Stem Cell Shot OSCA Shows Early Knee Cartilage Repair

Posted on November 12, 2026November 12, 2026 by IE Contributor

For people living with knee osteoarthritis, today's treatments mostly manage pain until the joint is worn out enough to replace. A new cell therapy presented at the American College of Rheumatology's ACR Convergence 2026 in Orlando suggests that may not always have to be the endgame. In a 113-patient phase 2a trial, a single knee injection called OSCA roughly halved pain over six months and, on MRI, showed early signs of cartilage regrowth (MedPage Today). MedPage Today's headline put it boldly...

11,000 years of isolation: Remote village has unusual Gut Bacteria.

Posted on November 18, 2015 by

A medical checkup of people living in remote villages deep in the Amazon rainforest in Venezuela has uncovered striking details about these villagers' microbiomes and the bacteria living on and in their bodies. The villagers appear to have the highest levels of bacterial diversity ever reported in a human group, the researchers found. Their microbiomes include bacteria that have genes that could make them resistant to treatment with antibiotics. Some of these genes could even make these bacteria...

Contacts could help treat Glaucoma

Posted on November 17, 2015 by

A McMaster PhD candidate has harnessed a component naturally found in tears to develop a contact lens-based drug delivery system for glaucoma patients. Chemical engineer Myrto Korogiannaki has used hyaluronic acid to help get drugs to the eye from a lens in a controlled way. Patients with front-of-the-eye diseases, such as glaucoma, traditionally use medicated eye drops twice a day to treat their ailment. But those drops are incredibly inefficient as only about five per cent of the drug they car...

PalmSecure For Individual Vein Pattern Recognition

Posted on September 13, 2015 by

An innovative biometric identification and security device works without any contact to scanner. The latest technology from PalmSecure™ is a leading-edge authentication system using biometric technology that uses vein pattern recognition. As organizations search for more secure authentication methods for data access, physical access and general security, many are turning to biometrics. Biometrics is gaining attention as a reliable, highly accurate and efficient method of confirming a pe...