Over the last two and a half years, Stanford University researchers have been developing and improving a brain-computer interface (BCI) that allows paralyzed individuals to input data into…
Virtually all cervical cancers are caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). There are more than 200 HPV subtypes and at least 13 are carcinogenic. Two subtypes, HPV 16…
Walter H. Koch, PhD, Vice President of Global Research for Roche Molecular Systems, discusses the expansion of research on Zika virus in response to last year’s outbreak.
The use of antibiotics disrupts the ecology of the microbiome in three important ways. First, antibiotic therapy can lead to secondary infection, as in antibiotic-associated diarrhea caused by…
Multiple clinical trials are currently underway examining the possible synergistic effects of combining chemotherapy with immunotherapies for patients with bladder cancer and other metastases.
Probiotics can both restore and establish the microbiome after disruption by antibiotics. When the microbiome is compromised by antibiotic therapy, resulting in conditions such as antibiotic-associated diarrhea, probiotics…
Julio A. Aguirre-Ghiso, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Hematology, and Medical Oncology at the Tisch Cancer Institute Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, is leading a study on…
