medicine
Google has announced it has developed a machine learning system that can detect breast cancer from mammography scans faster and with greater accuracy than radiologists. In a recent study, the…
A recent study conducted by a team of researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the University of Pennsylvania suggests that a new method of treating HIV may be…
A great deal of research has been conducted on bone marrow, which contains stem cells capable of creating blood cells through life. However, little is known about the spatial organization…
One of the biggest problems in medicine is not finding new antibiotics to treat bacterial infections, although that is certainly important, but making sure that the ones that have been…
Immunotherapy can be an effective treatment for some cancer patients. The treatment involves harnessing the body’s immune system and using it to attack cancer cells that would otherwise be treated…
A team of researchers from the University of Barcelona and Barcelona’s August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS) have identified a mechanism involved in the regulation of cholesterol movement…
Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) have discovered a protein that causes blood stem cells to renew at twelve times the rate in vitro. The discovery could…
Researchers at the University of Houston have identified a new biomarker for lung cancer stem cells. Cancer stem cells (CSCs) or tumor-initiating cells (TICs) are cells that have similar abilities…
Researchers have long been searching for a biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease that will allow the disease to be detected before patients start exhibiting symptoms. Damage to the brain occurs long…
It is advantageous to know what specific DNA mutations have led to the development of cancer, as this informs treatment decisions. Certain treatments will be much more effective at treating…