With 130 Americans dying every day from opioid overdoses, and 2 million suffering from disorders related to prescription and non-prescription
Month: May 2019
Opportunistic cancer cells ‘slip through the gaps’ to spread through blood vessels
Cancer cells may rely on opportunism, as well as chemical signalling, to spread through the body, according to new findings
Researchers investigate differences in coatings of drug-coated balloon catheters
Drug-coated balloon catheters to open narrowed blood vessels and to deliver drugs to the impacted sites are used frequently for
Embryo stem cells created from skin cells
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) have found a way to transform skin cells into the three major
New chemical probe for visualizing brain immune cells
Researchers in South Korea and Singapore have, for the first time, developed a chemical probe that enables live-imaging of a
Unraveling Cannabinoids
Charles R. Broderick, an alumnus of Harvard University and MIT, has made gifts to both alma maters to support fundamental
Putting vision models to the test
MIT neuroscientists have performed the most rigorous testing yet of computational models that mimic the brain’s visual cortex. Using their
Synthetic biology used to target cancer cells while sparing healthy tissue
Synthetic proteins engineered to recognize overly active biological pathways can kill cancer cells while sparing their healthy peers, according to
Peanut Genome Sequenced with Unprecedent Accuracy
Improved pest resistance and drought tolerance are among potential benefits of an international effort in which Agricultural Research Service (ARS)
Viral peptides critical to natural HIV control
Investigators at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard have used a novel approach to identify specific amino acids