Caution: Drug Discount Cards Could Actually Make Medicine Cost More
New research published today (November 11, 2019) in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) reveals that brand-name drug discount cards are leading to higher health…
Medicine
New Medical Treatments Possible With “Right-Handed” Nanoparticles
Coating particles with “right-handed” molecules could help them penetrate cancer cells more easily. MIT engineers have shown that they can enhance the performance of drug-delivery…
New Strategy for the Synthesis of Complex Natural Products
Chemists from the University of Basel have succeeded in synthesizing two complex natural products from the group of dithiodiketopiperazines (DTPs). For this, they employed a…
Chemists Discover a Simpler Way to Make Complex Medicines
Chemists find a new way of creating the building blocks of many drugs. Organic chemists at Ohio State University have figured out how to synthesize…
New Medicines & ‘Green’ Insecticides Possible With Efficient Synthesis of Ginkgo Compound
New method offers an easy route for making bilobalide and related compounds so scientists can explore their potential uses as drugs and pesticides. Chemists at…
FDA Approved Drug Reverses Signs of Liver Disease in People Living With HIV
Tesamorelin prevented progression to liver fibrosis in NIH study. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and their colleagues at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in…
MIT Scientists Achieve New Breakthrough in Alzheimer’s Research
Study finds that Alzheimer’s damage allows toxins to enter the brain, further harming neurons. Beta-amyloid plaques, the protein aggregates that form in the brains of…
Embryo-Inspired Bandage Uses Body Heat to Speed Healing
Cuts, scrapes, blisters, burns, splinters, and punctures — there are a number of ways our skin can be broken. Most treatments for skin wounds involve…
New Super-Charged Treatment Boosts T-Cell Therapy
A promising new way to treat some types of cancer is to program the patient’s own T cells to destroy the cancerous cells. This approach,…
Scientists Crack the Code of a Rare, Inherited Anemia
Red blood cells carry oxygen throughout the human body, an essential function for survival. Anemia results when someone has fewer red blood cells than normal….
Chemists Edge Closer to Using Ribosome to Create Designer Polymers
A team of Yale chemists is one step closer to using the ribosome — the cell’s protein-making factory — to create designer polymers, including stronger…
Cancer Drug Stops Cancer Cells from Repairing Their DNA
According to researchers at Yale Cancer Center, a cancer drug thought to be of limited use possesses a superpower of sorts: It is able to…
Potential New Therapies For Untreatable Kidney Disease
The best hope for people with an inherited form of kidney disease that causes kidney failure is dialysis or a kidney transplant. But a study…
Scientists Restore Partial Brain Function Hours After Death
Circulation and cellular activity were restored in a pig’s brain four hours after its death, a finding that challenges long-held assumptions about the timing and…
Scientists Reveal Another Way HIV Hides From Vaccines
A Yale-led team has discovered yet another molecular trick HIV uses to survive immune system attacks, a finding that may influence efforts to develop an…
Scientists Uncover Genes That Control Whole-Body Regeneration
When it comes to regeneration, some animals are capable of amazing feats. If you cut off a salamander’s leg, it will grow back. When threatened,…
Scientists Develop Modular Approach to Engineering Immune Cells
Yale researchers have developed a new way to efficiently engineer immune cells, an advance which enhances the ability to fend off cancer and other diseases,…
Scientists Use Acoustic Waves to Monitor Stiffness of Living Cells
MIT engineers have devised a new, noninvasive way to measure the stiffness of living cells using acoustic waves. Their technique allows them to monitor single…