New Research May Alter Immune Cells in CAR-T Therapy Faster
CAR-T cell therapy research has come a long way in recent years. However, one problem continues to stand in the way of using this treatment for more people: how to shorten the period necessary to process the T-cells. This normally takes between 9 and 14 days. Researchers at Penn Medicine may have an answer to …
Sports Concussions Versus Benefits of Youth Sports Participation
Organised sports activities for middle school and high school students often play a major role in the life of adolescents. Whether they play only at school or in after-school organised sports, participation in active physical sports generally enhances the young person’s life. There are also risks encountered by youth who participate in sports activities. Perhaps …
Ruling Made in CRISPR Patent Case
The co-inventors of CRISPR gene editing, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their groundbreaking contributions to this revolutionary genetic technology. Doudna and Charpentier were an integral part of a now-legendary gene editing research team at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) in the early 2010s. In June …
Technology Can Enable the Promotion of Wellness
Healthy living is a subject and topic that unfortunately has not gotten the attention it so deserves. According to health expert Helen Lee Schifter this has been a gross miscalculation on the part of members of the media, lawmakers and those fostering the culture we live in. Indeed there are ways that should be explored …
Employing Technology to Promote Healthy Living
Technology has affected nearly any and every industry that exists on the horizon. Few can think of an industry that has not been substantially changed and altered based on the developments that have been brought to it courtesy of the technology space changing in such a rapid way. The healthcare industry has not changed as …
Helen Schifter on Technology Promoting Wellness
Helen Schifter has been an outspoken advocate of the need for the health and wellness industries to embrace the tremendous amounts of change that are transpiring all around us, in so many different ways. Technology has indeed affected so many different industries – not only in terms of the way those industries are commercially operating, …
Promoting Wellness Through Technology
Helen Schifter has written extensively about the value of maintaining a lifestyle filled with health and wellness. This is a topic that has not gotten the attention it most definitely deserves. There are likely many reasons for this – including the fact that the topic is not as healthy and does not involve immediate benefits …