Genetically and enzymatically modified red blood cells used to carry a range of valuable payloads like drugs, vaccines and imaging agents for delivery to specific sites in the body, have been created by Whitehead Institute scientists. "We wanted to create high-value red cells that do more than simply carry oxygen," says Whitehead Founding Member Harvey Lodish, who collaborated with Whitehead Member Hidde Ploegh in this pursuit. "Here we've laid out the technology ...
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Serious adverse events like autism, food allergies or cancer that are linked to childhood cancers are really rare, says a review of scientific literature. A host of vaccines commonly given to children under age six were the focus of the systematic review of rigorously conducted studies, published in the peer-reviewed US journal Pediatrics. The report seeks to address a rising trend of vaccine hesitancy among parents in the United States and Europe, ...
Observing life processes as they actually happen at the molecular level is possible with the creation of an imaging technology more powerful and really fast, announced researchers on Monday. Chemical and biological actions can now be measured as they are occurring or, in old-fashioned movie parlance, one frame at a time. This will allow creation of improved biosensors to study everything from nerve impulses to cancer metastasis as it occurs. The measurements, ...
The first Internet-based clinical trial for children with autism was conducted by UC San Francisco researchers, establishing it as a viable and cost effective method of conducting high-quality and rapid clinical trials in this population. In their study, published in the June 2014 issue of the iJournal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/i, the researchers looked at whether an Internet-based trial was a feasible way to evaluate whether ...
