Researchers have invented a cheap, portable, microchip-based test for diagnosing type-1 diabetes that could speed up diagnosis and enable studies of how the disease develops. An inexpensive,... Read more
Scientists believe they can develop drugs which will stop organs failing meaning a transplant isn’t necessary A scientific breakthrough into the way human tissue is left scarred could... Read more
Scientists have moved closer to developing a universal flu vaccine by using the 2009 pandemic to study why some people seem to resist severe illness. Researchers at Imperial College London a... Read more
Usher Syndrome is the leading cause of combined deafness and blindness in the world, affecting one of every 6,000 babies born. The genetic defect is even higher in Acadian people here in Lou... Read more
“We find that combining the hormones as a single molecule dramatically enhanced their efficacy and their safety” Scientists at Indiana University and international collaborators... Read more
This approach promises potential in prevention, as well as in cases where the disease has already set in Pathological changes typical of Alzheimer’s disease were significantly reduced in mic... Read more
New research conducted by neuroscientists from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) published in Nature Medicine has identified a new gene involved in epilepsy and could potential... Read more
Enabling the destruction of the most highly proliferative tumors Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center ha... Read more
Light is a “promising” tool in the fight against cancer, say researchers in the US. A study, published in Nature Medicine, showed how a drug could be created which sticks... Read more
This achievement opens up an exciting new area of research with the potential to bring about a huge breakthrough in regenerative medicine Human colon stem cells have been identified and grow... Read more
Extremely sensitive nanosensor chips are being developed by Stanford University researchers in an attempt to detect the early signs of cancer, called biomarkers, in humans. The researchers s... Read more