Tag: Immune System

CIRM invests nearly $44 million to advance regenerative medicine research and manufacturing in California

Stem CellSeptember 29, 2023

September 29, 2023 South San Francisco, CA – The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the world’s largest institution dedicated to regenerative medicine,...

Battling sepsis and superbugs requires awareness and policy

BiotechnologySeptember 28, 2023

Generated by our own internal defenses, sepsis claims 350,000 adult lives each year in the United States and is the most costly condition behind...

How Many Microbes Does It Take to Make You Sick? | Quanta Magazine

QuantumSeptember 27, 2023

IntroductionFor a pathogen to make us sick, it must overcome a lot. First it has to enter the body, bypassing natural barriers such as...

How Cells Safeguard the Genome by Destroying Their Own DNA

ZephyrnetSeptember 26, 2023

How Cells Safeguard the Genome by Destroying Their Own DNAThe genome, which is the complete set of genetic material in an organism, is crucial...

Base editing hits the clinic in the U.S.

BiotechnologySeptember 25, 2023

Over the past couple of years, base editing, a recent offshoot of the heralded CRISPR/Cas 9 technology, has been doing its rounds in the...

Exploring the Medical Implications and Uses of HHC: Unveiling its Therapeutic Potential

ZephyrnetSeptember 24, 2023

Exploring the Medical Implications and Uses of HHC: Unveiling its Therapeutic PotentialIn recent years, there has been a growing interest in exploring the medical...

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 23)

AISeptember 23, 2023

OpenAI’s Dall-E 3 Is an Art Generator Powered by ChatGPTWill Knight | Wired“Dall-E 3 will…let users refine a creation through ChatGPT, as if they...

US FDA Approves Jardiance for the Treatment of Adults with Chronic Kidney Disease

Clinical TrialsSeptember 22, 2023

RIDGEFIELD, Conn. and INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Jardiance® (empagliflozin) 10 mg tablets to...

How inverse vaccines might tackle diseases like multiple sclerosis

BiotechnologySeptember 22, 2023

This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review's weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like...

CIRM Joins #GoGold Childhood Cancer Awareness Campaign

Stem CellSeptember 13, 2023

CIRM has also invested $8.4 million to support a Phase 1 clinical trial at City of Hope targeting malignant brain tumors in children....

Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Electronic detection of DNA nanoballs enables simple pathogen detection Peer-Reviewed Publication

Nano TechnologySeptember 10, 2023

Home > Press > Electronic detection of DNA nanoballs enables simple pathogen detection Peer-Reviewed Publication Vicente Pelechano at Karolinska Institutet CREDIT Ryan Hull Abstract:Researchers...