Alpha thalassemia was once a fatal diagnosis. Now, a clinical trial tests if administering a mother’s stem cells in utero…
Arming bacteria with diarrhea-fighting nanobodies
By engineering a probiotic with tiny antibodies from alpacas, scientists created a potential new oral tool to treat deadly diarrheal…
Sniffing out cancer with animal noses
Switching on safer CAR T cell therapy
By activating CAR T cells only in the presence of an antibody switch, Travis Young and his team hope to…
Treating cancer with a dose of the pox
The live virus in the smallpox vaccine boosts the activity of cancer-killing immune cells for hard-to-treat tumors. Drug Discovery News
No need for a cold chain with these thin films
Most vaccines and biologics must stay cold until ready for use, but new thin film technology stabilizes these therapeutics for…
The path to treating Parkinson’s disease begins in the gut
New research is unraveling the connection between the gut microbiome and Parkinson’s disease, revealing potential gut-targeted therapeutic strategies. Drug Discovery…
Better rabies treatments bite back
Symptomatic rabies has no cure, but recent advances in rabies structural biology and antibody cocktails point to better treatments on…
Origami vaccines fold up to fight cancer
As self-assembling structures, DNA and RNA origami vaccines hold vaccine components in precise numbers and arrangements to help the immune…
Drops and drugs for diabetic vison loss
Eye injections are the only way to treat diabetic retinopathy, but many refuse to get them. Now, eye drops and…
Stephanie DeMarco -- Science Writer 