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A randomized, placebo and gold-standard controlled clinical trial, investigating the treatment of incipient buccal caries lesions with CURODONT™ REPAIR was presented at the IADR 2018 in London. In this study Prof. Krejci and his team at the University of Geneva showed that the use of CURODONT™ REPAIR is superior to that of fluoride varnish or a placebo treatment.
CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna has set up shop in San Francisco’s Gladstone Institutes. Doudna, a UC Berkley professor credited with the co-discovery of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technique, will focus on the development of new ways to implement the gene-editing technique for disease treatment.
There are plenty of great scientific research stories out this week. Here’s a look at just a few of them.
Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center used CRISPR gene editing to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in dogs. Their work was published in the journal Science.
There are plenty of great scientific research stories out this week. Here’s a look at just a few of them.
The NIH’s National Institutes on Aging (NIA) and the Alzheimer’s Association brought together various experts and stakeholders to create the National Strategy for Recruitment and Participation in Alzheimer’s Disease Clinical Research.
There are plenty of great scientific research stories out this week. Here’s a look at just a few of them.
Researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio have found a type of cellular stress in Alzheimer’s disease for the first time that is involved in cancer and aging. The stress is called cellular senescence, which is linked to the tau protein tangles associated with end-stage Alzheimer’s disease. The research was published in the journal Aging Cell.
An article published earlier this summer in the Journal of Dental Research suggests that “bioengineered tooth buds” are a “superior alternative tooth replacement therapy.” In the article “Bioengineered Tooth Buds Exhibit Features of Natural Tooth Buds,” the authors report that artificial implants do not exhibit the same properties as natural teeth and are therefore subject to certain complications.
H. Gilbert Welch, a health care policy scholar at Dartmouth College, reportedly plagiarized part of the contents in a 2016 New England Journal of Medicine article. The article focused on breast cancer screening and the increased likelihood of tumors being overdiagnosed.
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