New drug target found for cystic fibrosis lung disease Vancouver researchers have discovered the cellular pathway that causes lung-damaging inflammation in cystic fibrosis (CF), and that reducing the pathway’s activity also decreases inflammation. The finding

Enzymes from fungi growing on trees filter out medicine residues from sewage and drinking water Months of painstaking work in the laboratory at Bielefeld University‘s Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec) have paid off: the 15 students

Wyss Institute Models a Human Disease in an Organ-on-a-Chip Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have mimicked pulmonary edema in a microchip lined by living human cells, as reported

In other words, it should stop an acute reaction in its tracks. While many of us may have irritating allergic reactions to things like wool or cats, it can be a much different story for

The goal is to help doctors make better predictions about how a patient’s illness will progress and what type of treatment will be most effective. Storing music and photos on distant computers via “cloud” technology

India has become the focal point for a mosquito-borne plague that is sweeping the globe. An epidemic of dengue fever in India is fostering a growing sense of alarm even as government officials here have publicly refused to acknowledge

Bacterial medicine is starting to emerge ONE of the crucial transitions of modern health care was from herbal to chemical medicine. Doctors had known for millennia that willow bark and poppy sap relieve pain. But

“Many of the patients are children who live with pacemakers for many years” An experimental device converted energy from a beating heart to provide enough electricity to power a pacemaker , in a study presented

A way to take adult stem cells and convert them so they have the properties of embryonic stem cells A team of Duke Medicine researchers has engineered cartilage from induced pluripotent stem cells that were

A Chinese biotech partnership’s vaccine success raises hopes for prevention of overlooked diseases, including hepatitis E, which claims 70,000 lives annually Batches of the world’s first vaccine against the hepatitis E virus began rolling out

In a breakthrough, scientists claim to have developed a new twice-daily wonderpill which can halt and even reverse Alzheimer’s disease by 90%. The drug is the first to target the toxic “tangles” of a protein known as

Initial results in mice could lead to new way to fight neurodegenerative diseases There’s new hope in the fight against Huntington’s disease. A group of researchers that includes scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s