Many challenges must still be overcome before computational medicine becomes a routine part of patient care Computational medicine, a fast-growing method of using computer models and sophist... Read more
Weill Cornell Researchers Develop Novel Anti-Body Vaccine that Blocks Addictive Nicotine Chemicals from Reaching the Brain Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have developed and suc... Read more
Limits the development of tumours and causes the self-destruction of tumour cells The combination of two inhibitors of protein mTOR stops the growth of primary liver cancer and destroys tumo... Read more
Boosts Sociability, Quells Repetitiveness National Institutes of Health researchers have reversed behaviors in mice resembling two of the three core symptoms of autism spectrum disorders (AS... Read more
“Dramatic improvement in the motor function” A new treatment helped rabbits born with cerebral palsy to regain near-normal mobility, offering hope of a potential breakthrough in... Read more
BIND-014 is the first targeted and programmed nanomedicine to enter human clinical studies A team of scientists, engineers and physicians from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Dana-... Read more
Two doses of gene therapy restore vision to three women who were born nearly blind Gene therapy has markedly improved vision in both eyes in three women who were born virtually blind. The pa... Read more
LOOKING for needles in haystacks is boring. But computers do not get bored. Contracting out to machines the tedious business of assessing the dangerousness of cancer cells in histological mi... Read more
The search for ways to prevent or treat Alzheimer’s disease has been stymied in part by difficulties in reliably delivering therapeutics into the brain to prevent proteins there from d... Read more
Physicians are using smart phones to diagnose diseases, check blood cell counts and identify pathogens in drinking water. Many people already use their smartphones as far more than mere tel... Read more