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Using everyday materials as tissue scaffolds

As the global demand for tissue and organ transplants significantly outstrips supply, tissue engineering might provide a potential solution. But one of the significant challenges in tissue engineering is growing tissue in 3D, and the scaffolds used to position cells to develop tissue-specific functions are often challenging or prohibitively expensive to develop.

17 Sep 2019

Promising new drug being developed for polycystic kidney disease

Researchers have developed a potential new drug for the treatment of Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) – a deadly genetic condition affecting the kidneys that leads to formation of swellings or cysts within the kidney that cause it to fail.

12 Sep 2019

Researchers explore remodeling of cardiac tissues post-aortic valve replacement

University of Colorado Boulder engineers and faculty from the Consortium for Fibrosis Research & Translation at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have teamed up to develop biomaterial-based "mimics" of heart tissues to measure patients' responses to an aortic valve replacement procedure, offering new insight into the ways that cardiac tissue re-shapes itself post-surgery.

12 Sep 2019

Cancer disease incidence and severity influenced by gene mutation, tissue location

The KRAS gene is one of the commonly mutated genes in cancer. More than 40 percent of colorectal cancers have a mutated KRAS gene, or oncogene, that is at least partially responsible for cancer development.

12 Sep 2019

World Heart Federation launches new roadmap to reduce global burden of CVD in people with diabetes

At ESC Congress 2019 together with the World Congress of Cardiology, the World Heart Federation launched a new “roadmap” aimed at reducing the global burden of CVD in people living with diabetes.

3 Sep 2019

How to get bargain dentistry and a vacation to boot

"Do you want numbing gel?" the dental technician asked me as she prepared to plunge into my mouth.

3 Sep 2019

NIH announces new round of funding for Research Centers in Minority Institutions

The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, part of the National Institutes of Health, has funded three new awards and renewed the awards of eight institutions previously funded under the Research Centers in Minority Institutions Specialized Centers program.

26 Aug 2019

New cannabis-based drug shows promise for pancreatic cancer

Cancer of the pancreas is a particularly deadly cancer, claiming over 90% of its victims within 5 years from diagnosis. It resists most standard therapies, including surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy and targeted therapy, and metastasizes early, often before being diagnosed. A cure is possible only with very localized tumors.

22 Aug 2019

Drug that treat human breast cancer might also work for canine lung cancer

Despite those velvet paintings of poker-playing dogs smoking pipes, cigars and cigarettes, our canine friends really don't use tobacco. But like many humans who have never smoked, dogs still get lung cancer.

21 Aug 2019

MSD collaborates with Francis Crick to find causes of motor neurone disease

Scientists at global biopharmaceutical company MSD and the Francis Crick Institute have started a unique new collaboration to understand the causes of Motor Neurone Disease and identify potential targets for future treatments, co-funded by MSD and the UK Medical Research Council.

21 Aug 2019

CNS develops evidence-based guidelines for treatment of pediatric myelomeningocele

The Congress of Neurological Surgeons has developed an evidence-based guideline for the treatment of patients with myelomeningocele.

21 Aug 2019

New contest shows how assistance technologies could provide support in day-to-day life

'Pilots' with physical impairments, who control computer avatars with their thoughts, will demonstrate how far brain-computer interface research has come as they compete in live events at CYBATHLON.

20 Aug 2019

KIT researchers develop new method to predict protein structure

Proteins are biological high-performance machines. They can be found in every cell and play an important role in human blood coagulation or as main constituents of hairs or muscles.

14 Aug 2019

Children born moderate-to-late premature may face setbacks in education

Children born as little as three weeks premature, who consequently fall into an earlier school year are more likely to experience significant setbacks in their education after their first year of school, according to new research published today in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood.

14 Aug 2019

SU2C Dream Team to develop new drug combination to stop spread of breast cancer

At a press conference at McGill University today, Stand Up To Cancer Canada, the Canadian Cancer Society, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research announced the launch of the SU2C Canada Metastatic Breast Cancer Dream Team to pursue the development of a new drug combination that may help stop the spread of breast cancer to other organs of the body.

13 Aug 2019