Wireless pain management for drug-resistant conditions offers promising alternative to surgery, study finds
Using a 1-millimeter-sized wireless implant to stimulate peripheral nerves from within blood vessels has the potential to treat neuropathic pain resistant to medical therapy, according to a team of multi-institutional researchers including Sunil A....
Drawing on experience to achieve IVDR certification
Sponsored Content by TecanMar 31 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith
The announcement of the In Vitro Diagnostics Regulation (IVDR) was celebrated as an essential upgrade to in vitro diagnostic (IVD) device regulations in Europe. As the...
Shehnaaz Suliman, MD, MPhil, Discusses Targeted Respiratory Therapies on “Close to the Edge”
Suliman pivoted to investment banking about two decades ago, earning an MBA at Oxford University, then holding positions at Lehman Brothers and later Petkevich & Partners. A few years later, she embarked on a...
Anticancer Candidate Relieves Beta Cell Overload, Reverses Diabetes in Mice
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified an experimental antidiabetic compound that can protect pancreatic ß cells from “overloading” under the metabolic stresses of diabetes, and so prevent high blood glucose and the...
Common coronavirus infections don’t generate antibodies that effectively cross-react with SARS-CoV-2
Although SARS-CoV-2 has taken the world by storm, it's not the only coronavirus that can infect humans. But unlike SARS-CoV-2, common human coronaviruses (HCoVs) generally cause only mild disease. Now, researchers reporting in ACS...
Dressing up RNA molecules to last
A new study led by Luísa Figueiredo, group leader at the Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes (iMM; Portugal) and published today in the prestigious scientific journal Nature describes a new mechanism that...
Syn Bio Companies Put the Earth into Focus
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While some synthetic biology...
Study investigates whether coinfection with multiple SARS-CoV-2 variants exists in COVID-19 patients
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the latest of several pathogenic zoonotic coronaviruses to spread among humans, causing severe respiratory disease with long-term sequelae. A new study shows that multiple variants...
Dx&Vx, Hanyang Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology to co-develop new drugs – KBR
Dx&Vx signed a memorandum of understanding on industry-university-research cooperation with the Hanyang Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (HY-IBB) on Tuesday.
Dx&Vx CEO Park Sang-tae (left) and Hanyang Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology President Bae...
Cellular Housekeeping Process May Protect against Atherosclerosis
The results of research headed by a team at Albert Einstein College of Medicine suggest that revving up a cellular housekeeping process that slows down as we age may protect against atherosclerosis. Ana Maria Cuervo,...
