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Clinical Trial Testing
Clinical Trials are medical research involving human subjects. Clinical Trials evaluate medical, surgical, or behavioral interventions to determine if a novel treatment is safe and effective. There are four phases of Clinical Trial testing used to test the new treatment, determine the most effective dosage, and ensure the adverse effects do not outweigh the medical benefits.
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AUG 04, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Zika is inching its way into US territory. The past two weeks marked the first instance of local Zika transmission in th ...AUG 01, 2016Neuroscience
When brain tissue is damaged by injury or disease, it’s irreplaceable. Unlike organ transplants or bone and skin g ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUL 22, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Canadian researchers have laid the first bricks in the development of a vaccine against chlamydia – one of the mos ...JUL 22, 2016Cancer
Nausea and vomiting are among the most common adverse side effects of chemotherapy. In fact, some drugs induce such seve ...JUL 19, 2016Cancer
A decade-old technology to arm the immune system to fight cancer is now being adapted to fight HIV, one of the most pern ...JUL 09, 2016Cancer
Cancer of the esophagus makes up about 1 percent of all cancers diagnosed in the United States. Despite the low prevalen ...JUL 08, 2016Cancer
Clinical trials are often long and expensive. And despite the best efforts, clinical trials sometimes end with inconclus ...JUL 08, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Earlier this year, scientists made history when they discovered evidence of gravitational waves. Now researchers in the ...JUL 07, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Making and deploying vaccines can be costly and time-consuming. But, using a new technique that involves RNA and nanopar ...JUN 28, 2016Cancer
If you don’t love and eat broccoli already, you might want to seriously reconsider! This is the sentiment of a new ...JUN 27, 2016Immunology
T cells are the body’s natural fleet of cancer-attacking lymphocytes, but in recent years scientists have found a ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 23, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
The US government panel that evaluates gene therapy trials, the National Institute of Health’s Recombinant DNA Res ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 21, 2016Cancer
Breast cancer is on the forefront of many cancer research efforts, as it ranks as the most common cancer diagnosed in wo ...JUN 20, 2016Neuroscience
Epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological disorder in the United States and affects people of all ages. It’s ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUN 15, 2016Cancer
Lung cancer kills more Americans than any other type of cancer. To add more cause for alarm, a recent study found that d ...JUN 13, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Depression affects millions of people worldwide, yet it’s an illness that’s still highly stigmatized. As wit ...JUN 13, 2016Neuroscience
Stem cells are sometimes seen as either controversial or lifesaving, depending on what they are being used for, but a ne ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUN 11, 2016Cancer
Killing cancer is only half the battle. Sparing healthy cells and tissues while defeating cancer is the other half that& ...JUN 08, 2016Immunology
There’s a protein that signals the immune system not to kill certain cells. This action could be preventing autoim ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 03, 2016Cancer
After earning priority review status, the French-based pharmaceutical company Advanced Accelerator Applications just rec ...JUN 02, 2016Health & Medicine
For newborns in neonatal intensive care units with rare and complex diseases that doctors do not come across on a regula ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 02, 2016Plants & Animals
Psilocybin is the active ingredient in ‘magic mushrooms’ that leads to hallucinations and other psychologica ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 02, 2016Neuroscience
How dead do you have to be before you’re really dead? No, it’s not a scene from a science fiction movie, but ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUN 01, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
We all know the dangers of staying out in the sun too long without protection. But short of getting the telltale sunburn ...
AUG 04, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Zika is inching its way into US territory. The past two weeks marked the first instance of local Zika transmission in th
...
AUG 01, 2016
Neuroscience
When brain tissue is damaged by injury or disease, it’s irreplaceable. Unlike organ transplants or bone and skin g
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 22, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Canadian researchers have laid the first bricks in the development of a vaccine against chlamydia – one of the mos
...
JUL 22, 2016
Cancer
Nausea and vomiting are among the most common adverse side effects of chemotherapy. In fact, some drugs induce such seve
...
JUL 19, 2016
Cancer
A decade-old technology to arm the immune system to fight cancer is now being adapted to fight HIV, one of the most pern
...
JUL 09, 2016
Cancer
Cancer of the esophagus makes up about 1 percent of all cancers diagnosed in the United States. Despite the low prevalen
...
JUL 08, 2016
Cancer
Clinical trials are often long and expensive. And despite the best efforts, clinical trials sometimes end with inconclus
...
JUL 08, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Earlier this year, scientists made history when they discovered evidence of gravitational waves. Now researchers in the
...
JUL 07, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Making and deploying vaccines can be costly and time-consuming. But, using a new technique that involves RNA and nanopar
...
JUN 28, 2016
Cancer
If you don’t love and eat broccoli already, you might want to seriously reconsider! This is the sentiment of a new
...
JUN 27, 2016
Immunology
T cells are the body’s natural fleet of cancer-attacking lymphocytes, but in recent years scientists have found a
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 23, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
The US government panel that evaluates gene therapy trials, the National Institute of Health’s Recombinant DNA Res
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 21, 2016
Cancer
Breast cancer is on the forefront of many cancer research efforts, as it ranks as the most common cancer diagnosed in wo
...
JUN 20, 2016
Neuroscience
Epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological disorder in the United States and affects people of all ages. It’s
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 15, 2016
Cancer
Lung cancer kills more Americans than any other type of cancer. To add more cause for alarm, a recent study found that d
...
JUN 13, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Depression affects millions of people worldwide, yet it’s an illness that’s still highly stigmatized. As wit
...
JUN 13, 2016
Neuroscience
Stem cells are sometimes seen as either controversial or lifesaving, depending on what they are being used for, but a ne
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 11, 2016
Cancer
Killing cancer is only half the battle. Sparing healthy cells and tissues while defeating cancer is the other half that&
...
JUN 08, 2016
Immunology
There’s a protein that signals the immune system not to kill certain cells. This action could be preventing autoim
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 03, 2016
Cancer
After earning priority review status, the French-based pharmaceutical company Advanced Accelerator Applications just rec
...
JUN 02, 2016
Health & Medicine
For newborns in neonatal intensive care units with rare and complex diseases that doctors do not come across on a regula
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 02, 2016
Plants & Animals
Psilocybin is the active ingredient in ‘magic mushrooms’ that leads to hallucinations and other psychologica
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 02, 2016
Neuroscience
How dead do you have to be before you’re really dead? No, it’s not a scene from a science fiction movie, but
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 01, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
We all know the dangers of staying out in the sun too long without protection. But short of getting the telltale sunburn
...