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Rapid COVID-19 Testing Made Possible by Nanoparticles Could Be More Durable and Sensitive

Rapid COVID-19 Testing Made Possible by Nanoparticles Could Be More Durable and Sensitive

One can easily and quickly find out if they have COVID-19 with rapid antigen tests. However, due to their low sensitivity, antibody-based diagnostics may miss…
Red Blood Cell Released Particles Function as Powerful Anti-Cancer Immunotherapy Transporters

Red Blood Cell Released Particles Function as Powerful Anti-Cancer Immunotherapy Transporters

The creation of effective medications is only half the battle in the fight against cancer; it’s also critical to consider how medications can be administered…
A New Delivery Method Enables a Wider Range of Peptide Drugs to Be Slowly Released in the Body

A New Delivery Method Enables a Wider Range of Peptide Drugs to Be Slowly Released in the Body

One of the first completely new drug delivery microencapsulation methods to be described in decades is described in a recent paper from the University of…
Researchers Show Drug Effectiveness and Uncover Key to Hepatitis A Virus Replication

Researchers Show Drug Effectiveness and Uncover Key to Hepatitis A Virus Replication

A virus must go through the viral replication cycle in order to propagate throughout the body and cause illness. The UNC School of Medicine researchers…
Study Finds that Saliva, Semen, and Other Clinical Samples from Infected Patients Frequently Detect Monkeypox Virus

Study Finds that Saliva, Semen, and Other Clinical Samples from Infected Patients Frequently Detect Monkeypox Virus

According to a recent study conducted by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a facility financed by the “la Caixa” Foundation, and the Hospital…
Researchers Find a Novel Method to Combat Malaria that is Drug-Resistant

Researchers Find a Novel Method to Combat Malaria that is Drug-Resistant

As the effectiveness of conventional antimalarial medications wane, a novel strategy to tackle malaria that causes the illness to turn against itself may provide a…
PCR is Carried Out by the New COVID-19 Rapid-Test Technology More Quickly than by Competing Tests

PCR is Carried Out by the New COVID-19 Rapid-Test Technology More Quickly than by Competing Tests

The polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which can identify genetic material such as that from a virus or human DNA, has been the industry standard for…
Researchers Create a Strategy to Avoid Lethal Hospital Infections without Antibiotics

Researchers Create a Strategy to Avoid Lethal Hospital Infections without Antibiotics

You might not think a hospital or medical facility is the best place to catch a bad illness. Yet, every year, about 1.7 million Americans…
Chronic Migraine (Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosed, Treatment)

Chronic Migraine (Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosed, Treatment)

The third most common disease worldwide is migraine. In fact, among the top five reasons individuals visit emergency rooms each year are headaches. Chronic migraine…
Giving Individual Patients the Right Treatment at the Right Time with the Help of “Digital Twins”

Giving Individual Patients the Right Treatment at the Right Time with the Help of “Digital Twins”

With the aim of enhancing diagnosis and therapy, a global team of researchers has created sophisticated computer simulations, or “digital twins,” of diseases. They found…
High Doses of a Common Hormone Drug are Linked to an Increased Risk of Benign Brain Tumors

High Doses of a Common Hormone Drug are Linked to an Increased Risk of Benign Brain Tumors

According to a University of Bristol-led study of more than 8 million patients, high doses of a commonly used drug used in the hormonal treatment…
Cancer Patients Now Have Hope Thanks to a New Method of Targeting Mutant RAS

Cancer Patients Now Have Hope Thanks to a New Method of Targeting Mutant RAS

Following a 10-year journey, John O’Bryan, Ph.D., and colleagues at the MUSC Hollings Cancer Center have shown a novel therapeutic method to inhibit a protein…
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