• Proteomics Approach Working Its Way To The Clinic For Stubborn Cancers

    Bio-IT World | For roughly half of patients with recurrence of often-deadly glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), their tumors are characterized by cells that look a lot like healthy neurons. The mimicry trick was discovered by proteomics, which has opened a view to tumor alterations unavailable through genetics alone.

    Feb 22, 2024

  • Latest Oral Insulin Drug Making Its Way To Clinical Trials

    Bio-IT World | More than a century has passed since the discovery of insulin, the world's first life-saving treatment for diabetes, and it is still being delivered via injection despite several brushes with success in developing an oral version of the drug. Hope is again on the horizon with the emergence of an oral nanotherapeutic formulation of insulin that comes with the possibility of reducing if not eliminating hypoglycemic events.

    Feb 20, 2024

  • New Vaccinology Rulebook Needed To Outsmart ‘Part-Time Pathogens’

    Bio-IT World | Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have found that the rules of vaccinology need to be reversed for Staphylococcus aureus (SA), the common and sometimes dangerous bacteria that humans encounter shortly after birth and are continuously exposed to for the remainder of their life.

    Feb 15, 2024