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AI could play a key role in improving prostate cancer treatment outcomes

A study led by UCLA investigators shows that artificial intelligence (AI) could play a key role in improving treatment outcomes for men with prostate cancer by helping physicians determine who is most likely to benefit from partial gland cryoablation, a minimally invasive procedure that treats localized prostate tumors.

18 Mar 2025

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences launches industry-first modular spectral flow cytometry solution

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, a global leader in laboratory automation and innovation, and an Operating Company of Danaher Corporation, revolutionizes spectral flow cytometry with the industry’s first modular solution: the CytoFLEX mosaic Spectral Detection Module.

From Beckman Coulter Life Sciences - Flow Cytometry 18 Mar 2025

Researchers uncover flexibility in brain development and visual recognition

Riddle me this: how can it be that reading these words activates nearly identical word-sensitive patches of the brain's visual system in you and nearly every other reader of this story? And that a different set of face-sensitive visual regions-again in almost identical positions in each reader's brain-would activate to process the faces of the researchers, should you meet them?

17 Mar 2025

Frequently asked questions about BioAFM

Do you have a question about BioAFM? This article will tell you everything you need to know.

From Bruker BioAFM 17 Mar 2025

Study links inflammation pathways to changes in bone mineral density

In one of the first studies of its kind, a team of researchers from Keck School of Medicine of USC has found that proteins and pathways involved in inflammation are associated with changes in bone mineral density (BMD) over time.

14 Mar 2025

Can sex help you sleep better?

Sexual activity—whether partnered or solo—improves sleep efficiency and reduces night-time wakefulness, according to a pilot study. The research also shows that couples who sleep together experience more synchronized REM sleep, regardless of sexual activity.

13 Mar 2025

Researchers uncover 195 genetic risk factors driving women’s reproductive diseases

Scientists identified 195 genetic risk loci across 42 female reproductive health conditions, revealing shared genetic pathways and developing a polygenic risk score for intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP). These findings pave the way for personalized reproductive healthcare and targeted treatments based on genetic risk.

12 Mar 2025

Making Complex Cell Culture Easy and Efficient with AI

Molecular Devices' CellXpress AI streamlines cell culture processes, reducing human error and improving efficiency in drug discovery with advanced automation.

From Molecular Devices UK Ltd 12 Mar 2025

Some CT scans deliver too much radiation, researchers say. Regulators want to know more.

Rebecca Smith-Bindman, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco medical school, has spent well over a decade researching the disquieting risk that one of modern medicine's most valuable tools, computerized tomography scans, can sometimes cause cancer.

12 Mar 2025

An Arm and a Leg: Medical-debt watchdog gets sidelined by the new administration

The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has taken major steps to help people with medical debt in its nearly 14-year history.

12 Mar 2025

Wiley announces latest release of its Wiley Identifier of Natural Products

Wiley, one of the world's largest publishers and a global leader in research and learning, today announced the 2025 release of its Wiley Identifier of Natural Products (AntiBase Library + ChemWindow).

From John Wiley and Sons - Scientific Publishers 11 Mar 2025

New mobile app aids in rehabilitating hemiparesis following stroke

Brazilian researchers have developed a cell phone application that helps rehabilitate people who have suffered a stroke.

11 Mar 2025

Reproductive justice principles improve perinatal mental health for Black birthing patients

Perinatal interventions guided by reproductive justice principles can have positive effects on the perinatal mental health of Black birthing patients and, perhaps, the mental health development of their infants, states a systematic review published in a special issue of Harvard Review of Psychiatry, part of the Lippincott portfolio from Wolters Kluwer.

10 Mar 2025

Neighborhood factors shape rehabilitation access for older adults with TBI

Contextual social determinants of health (SDoH) – for example, rural residence and neighborhood economic factors – may affect access to community-based rehabilitation services for older adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI), suggests a study in the March/April issue of Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation (JHTR).

10 Mar 2025

Feeding strategies in preterm infants do not alter brain growth or cognition

Early nutrition in very preterm infants does not significantly impact brain growth or neurodevelopment when following standardized clinical guidelines, despite initial unadjusted associations.

5 Mar 2025

Botox injections improve facial symmetry after nerve transfer surgery for facial palsy

For patients undergoing nerve transfer surgery for facial palsy, Botox injections can improve facial symmetry by reducing overactivity of the muscles on the unaffected side, suggests a study in the March issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).

4 Mar 2025

How much plastic are you eating? This new tool finds out

Researchers developed the 24-hour dietary recall–plastic exposure (24DR-PE) tool to assess and quantify dietary plastic exposure, aiming to link it with real-world health impacts.

4 Mar 2025

New tool revolutionizes primer design for infectious disease detection

Researchers from the Zhang Liye Laboratory have developed a groundbreaking tool that revolutionizes the way researchers design primers for detecting pathogens.

4 Mar 2025

LabVantage Solutions unveils version 8.9 of its industry-leading LIMS platform to improve lab productivity and efficiency

LabVantage Solutions, Inc., the leading provider of laboratory informatics solutions and services, today announced the release of LabVantage 8.9, the latest iteration of its flagship laboratory information management system (LIMS), to deliver the most cutting-edge capabilities to laboratories worldwide.

3 Mar 2025

Engineered TIMPs show promise in fighting glioblastoma invasion

A new research paper was published in Oncotarget, Volume 16, on February 28, 2025, titled "Effect of TIMPs and their minimally engineered variants in blocking invasion and migration of brain cancer cells."

3 Mar 2025

Software News and Research

AI could play a key role in improving prostate cancer treatment outcomes

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences launches industry-first modular spectral flow cytometry solution

Researchers uncover flexibility in brain development and visual recognition

Frequently asked questions about BioAFM

Study links inflammation pathways to changes in bone mineral density

Can sex help you sleep better?

Researchers uncover 195 genetic risk factors driving women’s reproductive diseases

Making Complex Cell Culture Easy and Efficient with AI

Some CT scans deliver too much radiation, researchers say. Regulators want to know more.

An Arm and a Leg: Medical-debt watchdog gets sidelined by the new administration

Wiley announces latest release of its Wiley Identifier of Natural Products

New mobile app aids in rehabilitating hemiparesis following stroke

Reproductive justice principles improve perinatal mental health for Black birthing patients

Neighborhood factors shape rehabilitation access for older adults with TBI

Feeding strategies in preterm infants do not alter brain growth or cognition

Botox injections improve facial symmetry after nerve transfer surgery for facial palsy

How much plastic are you eating? This new tool finds out

New tool revolutionizes primer design for infectious disease detection

LabVantage Solutions unveils version 8.9 of its industry-leading LIMS platform to improve lab productivity and efficiency

Engineered TIMPs show promise in fighting glioblastoma invasion

Advancing Intracellular Delivery with LumiPore®

How ELRIG Is Helping Mid-Career Scientists Navigate Leadership, Career Change and Redundancy

The role of UV-Vis in biopharma QC

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