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Brussels, December 9, 2024 - Therapeutic mRNAs offer great potential as a versatile and precise tool against cancer and various other diseases.

A recent study confirmed the effectiveness of six different methods for removing cytotoxic drugs from the arms of chairs in outpatient oncology clinics.

The new balloon can be expanded before a meal to prevent overeating, then deflated when no longer needed.

A research team is working to develop a method to reactivate latent HIV in virus carriers in order to eliminate it from the body permanently.

A new chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) therapy has delivered promising results in treating patients with an aggressive blood cancer, in results from a clinical trial led by researchers at UCL and UCLH.

Can small protein molecules from plants, insects, cone snails or snakes serve as blueprints for active substances with reduced side effects' This is the question that the international consortium "Bi

The use of antidepressants is associated with sexual side effects including reduced genital sensitivity that persists after stopping the medication, a new Simon Fraser University study finds.

Ready to live: 40 years of HIV and AIDS leadership at Johns Hopkins As World AIDS Day nears, looking back at a devastating disease and forward to a brighter future Joel Blankson has been treating pat

In a new study, scientists from our top-rated Biosciences department joined forces with researchers from Jagiellonian University (Poland), and the John Innes Centre to reveal how a bacterial enzyme called DNA gyrase twists and stabilises DNA.

Working alongside ANU scientists, we detected a recreational sedative - methylmethaqualone - circulating in Canberra for the first time.

Understanding how cancer cells grow and change could be the key to disrupting how they proliferate. Dr Griselda Awanis is using a new tracking technology to understand just this.

Many of England's pharmacy technicians are forced to endure low pay, poor job satisfaction, bullying, lack of support and stressful work environments, a study by University of Manchester researchers has shown.

An international research consortium, with significant participation from MedUni Vienna, has tested a novel therapeutic concept to treat virus-induced lung failure in patients with severe COVID-19 in a phase 2 clinical trial.

The total number of adults living with type 1 or type 2 diabetes in the world has surpassed 800 million, according to new Imperial-led research. The authors say there is an urgent need to improve early detection and effective treatment of diabetes in lowand middle-income countries (LMICs), where cases have drastically increased since 1990.

Autolus Therapeutics, a UCL spinout company, has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval, for a next-generation CAR-T cell therapy, developed to treat adults with an aggressive blood cancer.

Researchers at the University of Glasgow have secured more than $3m to study the role the gut microbiome plays in post-operative outcomes for patients with Crohn's disease.

The working group headed by Denise Steiner and based at the PharmaCampus is looking for new ways to get active ingredients into the body Her first steps on a long working day often lead Lena Mahlberg to the precision scales in Room 155, a lab in C Building on the PharmaCampus.

A global expert panel led by HUG, UNIGE and the Salpêtrière Hospital advocate that clinical signs as well as biomarkers must be taken into account.

Most fatal pediatric opioid poisonings among children occur in their home with many following a history of maltreatment, a new Yale study finds. At least a quarter of children in the United States who died from opioid poisoning between 2004 and 2020 were victims of prior abuse or neglect, a new Yale study finds, and over two-thirds of 10- to 17-year-olds who suffered fatal poisonings had a history of substance use.

Bonn researchers show which procedure reduces the waste of the anesthetic Propofol is used in the operating room to induce anesthesia. In order to maintain anesthesia, total intravenous anesthesia is usually followed by a continuous infusion of the drug via a separate syringe pump. This is not entirely sustainable: propofol produces around 45 percent of the drug waste in the operating room and a quarter of the drug remains unused.

Our researchers are changing lives by equipping clinicians and patients with the skills to help manage painful health conditions without using potentially harmful strong opioids. Experts from our Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing have developed a ten-footsteps training programme with the Live Well with Pain team.

The combination of phototherapy and chemotherapy could offer a more effective way to fight aggressive tumors. Patients with late-stage cancer often have to endure multiple rounds of different types of treatment, which can cause unwanted side effects and may not always help. In hopes of expanding the treatment options for those patients, MIT researchers have designed tiny particles that can be implanted at a tumor site, where they deliver two types of therapy: heat and chemotherapy.

A new AI model can predict patients' risk of developing and worsening disease, and even their risk of early death, using an electrocardiogram (ECG). Researchers at Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust believe their work, published today in Lancet Digital Health, could be used in the NHS within five years.

How widespread are infectious diseases in Ticino today? Enos Bernasconi, professor at the Faculty of Biomedicine of the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) and deputy head physician at Ente Ospe