Risk of Alzheimer's disease increases with reduction in levels of plasmalogens, a class of lipids produced by the liver that constitute cell membranes in the brain, confirms new research presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) 2018 by Mitchel A. Kling, MD, an associate professor of Psychiatry in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Biophysicists at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have used an infrared sensor to discover which active agents influence the structure of proteins rapidly and easily and calculate the amount of time the change persists.
Healthy.io, of Israel, gains FDA 510(k) approval for Dip.io, it's domestic urinalysis kit that transforms a smartphone into a clinical-standard diagnostic machine. It is the first and only smartphone-based urine analysis to be cleared as a Class 2 device.
23andMe declared an investment of $300 million on Wednesday, made by GlaxoSmithKline to attain special access to their DNA database.
A 20 percent to 50 percent higher risk of developing endometriosis in women with a past of sexual or emotional abuse was observed by a European study published in the journal, Human Reproduction. Similarly, a large U.S. study in the same journal yielded matching results with sexual or physical abuse in the past.
Siemens Health received US-FDA (US-Food and Drug Administration) clearance for two highly sensitive troponin assays, which detect protein levels released into the bloodstream during a heart attack allowing them to be made available in the U.S.
On 26 July 2018, Omeros Corporation announced that the European Medicines Agency's (EMA's) Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products (COMP) have positively recommended the lead human monoclonal antibody named OMS721 for stem cell transplantation therapy.
96-week data on doravirine, Merck’s HIV drug, was posted by the drugmaker recently. Merck expects it to outrun drugs like Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Sustiva in combination regimens and antiretroviral drugs from AbbVie and Johnson & Johnson in viral suppression.
Lawson Health Research Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the Royal Marsden and Epic Sciences conducted an international mutual study which discovered a novel blood test that can foresee advanced prostate cancer patient response to particular treatments, resulting in better survival.
The opening of a new Biomedical Blockchain Research Center was announced by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Institute for Next Generation Healthcare which aims to solve healthcare and medical science issues with new technologies and data.
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