One Million Volunteers Could One Day Revolutionize Medicine
NIH program promises to revolutionize medicine and cure some of the nation’s deadliest diseases. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers are needed.
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Researchers Find Tissue Damage from Covid-19
Researchers are finding extensive tissue damage from COVID-19, a systemic illness that damages cells and organs throughout the body.
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Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 Infection
As the world enters Pandemic Year Two, data is showing that the long-term effects of COVID-19 infection are becoming a long-term problem.
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Women Still Harmed by Male Bias in Clinical Trials
Medications are still being formulated with a strong male bias. Including women in clinical trials could lead to safer dosages for women.
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We Can Beat Antibiotic-Resistant Microbes
Untreatable no longer! Scientists at the Wistar Institute have discovered a way to combat antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections.
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Predictive Power of Biomarkers in Pediatric ICU
Biomarkers allow doctors to detect kidney malfunction earlier, and have the potential to change how we test and treat diseases in the future.
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Killing Cancer From the Inside
Scientists have found a new way to defeat cancer by killing cancer cells without harming the patient.
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Women Endangered by Male Bias in Clinical Trials
Medications are still formulated with a male bias, but new awareness of how different bodies process drugs could lead to safer dosages for women.
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How HPV Tricks Your Immune System
Models suggest HPV tricks the immune system by producing a decoy viral protein to distract from its infectious viral proteins.
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Phendo: Understanding Endometriosis
In 2016, Noémie Elhadad and her lab at Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center created the Phendo, or “phenotyping endometriosis,” app, to better understand and identify symptoms of endometriosis. Endometriosis is a painful condition that causes overgrowth of the endometrium, or inner lining of the uterus, such that it grows outside the uterus and into other places in the body. Their goal is to fill in the gaps of knowledge about how individuals experience the disease on a day-to-day basis. The app invites anyone over the age of 13 who has…
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