These models can be created in the lab and mimic aspects of early human embryo development, which raises various ethical considerations. Credit: Irene Zorzan and Teresa Rayon, Babraham Institute Stem…
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A potential game-changer for emergency medicine: Synthetic platelets
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Imagine being a paramedic treating a trauma patient who’s bleeding severely. You know your patient’s life is in danger, but there’s not much you can do…
Scientists discover high-risk form of endometrial cancer—and how to test for it—using AI
Dr. Ali Bashashati, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and pathology and laboratory medicine at UBC, observes an endometrial cancer sample on a microscope slide. Credit: UBC Faculty of Medicine A…
Carbon beads help restore healthy gut microbiome and reduce liver disease progression, researchers find
CARBALIVE beads viewed with a scanning electron microscope. Credit: University of Brighton/Yaqrit Innovative carbon beads, invented by researchers at UCL, reduce bad bacteria and inflammation in animal models, which are…
Can normothermic regional perfusion increase the number of patients receiving lung transplants?
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Re-perfusing the lungs of an organ donor with a technique called normothermic regional perfusion (TA-NRP) after the heart has irreversibly stopped beating could potentially increase the…
Synthetic platelets stanch bleeding, promote healing in animal models
Evaluation of in vivo hemostatic efficacy of PLPs administered in a traumatic injury model in dilutional coagulopathy mice. (A). Treatments were allowed to circulate for 5 min prior to induction…
Robotically assisted lung transplants are on the horizon, say researchers
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain While debating the pros and cons of robotically assisted lung transplantation, Albert Jauregui, MD, Ph.D. told attendees at the Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the…
First cardiac bioimplants for treatment of myocardial infarction using umbilical cord stem cells
PeriCord at the lab. Credit: IGTP The results of a pioneering study support the safety of the bioimplants called PeriCord, made from stem cells of the umbilical cord and pericardium…
Platform tracks SARS-CoV-2 mutational impact on disease severity, identifies effective therapeutic inhibitors
A droplet microfluidics-based system for high-throughput screening of syncytium formation. a, Co-culture of spike-expressing sender cells (mCherry+) and ACE2-expressing receiver cells (BFP+) resulted in syncytium formation (GFP+) due to cell–cell…
Using cryo-shocked tumor cells to fight lung cancer
Schedule of LNT cells delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 nanoparticles for KRAS-mutant NSCLC treatment. Credit: Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adk8264 A team of medical researchers at Zhejiang University, in China, has developed…