Treatment successfully delivers drug across the blood-brain barrier directly to brain tumor in mice Glioblastoma currently has no cure. New treatments urgently needed Powerful drug is 1,400... Read more
New technology may be applicable to other autoimmune diseases and allergies Results of a new phase 2 clinical trial using technology developed at Northwestern Medicine show it is possible to... Read more
Memory in older adults restored to young adult level Stimulating a precise location of the brain’s memory center with electromagnetic pulses improves the memory of older adults with age-rela... Read more
Smaller than an M&M and thinner than a credit card, device can optimize treatment of neonatal jaundice, skin diseases, seasonal affective disorder and reduce risk of sunburns and skin ca... Read more
Cancer’s most deadly assassin exists in every cell A kill code is embedded in every cell in the body whose function may be to cause the self-destruction of cells that become cancerous,... Read more
Normal scar tissue forms to heal an internal wound and quietly retreats when the job is done. But in many common diseases — kidney, liver and lung fibrosis — the scar tissue goes rogue and s... Read more
Scientists are bringing precision medicine to rheumatoid arthritis for the first time by using genetic profiling of joint tissue to see which drugs will work for which patients, reports a ne... Read more
Time traveling hundreds of millions of years to unleash one of nature’s original kill switches Small RNA molecules originally developed as a tool to study gene function trigger a mechanism h... Read more
Test identifies nine blood markers tied to depression; predicts who will benefit from therapy The first blood test to diagnose major depression in adults has been developed by Northwestern M... Read more
Discovery may help treat memory disorders resulting from stroke, Alzheimer’s and brain injury Stimulating a particular region in the brain via non-invasive delivery of electrical current usi... Read more
When a foreign material like a medical device or surgical implant is put inside the human body, the body always responds. According to Northwestern’s Guillermo Ameer, most of the time, that... Read more
Intravaginal ring providing dual protection is first of its kind to enter a clinical trial Women’s reproductive health may never be the same, thanks to Northwestern University biomedical eng... Read more
First therapy to target damage after heart attack could transform field After a heart attack, much of the damage to the heart muscle is caused by inflammatory cells that rush to the scene of... Read more
