CAR T-cell therapy successfully reverses severe rheumatoid arthritis
Immunotherapies such as CAR T-cell therapy are used primarily to treat cancer. In the future, these patient-specific therapies, manufactured from patients’ own immune cells, could
Category: Health
Does salmonella come from salmon?
More people have become ill in an outbreak of salmonella food poising.
‘Take care of yourself now’
Grammy award-winning soprano Angel Bluehow discusses how a recent health diagnosis has affected her.
Study challenges traditional breast cancer classification methods
Breast cancer is often classified as either estrogen receptor-positive (hormone-sensitive) or not. However, a new study from Karolinska Institutet suggests that this simplified classification may
New funding backs pioneering research to make brain cancer treatment more effective
Adelaide researchers are challenging decades-old assumptions about brain cancer treatment in a bid to make radiation therapy more effective against tumors, while reducing damage to
Brain shrinkage biomarker may predict early-onset Alzheimer’s progression
In people diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, a biomarker tool that detects shrinkage of the brain’s gray matter may predict how quickly someone may progress
UK salmonella cases nearing 500 as egg investigations continue
Close to 500 people have become ill with salmonella linked to imported eggs, say UK authorities who are investigating more clusters.
Internet-controlled brain implant enables remote neural stimulation and drug delivery
A researcher in Chicago remotely controls a miniaturized brain implant in Daejeon, Korea – over the internet. Korean researchers have developed a wireless device that
New platform enables large-scale production of custom proteins
Scientists have been hard at work for more than 20 years to instruct biological systems, such as E. coli cells, to produce proteins they don’t
Vaping best way to quit smoking, new study finds
A team looked at 80 major trials involving nearly 30,000 people and found that nicotine vapes were more effective than traditional aids, increasing the success
Off to Reading or Leeds? Here’s your guide to festival make-up (without the toxins)
Neon is on trend, but some make-up products pose a serious risk to your health. Here’s what to check for, and how to dazzle.
Closing arguments are set to begin in Lindsay Clancy’s trial in the killings of her 3 children
Closing arguments are set to begin in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three young children in 2023
PMOS clinics ‘good start, but more can be done’
Jersey’s government launches a three-month trial clinic to help women with the ovarian syndrome.
FDA approves first stem cell therapy to treat severe aplastic anemia
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the approval of the first hematopoietic stem cell transplant therapy to treat patients with rare but severe aplastic