Dr. Ramon - Ramon De La Puerta, MD

Top Story Sep 25, 2023

New Way to Target Cancer Cells

Researchers from the University of Arizona Cancer Center have identified a new method of activating specific molecules to target cancer cells while leaving healthy cells unharmed. In their recent study, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Wei Wang, PhD, and his team develop […]

Top Story Sep 25, 2023

Immune Cells in Old and Young

A world-first discovery has revealed special immune cells called ‘killer T cells’ in older adults, directed against influenza viruses, closely resemble those found in newborns and children, but struggle to recognise infected cells — a finding that unlocks the potential for the d […]

Top Story Sep 25, 2023

New Light on a Less Invasive Test for Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Millions of Americans have inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which occurs in one of two forms: Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis. Though the two have similar symptoms, they require different treatment strategies, and tests to distinguish between them are invasive. Though CrohnR […]

Top Story Sep 25, 2023

After Treatment with Semaglutide, Newly Diagnosed Type 1 Diabetes Patients Needed Little or No Insul […]

Treating newly diagnosed Type 1 diabetes patients with semaglutide may drastically reduce or even eliminate their need for injected insulin. A total of 10 patients at UB’s Clinical Research Center in the Division of Endocrinology were studied from 2020 to 2022, all of whom had been diagnose […]

Top Story Sep 22, 2023

Injection-Free Control of Diabetes

One promising approach to treating Type 1 diabetes is implanting pancreatic islet cells that can produce insulin when needed, which can free patients from giving themselves frequent insulin injections. However, one major obstacle to this approach is that once the cells are implanted, they eventua […]

Top Story Sep 22, 2023

Phthalates and Brain Development

Children whose mothers had a higher exposure to certain phthalates during pregnancy tend to show smaller total gray matter in their brains at age 10. This is one of the main conclusions of a study led by the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), […]