Taipei, Oct. 7 (CNA) National Taiwan University (NTU) has elected Dean of the College of Engineering Chen Wen-chang (陳文章) as its new president, the country's preeminent higher education institute announced Friday.
Researchers at the National Health Research Institutes have discovered a new strain of intestinal bacteria that could help treat and prevent inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
The study led by Kao Cheng-yuan (高承源), an associate investigator at the institutes’ Immunology Research Center, was published in November last year in the journal Cell Reports.
Growing evidence connects an imbalanced microbiome to a variety of diseases, the institutes said.
Totaling more than the number of cells in the human body, despite only weighing about 200g, gut bacteria are understood to be central to human health.
Nearly a decade of research into the microbiome by Kao and his
The National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) yesterday said its researchers had engineered a novel vascular construct of a stem cell-laden 3D-printed scaffold that can enhance tissue revascularization.
As restoring or replacing a malfunctioning human organ is very difficult and waiting for a suitable organ for a transplant can take a long time, transplantable engineered tissue is highly sought after, but its development has been hampered by the lack of a vascular network within the engineered tissue.
The research team manufactured a novel 3D architecture scaffold with poly(glycerol sebacate) acrylate (PGSA), serving as a functional and transplantable vascular construct, which provides an innovative
Taipei, Nov. 3 (CNA) Taiwan is sparing no effort to pursue a deal with Moderna Inc. to manufacture its COVID-19 vaccine, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said Wednesday, while admitting that goal could be hard to achieve.