Cancer cells can migrate toward certain ‘sweet spot’ environments: Study gives insight into how cancer spreads and provides a tool for developing new treatments
An international team of researchers led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities engineers have found that cancer cells can gravitate toward certain mechanical “sweet spot” environments, providing new insights into how cancer invades the body. The findings could help scientists and engineers better understand how cancer spreads and could improve future treatments. The study is […]
Immune recognition of self and non-self explored in new study
Unless you are an identical twin, you probably aren’t often mistaken for someone else. Likewise, our own sense of self as distinct from all other humans is deeply ingrained since early childhood. The immune system, however, faces far greater challenges in distinguishing self from non-self. Should this complex surveillance network fail to identify a foreign […]
Aducanumab Data Finally Published, but Alzheimer’s Experts Spot Problems
The long-awaited results of the twin phase III trials for aducanumab (Aduhelm), the controversial drug approved last year for early Alzheimer’s disease, were published in the Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease (JPAD), a journal whose editor-in-chief is aducanumab researcher and study co-author Paul Aisen, MD, of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. […]
Fully 3D-printed, flexible OLED display: Technology opens door to ubiquitous, more easily fabricated electronic screens
In a groundbreaking new study, researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities used a customized printer to fully 3D print a flexible organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display. The discovery could result in low-cost OLED displays in the future that could be widely produced using 3D printers by anyone at home, instead of by technicians […]