Innovative research aims to improve wound healing and cancer therapy

Freiburg researcher Priscilla Briquez receives ERC Starting Grant for innovative approach to protein engineering

30-Oct-2023 - Jun.-Prof. Dr. Priscilla Briquez, junior professor at the Department of General and Visceral Surgery at the Freiburg University Medical Center and member of the Medical Faculty at the University of Freiburg, has received a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant from the European ...

Medical "microrobots" could one day treat bladder disease, other human illnesses

“Imagine if microrobots could perform certain tasks in the body, such as non-invasive surgeries”

30-May-2023 - A team of engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has designed a new class of tiny, self-propelled robots that can zip through liquid at incredible speeds—and may one day even deliver prescription drugs to hard-to-reach places inside the human body. “Imagine if microrobots could perform ...

Elevated hormone flags liver problems in mice with methylmalonic acidemia

Study findings can immediately be applied to human patients with the disease

11-Dec-2018 - Researchers have discovered that a hormone, fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21), is extremely elevated in mice with liver disease that mimics the same condition in patients with methylmalonic acidemia (MMA), a serious genomic disorder. Based on this finding, medical teams treating patients with ...

Cellular 'tuning mechanism' builds elegant eyes

A molecular 'brake' that helps control eye lens development in zebrafish

17-Oct-2018 - How different cells in a multicellular organism acquire their identities remains a fundamental mystery of development. In the eye, for example, the lens contains two cell types - lens epithelial cells and lens fiber cells -- the first of which differentiates into the second as an animal matures. ...

Your brain with a migraine

28-Jun-2018 - When migraine sufferers see the tell-tale squiggly lines, light flashes and blind spots of a migraine aura, they prepare for a migraine. When researchers see the brain image of an aura, they try to figure out what causes it and if there is a way to stop the start of the migraine. Now an ...

Early indicators of bone loss after hip replacement discovered

08-Jun-2018 - Hip replacements relieve pain and restore mobility for hundreds of thousands of patients in the United States each year, but about 40,000 of the more than 280,000 of these procedures performed annually in the U.S. are to replace failed previous hip replacements, at a direct cost of more than $1 ...

Spikes of graphene can kill bacteria on implants

16-Apr-2018 - A tiny layer of graphene flakes becomes a deadly weapon and kills bacteria, stopping infections during procedures such as implant surgery. Operations for surgical implants, such as hip and knee replacements or dental implants, have increased in recent years. However, in such procedures, there is ...

Immune cells help rebuild damaged nerves

26-Oct-2017 - Immune cells are normally associated with fighting infection but in a new study, scientists have discovered how they also help the nervous system clear debris, clearing the way for nerve regeneration after injury. Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine showed certain ...

Lifelike 3-D cinematic imaging promises numerous medical uses

03-Aug-2017 - Newly developed "cinematic rendering" technology can produce photorealistic 3D images from traditional CT and MRI data, with potential applications in medical education, communication with patients and physicians, and early disease detection. Recently introduced and not currently approved for ...

Antibiotic-releasing polymer may help eradicate joint implant infection

19-Jul-2017 - A team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators has developed an antibiotic-releasing polymer that may greatly simplify the treatment of prosthetic joint infection. In their recent report the researchers describe how implants made from this material successfully eliminated two types ...