Trending News
News
News
Combination Gene Therapy Could Treat Multiple Age-related Diseases
New research from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School (HMS) suggests that it may be possible someday to tend to multiple ailments with one treatment.
News
Sleeping Beauty Awakens to a Makeover and a Job in Genome Engineering
In a new study, scientists from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, the Universitätsklinikum Würzburg and the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut have designed a novel variant of the Sleeping Beauty transposase, enabling its direct use for genome modifications.
News
Scientists Can Now Print 3D Living Skin With Blood Vessels
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a way to 3D print living skin, complete with blood vessels.
News
Immune System's Memory Wiped by Measles
Researchers have shown how measles can cause long-term damage to the immune system, leaving people vulnerable to other infections.
News
Preclinical Study of Gene Therapy for Epilepsy Shows Long-term Suppression of Seizures
Teams of researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Medical University of Innsbruck have developed a new therapeutic concept for the treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy.
News
Making Strides Towards Gene Therapy for Inherited Neurometabolic Diseases
Researchers are making great strides toward developing gene-based strategies to treat a variety of inherited neurometabolic diseases characterized by severe neurological involvement.
News
Scientists Discover an Unlikely Source of Antioxidants – Tree Bark
A new study from the IKBFU laboratory suggests that alder bark may become a novel source of anti-aging and anti-disease natural antioxidants.
News
Antibody Discovery Could Lead to Better Influenza Treatments and Vaccines
A newly identified set of three antibodies could lead to improved treatments and vaccines against influenza, according to new research published this week.
News
Vaccine for Lassa Fever Set To Be Trialed
There is currently no approved vaccine for the Lassa arenavirus, which causes Lassa fever. This hemorrhagic fever, endemic in West Africa, infects up to 300,000 people each year. Now, researchers have identified a promising vaccine that is set to enter clinical testing in humans as soon.
News
Global Eradication of Wild Poliovirus Type 3 Declared on World Polio Day
In an historic announcement on World Polio Day, an independent commission of experts concluded that wild poliovirus type 3 (WPV3) has been eradicated worldwide. Following the eradication of smallpox and wild poliovirus type 2, this news represents a historic achievement for humanity.
Advertisement