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Adding A Blend Of Spices To A Meal May Help Lower Inflammation

Adding an array of spices to your meal is a surefire way to make it tastier, but new Penn State research suggests it may increase its health benefits, as well.

22 May 2020

Texas A&M lab produces 3D-bioprinted bone tissues

Dr. Akhilesh K. Gaharwar, associate professor, has developed a highly printable bioink as a platform to generate anatomical-scale functional tissues. This study was recently published in the American Chemical Society's Applied Materials and Interfaces.

20 May 2020

Discovering a Protein that Controls Brain-Blood Vessel Development

AZoLifeSciences speaks to Professor Long Nam Nguyen about his research which led to the discovery of a protein that controls brain-blood vessel development.

From National University of Singapore (NUS) 15 May 2020

New weight loss amphetamine could avoid side effects of older treatments

Researchers developed a new weight loss amphetamine that could potentially avoid the side effects of older treatments.

14 May 2020

Novel tool distinguishes the cause of different types of blood clots

According to a study published in the eLife journal, a novel tool using cutting-edge technology has the ability to differentiate various types of blood clots depending on what caused them.

14 May 2020

Gene therapy builds muscle mass, reduces fat in mice

Exercise and physical therapy often are recommended to help people who have arthritis. Both can strengthen muscle - a benefit that also can reduce joint pain.

12 May 2020

Nanostimulators Boost Stem Cells For Muscle Repair

In medicine, a treatment for patients whose muscles are damaged from lack of oxygen would be to invigorate them with an injection of their own stem cells.

4 May 2020

'Backpacks' Boost Immune Cells' Ability To Kill Cancer

Macrophages are immune cells that patrol the body looking for potential threats like viruses, bacteria, and cancer cells, and engulf and destroy them.

30 Apr 2020

New Staining Technique Visualizes Whole Organs And Bodies

A research team has established an optimized three-dimensional (3D) tissue-staining and observation technique based on existing tissue clearing technology.

28 Apr 2020

Study shows how tumor cells respond to nutrient deficiency

Some solid tumors have a very high growth rate, which often leads to a lack of vascularization due to the impossibility to develop, at the same time, the blood vessels that accompany and nourish it.

22 Apr 2020

Researchers use genome-wide CRISPR technology to identify leukemia's weakness

A team of researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center used CRISPR technology to identify key regulators of aggressive chronic myeloid leukemia, a type of cancer that remains difficult to treat and is marked by frequent relapse.

From UC San Diego 21 Apr 2020

Stem cell strategy can help improve the effectiveness of cardiac repair

Human stem cells have been typically perceived as one of the potential cell sources for cardiac regeneration treatment. However, the substandard performance following transplantation into the failing hearts has limited their applications in clinical use.

30 Mar 2020