Sir William Osler was a wise old owl in explaining medical matters. He was a professor of medicine at McGill University in Montreal, John Hopkins University in Baltimore, and finally at Oxford ...

ETH researchers have developed a new gene switch that can be activated using a commercially available nitroglycerine patch applied to the skin. One day, researchers want to use switches of this ...

The reason is that the switch can be triggered using the long-established active ingredient nitroglycerine, and that the means of application – sticking a patch to the skin – is very simple.

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