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Chronic pain is one of the most prevalent, disabling and expensive public health crises in the United States.

A team of researchers led by psychologists at the University of Georgia have found that the silencing of a specific gene may affect human social behavior, including a person’s ability to form healthy relationships or to recognize the emotional states of others.

The heart is sometimes in a weakened state when recovering from certain diseases or while waiting for a transplant.

A tiny mirror could make a huge difference for scientists trying to understand what’s happening in the micron-scale structures of living cells.

Within the frames of SPIEF-16 the National Immune-biological Company (the State Corporation Rostec) jointly with the Indian company Cipla Limited signed the agreement on technology transfer for active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) manufacturing as well as the production of the finished pharmaceutical forms of co-formulated drugs for HIV and viral Hepatitis treatment.

The agreement enables further development of the Institute's soft exosuit technologies for a range of medical applications

Small electrical currents appear to activate certain immune cells to jumpstart or speed wound healing and reduce infection when there’s a lack of immune cells available, such as with diabetes, University of Aberdeen (U.K.) scientists have found.

CARLSBAD, CA-(Marketwired — June 02, 2016) — International Stem Cell Corporation (OTCQB: ISCO), a California-based clinical stage biotechnology company developing stem cell-based therapies and biomedical products, announced today that it has published the results of a 12-month pre-clinical, non-human primate study.