Asthma, accompanied by lung inflammation, bronchoconstriction and airway hyper-responsiveness, is a significant public health burden. Currently, asthma treatments such as anticholinergics target the hypersensitive nerves
Manual Body Regulation
Neuroinnovations
Cat-like ‘hearing’ for the augmented human with device at smallest scale yet.
Human augmentation is the attempt to temporarily or permanently enhance the human body through natural or artificial means. More commonly cybernetics and/or enabling human-computer interfaces
Cardiology
Researchers identify elusive stem cells which can make fully-functional blood vessels.
It is known that blood vessels are responsible for transporting oxygen-rich red blood cells, nutrients, and immune cells throughout the body, to name just a
InnovateCancer
Researchers use non-invasive ‘diagnostic pill’ to detect breast cancer in mice.
Cancer therapy has been rapidly advancing toward molecular characterization, however, screening technology such as mammograms can be painful and generally rely on anatomical differences that
Precision Genetics And Epigenetics
Genetic ‘dial’ to control body size in pigs identified.
Transplants save thousands of lives every year, however, there is an acute shortage of human donors. This shortage has led to attempts to develop animal
Previously unknown method of neurotransmission identified.
The neuronal gene Arc is essential for long-lasting information storage in the mammalian brain, mediates various forms of synaptic plasticity, and has been implicated in
IMMUNOLOGY
Living drug factories can be implanted to produce insulin for months.
In patients with diabetes, the immune system attacks the pancreas, eventually leaving patients without the ability to naturally control blood sugar. These patients must carefully
