by Peace Chukwu | Sep 5, 2024
From extracting insulin from the pancreas of cows to extreme diets and herbal remedies for glucose regulation, diabetes treatments over the century have evolved progressively, with each discovery extending the life span of patients a little longer than the last....
by Elizabeth Csaszar | Mar 27, 2017
Research and development (R&D) of a medical therapeutic is a long slog. This isn’t news to anyone working in the field. The average time to bring a new drug product to market is over a decade. Moreover, this is the timeline when everything progresses well –...
by Angela C. H. McDonald | May 29, 2012
Nanotechnology has been a buzzword in the medical technology community for some time. It is defined as the manipulation and use of microscopic structures at the molecular scale, generally 1-100 nanometres in size (1 nanometre is 1 billionth of a metre, which...
by Angela C. H. McDonald | Apr 17, 2012
Most research on stem cells involves the manipulation of gene expression, to some degree or another. During stem cell differentiation, the expression of specific genes orchestrates the choices cells make along the path from stem cell to adult cell — a process...
by Paul Krzyzanowski | May 11, 2010
Imagine that you’ve just discovered a novel drug that potentially solves a medical problem, one that accelerates wound healing in skin or can reduce the size of cancerous tumors. You can show the effects beautifully in your model tissue culture system and mice...
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