Surgeons Kept a Man With No Lungs Alive For 48 Hours While Waiting For a Transplant
Surgeons at work on the double lung transplant. Credit: Northwestern Medicine In the spring of 2023, a 33-year-old man…
Researchers open ‘window to the brain’ with powerful cancer tech
Technology created at The University of Queensland could improve the odds of surviving brain cancer and change how…
Scientists discover spindle’s self-repair mechanism for accurate cell division
Every second, millions of cells in your body divide in two. In the space of an hour, they…
Breakthrough in growing brain tissue models using fully animal-free materials
For the first time, scientists have grown functional, brain-like tissue without using any animal-derived materials or added biological…
Engineered Bone Marrow Model Advances CRISPR-CAR T Research in AML
Credit: Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/Getty Images Scientists at the University of Glasgow developed a bioengineered bone marrow (BM)…
Smartphones match traditional methods in monitoring patients with muscular dystrophy
Stanford Medicine researchers found that a smartphone could monitor patients with two types of muscular dystrophy as well…
Smartphones can monitor patients with neuromuscular diseases
For a more detailed view, patients need to visit a motion analysis lab, where hourslong biomechanical assessments require…
New biofilm discovery may pave way to undermining antibiotic-resistant Pseudomonas
The bacterium known as Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an unwelcome visitor in the human body. Serious infections can result…
Exploring the link between leaky blood-brain barrier and major depressive disorder
Women are affected by severe depression twice as often as men. The reasons for this have not yet…
Scalable synthetic biology revolutionizes targeted therapy with logic-gate proteins
Targeted drug delivery is a powerful and promising area of medicine. Therapies that pinpoint the exact areas of…
AstroCapsules offer a new way to reduce brain inflammation
Neuroinflammation is linked to a host of detrimental brain disorders, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. A collaborative research…
New technology embeds unique genetic identifiers in engineered cells
Genetically engineered cell lines used in biomedical research have long been prone to misidentification and unauthorized use, wasting…