Groundbreaking discoveries and inventions in the Life Sciences advancing Evidence Based Medicine
A new method of detecting melanoma has been developed by researchers at the Kaunas University of Technology and Lithuanian University of Health Sciences that is non-invasive and has been shown…
Prior to late 2019, coronaviruses were best known as one of the main causes of the common cold. Coronaviruses typically only cause mild symptoms which last just a few days….
A flexible cardiac patch has been developed that monitors for heart disease risks and can provide treatment without the drawbacks of standard pacemakers and other implantable cardiac devices. Each year,…
A scientist at Northwestern University Feinberg School has developed a new three-dimensional imaging technique which makes it far easier to identify brain tumors in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. The…
A team of researchers from the Center for Regenerative Medicine at Boston Medical Center (CReM), Boston University, and University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston has, for the first…
University of Chicago researchers have identified a new method of treating multiple sclerosis which has been shown to be more effective that current treatments in studies on mice. Multiple sclerosis…
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for the discovery of the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing tool. CRISPR, an acronym of Clustered…
Severe reactions to infection with SARS-CoV-2 are characterized by excessive inflammation in the lower airways, which has been linked to a pathological response of the immune system. Researchers at the…
A team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have developed a new technique using CRISPR-Cas9 and have successfully reversed muscular dystrophy in mice….
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), also known as blood stem cells, are capable of differentiating into every type of blood cell and are essential for maintaining blood production. Blood stem cells…