Category: Health News
4 Good Reasons to Always Have a First Aid Kit in Your Truck
Trucks are high-risk vehicles in their own right. Any accident involving trucks is bound to be catastrophic, and so adequate measures should be put in place to reduce the …
A Pig’s Kidney Successfully Transplanted in a Brain-Dead Patient at NYU Langone Health
A world-first: genetically modified pig kidneys have functioned normally and without rejection in a human trial. It’s another step toward xenotransplantation, a longtime dream of doctors hoping to solve …
Children Treated with Gene Therapy for Adenosine Deaminase Deficiency Still Doing Well a Decade Later
How are the ten children who participated in a gene therapy clinical trial doing more than a decade later? The physicians behind the trial of these young patients with …
Finnish Scientists Produce Lab-Grown Coffee That Tastes Like the Real Thing
Finnish scientists have just produced their first cup of coffee from lab-grown cells. According to them, this is a much more energy-efficient process that makes it possible to produce …
ProTide NUC-7738: Anti-Cancer Properties of Cordycepin Improved by a New Process
Cordycepin the active ingredient in a Tibetan mushroom combined with advanced biotechnology has led to the development of a new treatment for cancer. A study by researchers at the …
BRAIN Initiative: The First Comprehensive Atlas of Brain Cells as Proposed by Neuroscientists
Even with the discovery of many distinct groups of cells in the brain by other scientists, this particular discovery of all the cell kinds in the primary motor cortex …
A New Treatment with Less Side Effects for the Most Severe Head and Neck Cancers
Newly discovered therapeutic antibodies could be a promising alternative to the harsh treatments that are currently used for the most severe forms of head and neck cancer. Patient survival …