A Mind Divided by Hunger: How Recent Studies Give Out Clues to Control...
Suddenly, you find yourself 40 pounds overweight and it is becoming increasingly difficult to get your shoelaces tied up. You are on full alert. Before rushing out to reach your SUV and try to grab a...
View ArticleFly like a Mosquito: How Mosquitoes May Inspire a New Generation of Quadcopters
A drizzling, misty rain may be harmless to man; however, such rain may be apparently fatal to small flying creatures such as mosquitoes. Perhaps hard to imagine, however, the average weight of a...
View ArticleNew Genetic Discovery may Provide Alternative Strategy against Mad Cow Disease
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease, is an incurable neurodegenerative disease that causes the sponge-like deterioration of the spinal cord and brain of cattle. BSE caused...
View ArticleRetest Failure: Irreproducibility in Research Provides Opportunities to...
Science is robust and, in the field of life sciences research, robustness means reproducibility. It is becoming more frequent that large pharmaceutical companies are using academic journals, especially...
View ArticleTransforming Healthcare: The Era of Monoclonal Antibody Therapy
Recently, there has been a rapid rise in the research, development, and marketing of monoclonal antibody-mediated treatments. Such treatments involve the use of monoclonal antibodies that bind to...
View ArticleRecent Advancements of HIV-1 Vaccine Development for Investors and Strategists
The first human HIV-1 case, also referred to as simply HIV, was reported more than 30 years ago, which marked the start of a compelling campaign between the human race and this global pandemic....
View ArticleBrace for the Heat: Research Opportunities for Stress-Resistant Crops
The sight of a maize field stretched endlessly across the horizon in the opening scene of Interstellar may appear surreal; however, it may not be far from reality. Whilst different forecasting models...
View ArticleFlu Vaccine: The End of Gambling with Nature?
With the last bit of thunderstorm warning retreats into Lake Michigan, the hot and humid mist that once stretched from Willis Tower to Hancock Center dissipates – the summer time in Chicagoland is...
View ArticleUS Government Announces Proposal to Revise Current Regulations Related to...
On 8th of September, the Federal Register published a notice jointly made by 14 US government agencies including, prominently, the Health and Human Services Department (HHS), the National Science...
View ArticleThe New Herbalism: Synthetic Biology Provides Alternative Sources for Herbal...
Throughout human history, there has been an extensive reliance on herbs (and their extracts) as sources of medicine, and such dependence still stands today. Indeed, a significant number of blockbuster...
View ArticleThe Evasive Agents: How Drug-delivering Nanoparticles Avoid the Immune System
The use of artificially-designed and synthesized nanoparticles as drug delivery vehicles into the human body via bloodstream infusion or direct injection has been widely applied in recent years....
View ArticleDiscovery of New System for Genome Editing to Dramatically Improve Genetic...
It is of no doubt that the recent advancements of the CRISPR/Cas9 genome-editing technique has provided a huge boost to the genetic research field. Evolutionary, as a defensive mechanism found in some...
View ArticleThe Nobel Prize 2015: A Resurgence of Neglected Tropical Diseases Research
In the early hours of October the 5th, Professor Urban Lendahl, secretary of the Nobel committee for physiology or medicine, continued with the century long tradition of announcing the winners of the...
View Article2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded for Research on DNA Repair Mechanisms
After spending a whole week of holiday on the sunny beach of the Mediterranean Sea, Sarah finally had all her luggage packed and flew back to the gloomy, rainy Manchester in Lancashire, England....
View ArticleGenetically-Modified Pets: Markets, Concerns and Possible Solutions
Sus domesticus, often called swine or hog, or more commonly and simply, just “pig”, have been considered as a domestic animal that traces back to the Tigris Basin around 12,000 BC. In addition to its...
View ArticleVampires Zapped: Orally Administered Drug Suggests New Approach in Malaria...
Malaria prevention in under-developed regions, such as Sub-Saharan Africa, has been demonstrated to be both resource-demanding as well as labor intensive. Currently, the methods of prevention mainly...
View ArticleCDC Report: Columbian Man Diagnosed with Cancer of Tapeworm Origin
In the field of cancer research, there has been a long-held belief that cancer, also known as a malignant tumor or neoplasm, is the result of the unregulated proliferation of cells that invade or...
View ArticlePenn State Research: Herpes Virus Can Infect Human Neuronal Cells
The Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) is one of a few highly ubiquitous herpes viruses that infects an estimated 90% – 95% of the adult population without noticeable symptoms, regardless of demographics or...
View ArticleThe Rise of Bispecific Antibodies in 2015
The concept of using monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) for therapeutic purposes was devised a long time ago, mainly taking advantage of the high specificity of antigen-antibody interactions for drug...
View ArticleThe 20 Year Long March of Transgenic Salmon: From Petri Dish to Baking Dish
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finally approved the sale and human consumption of a genetically modified (GM), fast-growing salmon in the US market. The salmon, commercially branded as...
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