Gene testing aids safer and personalized Chemotherapy
Researchers led by Christof Vulsteke, of the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, have discovered a novel way of identifying breast cancer patients who are likely to suffer fatal side effects from chemotherapy. Their findings could eventually help provide safer as well as specialized treatments to individual patients. In their study, which included More...
Gas-filled Aspirin in the battle against cancer
As per reports from the Iranian Students News agency (ISNA), one of their scientists, Khosrow Kashfi, has developed a gas-filled aspirin that can boost the cancer-fighting ability of the drug. Khosrow, is an associate More...
Tasar silk in cardiac repair
Silk has been well known for its use in clothing material, since times immemorial. However, recently, scientists at Max Planck, Germany, have also found its application in growing replacement tissue for damaged More...
Grape seed extract in cancer treatment
Cancer, known medically as malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. Cell growth occurs through a cell division cycle or cell cycle. This cycle involves a More...
Specialized nanoparticles boost vaccine response
Researchers at Duke University Medical Center, U.S.A, suggest that synthetic nanoparticles specialized to target lymph nodes, where the most effective immune reactions occur, could greatly boost vaccine responses. More...
Developing better combination therapies for colorectal cancer
Scientists at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, U.S.A, have shed new light on the molecular connection between chronic inflammation and DNA methylation, a process that shuts down cancer-fighting More...
Herbal drug for Leucoderma
Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) introduced Lukoskin – a herbal drug developed for treatment of leucoderma, in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India. The drug development process for Lukoskin More...
MRI- compatible pacemakers, now in India
On Tuesday, St. Jude Medical said that it has released an “MRI-conditional” pacemaker in India. This pacemaker would enable patients with the implants to undergo some full-body MRI scans. As per the More...
Smith & Nephew’s PICO system is now FDA approved
Smith & Nephew plc has announced the FDA clearance of the pocket-sized PICO system, a single use Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) system. PICO is cleared for use both in a hospital and homecare setting More...
A promising strategy for Type1 Diabetes cure
Novel strategies for treating patients having type 1 diabetes are being explored. In one of the recent findings, a therapy using stem cells seems to re-educate abnormal immune system cells, allowing the pancreas More...