(Medical Xpress)—One of the world's top selling drugs potentially also acts against the growth of new lymphatic vessels, with potential implications for cancer therapy. This surprising finding was brought forward by Swiss ...
Sep 4, 2012
0
0
Specifically programmed materials can, under specific conditions, encourage stem cells to transform into bone cells—as revealed by a German research team under the leadership of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Centre ...
Jan 13, 2020
0
91
Clinically effective, custom-made, discreet and comfortable—the demands on aligners for the therapy of malocclusions are high. This also applies to the material of these orthodontic splints. A team at the Fraunhofer Institute ...
Apr 19, 2023
0
27
A clinical trial has established the non-inferiority of a drug-eluting stent with a bioabsorbable polymer compared to a drug-eluting stent with a durable polymer. Results of the EVOLVE clinical trial were presented today ...
Nov 11, 2011
0
0
A new study by researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) shows that linking a tumor-killing prodrug to a macromolecular carrier of the Poloxamer family improves retention of the drug in treatment-resistant ...
Mar 14, 2022
0
276
Combined, complimentary therapies have the ability to maximize the benefits of neural stem cell (NSC) transplantation for spinal cord repair in rat models, according to a study carried out by a team of Korean researchers ...
Apr 17, 2012
0
0
About 2 billion people around the world suffer from deficiencies of key micronutrients such as iron and vitamin A. Two million children die from these deficiencies every year, and people who don't get enough of these nutrients ...
Nov 13, 2019
0
81
Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have mimicked pulmonary edema in a microchip lined by living human cells, as reported today in the journal Science Translational ...
Nov 7, 2012
0
0
UT Arlington engineers working with Army surgeons are developing a pliable, polymer mask embedded with electrical, mechanical and biological components that can speed healing from disfiguring facial burns and help rebuild ...
Jan 25, 2012
0
0
The bronchial airways, a network of tubes that delivers air to the lungs, are enwrapped by strings of muscle called the airway smooth muscle. Nobody knows what physiological function these muscles serve, but the general consensus ...
Mar 14, 2019
0
43
