Groundbreaking discoveries and inventions in the Life Sciences advancing Evidence Based Medicine
A study of the safety and effectiveness of imatinib treatment for chronic myeloid leukemia has shown that after almost 11 years following initial imatinib treatment, patients have not suffered unacceptable…
Psychologists at Rice University in Houston, Texas have developed a new method for analyzing brain activity that provides insight into the functioning of the brain following a stroke. When part…
Mind reading is more commonly associated with mentalists rather than scientists, although that may not be the case for very long. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans allow scientists to…
Scientists at Hokkaido University’s Graduate School of Medicine have successfully used RNA interference (RNAi) to block ocular inflammation in mice. It is hoped that the technique could be used to…
A team of researchers from the UK’s University of Liverpool have used nanotechnology to improve the effectiveness of HIV drug treatment. The trial was the first to use nanomedicine to…
Noninvasive imaging of neuronal activity has been a goal for scientists for many years, yet until recently, imaging technology has not been sufficiently advanced to allow images to be produced…
Effective cancer treatments introduce toxic chemicals, involve the surgical removal of tumors, or the administration of doses of radiation, all of which can have serious side effects. However, treatments with…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems have shown tremendous potential for use in the diagnosis of disease, with AI image analysis one of the most exciting uses of AI in medicine. Radiographers,…
A multidisciplinary team of researchers have discovered that stem cells can be used to generate epicardium cells – the cells that cover the external surface of the heart. Unlike many…
What makes stem cells decide whether they should make more stem cells or differentiate into other cells? According to researchers at New York’s Rockefeller University, it is the distribution of…