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Medical Xpress / Hip or shoulder? Location matters for bone marrow used in joint repair

Bone marrow aspirate concentrate (BMAC) is a common treatment for joint injuries. The invasive therapy involves extracting bone marrow—often from the hip—and concentrating it to preserve stem cells and growth factors, ...

16 hours ago in Surgery
Phys.org / How protein coatings influence nanoparticles' ability to avoid immune clearance and reach their destinations

Nanomedicine uses ultra-small particles to deliver drugs directly to the tissues and cells that need them, improving treatment effectiveness while reducing side effects. This approach underpins some clinically approved RNA-based ...

Oct 16, 2025 in Nanotechnology
Phys.org / Getting the dose right in reprogramming cells

EPFL researchers have uncovered how transcription factor dosage reshapes cell identity, showing that even small differences in dose can steer cells toward completely different fates. Their findings reveal a new layer of control ...

Oct 15, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / A radiotheranostic approach designed to combat aggressive cancers

UCLA scientists, together with a team of international collaborators, have identified a promising new treatment strategy that can detect, kill and reprogram aggressive, treatment-resistant tumors like osteosarcomas and glioblastoma.

Oct 8, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Phys.org / Polymer scaffold can self-assemble in tissue to deliver multiple vaccine components over time

Sometimes, the best way to achieve a big outcome is to start small. That principle is at the center of new work from a University of Virginia researcher who specializes in nanotechnology and controlled delivery of medical ...

Oct 7, 2025 in Nanotechnology
Medical Xpress / How does your immune system stay balanced? A Nobel Prize-winning answer

Every day, your immune system performs a delicate balancing act, defending you from thousands of pathogens that cause disease while sparing your body's own healthy cells. This careful equilibrium is so seamless that most ...

Oct 7, 2025 in Immunology
Phys.org / Saturday Citations: Bird news: Vultures as curators and a newly discovered interspecies warning call

This week, researchers reported that mild dietary stress supports healthy aging. Engineers created artificial neurons that can communicate directly with living cells. And dark energy observations suggest that the universe ...

Oct 4, 2025 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Soil fungus forms durable hydrogels with potential for biomedical materials

Fungi are vital to natural ecosystems by breaking down dead organic material and cycling it back into the environment as nutrients. But new research from the University of Utah finds one species, Marquandomyces marquandii, ...

Oct 1, 2025 in Chemistry
Medical Xpress / Novel immune system boost helps fight cancer cells

In experiments with mouse models of breast, pancreatic, and muscle cancers, researchers at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital report new evidence that a novel means of boosting the natural immune system prevents cancer ...

Sep 30, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Phys.org / Researchers develop colorized X-ray imaging for clearer material and tissue analysis

When German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays in the late 1800s while experimenting with cathode ray tubes, it was a breakthrough that transformed science and medicine. So much so that the basic concept remains ...

Sep 18, 2025 in Physics
Phys.org / By working together, cells can extend their senses beyond their direct environment

The story of the princess and the pea evokes an image of a highly sensitive young royal woman so refined, she can sense a pea under a stack of mattresses. When it comes to human biology, it also takes an abnormal individual ...

Sep 12, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Researchers keep a mammalian cochlea alive outside the body for the first time

Shortly before his death in August 2025, A. James Hudspeth and his team in the Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience at The Rockefeller University achieved a groundbreaking technological advancement: the ability to keep a tiny ...

Sep 10, 2025 in Neuroscience