For the first time, scientists at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) used advanced imaging technology at the SickKids Nanoscale Biomedical Imaging Facility to reveal the atomic structure of an enzyme that neurons use ...
Jun 21, 2024
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A company that makes tests for lead poisoning has agreed to resolve criminal charges that it concealed for years a malfunction that resulted in inaccurately low results.
Jun 13, 2024
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When we learn something new, our brain cells (neurons) communicate with each other through electrical and chemical signals. If the same group of neurons communicate together often, the connections between them get stronger. ...
Jun 7, 2024
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The harmful combination of abdominal obesity and reduced muscle strength, also known as sarcopenic obesity, is already present in primary school children. This is shown by a new study among eight-year-olds, conducted at Karolinska ...
May 28, 2024
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An international research team, led by Tibor Harkany and Robert Schnell at Karolinska Institutet and MedUni Vienna's Center for Brain Research, set out to find ways of influencing hormone release to reduce stress reactions ...
Apr 23, 2024
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Research presents an advance in drug delivery and tissue implantation assisted by ultrasound, developed by researchers from the Technion Faculty of Biomedical Engineering. The work is published in the journal Small Methods.
Apr 22, 2024
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Abecma (idecabtagene vicleucel) as a personalized CAR T-cell therapy for triple-class exposed relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.
Apr 10, 2024
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A team from Houston Methodist Research Institute recently showed that a nanofluidic implant delivered an HIV drug that achieved more potency than other forms of drug administration (oral) and other HIV drugs.
Mar 26, 2024
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Chimeric antigen receptor T cells—CAR T cells for short—are immune cells (T cells) that are taken from the body and genetically modified outside the body in the laboratory using transport vehicles for the genes to be ...
Mar 22, 2024
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Cytokines are chemical messengers that help the body get rid of invading bacteria and viruses, and control inflammation. The body carefully balances cytokines because they help keep the immune system healthy. However, this ...
Jan 17, 2024
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