Tag: Therapies

Highly regenerative salamander could lead to new regenerative medicine therapies — ScienceDaily

With its amazing capacity to regenerate tissues and organs, its ability to reproduce in a laboratory environment and the ease with which its genes can be manipulated, the Mexican salamander, or axolotl, holds enormous promise as a model for the study of regenerative medicine. But unlike research on traditional models like the mouse, fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) and roundworm (Caenorhabditis …

Developing therapies for cats, dogs & patients

© Easton Chen There are no satisfactory therapies for many debilitating genetic neurological disorders. In the case of rare diseases, due to the small number of patients, even the natural course of the disease cannot be well understood. Naturally occurring hereditary diseases in cats and dogs are useful models for understanding disease progression and developing effective and safe therapies for …

COVID-19 dual-antibody therapies effective against variants in animal study – Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Visit the news hub Combination therapies appear to prevent drug resistance from developing Matt Miller Read moreIncreasing Need for Immunotherapies and Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicines Presents OpportunitiesMD / PhD student Rita Chen (left) and Brett Case, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow, prepare to work with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, under strict biosecurity conditions. Chen, Case, and MD / …