FDA Approves Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis Gene Therapy to Potentially Cure Blindness Orange County, CA – December 21st 2017 – Inherited blindness is a rare mutation that gradually extirpates normal vision. According to Spark Therapeutics’ website, more than 220 genes are responsible for the inheritance of retinal diseases. On Thursday, the FDA approved a gene therapy which could […]
NASA Study Finds Prolonged Exposure to Zero Gravity During Spaceflight Alters Astronauts’ Brain Structure Orange County, CA – December 15th 2017 – It has been 55 years since the first American astronaut successfully orbited the earth. Since that historic mission, scientific medicine has attempted to explain the effects of microgravity on the human body; specifically, on the […]
A Research Team Has Developed 3D Resin Ossicular Implants to Help with Hearing Loss Orange County, CA – December 14th 2017 – Thanks to 3D printing technology, patients suffering from a specific type of hearing loss may find relief. Known as ossicular conductive hearing loss, this results from damage to the ossicles bones responsible for vibration transmission […]
Researchers Present Two New Studies Focusing on Youth Football and Its Impact on The Brain Orange County, CA – December 7th 2017 – Earlier this month, at the annual Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) conference, researchers with UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem presented two new studies centered on youth […]
Developed over a ten year period, patients in Scotland are the first humans in the world to experience FFC-MRI Orange County, CA – December 4th 2017 – Developers at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland have invented a powerful MRI scanner dubbed as ‘100 MRIs in one’. Developed over a ten year period, patients in Scotland are the […]
FDA Approves Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis Gene Therapy to Potentially Cure Blindness Orange County, CA – December 21st 2017 – Inherited blindness is a rare mutation that gradually extirpates normal vision. According to Spark Therapeutics’ website, more than 220 genes are responsible for the inheritance of retinal diseases. On Thursday, the FDA approved a gene therapy which could […]
NASA Study Finds Prolonged Exposure to Zero Gravity During Spaceflight Alters Astronauts’ Brain Structure Orange County, CA – December 15th 2017 – It has been 55 years since the first American astronaut successfully orbited the earth. Since that historic mission, scientific medicine has attempted to explain the effects of microgravity on the human body; specifically, on the […]
A Research Team Has Developed 3D Resin Ossicular Implants to Help with Hearing Loss Orange County, CA – December 14th 2017 – Thanks to 3D printing technology, patients suffering from a specific type of hearing loss may find relief. Known as ossicular conductive hearing loss, this results from damage to the ossicles bones responsible for vibration transmission […]
Researchers Present Two New Studies Focusing on Youth Football and Its Impact on The Brain Orange County, CA – December 7th 2017 – Earlier this month, at the annual Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) conference, researchers with UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem presented two new studies centered on youth […]
Developed over a ten year period, patients in Scotland are the first humans in the world to experience FFC-MRI Orange County, CA – December 4th 2017 – Developers at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland have invented a powerful MRI scanner dubbed as ‘100 MRIs in one’. Developed over a ten year period, patients in Scotland are the […]