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Researchers to investigate how viral proteins contribute to influenza spread

Influenza viruses have an enormous impact in the U.S., with an estimated 25 million illnesses and 18,000 deaths in the 2022-23 flu season alone.

20 Mar 2023

How do fingerprints develop?

A fingerprint is both complex and unique, and that is why it has fascinated scientists for so long. New research reveals the details relating to their formation and how their characteristic variability is achieved during embryonic development.

15 Mar 2023

Breakthrough drug works against all the main types of primary bone cancer

Researchers at the University of East Anglia have developed a new drug that works against all of the main types of primary bone cancer.

8 Mar 2023

Study identifies genetic variants influencing human fertility

Fertility is influenced by mechanisms that influence both reproductive biology and human behavior, according to the largest study to date identifying genetic determinants of the number of children an individual may have.

6 Mar 2023

New way to carry drugs across the blood-brain barrier using nanoparticles

Brain tumors are notoriously hard to treat. One reason is the challenge posed by the blood-brain barrier, a network of blood vessels and tissue with closely spaced cells.

3 Mar 2023

Using sweat to diagnosis disease: soft microfluidic analysis systems assess health status

Researchers explored microfluidic systems with a skin interface in assessing chemical exposure and health status.

27 Feb 2023

More than half of the patients experience long-term aftereffects of COVID-19

Various long-term effects have been found to occur after infection by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), and the reality of these lingering symptoms remains unknown.

24 Feb 2023

Scientists identify mechanisms underlying autoimmunity in Down syndrome

Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York have identified which parts of the immune system go awry and contribute to autoimmune diseases in individuals with Down syndrome.

22 Feb 2023

‘The country is watching’: California homeless crisis looms as Gov. Newsom eyes political future

Driving through the industrial outskirts of Sacramento, a stretch of warehouses, wholesale suppliers, truck centers, and auto repair shops northeast of downtown, it's hard to square California's $18 billion investment in homeless services with the roadside misery.

9 Feb 2023

Can hair cortisol serve as a biomarker for mood in bipolar disorder?

Researchers assessed the role of cortisol levels in human hair as a biomarker in bipolar disorder.

7 Feb 2023

Cochlear avatars provide a platform for deciphering the mechanisms of sensorineural hearing loss

Disabling hearing loss affects one in every ten people and up to 25% of people over 60, according to the World Health Organization, and can have both genetic and environmental causes such as infections and noise exposure.

1 Feb 2023

EPA announces $30,000 grant to TTUHSC El Paso for the Farmworkers Pesticide Use Protection Project

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a grant of $30,000 to Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso for the Farmworkers Pesticide Use Protection Project.

27 Jan 2023

Study finds link between physical activity levels and susceptibility to upper respiratory tract infections in children

Higher levels of daily physical activity are associated with reduced susceptibility to upper respiratory tract infections such as the common cold, suggests a study of 104 Polish children published in Pediatric Research.

24 Jan 2023

Ingenza collaborates with Amplifica to advance novel alopecia treatments

Industrial biotech specialist Ingenza is delighted to announce that it is collaborating with clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company Amplifica Holdings Group, Inc. to develop an innovative treatment to address androgenic alopecia.

From Ingenza Ltd 23 Jan 2023

Long-term, COVID-19-related smell loss could be treated using injections of platelet-rich plasma

Early in the pandemic, when people with COVID-19 began reporting that they lost their sense of smell, Zara Patel, MD, figured as much. A professor of otolaryngology at Stanford Medicine, Patel has, for years, studied loss of smell as a symptom of viral infections.

19 Jan 2023

Hair News and Research

Researchers to investigate how viral proteins contribute to influenza spread

How do fingerprints develop?

Breakthrough drug works against all the main types of primary bone cancer

Study identifies genetic variants influencing human fertility

New way to carry drugs across the blood-brain barrier using nanoparticles

Using sweat to diagnosis disease: soft microfluidic analysis systems assess health status

More than half of the patients experience long-term aftereffects of COVID-19

Scientists identify mechanisms underlying autoimmunity in Down syndrome

‘The country is watching’: California homeless crisis looms as Gov. Newsom eyes political future

Can hair cortisol serve as a biomarker for mood in bipolar disorder?

Cochlear avatars provide a platform for deciphering the mechanisms of sensorineural hearing loss

EPA announces $30,000 grant to TTUHSC El Paso for the Farmworkers Pesticide Use Protection Project

Study finds link between physical activity levels and susceptibility to upper respiratory tract infections in children

Ingenza collaborates with Amplifica to advance novel alopecia treatments

Long-term, COVID-19-related smell loss could be treated using injections of platelet-rich plasma

COVID-19 is changing behaviors related to how people are exposed to household chemicals

Hair follicle transplants can rejuvenate scars, study finds

Vitamin D can help the immune system fight tuberculosis, study says

Comparison of genetic codes reveals how humans and other mammals lost their hair

Cilia act as sensors to establish body left-right asymmetry during embryogenesis

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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