New framework for making data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable

The FAIRplus consortium, including EMBL-EBI and pharmaceutical companies, has launched a new framework to help organizations make their data FAIR. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the weak points in molecular data sharing on a massive scale. These include service incompatibilities, data access restrictions, missing data or metadata. Such issues delayed research, resulted in duplication of efforts, […]

Scientists identify a set of altered proteins that predict islet autoimmunity

Scientists have taken an important step forward in predicting who will develop Type 1 diabetes months before symptoms appear. In a paper published online on June 29 in Cell Reports Medicine, researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and their colleagues identify a set of altered proteins that predict a condition known […]

Gene found that prevents most bird flu variants from jumping to humans

A large team of medical researchers and virus specialists at the University of Glasgow working with several colleagues from the University of Edinburgh and one from Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie has discovered a human gene that prevents most avian flu variants from jumping to humans. In their study, reported in the journal Nature, the […]

eTRANSAFE: European project to share data on the safety of medicines

eTRANSAFE, the European project to share data on the safety of medicines, has come to fruition. On a single platform, the project has integrated data from more than 10,000 pharmacological studies by reference pharmaceutical companies, from a dozen databases that amass public and private information of clinical and preclinical studies. The project has also developed […]

Researchers discover secret of stem cells protecting the gastric mucosa

The gastric corpus, which is a major component of the glandular stomach, is composed of parietal, chief, pit, and neck cells. Each of these specialized epithelial cells play an important role in digestion, and they are continuously replenished by new ones which are formed via the differentiation of stem cells. Defects in this process lead […]

'Midlife MOT' DIY test kits to be sent to all over-40s

‘Midlife MOT’ DIY test kits to be sent to all over-40s under huge shake-up of NHS scheme 15million adults aged from 40 to 74 will be eligible for the NHS’s new digital MoT Patients will be invited to complete a health assessment on their phone or laptop A DIY health check for the middle-aged to […]

FDA Approves Lantidra Cellular Therapy to Treat Patients with Type 1 Diabetes

June 28, 2023 — Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Lantidra, the first allogeneic (donor) pancreatic islet cellular therapy made from deceased donor pancreatic cells for the treatment of type 1 diabetes. Lantidra is approved for the treatment of adults with type 1 diabetes who are unable to approach target glycated hemoglobin (average […]