Beyond ‘bad’ cholesterol: new clues to the risk of heart disease
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden, shed new light on the remaining risk of heart disease, even after the known risk factor of
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Undecimal Bio launches with $18 million oversubscribed seed financing to address ‘liver trap’ in siRNA therapeutic delivery
Undecimal Bio, a platform biotechnology company advancing targeted delivery of siRNA therapeutics, today announced an oversubscribed $18 million USD seed financing.
Mum told to ‘prepare for worst’ urges others to get respiratory illness vaccine
Jo Goldsmith said the RSV vaccine was not available when she was pregnant, but that she would have had it.
Mursla Bio publishes peer-reviewed validation of tissue-specific extracellular vesicle platform for liquid biopsy
Mursla Bio, a precision medicine and diagnostics company built on tissue-specific extracellular vesicles (TS-EVs), today announced publication of a peer-reviewed study in the Journal of
‘I woke from surgery to find it hadn’t been done’
Kelly O’Shea says she’s “lost faith” in women’s health after paying £20k for treatment she needed.
Cut screen time in classrooms to avoid long-term health issues, clinicians urge
A group of clinicians warns technology use in English schools is driving a rise in health problems like short-sightedness.
I’ve woken from endometriosis operations to find the surgery hasn’t been done
Kelly O’Shea says she’s “lost faith” in women’s health after paying £20k for treatment she needed.
Chronic UTIs made MP ‘feel like a drug user’
Dr Allison Gardner MP has been living with the “searing pain” of recurring infections for a decade.
‘I was dead for 10 minutes, but lived to tell the tale’
Medics in Spain raced against time to save Sandra McCartney’s life after her heart stopped beating.
Gene therapy and special goggles help some blind adults detect objects again
In a phase 1 study of 10 adults with advanced retinitis pigmentosa, researchers found that optogenetic gene therapy combined with light-stimulating goggles was generally well
Scientists pinpoint key hotspot driving tau propagation in dementia
Diseases such as Alzheimer’s and frontotemporal dementia are considered neurodegenerative tauopathies, in which tau proteins in the brain misfold and lead to cognitive decline.
Lifelong blindness enhances brain processing for better pitch discrimination
Are people who have been blind for most of their lives better at hearing than sighted individuals? New in JNeurosci, Woon Ju Park, from Georgia
Study identifies Piezo channels as targets for orthodontic care
A new review in Genes & Diseases highlights Piezo channels as important biological links between mechanical forces and the cellular processes that shape the face
Long non-coding RNAs offer new pathways to overcome cancer treatment resistance
Scientists are highlighting long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) as promising targets in the effort to overcome one of cancer treatment’s most persistent challenges: therapeutic resistance.