Groundbreaking discoveries and inventions in the Life Sciences advancing Evidence Based Medicine
Researchers and the University of California San Diego have shown that stimulation of the vagus nerve could serve as a possible treatment for patients diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)…
When heart cells are damaged, they do not heal sufficiently as cardiomyocytes lack the ability to replace dead tissue with new and healthy tissue. Cardiomyocytes are among the least renewable…
For the first time, scientists have succeeded in turning human stem cells into insulin producing cells raising hopes that a cure for type 1 diabetes may be just around the…
While there is currently no cure for Alzheimer’s disease or even treatments that can prevent the disease from progressing, early detection of Alzheimer’s disease can help patients make important choices…
Researchers at the University of California Davis School of Medicine and Eye Center have identified 261 new genes in mice that have been linked to blindness and other hereditary vision…
Systemic inflammation naturally occurs as part of the aging process and is common in the normal geriatric population. Chronic inflammation also occurs in patients infected with HIV that are undergoing…
A clinical trial of an experimental treatment for Parkinson’s disease has commenced at Kyoto University Hospital in Japan. The trial is investigating whether stem cells injected into the brains of…
The CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tool offers tremendous potential for treating diseases caused by genetic mutations. The system uses a short sequence of RNA, called guide RNA (gRNA), to identify a…
A promising new treatment for Zika virus infections has been developed, which has been shown to be effective in mice. Scientists at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in collaboration with…
Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a tiny MRI sensor that can be used with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology to accurately measure electrical and optical…