Research News

Collaboration and innovation is the key for healthcare and biotechnology companies to develop blockbuster drugs, said leading healthcare experts here on Tuesday.

Certain drugs currently used to treat diseases such as heart failure and cardiac arrhythmia have the potential to be effective in treatment of cancer, new research has found.

A common drug used by diabetes patients to prevent heart disease can be used to aid recovery from a heart attack, reveals a new study.

Australian scientists have developed a revolutionary "bionic spine" which they believe will enable paralysed patients to walk again, the media reported.

Researchers in the US have discovered a new bacterial species that causes the infectious Lyme disease in people.

An implantable device can deliver a particularly toxic cocktail of drugs directly to the highly lethal pancreatic tumours to stunt their growth or in some cases, shrink them all while showing signs that the rest of the body would be spared of the toxic side effects, new research has found.

Researchers have found that a protein, the levels of which can be easily monitored in routine blood tests, could serve as a new biomarker for Alzheimer's disease that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills.

A team led by engineers at University of California-San Diego has 3D-printed a tissue that closely mimics the human liver's sophisticated structure and function.

US researchers have found a new sunscreen that guarantees no loss of vitamin D, rather allows the body to produce the essential vitamin, a deficiency or insufficiency of which causes major health problems in both adults and children.

Researchers from Britain have identified the effect of honey used since ancient times for the treatment of several diseases, on pathogenic fungi that can cause devastating infections in vulnerable people.