Compounds in coffee may fight Parkinson’s
Caffeine plus another compound in coffee beans' waxy coating may protect against brain degeneration...
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Higher radiation tolerance for proteins imaged using LPEM
Liquid-phase electron microscopy could overcome limitations identified through traditional protein imaging techniques and through cro-electron microscopy...
Tailoring treatment for acute myeloid leukaemia
Rapid drug response screening for leukaemia stem cells offers clues to relapse and to improving patient-specific therapies...
Repurposing wasp venom as antibiotic drugs
Researchers have used wasp venom to create variants of a peptide that is potent against bacteria but nontoxic to human cells...
Phospholipid reactive T-cells could play a role in cancer
Phospholipid-reactive T-cells that are able to recognise phospholipids could help in treatments against cancer, autoimmune diseases and dyslipidemia...
New imaging tools that trace key breast cancer enzymes may help guide therapies
Series of molecules may provide more reliable relief with fewer side effects...
Prolonging antibiotic potency by differentiating between resilience and resistance
Distinguishing whether bacteria are resistant to antibiotics or resilient to them is hugely important in determining the success of the treatment...
Immunoassay developed to detect small molecules
An immunoassay developed to analyse small molecules has shown 50 times greater accuracy than current systems of analytical techniques...
Oral squamous cell carcinoma prognostic signature identified
Discovery based on analysis of tissue and saliva samples from oral cancer patients shows a correlation between a signature comprising three peptides and the presence of lymph node metastasis...
Pinpointing biopsies to detect and target cancer
Software that overlays tumour information from MRI scans onto ultrasound images could help to highlight areas of concern, and to detect and target cancer...
Imaging whole brains of mice using functional ultrasound
Functional ultrasound imaging has been used by researchers to obtain high-quality, high-resolution images of whole brains of mice...
Frizzled receptors could be drug targets for treating major diseases
Frizzled receptors, from the GPCR family, could soon be a target to treat numerous diseases such as cancer, fibrosis and CVD...
New approach turns immune cells into tiny anti-tumour drug factories
In lab and mouse experiments researchers have developed a method to leverage B cells to manufacture and secrete tumour-suppressing microRNAs...
Nanoscale ‘tweezers’ for individual cell biopsies
Researchers have developed nanoscale 'tweezers' used to investigate single living cells, which could help to identify why healthy cells become diseased...
T-cells engineered to recognise tumours expressing the CD30 protein marker
Researchers have genetically engineered immune cells to recognise and fight Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma cells...