In August, Sr. Anne Francis Ng'ang'a was elected superior of Georgetown Visitation Monastery, next to Georgetown University. Ng'ang'a talks to GSR about her path from Kenya to D.C., and her life in the Salesian way.
A team of researchers at Northwestern University has discovered a nanotherapy technique to help make immunomodulation more effective, with implications in Type 1 diabetes research and islet cell transplantation.
Researchers at Northwestern recently discovered a new potential mechanism for treating Type 1 diabetes. Using biomedical engineering and nanotechnology — the engineering of microscopic materials to conduct processes — researchers can make one-time insulin-producing cell injections into mice without provoking large-scale immune responses. McCormick Prof. Guillermo Ameer said he joined McCormick Prof. Evan Scott roughly.
Individuals living with type 1 diabetes must carefully follow prescribed insulin regimens every day, receiving injections of the hormone via syringe, insulin pump or some other device. And without viable long-term treatments, this course of treatment is a lifelong sentence.