Stem Cell Therapy Attacks Cancer by Targeting Unique Tissue Stiffness
Scientists Create Organs-On-Chips for Large-Scale Drug Screening
Led by UCI professor of molecular biology & biochemistry Christopher C.W. Hughes, the research team successfully established multiple vascularized micro-organs on an industry-standard 96-well plate. Hughes and the study’s first author, Duc T. T. Phan, showed that these miniature tissues are much better at reproducing human drug responses than previous model systems. Hughes and his…
Botox’s Sweet Tooth Underlies Key Neuron-Targeting Mechanism
The Botox toxin has a sweet tooth, and it’s this craving for sugars – glycans, to be exact – that underlies its extreme ability target neuron cells in the body … while giving researchers an approach to neutralize it. A study co-led by Rongsheng Jin, professor of physiology & biophysics at the University of California,…