July 7, 2024

More effective cancer treatment with iontronic pump

When low doses of cancer drugs are administered continuously near malignant brain tumours using so-called iontronic technology, cancer cell growth drastically decreases. Researchers at Linköping University and the Medical University of Graz demonstrated this in experiments with bird embryos. The results is one step closer to new types of effective […]
July 5, 2024

Spinal cord formation in the embryo: the role of a protein family understood

The discovery of the role of β-arrestins in the formation of the spinal cord at the embryonic stage opens up the prospect of exploring mechanisms that could repair spinal cord damage. Work by the team of Dr. Frédéric Charron, Director of the Molecular Biology of Neuronal Development Research Unit at the Montreal […]