Scientists create the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome

The first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome has been published in a groundbreaking development. The first gapless sequence of a human genome comes...

The link between mycobacteria and red blood cells causing lung diseases

A research team from Hiroshima University has discovered a link between mycobacteria and red blood cells at lung infection sites. What are mycobacteria? Mycobacteria are a...

Novel eye scanner technology targets neurodegenerative diseases

Scientists have developed novel eye scanner technology that has the potential to detect neurogenerative diseases at their very early stages. In a large-scale EU project,...

Revolutionary footwear technology to prevent diabetic foot ulcers

A research team from the University of Texas (UTA) has developed a self-adjusting shoe insole to relieve pressure from diabetic foot ulcers. Diabetic foot ulcers...

Bioengineered bacteria to protect against colony collapse

Scientists from the University of Texas at Austin have developed a new strategy, using engineered bacteria, to protect honeybees from colony collapse disorder. According to a national US survey, beekeepers lost nearly 40% of their honeybee colonies last winter, which...

How giant viruses infect amoebae

Image analysis method from Tokyo University of Science, Japan, demonstrates how giant viruses infect amoebae. A team of researchers at Tokyo University of Science, Japan, have created a new method of revealing how giant viruses infect amoebae and how they...

Novel therapeutics using mesenchymal stem cells for treatment

The Center for Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine performs research using mesenchymal stem/stromal cells for treatment via cell therapies and  tissue engineering strategies. Adult stem cells have long been investigated as therapeutic entities due to their inherent dynamic abilities...

Preventing the world’s deadliest food-borne disease

For years, food safety specialists have been fighting with the prevention and eradication of Listeria in our food. But what has changed in the prevention of this deadly bug? Listeria is often found in foods, especially frozen food. Once infected...

Can nanotechnology help to prevent disease?

With threats like the coronavirus and deadly influenza viruses’ scientists have created a new method of disinfecting the world around us using nanotechnology. Nanosafety researchers at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health have developed a new intervention to...

Children with cancer are more likely to have cardiovascular issues

Children with cancer who are under the age of 10 are more likely to contract congestive heart failure after receiving cancer therapy. Developments in cancer therapies have led to overall survival rates exceeding 80% after cancer diagnosed at childhood and...

How animal antibiotic resistance is a threat to all

In an exclusive interview with Innovation News Network the Executive Director of HealthforAnimals, Carel du Marchie Sarvaas, discusses antibiotic resistance in animals and the dangers of zoonotic diseases. HealthforAnimals is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation that represents the animal health sector,...

Separating vaccine fact from vaccine fiction

Often misunderstood, the vaccine industry has received a great deal of bad press but are the claims made on social media a product of fact or fiction? Despite all the fantastic advances in immunisation over recent decades, 1.5 million children...

A videogame to treat Parkinson’s disease

Marie-Laure Welter, scientific director of the Movement and Gait Laboratory and co-director of the Brain e-Novation Laboratory in the Brain and Spine Institute, outlines the importance of new technologies to treat Parkinson’s disease. The Brain and Spine Institute (ICM) is...

New targets and novel biomarkers in cardiometabolic diseases

Dr Yu Wang, associate professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy at the University of Hong Kong and State Key Laboratory Hong Kong, on the discovery of novel biomarkers. After obtaining her PhD degree in Proteomics and Biomedical Sciences...

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