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LSTM partners with TB Alliance to develop novel TB drug regimens

LSTM and TB Alliance are collaborating to investigate novel combination drug therapies that could help the fight against multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), following an award of £1 million from the Medical Research Council.

19 Sep 2018

UGR to coordinate the European H2020 project focused on Smart Personalized Nutrition

The University of Granada will coordinate the European H2020 project "Smart Technologies for personAlised Nutrition and Consumer Engagement", a landmark initiative that was recently approved for €6.5 million in funding by the European Commission.

19 Sep 2018

New research on sperm quality updates advice for couples trying to conceive

Could doctors at fertility clinics be giving men bad advice? Dr. Da Li and Dr. XiuXia Wang, who are clinician-researchers at the Center for Reproductive Medicine of Shengjing Hospital in Shenyang in northeast China, think so.

17 Sep 2018

New research aims to engineer neural network from living cells

Will the computers of tomorrow be manufactured, or will they be cultivated? This question lies at the heart of new research from Lehigh University that aims to engineer a neural network--a computer system modeled on the human brain and nervous system--from actual living cells, and program it to compute a basic learning task.

14 Sep 2018

New research sheds light on the causes of diabetes

The main cause of all forms of diabetes is pancreatic beta-cell dysfunction. Beta cells, found in the pancreatic islets, store and release insulin.

14 Sep 2018

New night vision mechanism related to motion detected

When lights are dim or absent, animals tend to use their night vision to adjust to the low light and visualize their path and their prey. They need this to escape predators and protecting themselves. The little amounts of photons available are picked up by the eyes to detect what lies in front of them.

14 Sep 2018

Pear-shaped body is healthier than apple shape

Whether we like it or not, everyone accumulates fat. For women, it usually accumulates around the hips, resulting in a pear-shaped look. In men, fat tends to build up around the abdomen, creating an apple shape.

13 Sep 2018

Delayed childbearing plays role in increasing number of multiple births

Starting in the 1980s, the number of multiple births -- twins, triplets, quadruplets and quintuplets -- steadily increased from about 20 sets per 1,000 live births to almost 35 sets per 1,000 live births in the 2010s.

12 Sep 2018

New research on molecular mechanistic understanding of drug delivery and drug delivery systems

Today, Insilico Medicine, Inc., a Rockville-based next-generation artificial intelligence company specializing in the application of deep learning for target identification, drug discovery and aging research announces the publication of a new research paper "Entangled Conditional Adversarial Autoencoder for de-novo Drug Discovery" in Molecular Pharmaceutics, the leading American Chemical Society journal covering research on the molecular mechanistic understanding of drug delivery and drug delivery systems

12 Sep 2018

Researchers grow stem cell-derived lung organoids that model human lung development

Researchers have now grown lung organoids from human embryonic stem cells that, after implantation in mice, can develop mature alveolar type 1 (AT1) and AT2 cells and architecture approximating that of human lungs.

11 Sep 2018

New microfluidic device quickly corrals strong and speedy sperm viable for fertilization

For couples hoping for a baby via in vitro fertilization, chances have improved. A process that once took hours now takes minutes: Cornell University scientists have created a microfluidic device that quickly corrals strong and speedy sperm viable for fertilization.

10 Sep 2018

BioIVT announces research into mechanisms involved in cholestatic drug-induced liver injury

BioIVT, a leading provider of research models and services for drug development, today announced its research into the mechanisms involved in cholestatic drug-induced liver injury has been published in Applied In Vitro Toxicology.

10 Sep 2018

Meet Axol Bioscience at 2018 Cambridge International Stem Cell Symposium

We are very pleased to support the 6th Cambridge International Stem Cell Symposium from 19 - 21 September. The annual event held by the University of Cambridge will bring together more than 400 delegates, from students to professors, to discuss the biggest fundamental and translational questions as well as celebrate the great advances being made in stem cell biology all around the world.

From Axol Bioscience Ltd 7 Sep 2018

Researchers develop rapid, cost-effective method to create human cortical organoids

Writing in the current online issue of the journal Stem Cells and Development, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine describe development of a rapid, cost-effective method to create human cortical organoids directly from primary cells.

7 Sep 2018

UNC and Cell Microsystems receive NIH Phase I SBIR contract to develop HIV diagnostic assay

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill HIV Cure Center and Cell Microsystems, a provider of innovative tools and scalable solutions for the sorting and isolation of single cells, announced they have received an approximately $283,000, 12-month Phase I Small Business Innovation and Research contract from the National Institutes of Health to develop an automated platform to quantify the latent HIV reservoir.

7 Sep 2018

Lymph node structural cells exert control over T cell responses

Until now, the study of the immune system has focused almost exclusively on white blood cells, and T cells in particular, as the body’s major infection fighters.

6 Sep 2018

Research uncovers new mechanism involved in bone formation

Osteoporosis is a disease that causes bones to fracture easily due to a reduction in both bone mass and quality. Aging is one of its leading causes, and it is estimated that around 200 million people are affected worldwide.

5 Sep 2018

Image Cytometry Technology and Tissue Analysis

Image cytometry or tissue cytometry, not only measures the size, diameter and shape of a cell, but quantifies the molecular marker expression.

From TissueGnostics 4 Sep 2018

Researchers discover key aspect in pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis

A team of researchers the University of Zurich and the University Hospital Zurich has shown that in multiple sclerosis, it is not only specific T cells that cause inflammation and lesions in the brain.

4 Sep 2018

Children conceived using ART methods may have increased hypertension risk

Children conceived through assisted reproductive technologies may be at an increased risk of developing arterial hypertension early in life, among other cardiovascular complications, according to a Swiss study published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

3 Sep 2018