Archive: 10/07/2015
Polish Senate approves new law on in vitro fertilization
Poland's Senate approved a government bill that provides coherent regulations for in vitro fertilization and makes the procedure also available to unwed couples, part of a larger effort to promote more births in the aging ...
Jul 10, 2015
Cancer patients treated in world-first clinical trial of Canadian viral therapy
Canadian researchers have launched the world's first clinical trial of a novel investigational therapy that uses a combination of two viruses to attack and kill cancer cells, and stimulate an anti-cancer immune response. ...
Jul 10, 2015
Findings identify receptors modulating macrophage responses to spinal cord injury
Macrophages are cellular sentinels in the body, assigned to identify "attacks" from viruses, bacteria, or fungi and sound the alarm when they are present. However, these cells are a "double edged sword" in spinal cord injury, ...
Jul 10, 2015
Obesity drug has no effect on baby birthweights, study finds
Treating obese pregnant women with a diabetes drug does not stop their babies from being born overweight, a study has found.
Jul 10, 2015