Scientists Model Human Stem Cells to Recognize Degeneration in Glaucoma In excess of 3 million Americans have glaucoma, a genuine eye condition causing vision misfortune. Utilizing human immature microorganism models, analysts at Indiana University School of Medicine discovered they could break down shortfalls inside cells harmed by glaucoma, with the
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Turned Into Extra-Ruthless Natural Killer Cells Natural killer cells don’t have to be natural born natural killer cells. In fact, mass produced natural killer cells—that is, natural killer (NK) cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)—can be more persistent, more effective killers, reported scientists based
Three People With Inherited Diseases Successfully Treated With CRISPR Two people with beta thalassaemia and one with sickle cell disease no longer require blood transfusions, which are normally used to treat severe forms of these inherited diseases, after their bone marrow stem cells were gene-edited with CRISPR. Read more...
Researchers Hope CRISPR Gene-Editing Technology Can Yield Rapid At-Home COVID-19 Test Researchers in the U.S. are using the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR to devise a COVID-19 diagnostic test that they say could be quick, cheap and only slightly more complicated than a pregnancy test. Read more...
Scientists Map How Human Retinal Cells Relay Information to Brain To understand how we see the world and how diseases such as age-related macular degeneration and glaucoma impair vision, scientists need to understand how the retina communicates vision signals to the brain. Read more...
COVID-19 Mouse Model Will Speed Search for Drugs, Vaccines The global effort to quickly develop drugs and vaccines for COVID-19 has been hampered by limited numbers of laboratory mice that are susceptible to infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in
MU Advances Chemotherapy-Free Treatment for Cancer in Animals and Humans Osteosarcoma, a common bone cancer in dogs, affects more than 10,000 dogs in the U.S. each year. While chemotherapy is generally effective at killing some of the cancer cells, the numerous side effects can be painful and often a subset
Allergy Telemedicine Effective, but Regulations Must Change Allergists in the United States, who have been slow to adopt telemedicine, have been forced to step up their game in the wake of COVID-19. Read more...
Promising New Treatment for Recurrent Pediatric Brain Cancer Two pediatric brain cancers that are challenging to treat if they recur, medulloblastoma and ependymoma, are the target of a clinical trial using a new type of therapy. A multi-institutional, international team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s
A Secret Experiment Revealed: In a Medical First, Doctors Treat Parkinson’s With a Novel Brain Cell Transplant A month before the scheduled surgery, the four researchers were ready to chaperone the brain cells on their 190-mile journey. They never anticipated they were in for “The Amazing Race”-meets-“ER.” Read more...