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Study highlights the importance of ensuring newborns have close contact with parents during COVID-19

New research from WHO and partners shows that the COVID-19 pandemic is severely affecting the quality of care given to small and sick newborns, resulting in unnecessary suffering and deaths.

16 Mar 2021

‘Painless’ glucose monitors pushed despite little evidence they help most diabetes patients

In the nation's battle against the diabetes epidemic, the go-to weapon being aggressively promoted to patients is as small as a quarter and worn on the belly or arm.

16 Mar 2021

Use of artificial intelligence to tackle coronavirus must go through ethical checks, say experts

Rapid deployment of artificial intelligence and machine learning to tackle coronavirus must still go through ethical checks and balances, or we risk harming already disadvantaged communities in the rush to defeat the disease.

16 Mar 2021

Online platforms can increase drug overdose

HSE University researchers together with specialists from the Humanitarian Action Charitable Fund (St. Petersburg) and the University of Michigan School of Public Health (USA) studied the specifics of remote work with Russian people who use drugs to reduce the harm of drug use.

16 Mar 2021

COVID-19 pandemic is affecting quality of care given to small and sick newborn babies

The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the quality of care given to small and sick newborn babies in all regions of the world and threatening implementation of life-saving interventions, suggests new research published in BMJ Global Health.

16 Mar 2021

Non-invasive skin swab samples can rapidly detect COVID-19

Researchers at the University of Surrey have found that non-invasive skin swab samples may be enough to detect COVID-19.

16 Mar 2021

Researchers develop near-infrared light triggered drug delivery system

A new concept of on-demand drug delivery system has emerged in which the drugs are automatically released from in vivo medical devices simply by shining light on the skin.

15 Mar 2021

UofL and Medtronic collaborate to develop epidural stimulation software for spinal cord injury

Researchers at the University of Louisville made news worldwide in 2018 when two people diagnosed with complete spinal cord injuries recovered the ability to walk thanks to experimental use of a therapy known as epidural stimulation.

15 Mar 2021

Skin rashes more common in adults tested positive for COVID-19

Previous studies conducted in hospitals reported that COVID-19 patients presented with unusual skin rashes.

15 Mar 2021

Novel computer-guided design tool helps increase the efficiency of cell conversions

There is a great need to generate various types of cells for use in new therapies to replace tissues that are lost due to disease or injuries, or for studies outside the human body to improve our understanding of how organs and tissues function in health and disease.

13 Mar 2021

Cats with chronic kidney disease may help inform treatment for humans in future

The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine is investigating how cats with chronic kidney disease could someday help inform treatment for humans.

13 Mar 2021

Researchers discover new mechanism that contributes to airway hyperresponsiveness in asthma

In asthma, the airways become hyperresponsive. Researchers from Uppsala University have found a new mechanism that contributes to, and explains, airway hyperresponsiveness.

13 Mar 2021

UMass Amherst researcher focuses on understanding fundamental aspects of the hand's microbiome

Skin microbiome researcher Dr. Kelly Haas, of the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Biology Department, recently began a research partnership with Akron, Ohio-based GOJO Industries to study the structure, stability, and resilience of the hand microbiome.

13 Mar 2021

Living in neighborhoods with high rates of violence and poverty alters gene activity

The chronic stress of living in neighborhoods with high rates of violence and poverty alters gene activity in immune cells, according to a new study of low-income single Black mothers on the South Side of Chicago.

12 Mar 2021

VEXAS syndrome in men is more common than previously thought

A rare disease first identified in 2020 is much more common than first thought, say researchers at the University of Leeds investigating its origins.

11 Mar 2021

Electric stimulation increases permeability of the blood vessels to speed wound healing

Electric stimulation may be able to help blood vessels carry white blood cells and oxygen to wounds, speeding healing, a new study suggests.

11 Mar 2021

Research shows how humans have sensitive and accurate sense of touch

Fingerprints may be more useful to us than helping us nab criminal suspects: they also improve our sense of touch. Sensory neurons in the finger can detect touch on the scale of a single fingerprint ridge, according to new research published in JNeurosci.

11 Mar 2021

Organ-on-chip consortium receives huge grant to develop a universal standard for pharmaceutical industry

Scientists are pushing ahead building 'organ-on-chips', small chips with human cells, which are useful, for example, for studying cancerous metastases in the bloodstream or the development of scar tissue, or for testing the effect of drugs or food outside a human body.

10 Mar 2021

Tiny antibodies naturally generated by llamas can be effective against COVID-19

As the fight against COVID-19 continues, scientists have turned to an unlikely source for a potentially effective treatment: tiny antibodies naturally generated by llamas.

10 Mar 2021

Human cerebral organoid model to screen drugs for treatment of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Approximately two years after establishing a human cerebral organoid system to study Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), National Institutes of Health researchers have further developed the model to screen drugs for potential CJD treatment.

9 Mar 2021

Skin News and Research

Study highlights the importance of ensuring newborns have close contact with parents during COVID-19

‘Painless’ glucose monitors pushed despite little evidence they help most diabetes patients

Use of artificial intelligence to tackle coronavirus must go through ethical checks, say experts

Online platforms can increase drug overdose

COVID-19 pandemic is affecting quality of care given to small and sick newborn babies

Non-invasive skin swab samples can rapidly detect COVID-19

Researchers develop near-infrared light triggered drug delivery system

UofL and Medtronic collaborate to develop epidural stimulation software for spinal cord injury

Skin rashes more common in adults tested positive for COVID-19

Novel computer-guided design tool helps increase the efficiency of cell conversions

Cats with chronic kidney disease may help inform treatment for humans in future

Researchers discover new mechanism that contributes to airway hyperresponsiveness in asthma

UMass Amherst researcher focuses on understanding fundamental aspects of the hand's microbiome

Living in neighborhoods with high rates of violence and poverty alters gene activity

VEXAS syndrome in men is more common than previously thought

Electric stimulation increases permeability of the blood vessels to speed wound healing

Research shows how humans have sensitive and accurate sense of touch

Organ-on-chip consortium receives huge grant to develop a universal standard for pharmaceutical industry

Tiny antibodies naturally generated by llamas can be effective against COVID-19

Human cerebral organoid model to screen drugs for treatment of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

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