Tag: life sciences
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Mobile App Designed to Study Rare Inflammatory Condition
Researchers at University of Pennsylvania medical school developed an iPhone app to study sarcoidosis, a rare inflammatory disease where the cause is still unknown.
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Experimental Drug Shown to Reduce Tourette’s Symptoms
Results from a clinical trial show an experimental drug is effective in reducing the severity of tics in children with Tourette’s syndrome, a neurological disorder.
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Knowledge Bank Tapped for Precision Cancer Treatments
An international research team devised techniques for analyzing accumulated clinical trial data to help determine precise treatment strategies for people with cancer.
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Grant Funds MRI for Mental Illness Understanding
A psychiatric treatment center received what it calls “a major grant” for a research program on the use of MRI scans to better understand complex mental illnesses.
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Wearable Health Devices Offer Early Disease Detection
An analysis of data from mobile fitness and health tracking devices shows the devices can yield useful results for monitoring a person’s health, including early alerts to the onset of some diseases.
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Electronic Gene Editing Corrects Inherited Blood Disorder
A team at National Institutes of Health used an electronic-aided process to carry out a gene editing technique that in lab mice repaired a genetic defect causing a rare blood disease.
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RNA-Nanoparticle Spray Protects Against Plant Viruses
Plant scientists combined synthetic genetic material with clay nanoparticles, which when sprayed on plants provides enduring protection against viruses.
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MD Anderson, Investment Firm Create Cancer Start-Up
MD Anderson Cancer Center and health care investment enterprise Deerfield Management are starting a new company to develop treatments for cancer that tackle processes feeding tumor growth.
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Scripps, Pfizer Collaborate on DNA-Coded Drug Discovery
Drug maker Pfizer Inc. is gaining access to advances in a synthetic chemistry technology developed by Scripps Research Institute that tags compounds with DNA identifiers.
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Neurology Drug Signals Shown to Help Tooth Repair
Chemical signals from a drug designed to treat Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological disorders were shown in tests with mice to stimulate stem cells that repair teeth.