Category: Biomedical Research
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Delivery of Nucleic Acid Therapeutics for Cancer Immunotherapy
Nucleic acid therapeutics have surfaced as hopeful possibilities for cancer treatment, including immunotherapy. The growing number of approved nucleic acid therapeutics by the FDA displays their potential to treat diseases by attacking their genetic blueprints.
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Promise and Peril: Machine Learning in Modern Cancer Treatment
A discussion of both the promises and perils of artificial intelligence in cervical cancer, brain cancer, and lung cancer treatment. A fast-growing field that promises many scientific breakthroughs in future.
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Why Is the Discovery of New Antibiotics So Difficult?
In 2018 Isabelle Carnell-Holdaway a cystic fibrosis sufferer was put in ICU after an aggressive infection of Mycobacterium abscessus, a relative of tuberculosis, spread to her liver putting it at risk of failure. With no new classes of antibiotics discovered and available for routine treatment since the 1980s, she was left with a 1% chance…
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Artificial Blood-A Mystery Soon to be a Reality
A unique discovery with a motto to attempt to replace blood transfusions in emergencies, to reduce the high risk of contaminated blood products, to prevent the shortage of blood due to lack of refrigeration or inconvenience to find matching blood types.
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‘Patient H.M’ – An unsung hero: The forgotten man who forgot everything
In this article I share a very important story of a man who revolutionised neuroscience by losing his own memory. While patient H.M may have forgotten many things in his lifetime, he is an identity that we cannot allow ourselves to forget as he gifted us his own memory.
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Preventing Nerve Cell Deterioration After Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injuries are quite common in the US and cause a multitude of neurological conditions. A research team in Ohio discovered two possible treatments for traumatic brain injury and preventing Alzheimer’s disease as well.
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How Can Music Help?: Exploring Music-Based Interventions for Adolescent Mental Health
This article explores teen mental health, common barriers that make treatment inaccessible, and the way music may be able to help teens in ways many wouldn’t expect.
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Replicative Crisis: Mapping Cellular Fates and Identifying Determinants between Cell Survival and Death
In order to divide indefinitely, most cancerous cells activate the enzyme telomerase, which elongates telomeres. To express telomerase, cells typically survive a state known as replicative crisis. This work explores two areas critical to understanding crisis-related mechanisms: the generation of chromosomal aberrations and cytosolic DNA species during crisis and determinants of cell death versus survival…
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A Brief Overview of Telomeres
For centuries, scientists have pondered about the human body and the structures that make us who we are. In recent decades, advances in genetics have helped us understand more about the human genome and the processes by which we are able to live.
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Smart Inhalers
Smart Inhalers: an advanced form of inhalers with digital connection for effective respiratory management, reducing the chances of human errors due to manual usage.
