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Predicting Immunotherapy Response, Melanoma
Machine learning algorithm predicted, in hindsight, which patients with melanoma would respond to treatment and which would not respond
Researchers “from [MORE]
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Gene Therapy for Muscle Loss
Myogenic tissue nanotransfection improves muscle torque recovery following following VLM
“This research work tests tissue nanotransfection (TNT) based gene therapy as [MORE]
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Seeing Capillary Flow
Blood plasma markers enable chronic imaging of the microcirculation
“Here, we [researchers at the University of Copenhagen] report an approach for [MORE]
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“Intelligent Materials”
Magnetic field–driven particle assembly and jamming for bistable memory and response plasticity
Aalto University (Espoo Finland0 physicists “show plasticity of electroconductivity [MORE]
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First Bone Marrow Organoids
Miniature ‘bone marrows in a dish’ to improve anti-cancer treatments
“Scientists from Oxford University and the University of Birmingham have made [MORE]
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Molecular Scissors for Dealing with SARS-CoV-
Scientists have used synthetic biology to create artificial enzymes programmed to target the genetic code of SARS-CoV-2 and destroy the [MORE]
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Startup Examples of Hospital Innovation
Lifepoint Health’s health tech incubator launches 6 new companies
Lifepoint Health (Brentwood, TN) has incubated six startup companies that address automation, [MORE]
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Implantable Pump for Brain Tumors
Implantable pump drip-feeds chemotherapy directly into brain tumors
“Researchers at Columbia University and New York Presbyterian have developed an implantable pump [MORE]
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Glucose Metabolites Rather than Glucose in T2D
Key cause of type 2 diabetes uncovered
“Glucose metabolites (chemicals produced when glucose is broken down by cells), rather than glucose [MORE]
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Tracking Viral Infection, the Movie
Capturing the start point of the virus–cell interaction with high-speed 3D single-virus tracking
“Here we [chemists at Duke University] present an [MORE]
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Microgels in Islet Transplantation
FasL microgels induce immune acceptance of islet allografts in nonhuman primates
“We [transplant scientists at Harvard, Georgia Tech and the University [MORE]
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Autologous Bone Marrow Therapy for Multiple Sclerosis
Regenerating the Immune System to Halt Multiple Sclerosis
“Eighty percent of MS patients are free of disease over the long-term, or [MORE]
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Blood Protein for Treating Ischemic Stroke
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Ischemic stroke
rom researchers at the University of Oslo: “we hypothesized that FSAP [Factor VII activating protease] can be used as [MORE]
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Parasites Over Eons
Human or Host? Parasites in Human History & Prehistory
This piece isn’t our usual fare, but it is a reminder that [MORE]
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