Articles tagged with: Health
Europe plans molecular screening center for translational research
Almost a decade ago, the US National Institutes of Health kicked off its Molecular Libraries Initiative to provide academic researchers with access to the high-throughput screening tools needed to identify new therapeutic compounds. Europe now …
Phase-changing materials in trial to preserve vaccines
Insulating materials that could fit inside icepacks to transport and store vaccines more effectively are about to enter field trials in Vietnam.
The novel materials make use of the phase change — the point at which …
Dynamic duo helps to heal irradiated mice
An antibiotic and a protein can work together to fight radiation-induced infections better than either can manage alone. Doctors already use antibiotics to treat radiation sickness. But the addition of a protein from the immune …
Transatlantic PML
The European Medicine Agency and US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published in September the proceedings of a joint workshop held to address questions related to progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), a rare and sometimes fatal …
E. coli crisis opens door for Alexion drug trial
This story was the lead news story in the August Nature Biotechnology: [html] [pdf].
This spring’s outbreak of a virulent form of Escherichia coli in Germany and France provoked a rapid response from public health authorities …
Overwhelmed drug regulators seek cure in cooperation
I have the lead news story in Nature Medicine this month, on how medical regulators are joining forces to keep up with their duties [html] [pdf]:
Regulatory authorities such as the US Food and Drug …
Sewer Sampling Reveals Patterns Of Drug Use
While high school graduates in Oslo, Norway, partied hard for two weeks last spring during the so-called Russ graduation festivities, levels of the drug ecstasy spiked about 10-fold in the city’s sewer …
On thirtieth anniversary, calls for HIV cure research intensify
Thirty years ago this month, scientists first reported the existence of AIDS, and in the intervening decades researchers have focused steady efforts on prevention, long-term treatments such as antiretroviral drugs, and patient …
Sounding out cancer cells
A device that filters cancer cells from human blood using sound could help to identify tumour cells that have spread.
Finding tumour cells in the blood indicates a cancer has metastasised – but the molecular markers …
Optical Fiber Watches Wounds
Monitoring a wound as it heals should get easier thanks to a new kind of optical fiber that could become a part of everyday bandages. The fiber’s coating alters in color in response to …
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