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Viscoelasticity emerges as key marker for liver cancer in diabetes

For centuries, doctors have used their hands as essential diagnostic tools -; exploring joints and palpating abdomens to assess a patient's health.

2 Feb 2024

Growing tiny tumors in the lab for personalized lung cancer treatment

Lung cancer accounts for nearly 20% of annual cancer-related deaths worldwide. According to 2022 statistics from the Swiss Cancer League, nearly 5,000 new cases of lung cancer are reported in Switzerland each year.

8 Jan 2024

Bioengineered human heart muscle cells and micro-tissues take flight to space

Mount Sinai's Cardiovascular Research Institute is sending bioengineered human heart muscle cells and micro-tissues into space for the first time on NASA's 29th SpaceX commercial resupply services mission, which launched Thursday, November 9.

14 Nov 2023

New physical mechanism uncovered for breast cancer invasion

The majority of breast cancers start in the lining of a breast milk duct and, if they remain there, are very treatable.

13 Nov 2023

3D cell culture system tests how inhibiting fibroblast activities can help treat lung cancer

Fibroblasts build and maintain the extracellular matrix, or physical scaffolding for cells, in the connective tissues within the body.

28 Mar 2023

CHLA researchers receive funding to support studies into diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma

Researchers at Children's Hospital Los Angeles have received a nearly $1 million K08 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-; as well as funding from the U.S. Department of Defense-;to support studies into diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), a childhood brain tumor with a 0% survival rate.

16 Feb 2023

Innovative precision oncology enabled by micro-organospheres derived from patients

The development of an automatic microfluidics droplet platform to rapidly generate patient-derived models of cancer.

6 Dec 2022

New method for 3D culture accurately quantifies how cancer cells generate forces to spread within tissue

Research to understand how cancers grow and spread has conventionally been done on two-dimensional, flat cultures of cells, which is very different to the three-dimensional structure of cells in the body.

12 Aug 2022

Cytokine-based cancer immunotherapy: current progress and future prospects

In this interview, News-Medical talks to Dr. Shuang Zhou about cytokine-base cancer immunotherapy, the current state of the field, and future prospects.

From Sino Biological Inc. 18 Jul 2022

Injectable hybrid inorganic nanoscaffold-templated stem cell assembly for cartilage repair

This study led by Prof. Qiuyu Zhang (Northwestern Polytechnical University), Prof. Ki-Bum Lee (Rutgers University), and Prof. Liang Kong (School of Stomatology, The Fourth Military Medical University).

19 Apr 2022

Research demonstrates potential of local siRNA delivery as COVID antiviral therapy in the lung

Scientists develop a formulation for the pulmonary administration of siRNA. The aim was to suppress the replication of SARS-CoV-2.

3 Apr 2022

Utilizing AI to Accelerate the Field of High Content Analysis

In this interview, we speak to Araceli Biosciences about their latest product the Araceli Endeavor, and how its revolutionizing the field of high content screening.

From Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) 29 Mar 2022

Researchers create artificial tendons in vitro from human stem cells

Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental develop artificial tendons in vitro from human stem cells that could fix common tendon injuries such as Achilles tendon rupture.

23 Feb 2022

AMSBIO Expands EU Operations

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From AMS Biotechnology 26 Jan 2022

Engineering of brain-mimetic injectable hydrogel scaffolds with self-healing properties

A team of scientists bioengineered a physiologically relevant, brain mimetic 3D scaffold for culturing neuronal cells.

15 Dec 2021

Custom Biofluid & Tissue Procurement Service

Global provider of human and animal biospecimens - AMSBIO offers a custom procurement service enabling researchers to source specific biofluid and tissue samples which are not already available in their extensive biorepository.

From AMS Biotechnology 1 Dec 2021

Study reveals a previously unknown mechanism for pancreatic cancer metastasis

Pancreatic cancer is very aggressive and, unfortunately, has a poor prognosis with a 5-year survival of only 5%. Most deaths related to pancreatic cancer are due to metastasis, which occurs when the tumour invades other organs.

29 Nov 2021

3D cell culturing platform allows study of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a deadly and rapidly progressing disease with no cure. The disease involves abnormal interactions between lung cells, including fibroblasts, and their surrounding environment.

16 Nov 2021

NanoTCE technology shows promise for treatment of acute myeloid leukemia

Oncotarget published "Nanoparticle T cell engagers for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia" which reported that Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common type of leukemia and has a 5-year survival rate of 25%.

12 Nov 2021

Engineered 3D scaffolds of human brown adipose tissue as a new therapeutic strategy for obesity and diabetes

A group of researchers from various institutes in the USA addressed the limitations of BAT therapy by transplanting a low dose of brown adipocytes (BAs) without Matrigel to determine if this could alleviate high-fat diet-induced OB, metabolic symptoms, and T2DM in mice.

18 Oct 2021