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 [...]

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 [...]

Three Simon Fraser University scientists are among six researchers who’ve made a discovery that could help revolutionize antibiotic treatment of deadly bacteria. Lisa Craig, Christopher Ford and Subramaniapillai Kolappan, SFU researchers in molecular biology and biochemistry, [...]

Colleagues have for the first time constructed “organoids” that can be integrated into a living animal and carry out kidney functions With a worldwide shortage of kidneys for patients who need kidney transplants, researchers are [...]

The achievement is the latest success in the relatively new field of regenerative medicine A series of achievements have stoked excitement about the potential of regenerative medicine, which aims to tackle diseases by replacing or [...]

Loyola University Medical Center has launched the first clinical trial in the Midwest of an experimental melanoma treatment that genetically engineers a patient’s immune system to fight the deadly cancer. A batch of the immune [...]

The boundary that divides man from machine continues to dissolve — and in more literal ways than you might imagine. Scientists today announced a new class of electronics that can disappear completely, resorbing into its [...]

That is the most dramatic reduction in this compound reported to date in published research. Scientists have found that eliminating an enzyme from mice with symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease leads to a 90 percent reduction [...]

Biocompatible material created at Harvard is much tougher than cartilage A team of experts in mechanics, materials science, and tissue engineering at Harvard have created an extremely stretchy and tough gel that may pave the [...]

The HemoGlobe student inventors have estimated that their cellphone–based systems could be produced for $10 to $20 each. Could a low-cost screening device connected to a cellphone save thousands of women and children from anemia-related [...]