Bad breath just used to simply mean poor hygiene or a case of the mornings, but as science has shown there could be more to the chemicals in our breath than what we are accustomed to when we wake up ...
Breakthrough In Gene Therapy Could Treat Blindness
Age-related Macular Degeneration (AGM) is one of the leading causes of vision loss. Due to a whole host of faulty genes, AGM was thought to have no viable treatment. That is until now. A report published today in The Lancet ...
New Nano-Structure Serves Dual Purpose: Diagnose and Treat Cancer
In the movie, “Inner Space” (1987) actor Dennis Quaid was shrunk to microscopic size and entered the body of actor Martin Short with comical consequences. True to form what began was an exciting science fiction journey within the human body ...
AIDS Vaccine Passed Phase 1 Clinical Trial in Humans
Dr. Chil-Yong Kang who developed theSAV001-H vaccine (Credit: Paul Mayne/Western University) Are we finally going to see a successful vaccination against HIV/AIDS? a recent early clinical trial of a new drug by a company called Sumagen had shown some early ...
Anthrax and MRSA Killing Compound Discovered
The team researchers in the lab: Lauren Paul and William Fenical (Credit: Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego) A team of researchers from the University of San Diego stumbled upon a new chemical compound made from an ocean microbe that ...
Super Microchip can Diagnose Infections in Minutes
The new Microchip (Credit: University of Toronto) Researchers from the University of Toronto developed an electronic chip that can analyze blood samples and for signs of infectious bacteria with record-breaking speed. Current lab tests that can identify specific life-threatening bacterial ...
A New Drug for Protecting Fertility During Chemotherapy
The reaserch team at Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer (Credit:Sheba Medical Center) AS101 diagram Israeli researchers developed a treatment that can be administered to women undergoing chemotherapy which can successfully prevent damage to fertility. Researchers from the Sheba Medical ...
Newly Developed Microbots can Help Prevent Blindness
A microrobot to measure the eye’s oxygen supply (Credit: Ergeneman O. et al, IEEE Tran Biomed Eng. 2012) We need Oxygen. All the cells in our body including our lungs and brain but also our retina need oxygen otherwise permanent ...
Growing New Arteries to Bypass Blocked Ones
Prof. Michael-Simons Researchers from the Yale School of Medicine and University College London (UCL) discovered a molecular pathway that can lead to the formation of new arteries after heart attacks, strokes and other acute diseases which can bypass arteries that ...
New Diagnostic Chip Profile Cancer in Minutes vs. Hours
The EPFL microfluidic chip Swiss researchers developed a new silicon chip that can help identify breast cancer patients with high risk of metastasis with exceptionally high level of precision compared to existing techniques. The added bonus – results took several ...
