Mini Human Livers Grown in Lab Successfully Transplanted Into Rats
Using skin cells from human volunteers, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have created fully functional mini livers, which they then transplanted…
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Promising New COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Developed
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists today announced a potential vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic. When tested in mice,…
Discovery of a New Electronic State of Matter May Advance Second Quantum Revolution
Discovery shows electrons can bind together in ways similar to how quarks combine to form neutrons and protons. A research team led by professors from…
Got Slime? Regenerative Biology Used to Restore Mucus Production
Lance Davidson of the University of Pittsburgh published an article in Nature Communications detailing that tissue mechanics can drive the regeneration of goblet cells on…
Dramatically Improved Potency When TB Vaccine Delivered Intravenously
Worldwide, more people die from tuberculosis (TB) than any other infectious disease, even though the vast majority were vaccinated. The vaccine just isn’t that reliable….
Carbon Nanotubes Show a Love/Hate Relationship With Water
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are valuable for a wide variety of applications. Made of graphene sheets rolled into tubes 10,000 times smaller than a human hair,…
Low Libido in Older Women Isn’t Just From Menopause
A qualitative study by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine found that women in their 60s report various reasons behind why they…
Physicians More Likely to Prescribe Opioids If They Received Gifts From Pharma Companies
Physicians who received gifts from pharmaceutical companies related to opioid medications were more likely to prescribe opioids to their patients the following year, compared to…
Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance Altered by Bacterial Lifestyle
How bacteria live — whether as independent cells or in a communal biofilm — determines how they evolve antibiotic resistance, which could lead to more…
Failure Against “Nightmare Bacteria” a Chilling Commentary on Future of Antibiotics – “Much of Modern Medicine May Become Infeasible”
The health care market is failing to support new antibiotics used to treat some of the world’s most dangerous, drug-resistant “superbugs,” according to a new…
Physicians Slow to Use Effective New Antibiotics Against Superbugs
New, more effective antibiotics are being prescribed in only about a quarter of infections by carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), a family of the world’s most intractable…
University Biologists Identify Key Step in Viral Replication
Viruses are intracellular parasites that cause disease by infecting the cells in the body and, in a study published today in Nature Microbiology, researchers at…
Materials Scientists Turn Metal Into Glass
In a newly published study, University of Pittsburgh researchers report an experimental approach to the formation of monatomic metallic glasses through ultrafast liquid quenching. Materials…
Human Heart Precursor Cells Regenerate Decellularized Mouse Heart
A newly published study details how researchers used human heart precursor cells to get a decellularized mouse heart to beat again. Pittsburgh – For the…
FDA Approved Bexarotene Reverses Alzheimer’s Disease Deficits in Mice
In a newly published study, researchers from the University of Pittsburg verified previous findings that the drug bexarotene, which is approved by the U.S. Food…
New Spin Technique Moves Quantum Computers a Step Closer
Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh and Delft University of Technology have developed a new method for controlling the coherence of quantum bits, moving a…
Vacuum Channels Could Enable a New Class of High Speed Transistors
With physical barriers limiting further increases in semiconductor electronic efficiency, scientists at the University of Pittsburgh redesigned the structure of the vacuum electronic device, allowing…