Scientists use electric field to heal wounds

Science |  News | 0 Comment | 20 May, 2019

Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine have found a way to charge up the fight against bacterial infections using electricity. Work conducted in the laboratories of the ...Read more

US scientists develop test for identifying chronic fatigue

Science |  News | 0 Comment | 06 May, 2019

People suffering from a debilitating and often discounted disease known as chronic fatigue syndrome may soon have something they’ve been seeking for decades: scientific proof of their...Read more

IIT-M team links zinc supplementation with fat deposition in the liver

Science |  News | 0 Comment | 01 May, 2019

A research team led by Dr. Prosenjit Mondal, Assistant Professor, School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, and Dr. Debabrata Ghosh from CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxic...Read more

MIT researchers develop unique imaging system for tumor surgery assistance

Science |  News | 0 Comment | 25 Apr, 2019

Ovarian cancer is usually diagnosed only after it has reached an advanced stage, with many tumors spread throughout the abdomen. Most patients undergo surgery to remove as many of these tum...Read more

US researchers discover new technique to test for viral infections

Science |  News | 0 Comment | 10 Apr, 2019

A team of Colorado State University researchers has developed technology that can detect extremely small amounts of antibodies in a person’s blood. Antibodies develop to infect cells ...Read more

TUM researchers succeed in marking proteins with ubiquitin

Science |  News | 0 Comment | 04 Apr, 2019

Human cells have a sophisticated regulatory system at their disposal: labeling proteins with the small molecule ubiquitin. In a first, a team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) h...Read more

Research leads to new molecular diagnostic testing

Science |  News | 0 Comment | 03 Apr, 2019

A new sophisticated computational model, developed by scientists at Lawson Health Research Institute in Canada, is bringing an innovative method of diagnosing rare hereditary conditions. C...Read more

Scientists create handheld CRISPR device

Science |  News | 0 Comment | 01 Apr, 2019

A team of engineers at the UC Berkeley and the Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) of The Claremont Colleges combined CRISPR with electronic transistors made from graphene to create a new hand-he...Read more

Designer organelles bring new functionalities into cells

Science |  News | 0 Comment | 29 Mar, 2019

For the first time, scientists have engineered the complex biological process of translation into a designer organelle in a living mammalian cell. Research by the Lemke group at EMBL &ndash...Read more

NIH to test experimental drug to curb opioid cravings

Science |  News | 0 Comment | 22 Mar, 2019

A clinical trial of an experimental drug designed to treat cravings associated with opioid use disorder (OUD) has begun in the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. The Phase I tri...Read more

Scientists find new approach that shows promise for treating cystic fibrosis

Science |  News | 0 Comment | 19 Mar, 2019

Researchers at NIH say a widely-used antifungal drug may hold promise for treating people with cystic fibrosis, a life-threatening genetic disorder that causes serious damage to the lungs. ...Read more

MIT researchers design device for delivering TB drugs

Science |  News | 0 Comment | 15 Mar, 2019

A research team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US  has devised a new way to deliver antibiotics against tuberculosis (TB) , which they hope will make ...Read more

Purdue researchers develop innovative, more cost-effective method for making drugs

Science |  News | 0 Comment | 11 Mar, 2019

David H. Thompson, a professor in Purdue’s Department of Chemistry and a member of the Purdue University centre for Cancer Research, has written a research paper published in Organic ...Read more

Scientists develop stem cell-derived kidney tubules in microfluidic chips

Science |  News | 0 Comment | 06 Mar, 2019

Scientists from the Hubrecht Institute, the University of Utrecht, and MIMETAS have successfully grown kidney tubules derived from human kidney adult stem cells in microfluidic chips. Henr...Read more

PM confers Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prizes for S&T

Science |  News | 0 Comment | 01 Mar, 2019

Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently conferred Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (SSB) prizes for the years 2016, 2017 and 2018 in New Delhi. The SSB prize is awarded each year on the basis of cons...Read more

Research led by Johns Hopkins defines cells used in bone repair

Science |  News | 0 Comment | 21 Feb, 2019

Research led by Johns Hopkins investigators has uncovered the roles of two types of cells found in the vessel walls of fat tissue and described how these cells may help speed bone repair. ...Read more

IIT-H researchers reveal use of Antarctic fungi in treating Leukemia

Science |  News | 0 Comment | 19 Feb, 2019

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad researchers working with scientists from National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), Goa have isolated Antarctic fungi that contain L-Aspa...Read more

Antibody-based treatment can eliminate disease blood-forming stem cells effectively

Science |  News | 0 Comment | 12 Feb, 2019

An antibody-based treatment can gently and effectively eliminate diseased blood-forming stem cells in the bone marrow to prepare for the transplantation of healthy stem cells, according to ...Read more