Researchers have found a way to turn an unlikely waste product, human urine, into a high-value material for medical implants, construction, and even archaeology. This sounds like something out of science fiction. A team at the University of California, Irvine, is in charge of this new idea, which is funded by the U.S. military’s Defense ...
For 100 years, insulin has been the primary treatment for type 1 diabetes (T1D) and despite being a lifesaver for millions, it is far from perfect. New clinical trials indicate that semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, may be the first significant add-on therapy for T1D since the introduction of insulin in 1921. ...
For millions of people with migraines, relief has been hard to find. Existing treatments don’t work for everyone, and the search for new ones has been slow. But now, diabetes and weight-loss drugs have come out of an unexpected area of medicine as a strong competitor. In a small but important trial, liraglutide, a drug ...
Doctors were shocked to find that the new kidney they were going to give a 61-year-old man was full of parasitic worms. This nearly cost him his life. Ten weeks after the surgery, the patient was taken back to Massachusetts General Hospital (MassGen) in bad shape, throwing up, having a fever, and having trouble breathing. ...
The story of the “Pharaoh’s Curse” haunted archaeologists for hundreds of years. It started with the excavation of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 and continued with the mysterious deaths of teams in Poland’s Casimir IV crypt in the 1970s. Scientists have now found a shocking twist: the fungus that was thought to be responsible for ...
People thought for a long time that cancer was a disease that only older people got, mostly in their later years. But something troubling is happening: more adults under 50 are being diagnosed with cancer than ever before. Researchers are scrambling for answers as the number of early-onset cases of breast, colorectal, kidney, and uterine ...
For more than 100 years, acetaminophen, which is better known as Tylenol, has been a common way to relieve pain. Scientists have never fully understood how it works, even though it is used by a lot of people. A new study that changes everything says we might have been wrong about how it works all ...
A South Korean research team has accomplished what was once thought of as science fiction: reprogramming malignant cancer cells into healthy, functional tissue without chemotherapy or radiation in a ground-breaking leap for oncology Under the direction of Professor Kwang-Hyun Cho of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), this ground-breaking method may redefine ...
An HIV diagnosis was thought of as a death sentence for decades. Millions of people living with the virus lead long, healthy lives today thanks to revolutionary medical advances. One still unresolved issue is whether HIV/AIDS can ever be totally cured. The response is more hopeful and complicated than you would think. Although ART can ...
The Black Death was an evolutionary arms struggle between humanity and one of the most clever pathogens in history, not only a mediaeval horror. The bacterium causing the plague, Yersinia pestis, evolved to guarantee its survival rather than merely killing millions. Now, revolutionary studies show how the plague changed its genetic code to become less ...
