One-Off CRISPR Injection Could Lower Risk of Heart Disease
In the United States, around 500,000 people are expected to die of coronary artery disease this year. Coronary artery disease is the most common form of heart disease. CAD occurs…
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TALEN Gene-Editing Technique Used to Treat Leukemia using Non-HLA Donor Cells
Gene editing is one of the most exciting areas of biomedical science and could have a major impact on how patients are treated for disease in the near future. A…
3D Neural Cell Cultures Grow Elementary Circulatory System
A team of scientists at Brown University in Rhone Island have created mini-brains from 3D neural cell cultures and found those cell clusters developed a rudimentary circulatory system. The team’s…
Breath Test Identifies Flu Biomarkers
A biomedical researcher from the department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Texas has invented a hand-held breathalyzer that has been programmed to detect the biomarkers for influenza….
Funding Awarded for CRISPR-Cas9 Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Safety Study
A biomedical researcher at the Southwestern Medical Center at the University of Texas has been awarded a grant of $250,000 for a study of the potential for the use of…
Artificial Spider Silk Spinner Capable of Producing Kilometer-Long Threads
Spider silk has a myriad of potential uses, if only spiders could be convinced to produce vast quantities on demand and work long shifts. Unfortunately, the difficulty in keeping spiders…
Silk-Alginate Composite Scaffolds Show Excellent Potential for Soft Tissue Engineering
In vitro growth of tissues has great potential for a wide range of medical applications. Tissues can be grown in the lab and then used to replace damaged or lost…
Potentially Effective Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease Discovered
Researchers at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have discovered two new molecules that have high therapeutic potential for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. The discoveries were made…
AI-Powered Breath Sensor Capable of Diagnosing 17 Diseases
Could going to the doctor for a checkup soon involve taking a breath test? Thanks to the work of a multinational team of researchers, that could soon be a possibility….
Carbon Nanotubes Used in Quick and Easy Test for Circulating Tumor Cells
If cancer is identified in the early stages, treatment can be highly effective. However, in the latter stages of the disease, as the cancer spreads to other organs, treatment becomes…