To better capture the complex architecture of real human blood vessels, researchers in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University have developed a customizable vessel-chip method, enabling more accurate vascular disease research and a drug discovery platform.

Stanford-led study finds small-scale tree cover in Costa Rica boosts biodiversity while limiting dangerous mosquito species

Runaway cell death and inflammation triggered by severe trauma may be interrupted by a drug used to prevent alcohol abuse – and it may be particularly effective in females, according to new research led by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine surgeon-scientists and published today in Science Translational Medicine.

Physicians at MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital have developed a treatment algorithm to standardize care for children with sickle cell disease who present to the Emergency Department with a fever. With the new algorithm, emergency physicians confer with the hematology/oncology team to determine patients’ levels of risk, recommending that low-risk patients be treated as outpatients. The tool could at once improve the efficiency of care and decrease costs for patients and their families.