Hot off the Press- A Trojan horse delivery method for miRNA-enriched extracellular vesicles November 20, 2018A method for large-scale production of extracellular vesicles enriched with specific microRNAs (miRNAs) has been developed in the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) labs, offering a manufacturing standardization process which may have therapeutic applications and clinical impact.
- Strong but uneven spending in medical and health R&D across sectors over five-year period November 20, 2018Total US investment in medical and health research and development (R&D) in the US grew by 27 percent over the five-year period from 2013 to 2017, led by industry and the federal government, according to US Investments in Medical and Health Research and Development, a new report from Research!America. Industry accounted for 67 percent of total spending i […]
- Get dressed! November 20, 2018Computer scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Google Brain, Google's artificial intelligence research arm, have devised a novel computational method, driven by machine learning techniques, to successfully and realistically simulate the multi-step process of putting on clothes. The new method will be presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2018
- A toxic bullet involved in bacterial competition found by researchers November 20, 2018A bacterial toxin that allows an infectious strain of bacteria to defeat its competitors has been discovered by Imperial College London scientists.
- UNH researchers create a more effective hydrogel for healing wounds November 20, 2018Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have created an easy-to-make, low-cost injectable hydrogel that could help wounds heal faster, especially for patients with compromised health issues.
- New model predicts which animal viruses may spread among humans November 20, 2018Researchers have developed a model that predicts which of the viruses that can jump from animals to people can also be transmitted from person to person--and are therefore possible sources of human diseases.
- Eyes of CJD patients show evidence of prions November 20, 2018NIH scientists and colleagues have found evidence of the infectious agent of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in the eyes of deceased CJD patients. The finding suggests that the eye may be a source for early CJD diagnosis and raises questions about the safety of routine eye exams and corneal transplants. Sporadic CJD, a fatal neurodegenerative prion […]
- The shape of things to come: Flexible, foldable supercapacitors for energy storage November 20, 2018A team of researchers from the Plasma Physics Research Centre, Science and Research Branch of Islamic Azad University in Tehran, Iran, have discovered a way of making paper supercapacitors for electricity storage.
- The eyes have it November 20, 2018By the time symptoms of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) are typically discovered, death is looming and inevitable. In a new study, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine with colleagues at the National Institutes of Health and UC San Francisco, report finding tell-tale evidence of the condition's infectious agent […]
- Could yesterday's Earth contain clues for making tomorrow's medicines? November 20, 2018In a paper published recently in the journal Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, UW-Madison researchers described initial steps toward achieving chemistries that encode information in a variety of conditions that might mimic the environment of prehistoric Earth.
- A Trojan horse delivery method for miRNA-enriched extracellular vesicles November 20, 2018
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