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Nanoparticle-Based COVID-19 Vaccine Could Target Future Infectious Diseases
Chad Mirkin | Via Northwestern University | March 23, 2022Just one dose of a new nanoparticle-based COVID-19 vaccine was enough to produce an immune response in animals on track with vaccines currently in clinical use. And with minor changes, Northwestern University investigators hope the same vaccine platform could target other infectious diseases. In a new study, published in PNAS, 100 percent of mice who […]
America’s Top Kidney Professionals Receive Excellence Medals
Shuvo Roy | Via Cision US | March 22, 2022The American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP), America’s oldest and largest independent kidney patient advocacy organization, announced the recipients of its 2022 Medal of Excellence today. The awards, presented by kidney patient consumers, is one of the nation’s highest honors for kidney healthcare professionals and elevates local, national, and international figures who have been at […]
Sequencing of drug combinations could amplify the anti-tumor immune response in liver cancer
Dan Duda | Via Mass General Hospital | March 15, 2022A new therapeutic strategy for hepatocellular cancer (HCC) that initially primes the tumor with an immune checkpoint inhibitor before using a multikinase inhibitor drug showed great promise for treating patients with the deadly disease, a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) study found. In a paper published in Journal of the National Cancer Institute, researchers reported that […]
Mammography can offer clues to a woman’s heart health
Sabee Molloi | Via Kaiser Permanente | March 15, 2022Screening mammography is used to look for early indicators of breast cancer. But a new collaborative study between Kaiser Permanente and University of California, Irvine (UCI) shows mammograms can also help determine a woman’s risk of having a heart attack or stroke or developing cardiovascular disease. “Our findings add to the body of evidence that […]
Chad Mirkin wins UNESCO international prize for life sciences
Chad Mirkin | Via International Institute for Nanotechnology | March 14, 2022The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has named Northwestern University’s Chad A. Mirkin as a winner of the 2022 UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences. Mirkin is only the second American to win this international prize, which recognizes individuals who have made significant efforts through scientific research towards […]
Study: Sound can stimulate blind retina to transmit signals to the brain
Qifa Zhou | Via Ophthalmology Times | March 11, 2022Retinal degenerative diseases that are caused by progressive degeneration of the light-sensitive photoreceptors in the retina reman among the major causes of vision loss and blindness, affecting tens of millions of people worldwide. Although the rods and cones which are the light-sensitive cells of the retina have completely degenerated, the neural circuitries connected to the […]
Study: Sound can stimulate blind retina to transmit signals to the brain
Mark Humayun | Via Ophthalmology Times | March 11, 2022Retinal degenerative diseases that are caused by progressive degeneration of the light-sensitive photoreceptors in the retina reman among the major causes of vision loss and blindness, affecting tens of millions of people worldwide. Although the rods and cones which are the light-sensitive cells of the retina have completely degenerated, the neural circuitries connected to the […]
New spherical nucleic acid ‘drug’ kills tumor cells in humans with glioblastoma
Chad Mirkin | Via International Institute for Nanotechnology | March 10, 2022An early clinical trial in individuals with the deadly brain cancer, glioblastoma, showed an experimental spherical nucleic acid (SNA) drug developed by Northwestern University scientists was able to penetrate the blood-brain barrier and trigger the death of tumor cells. This is the first time a nanotherapeutic has been shown to cross the blood-brain barrier when […]
Remembering Michael Buschmann
Michael Buschmann | Via George Mason University | March 7, 2022George Mason University’s Michael Buschmann is being remembered by friends and colleagues as a brilliant mind and translational researcher with a gentle spirit and a burning love for jazz. Buschmann, who died at his home last week, had been an Eminent Scholar and the chair of the Bioengineering Department within Mason’s College of Engineering and […]
Nanotechnology helps soybean growers and the environment
Cristina Sabliov | Via Phys.org | March 4, 2022Louisiana farmers rely on herbicides, pesticides and fungicides to protect their crops against weeds, insects and diseases. Even though most farmers try to be good stewards of the environment, some of those chemicals inevitably end up in waterways, or elsewhere, instead of benefiting the plants. To address this problem, LSU Professor Cristina Sabliov is working […]
Disentangling interactions across brain areas
Byron Yu | Via Carnegie Mellon University | March 2, 2022Exploring how brain areas communicate with each other is the focus of a long-standing research collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Champalimaud Research. The cross-continental team is simultaneously recording populations of neurons across multiple brain areas in the visual system and utilizing novel statistical methods to observe neural activity patterns […]
AI and machine learning could improve cancer diagnosis through biomarker discovery
Debiao Li | Via News-Medical.Net | March 1, 2022Artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning (DL), and machine learning (ML) have transformed many industries and areas of science. Now, these tools are being applied to address the challenges of cancer biomarker discovery, where the analysis of vast amounts of imaging and molecular data is beyond the ability of traditional statistical analyses and tools. In a […]
Rochester researchers seek ‘direct hit’ on leukemic stem cells
Danielle Benoit | Via University of Rochester | February 25, 2022Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a particularly aggressive disease that develops when cells in the bone marrow turn into cancerous blood cells. Even when chemotherapy or other treatments kill leukemic cells circulating in the blood, the cancerous stem cells can linger in the bone marrow, enabling the disease to re-emerge. With support of internal seed […]
Disabling partners in crime: Gold nanoparticles disrupt multicellular communications within the tumor microenvironment to inhibit ovarian tumor aggressiveness
Priyabrata Mukherjee | Via Science Direct | February 23, 2022The tumor microenvironment (TME) plays a key role in the poor prognosis of many cancers. However, there is a knowledge gap concerning how multicellular communication among the critical players within the TME contributes to such poor outcomes. Using epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) as a model, we show how crosstalk among cancer cells (CC), cancer associated […]
Finding New Options for Sickle Cell Disease Pain
Bin He | Via NIH HEAL Initiative | February 23, 2022One of the hallmark symptoms of sickle cell disease is severe pain that often occurs in intense bouts called crises that can be triggered by dehydration, cold or warm temperatures, or certain foods. These episodes begin in infancy or early childhood and can persist throughout life. A pain crisis can send a person to the […]
Researchers identify a promising drug for treating serious COVID-19 complication in children
David Walt | Via EurekAlert | February 23, 2022Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have identified a promising drug candidate for the treatment of multi-inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), they report in Clinical Care Explorations. MIS-C is a rare but severe and potentially life-threatening condition that usually develops in children weeks to months after they have experienced […]
Guilak elected into National Academy of Engineering
Farshid Guilak | Via Washington University in St. Louis | February 21, 2022Farshid Guilak, PhD, the Mildred B. Simon Research Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and co-director of the Washington University Center for Regenerative Medicine, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Guilak was honored for his research involving the treatment of arthritic joints. His work has focused on uncovering factors that contribute to […]
Dr. Fabrisia Ambrosio Elected to the 2022 Class of the AIMBE College of Fellows
Dr. Fabrisia Ambrosio | Via AIMBE | February 18, 2022WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the election of Fabrisia Ambrosio, Ph.D., MPT, Associate Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, University of Pittsburgh to its College of Fellows. Dr. Ambrosio was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the AIMBE College of Fellows for outstanding contributions […]
Dr. Donald Anderson Elected to the 2022 Class of the AIMBE College of Fellows
Dr. Donald Anderson | Via AIMBE | February 18, 2022WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the election of Donald D. Anderson, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, University of Iowa to its College of Fellows. Dr. Anderson was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the AIMBE College of Fellows for outstanding contributions […]