Jerusalem-based biotech startup Senseera has secured $7.1 million in seed funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lowy Medical Research Institute, and I-Next Capital. Senseera’s innovative GEM BIOMARKERS™ liquid biopsy platform leverages cfChIP-seq technology to decode cell-specific gene expression and cell states from … Continue reading

Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a new bioactive material that could help people regrow cartilage in damaged joints. The substance successfully regenerated high-quality cartilage in the knee joints of a sheep within six months. “Cartilage is a critical component … Continue reading

Researchers affiliated with Duta Wacana Christian Univeristy in Yogyakarta, Java Island,  Indonesia as well as collaborators conducted a meta-analysis investigating any association between vitamin D levels and cognitive dysfunction, such as dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.   While the case literature is … Continue reading

Solam Lee at Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine’s Department of Dermatology, and colleagues from the Republic of Korea recently completed a primary cohort study tapping into and analyzing data from the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) and Korea Disease … Continue reading

Are the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines durability improving? No, they are not, and in fact, even if an individual followed public health instructions, getting three doses of the primary series to bolster protection with a mutating virus and a vaccine truly … Continue reading

The national Israeli health system’s data served as a fundamental source of information about how the COVID-19 vaccines were working. It was in Israel that TrialSite started to track significant breakthrough infections as well as myocarditis incidence, for example. A key … Continue reading

An important legal case in the incredibly influential Ninth Circuit federal court was just ruled upon involving the Plaintiffs-Appellants Health Freedom Defense Fund, Inc, a Wyoming not-for-profit including Jeffrey Fuentes, Sandra Garcia, Hovhannes Saponghian, Normal Brambila, as well as the … Continue reading

Amir Hadanny, MD at Sagol Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Research, Shamir (Assaf Harofeh) Medical Center as well as Tel-Aviv University and Israeli colleagues previously in a randomized controlled trial reported significant improvements in cognitive, psychiatric, fatigue, sleep, and pain … Continue reading

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is investing approximately $30 million in total over fiscal years 2024 and 2025, to pilot a national primary care research network that integrates clinical research with community-based primary care. The new initiative called Communities Advancing … Continue reading

Researchers from Guang’anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing sought to better understand any therapeutic effects of vitamin D supplementation on COVID-19, a topic deemed “controversial and inconclusive.” Conducting a literature review as part of a meta-analysis … Continue reading

The uptick in cancers during the COVID-19 era continues to attract more mainstream media now, especially after the end of the national emergency. Now the Washington Post acknowledges the surge in cancer cases. TrialSite has reported on a handful of … Continue reading

The RECOVERY Collaborative group of medical researchers led by heavyweight epidemiologist and physician Sir Peter Horby affiliated with the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford in the United Kingdom was influential during the COVID-19, pandemic.  With nearly 50,000 participants and 189 active … Continue reading

Organoid experts at Cincinnati Children’s, Mayo Clinic and UC San Diego have developed the world’s first human mini-brain that incorporates a fully functional blood-brain barrier (BBB), opening new pathways for disease research and drug development for a wide range of brain … Continue reading

Argentinian lawyer/study subject/activist Augusto Roux has a new job: criminally prosecuting Pfizer and others in the COVID-19 research ecosystem of Argentina for its actions relating to COVID-19 vaccine testing. By now, at least in the United States, we are used … Continue reading

National University of Singapore scientists have discovered a new way to stimulate muscle cells to produce and release proteins possessing anticancer properties, by using brief and mild pulsed electromagnetic field exposure. These soluble chemical molecules can then be carried in … Continue reading

Another physician was recently punished for prescribing ivermectin during the COVID-19 pandemic. A multi-faceted drug with Nobel Prize—honored distinction, not to mention approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with billions of doses consumed involving major public health … Continue reading