Study discovers diagnostic procedures for cardiovascular diseases

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Washington [US], June 25 (ANI): Recent research has moved us one step closer to developing effective treatments for complex cardiovascular diseases...

Cancer and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remain two of modern medicines most pressing issues..

Talking about the potential applications of their research, author Hua Zhu, remarks, With the increasing popularity of positron emission tomography and computed tomography equipment, we expect our probe to be used for screening patients with higher potential benefit from therapy, localizing systemic lesions, and evaluating the efficacy of novel drugs...

The team developed a novel RNA sequencing-based, low-cost workflow called TCM-seq, which enabled them to simultaneously measure the effects of different doses of PG and PN components on multiple cell lines at the RNA or transcriptome level, significantly reducing experimental times and costs...

To this end, they mechanically stimulated breast cancer and kidney cells and developed a mathematical framework to record the change in their mechanical (viscosity and elasticity) properties in response to the drugs doxorubicin and paclitaxel...

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