Preclinical study finds senolytics clear up to 70% of 'zombie' cells

Senolytics—a class of drugs that reduce chronic inflammation and tissue damage in aging cells—are shown to eliminate 30% to 70% of "zombie" cells in the body. These zombie cells, known as senescent ...
IEEE

Pneumatically Actuated Deployable Tissue Distension Device for NOTES for Colon

Abstract: When performing some surgical tasks inside colon with NOTES technology, colon tissue could block the task space and occlude the endoscopic vision. In order to solve this problem, we ...
The Guardian

NIH ends funding of research that uses human fetal tissue from abortions

Fetal tissue has been used to advance research into diabetes, Alzheimer’s, infertility and vaccines The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will no longer fund research that uses human fetal tissue ...
Nature

NIH ends support for most human fetal-tissue research – dismaying some scientists

The world’s largest public funder of biomedical research will no longer support studies that use human fetal tissue derived from elective abortions. “It’s clearly a political decision, not a ...