Who doesn’t like to bask in the sun during the harshness of the winters and getting a lovely tan during the summers! However, with the latest research published by the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, sunlight has a direct effect on the breakdown of medicines in the human body!
Researchers have been long trying to figure out the basics of the very feeling of fear. Now, researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered that stimulation of a distinct brain circuit that lies within a brain structure generally linked with fearfulness produces the opposite effect: Its activity, instead of triggering or increasing [...]
For the first time in history, scientists have actually achieved to do the unthinkable! Giving proof of the actual advancement of science, researchers at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have announced that they have reached an all time new advance in tissue engineering. In a first in the [...]
Every vaccine scientist wants to discover just one thing – how to stimulate immunity that lasts for a lifetime! There are many live vaccines, such as the ones for smallpox and yellow fever that are able to stimulate immunity against the disease that lasts for many decades. However, in spite of the success of such [...]
While it might seem unbelievable, MIT engineers have announced that they have managed to design a new type of nanoparticles that could effectively and safely deliver vaccines for diseases such as malaria and HIV. HIV is known to be one of the biggest killers in the world and till now no one has been able [...]
In a breakthrough in neonatal technology, research has proved that the heart muscles of a newborn baby have the ability to grow back on its own. This promising discovery was revealed by researchers at the UT Southwestern Medical Center, who discovered that the mammalian newborn heart can heal itself completely.
New research from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) has proven that there are very specific changes in the genetic makeup of people suffering from cancer and those who don’t have cancer. The researchers from VBI have developed a new technology that catches these genetic changes, which help in differentiating cancer patients from healthy individuals. The [...]
BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics Inc., a major manufacturer of adult stem cell technologies and therapeutics, has recently announced how with the use of its NurOwn™ technology platform, it has developed a way in which intramuscular transplantation of autologous, astrocyte-like cells that manufacture and secrete neurotrophic factors (NTFs), preserved motor function, preserved the myelinated motor axons in [...]
It looks as if user fees really are in the offing for generic drugs. After generics makers said last week that they’re supporting the idea as a way to speed approvals of their products, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg backed it, too. Revamping the current approvals process is “critical,” she said, because agency funding won’t provide [...]
Fast Company has surveyed the biotech world and come up with its list of the Top 10 companies in the industry. Amyris makes the list for its work combating the malaria parasite, while Galapagos and Fate Therapeutics get nods for pipeline innovation.
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