Bioengineers may be able to use the unique mechanical properties of diseased cells, such as metastatic cancer cells, to help
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Enzyme’s movement may be key to new cancer drugs: Interfering with the motion of a kinase enzyme might be a new approach for the development of anti-cancer drugs
Revealing all the steps required to activate an enzyme called a protein kinase may identify new ways to target cancer,
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New tool analyzes disease and drug effects with unprecedented accuracy and consistency: IonStar could upend industry standards, and quicken medical diagnosis and drug development
A new protein analysis tool developed at the University at Buffalo could vastly increase the speed and precision with which
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Protein mimic developed to help injured lungs breathe
A Stanford University researcher has bioengineered an effective protein mimic that restored breathing capacity to the injured lungs of rats,
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Rabies trick could help treat Parkinson’s Disease
The rabies virus wreaks havoc on the brain, triggering psychosis and death. To get where it needs to go, the
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Why we need erasable MRI scans: New technology could allow an MRI contrast agent to ‘blink off,’ helping doctors diagnose disease
Magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, is a widely used medical tool for taking pictures of the insides of our body.
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Breakthrough brings gene-editing medicine one step closer to patient applications: New technique vastly improves precision of gene-editing technology
Imagine a future where a guided biomachine put into your body seeks out defective gene sequences in each cell and
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Organoids created from patients’ bladder cancers could guide treatment: Custom 3-D mini-tumors mimic individual patient’s cancer
Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) and NewYork-Presbyterian researchers have created patient-specific bladder cancer organoids that mimic many of the
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