"Our ultimate aim is to make the process of IVF more successful for couples, and to help produce the healthiest pregnancy possible for the benefit of the whole family," researcher says

The biggest obstacle to delivering insulin orally is ushering it through the stomach intact

"Today, ultrasound is mostly anatomical," says lead author of the study. "We want to bring it down to the molecular and cellular level."

Working with mouse models of colon and breast cancer, researchers demonstrated that when combined with chemotherapy, the nanoparticle reduced tumor growth substantially more than chemotherapy alone

No clear common signature seen across ten studies taken together

This work resulted in the award of a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office protecting the use of the compound against various forms of cancer

The areas which were most improved by exercising were patients’ ability to understand social situations, their attention spans, and their ‘working memory’

By creating a cell model of medulloblastoma from human cells rather than working with mouse cells, the researchers say they can be more confident that patients’ response to the drugs identified in the screenings may be more comparable to humans

Targeting genes by the thousands

“We’re interested in seeing if there are things we can do to strengthen the natural defenses of the host to help them fight the infection more effectively,” said research team's leader.