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News and Trends 9 Mar 2023

Twisted blood vessels reveal cancer treatment success potential

Picture Health has announced plans to commercialize a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered biomarker with the potential to transform the way doctors decide how to treat cancer. The advancement in cancer outcomes research sheds new light on cancer tumors: analyzing the state of the blood vessels that feed them. Recently published studies have shown the technology […]

March 9, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 9 Mar 2023

Researchers develop treatment for vancomycin-resistant bacteria

Researchers from several institutions have developed a treatment for bacteria resistant to vancomycin, which is also known as vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis (VRE). The group consists of researchers from the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, in collaboration with Singapore Centre for […]

March 9, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 8 Mar 2023

Research looks to make drug appear like brain tumor ‘food’

New research has shown that the blood vessels that feed aggressive brain tumors have receptors that could allow a new type of drug-containing nanoparticle to be used to starve the tumors of the energy they use to grow and spread, and also cause other disruptions to their adapted existence, even killing themselves. Scientists from the […]

March 8, 2023 - 6 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 8 Mar 2023

Could changing mRNA provide a new target for Alzheimer’s disease?

Reducing the methylation of a key messenger RNA can promote migration of macrophages into the brain and ameliorate symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease in a mouse model. This is according to a new study in the open access journal PLOS Biology by Rui Zhang of Air Force Medical University in Xian, Shaanxi, China. The results highlight […]

March 8, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 8 Mar 2023

New bone cancer drug could save children’s lives

Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the U.K. have developed a new drug that works against all of the main types of primary bone cancer. Cancer that starts in the bones, rather than cancer that has spread to the bones, predominantly affects children. Current treatments are grueling, with outdated chemotherapy cocktails and […]

March 8, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

More News! 2 Mar 2023

Could new dementia treatment come from intestinal bacteria discovery?

Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), one of the most common forms of dementia, has no cure. Previous studies suggested that gut bacteria play a role in Parkinson’s disease, another neurodegenerative disorder, but the bacteria involved in dementia with Lewy bodies had not been identified. Now, a group led by researchers at the Nagoya University Graduate […]

March 2, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 2 Mar 2023

New lipid nanoparticle CRISPR delivery system developed

Lipid nanoparticles have been used to encapsulate CRISPR-Cas9 and deliver it to cells in mice, where it was highly effective at knocking down expression of a target protein. Gene therapy is a potential mode of treatment for a wide variety of diseases caused by genetic mutations. While it has been an area of diverse and […]

March 2, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 28 Feb 2023

What’s happening on Rare Disease Day?

Rare Disease Day 2023 is on February 28. The day is dedicated to raising awareness for the approximately 300 million people around the world living with a rare disease. More than 6,000 rare diseases are characterized by a diversity of disorders and symptoms that vary not only from disease to disease, but also from patient […]

February 28, 2023 - 8 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 24 Feb 2023

Researchers discover how tumor cells become resistant to colorectal cancer chemotherapy

Platinum-based chemotherapy, which is used to treat advanced colorectal cancer, accumulates in the healthy cells surrounding the cancer cells and, as a result, can reduce tumor sensitivity to treatment. This is demonstrated by a study published in the journal Nature Communications by the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM-Hospital del Mar), in collaboration with […]

February 24, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 23 Feb 2023

New promising targeted drug for a rare leukemia

Targeted drugs have been developed to supplement chemotherapy in the treatment of cancer. These drugs only affect cancer cells, leaving healthy cells alone. Venetoclax is a new targeted therapy option for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). It was recently granted marketing authorization in Finland. Venetoclax works by sensitizing cancer cells to programmed cell […]

February 23, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 23 Feb 2023

Korean researchers develop antimicrobial peptides discovery tool

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are a promising new weapon for combating the growing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) of bacteria and other harmful microorganisms. Now, researchers from the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) in South Korea have developed a new, easy-to-interpret AI-powered AMP prediction model. The tool, named AMP-BERT, can capture the functional and structural properties […]

February 23, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 21 Feb 2023

HKUMed develops nanoparticle-based targeted drug delivery system

A research team from LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has developed thyroid hormone (TH) – encapsulated nanoparticles modified with adipose-homing peptide, which selectively transport TH to adipose tissues. The researchers say this will advance the treatment of obesity-related medical complications with TH by overcoming its severe adverse effects caused by […]

February 21, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Twisted blood vessels reveal cancer treatment success potential

Researchers develop treatment for vancomycin-resistant bacteria

Research looks to make drug appear like brain tumor ‘food’

Could changing mRNA provide a new target for Alzheimer’s disease?

New bone cancer drug could save children’s lives

Could new dementia treatment come from intestinal bacteria discovery?

New lipid nanoparticle CRISPR delivery system developed

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Researchers discover how tumor cells become resistant to colorectal cancer chemotherapy

New promising targeted drug for a rare leukemia

Korean researchers develop antimicrobial peptides discovery tool

HKUMed develops nanoparticle-based targeted drug delivery system

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