Article Published by: news-medical.net Researchers have discovered a new technique that overcomes one of the major challenges of stem cell therapy. A drug, co-created by UBC researchers, might overcome one of the major challenges of stem cell therapy - their tendency to differentiate, becoming specific tissue cells...
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Article Published by: elitedaily.com I don't want to be the bearer of bad news (especially if 2018 is off to an exceptional start for you), but I unfortunately have a not-so-great update to share: The United States is currently experiencing a flu epidemic. It's important that...
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Article Published by: doctor.ndtv.com January 8th, saw the 76th birthday of Stephen Hawking, the world renowned physicist who has been beating the odds of the daunting diagnoses of Lou Gehrig's disease (motor neuron disease) for the past 45 years. While most of the people with Lou...
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Article Published by: painnewsnetwork.org On January 10, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf declared a disaster emergency to fight the scourge of heroin and opioid abuse in his state, which has one of the highest overdose rates in the country. “Pennsylvania’s opioid crisis impacts all areas of the state...
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Article Published by: futurism Working Muscle In a world first, biomedical engineers from Duke University have created the first functioning human skeletal muscle from pluripotent stem cells, which are capable of producing any form of body cell or tissue. Published January 9 in Nature Communications, this work...
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Article Published by: psychologytoday.com Physical activity improves pain modulation and reduces the risk of older adults developing chronic pain, according to new research by Kelly Naugle and colleagues at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). The latest IUPUI report, “Physical activity behavior predicts endogenous pain modulation in older...
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Article Published by: health.clevelandclinic.org If you’re one of the 30 million adults in the United States who suffer with joint pain, you know the pain often is debilitating. It can keep you from staying active and even make daily chores seem impossible. What you might not...
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Article Published by: theconversation.com After cigarettes, alcohol is perhaps the most common carcinogen that humans voluntarily expose themselves to. How this simple substance promotes cancer, though, has not been clear. But our latest study, using genetically modified mice, sheds some light on the possible mechanism. Our previous...
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Article Published by: sciencedaily.com The process by which embryonic stem cells develop into heart cells is a complex process involving the precisely timed activation of several molecular pathways and at least 200 genes. Now, Salk Institute scientists have found a simpler way to go from stem...
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Article Published by: mindbodygreen.com With nearly 80 percent of the immune system located in the gut, gut health is rapidly becoming a widely discussed topic as it relates to optimal health. It is estimated that virtually 30 to 40 percent of the population suffer from digestive-related...
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