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DEEPscope breaks barriers in deep-tissue brain imaging

Researchers at Cornell have unveiled an advanced imaging technology capable of unprecedented deep and wide-field visualization of brain activity at single-cell resolution.

6 Nov 2024

Researchers uncover immune mechanism behind myocarditis from cancer immunotherapy

Some patients being treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors, a type of cancer immunotherapy, develop a dangerous form of heart inflammation called myocarditis.

6 Nov 2024

Researchers receive CAD 45 million to study new psychosis treatments

One out of 100 people will experience a psychotic episode in their lifetime, and these usually appear in late adolescence or early adulthood.

6 Nov 2024

Polyphenol-rich Mediterranean diets could help keep the brain younger

A study reveals that Mediterranean and green-MED diets rich in polyphenols may slow brain aging and reduce neurodegeneration through improved glycemic control.

6 Nov 2024

AI-powered MRI predicts outcomes in prostate cancer

Researchers determine whether artificial intelligence-based MRI data could predict prostate cancer patient outcomes.

6 Nov 2024

AI model predicts Alzheimer’s progression with new insights into racial and sex-based disparities

Researchers developed a deep learning model that predicts Alzheimer’s progression with high accuracy, highlighting differences in disease progression across race and sex.

5 Nov 2024

Innovative heart model could transform personalized cardiac therapy

A team led by researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill have developed an innovative computer model of blood flow in the human heart that promises to transform how we understand, diagnose, and treat heart conditions.

5 Nov 2024

Consortium receives 10 million euros to study in vivo tissue mechanics

The European Research Council is funding a consortium consisting of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, ETH Zurich and TU Graz with a total of 10 million euros for developing new methods to determine the mechanical properties of living human tissue.

5 Nov 2024

Study reveals no impact of extra education on brain aging

Thanks to a 'natural experiment' involving 30,000 people, researchers at Radboud university medical center were able to determine very precisely what an extra year of education does to the brain in the long term.

5 Nov 2024

UCD researcher wins European Research Council Synergy Grant for NanoX project

University College Dublin (UCD) researcher Dr Nicola Fletcher has received a coveted European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant for her groundbreaking project NanoX.

5 Nov 2024

New technology for visualizing AMPA receptors offers insights into psychiatric disorders

Even though psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are quite common, their diagnosis and treatment are challenging.

5 Nov 2024

Exploring the G:Box and for high-quality imaging

In this interview, News Medical speaks with Dr Martin Biggs from Synoptics about Syngene's G:Box, a high-quality imaging and gel documentation system.

From Synoptics Ltd 5 Nov 2024

AI-powered ECG model predicts heart disease risk with precision

A new AI-enhanced ECG model, AIRE, accurately predicts mortality and heart disease risk, providing clinicians with actionable, patient-specific insights.

5 Nov 2024

New Alzheimer's guidelines focus on risk, not diagnosis, in healthy adults

Researchers from the International Working Group recommend categorizing biomarker-positive, cognitively normal individuals as "at risk" for Alzheimer's to avoid unnecessary diagnoses and emphasize preventive care.

4 Nov 2024

UT Dallas researchers awarded $3.7 million NIH grant for brain aging study

Two researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas' Center for Vital Longevity (CVL) have received a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand their study of brain structure, function and cognition across time through the use of powerful high-resolution imaging.

4 Nov 2024

Johns Hopkins study offers new hope for wet AMD patients

A new study from researchers at Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine explains not only why some patients with wet age-related macular degeneration (or "wet" AMD) fail to have vision improvement with treatment, but also how an experimental drug could be used with existing wet AMD treatments to save vision.

4 Nov 2024

Grant awarded to build a portable PET scanner for early Alzheimer's detection

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have received a five-year $6.2 million grant from the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, to build a portable, high-resolution Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner that can detect the earliest stages of Alzheimer's disease.

4 Nov 2024