Are HIV drugs the key to a COVID-19 cure?
As COVID-19 continues to spread globally, the need for a “miracle cure” appears more and more unobtainable. This group of researchers...
A Genetic Program, not Lifestyle, Dictates Middle-Age Weight Gain
Sung-Jun Park, Oksana Gavrilova, Alexandra L. Brown, Jamie E. Soto, Shannon Bremner, Jeonghan Kim, Xihui Xu, Shutong Yang, Jee-Hyun Um,...
Gut microbiome may make chemo drug toxic to patients
Leah Guthrie, Sanchit Gupta, Johanna Daily, Libusha Kelly. Human microbiome signatures of differential colorectal cancer drug metabolism....
Did Poor Protocol Design Lead To The Clinical Accident In France?
Did the clinical trial in France that has left one person dead and several others hospitalized have flaws in the protocol design? While...
FDA approves first-of-its-kind product for the treatment of melanoma
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Imlygic (talimogene laherparepvec), the first FDA-approved oncolytic virus therapy,...
Mystery behind flu virus transmission solved
Lakdawala, S.S. et al., Nature 526, 122–125 (01 October 2015) doi:10.1038/nature15379 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26416728 The...
Special mushroom fight obesity via altering gut microbiome
Chih-Jung Chang, etc. (July 2015) Ganoderma lucidum reduces obesity in mice by modulating the composition of the gut microbiota. Nature...
Engineered probiotics for cancer detection
Danino et al. Programmable probiotics for detection of cancer in urine. Sci Transl Med. 2015 May 27; 7(289): 289ra84. doi:...
Can you be identified by your microbiome?
Can you be identified by your microbiome?June 15, 2015 Increasing evidence supports that your microbiome can be altered by many external...
A new antibiotic has been discovered with no detectable resistance
A new antibiotic has been discovered with no detectable resistance February 26, 2015 As the threat of increased antibiotic resistance...
