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Novel delivery system selectively delivers antibiotics to specific targets

Physicists at McMaster University have identified a natural delivery system which can safely carry potent antibiotics throughout the body to selectively attack and kill bacteria by using red blood cells as a vehicle.

1 Nov 2022

Researchers develop special molecules that stimulate the immune system

Surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy are the three main therapies used to treat cancerous tumors. The doctoral research network 'Magicbullet::Reloaded'is investigating another approach, with 15 doctoral researchers developing special molecules that stimulate the immune system to destroy tumor cells. In a video, network members explain how doctoral researchers gain valuable experience and research opportunities as part of the network.

1 Nov 2022

Infants' innateness for tuning in to musical rhythms is intertwined with early social engagement

Engaging infants with a song provides a readymade means for supporting social development and interaction, according to a study published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

31 Oct 2022

Smartphone code blue notification may accelerate response to in-hospital cardiac arrest

Sixty seconds can make or break the outcome of a hospital "code blue" or cardiac arrest response. New research found a hospital code response team rushing to a patient in cardiac arrest may arrive at least one minute quicker and may also lead to better patient outcomes with the use of a smartphone emergency code notification system that activates the team through text messages.

31 Oct 2022

Ubiquigent obtains exclusive license for UbiSite technology to strengthen its specialist drug discovery services

Ubiquigent Limited (Ubiquigent), a drug discovery and development company harnessing novel deubiquitylase (DUB) modulators as new therapeutics for areas of high unmet medical need, has signed an exclusive license with the University of Southern Denmark for its UbiSite® technology.

31 Oct 2022

SpyCatcher-SpyTag technology used to develop recombinant protein-based intranasal vaccine against SARS-CoV-2

The findings of a new study showed that the intranasal SpyCage vaccine platform can be protective against SARS-CoV-2 and may prove to be a versatile and adaptable modality for the formulation of intranasal vaccines that target respiratory pathogens.

31 Oct 2022

New probe design offers promises for many imaging applications in biological and biomedical research

Microendoscopes are the cornerstone of modern medical diagnostics - they allow us to see what we could not even describe two decades ago.

28 Oct 2022

Startup receives federal grant for developing technology to detect and treat stress, anxiety

A high-tech startup that uses game-based interventions to help users identify stress- and anxiety-related events in real time and receive a personalized intervention has been awarded a federal grant to partially develop its technology through research at Purdue University's College of Engineering.

28 Oct 2022

New device could help address racial disparities in hemoglobin and blood oxygen measurements

A team led by a University of Texas at Arlington bioengineering professor and an Austin businessman has published key findings in the British Medical Journal Innovations that illustrate how a new device measures hemoglobin more accurately in individuals with darker skin pigmentations.

28 Oct 2022

First anti-SARS Cov2 monoclonal antibody candidate of SpikImm demonstrates excellent tolerance

SPK001, the first anti-SARS Cov2 monoclonal antibody candidate of SpikImm, a French biotechnology company founded by Truffle Capital, originally discovered by the Institut Pasteur's Human Immunology Laboratory, directed by Dr. Hugo Mouquet (Inserm Joint Research Unit), has been tested on three initial cohorts of healthy volunteers, and has demonstrated excellent tolerance, in the context of the Phase 1 clinical study, recently labeled as a "national priority" by CAPNET (National Steering Committee for Therapeutic Trials and other Research on Covid-19).

28 Oct 2022

Study provides new insights into genetic form of frontotemporal dementia

Dementia encompasses a range of neurodegenerative conditions that lead to memory loss and cognitive deficiencies and affect some 55 million people worldwide.

28 Oct 2022

Researchers discover how hydroquinine inhibits major drug-resistant bacteria

Researchers say hydroquinine could be an effective weapon against a germ that can cause serious infections in humans, mostly hospital patients

28 Oct 2022

Wireless, battery-free pacemaker could make life easier for heart disease patients

Atrial fibrillation – a form of irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia – leads to more than 454,000 hospitalizations and nearly 160,000 deaths in the United States each year. Globally, it is estimated that approximately 60 million people are affected by the condition.

28 Oct 2022

Overall cancer death rates continue to decline in the United States, says Annual Report to the Nation

Overall cancer death rates continued to decline among men, women, children, and adolescents and young adults in every major racial and ethnic group in the United States from 2015 to 2019, according to the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer. From 2014 to 2018, overall cancer incidence, or new cases of cancer, remained stable for men and children but increased for women and adolescents and young adults.

28 Oct 2022

AI models improve the accuracy of diagnosing coronary artery disease

Several recent discoveries show that the accuracy of diagnosing coronary artery disease and predicting patient risk is improved with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) models developed by scientists in the Division of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine at Cedars-Sinai.

28 Oct 2022

Proof-of-principle study: Novel tool advances potential way to deliver gene therapy

Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have successfully used a cell's natural process for making proteins to "slide" genetic instructions into a cell and produce critical proteins missing from those cells.

28 Oct 2022

Researchers unravel the precise mechanism of nuclear envelope repair in human and mouse cells

All living cells harbor nuclei - key biological structures that play an important role in information storage, retrieval, and duplication of genetic information.

28 Oct 2022

Researchers use CRISPR-edited T cells to treat seriously ill children with resistant leukaemia

Researchers at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) and UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UCL GOS ICH) have used CRISPR/Cas9 technology to engineer donor T cells to try to treat seriously ill children with resistant leukaemia, who had otherwise exhausted all available therapies.

27 Oct 2022

An unprecedented list of health-threatening fungi released by the WHO

The WHO fungal priority pathogens list ranks pathogens that pose a serious risk of morbidity and mortality in humans.

27 Oct 2022

RNA-sensing platform could help detect and selectively kill tumors, or edit the genome in specific cells

Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT have developed a system that can detect a particular RNA sequence in live cells and produce a protein of interest in response.

27 Oct 2022

Technology News and Research

Novel delivery system selectively delivers antibiotics to specific targets

Researchers develop special molecules that stimulate the immune system

Infants' innateness for tuning in to musical rhythms is intertwined with early social engagement

Smartphone code blue notification may accelerate response to in-hospital cardiac arrest

Ubiquigent obtains exclusive license for UbiSite technology to strengthen its specialist drug discovery services

SpyCatcher-SpyTag technology used to develop recombinant protein-based intranasal vaccine against SARS-CoV-2

New probe design offers promises for many imaging applications in biological and biomedical research

Startup receives federal grant for developing technology to detect and treat stress, anxiety

New device could help address racial disparities in hemoglobin and blood oxygen measurements

First anti-SARS Cov2 monoclonal antibody candidate of SpikImm demonstrates excellent tolerance

Study provides new insights into genetic form of frontotemporal dementia

Researchers discover how hydroquinine inhibits major drug-resistant bacteria

Wireless, battery-free pacemaker could make life easier for heart disease patients

Overall cancer death rates continue to decline in the United States, says Annual Report to the Nation

AI models improve the accuracy of diagnosing coronary artery disease

Proof-of-principle study: Novel tool advances potential way to deliver gene therapy

Researchers unravel the precise mechanism of nuclear envelope repair in human and mouse cells

Researchers use CRISPR-edited T cells to treat seriously ill children with resistant leukaemia

An unprecedented list of health-threatening fungi released by the WHO

RNA-sensing platform could help detect and selectively kill tumors, or edit the genome in specific cells

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