Pharmaceutical Preparations: News and Research on Drugs, Investigational

MeSH tree: D26.371

Lab-grown brain organoids power biocomputers

A feature story authored by Simon Spichak, MSc investigates how biotech companies like Cortical Labs and FinalSpark harness human brain cells to electrodes, performing computational functions and testing the cells' responses ...

When promising cures collapse before they reach patients

Hospitals filled to capacity. Case counts climbing by the hour. Quarantine became routine. It was the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The world needed a vaccine that didn't exist, and there was no clear timeline for one. ...

Ebola death toll in Uganda climbs to nine

The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in Uganda has risen to nine, the health ministry said Friday, two weeks after the authorities announced an epidemic in the centre of the country.

Ebola deaths in Uganda climb to seven

The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in Uganda has risen to seven, the health ministry said Friday, after President Yoweri Museveni ruled out a lockdown to contain the highly contagious virus.