With a $35 million gift from researcher, philanthropist and race car driver Theodore Giovanis, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine will study the biological roots of the most fatal aspect of cancer: how it metastasizes, or spreads, through the body. The contribution, a 15-year commitment, will establish the Giovanis Institute for Translational Cell Biology, dedicated to […]
Researchers at Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have evidence that an experimental drug may prevent or slow vision loss in people with diabetes. The results are from a study that used mouse as well as human retinal organoids and eye cell lines. Eye conditions that cause vision loss are common complications of […]
Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have used artificial intelligence models and machine-learning algorithms to successfully predict which components of amino acids that make up therapeutic proteins are most likely to safely deliver therapeutic drugs to animal eye cells. The project, a collaboration with researchers from the University of Maryland, holds promise […]
Two researchers from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine were elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), a private, nonprofit community of esteemed scientists committed to furthering science and scientific research within America. The NAS is also the publisher of the notable journal, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, or PNAS. […]
The University of Leeds is opening its doors to students around the world with a ground-breaking new online Disability Studies course. Students will be able to access world-leading teaching alongside like-minded learners in an accessible and inclusive global classroom. The online MSc Disability Studies, Rights and Inclusion course will support students to recognise, understand and […]
Uniquely positioned to deliver industry-leading Full-Stack Observability to customers, Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) announced today a new OpenTelemetry-based integration of Cisco AppDynamics application observability and ThousandEyes network intelligence. This integration is bi-directional, with data exchanged simultaneously between both solutions, in real time. User experience has increasingly become a key performance indicator at the boardroom level. Organizations […]
Reducing the dose and duration of radiotherapy treatments for anal cancer may result in fewer side effects, recent clinical trial results have shown. The study, called PLATO, is run through the Leeds CRUK Clinical Trials Unit at the University of Leeds and is funded by Cancer Research UK and Stand Up To Cancer. It consists […]
Practical guidelines which will help to make parks and green spaces safer for women and girls across the UK are being launched at a conference organised by the University of Leeds. It follows a recent study of a cross-section of more than a hundred women and girls from West Yorkshire which found that most believed […]
