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Stanford researchers say they cured diabetes in mice

November 14, 2022 By Sean Whooley

Stanford Medicine Diabetes insulin-secreting pancreatic islet cells mice

A Stanford Medicine study observed the apparent curing of diabetes in mice following transplantation of insulin-secreting pancreatic islet cells. Researchers say the animals’ immune systems accepted the donated cells prior to transplantation. This occurs through a three-pronged process they say they could easily replicate in humans. The mice did not need immune-suppressing treatments after the […]

Filed Under: Diabetes, Research & Development Tagged With: Stanford University

7 diagnostic devices to boost healthcare in the developing world

August 16, 2017 By Danielle Kirsh

Diagnostic-Devices-Developing-World-MD

The World Health Organization estimates that a quarter of death and disease globally is caused by hazards and environmental burdens in developing countries with little to no access to preventative care and diagnostic devices. Since developing countries are poor agricultural regions that are still becoming economically and socially advanced, it is harder for doctors to […]

Filed Under: Diagnostics, Featured, mHealth (Mobile Health), Research & Development Tagged With: Binghamton University, centrifuge, diagnostic devices, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, medtech, North Carolina State University, Stanford University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Cancer diagnostic detects unique mutations in small amount of blood

August 14, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner

Researchers from Stanford University have developed a new diagnostic tool that can detect genetic mutations in small amounts of tumor-derived DNA circulating in a patient’s blood sample. The single color digital PCR assay needs a fraction of a tube of blood and can successfully detect three mutation-bearing molecules in a single reaction, according to the […]

Filed Under: Diagnostics, Featured, Oncology, Research & Development Tagged With: Stanford University

Stanford uses CRISPR to correct sickle cell, human trials planned

November 8, 2016 By Sarah Faulkner

Stanford Medicine

Researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine have reportedly used CRISPR, a gene-editing tool, to repair the gene that causes sickle cell disease. The team is planning the 1st human clinical trial using this technique to correct cells with sickle cell disease, according to Reuters.  “What we’ve finally shown is that we can do it. It’s […]

Filed Under: Clinical Trials, Featured, Research & Development, Stem Cells Tagged With: Broad Institute, Stanford University, University of California Berkeley

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