Associate Professor Ki-Bum Lee has developed patent-pending technology that may overcome one of the critical barriers to harnessing the full therapeutic potential of stem cells. One of the m... Read more
By transforming human scar cells into blood vessel cells, scientists at Houston Methodist may have discovered a new way to repair damaged tissue. The method, described in an upcoming issue o... Read more
Invention Monitors an Important New Vital Sign A disposal, plastic listening device that attaches to the abdomen may help doctors definitively determine which post-operative patients should... Read more
Before the digital age, neuroscientists got their information in the library like the rest of us. But the field’s explosion has created nearly 2 million papers — more data than any res... Read more
Positively impacts cholesterol University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) researchers have genetically engineered tomatoes to produce a peptide, a compound containing two or more amino acid... Read more
“Our study showed that drinking six cups of green tea affected biomarkers in prostate tissue at the time of surgery,” Men with prostate cancer who consumed green tea prior to und... Read more
These cells can actually attack HIV-infected cells in a living organism Expanding on previous research providing proof-of-principle that human stem cells can be genetically engineered into H... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Five years ago, neuroscientist Christof Koch of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), neurosurgeon Itzhak Fried of UCLA, and their colleagues discovered that... Read more