Category: Healthcare & Life Sciences

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Discovery of New System for Genome Editing to Dramatically Improve Genetic Engineering

– It is of no doubt that the recent advancements of the CRISPR/Cas9 genome-editing technique has...
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The Evasive Agents: How Drug-delivering Nanoparticles Avoid the Immune System

– The use of artificially-designed and synthesized nanoparticles as drug delivery vehicles into the human body...
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The New Herbalism: Synthetic Biology Provides Alternative Sources for Herbal Extracts

– Throughout human history, there has been an extensive reliance on herbs (and their extracts) as...
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US Government Announces Proposal to Revise Current Regulations Related to Human-Subjects Research

– On 8th of September, the Federal Register published a notice jointly made by 14 US...
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Flu Vaccine: The End of Gambling with Nature?

– With the last bit of thunderstorm warning retreats into Lake Michigan, the hot and humid...
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Navigating Sensitive Soft Tissues Using Robotically Steered Flexible Needles

– UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE, ENSCHEDE, NETHERLANDS. Robotically steering flexible needles have been produced to reach tissues...
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Hot Chili Peppers: A Possible New Cure for Obesity

– UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE, ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA. The intake of hot chili has been shown to...
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Nutrigenomics: Eat According to your Genes

– Nutrigenomics is the study that deals with the effects of specific nutrients on gene expression....
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A Breakthrough Drug in the Treatment of Malaria

– Malaria is a parasitic condition caused by the Plasmodium falciparum parasite and remains one of...
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Marker-Free Isolation of Circulating Tumor Cells from Blood of Patients

– Metastasis occurs when cancerous cells spread from the primary tumor site to invade distant organs...
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“Bacterial Ghost” as a Novel Vaccine Designing Method

– Since Edward Jenner made the cowpox vaccine more than 200 years ago, researchers have been...
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Synthetic Blood Gives Hope for Better and Faster Treatments: First Clinical Trials to Begin in 2017

– Red blood cells (RBCs) represent one of the key components of our blood. They transport...
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Giving New Agility to Needlescopic Surgery with a Tiny Mechanical Wrist

– VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, Tennessee, USA. A tiny mechanical wrist is providing a new level of dexterity...
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Decisions in Medicine: How Data Science is Revolutionizing Health Care

– Many of us who have read ‘Freakonomics’ by Levitt and Dubner (or seen the film),...
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Anticancer Drugs from Bee Venom

– Bee venom has been used in traditional medicine for hundreds of years for the treatment...
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Transgenic Chickens Could Prevent Spread of Bird Flu and Curb Pandemic Risk

– This year, avian influenza (AI) has spread like wildfire across thousands of poultry farms, infecting...
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Biomaterials for Hip Replacement Prostheses

– Total joint replacement (TJR), as we know it today, came into existence in the 1960’s...
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Bird Flu Prevention: Can a Nanoparticle-Based Vaccine be the Answer?

– The highly pathogenic avian influenza (AI) virus has raised the concern of researchers this past...
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Innovative Safety Ergoskeleton for Material Handlers

– With the motivation of curbing the persistent problem of injuries in the material handling industry,...
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New Drug Targets for Ebola Virus Disease Treatment

– A German-American research team has succeeded in adding another crucial detail of how the fatal...

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