COVID-19 Vaccine Trials to be Conducted at Saint Louis University, Washington University As U.S. scientists ramp up a national effort to evaluate COVID-19 vaccine candidates at clinical trial sites across the country, researchers at the Saint Louis University Center for Vaccine Development and Washington University School of Medicine in St.
Beams of Light to Treat Diabetes: UMKC Invention Gets Federal Funding Boost The University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Pharmacy has been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue work on an important advancement to help treat the tens of millions of people
How Targeting Killer T Cells in the Lungs Could Lead to Immunity Against Respiratory Viruses How targeting killer T cells in the lungs could lead to immunity against respiratory viruses. Watch YouTube video from Salk Institute...
Research Team Develops Technology to Improve Effectiveness of Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine Stem cells have been holding great promise for regenerative medicine for years. In the last decade, several studies have shown that this type of cell, which in Spanish is called "mother cell" because of its ability to
Scientists Make Precise Gene Edits to Mitochondrial DNA for First Time A peculiar bacterial enzyme has allowed researchers to achieve what even the popular CRISPR–Cas9 genome-editing system couldn’t manage: targeted changes to the genomes of mitochondria, cells’ crucial energy-producing structures. Read more...
Putting ‘Super’ in Natural Killer Cells Deleting an inhibitory gene in natural killer cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells is found to boost their anti-tumor activity and persistence; researchers now seek to develop a clinical therapy. Read more...
First Coronavirus Vaccine Tested in Humans Shows Early Promise The vaccine, developed by government scientists and Moderna, a biotech company, appeared safe and provoked an immune response in 45 people in a study. Read more...
Researchers Create Unique DNA Biosensor for Early Stage Disease Detection Disease detection at an early stage is one of the biggest challenges biochemists and materials scientists are trying to meet by combining their expertise at Missouri S&T. The researchers used nanotechnology in biomedical diagnostics – a process called nanodiagnostics –
Unique Cells Found in Lung Cancer Patients may Predict Survival Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the U.S. Most who are diagnosed with lung cancer do not survive five years. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most common type, where tumor cells shed from the
Effort to Screen Potential COVID-19 Antiviral Drugs Underway Six months into the pandemic, people diagnosed with mild cases of COVID-19 still are told to isolate themselves and wait out the infection at home. Doctors monitor such patients so they can intervene if their condition deteriorates, but no antiviral drugs have