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New diagnostic tool enables speedy diagnosis of bacterial infections

Using a small and inexpensive biosensor, researchers at UBC Okanagan, in collaboration with the University of Calgary, have built a diagnostic tool that provides health care practitioners almost instant diagnosis of a bacterial infection.

29 Nov 2018

Study presents new opportunities for targeted, healthy tissue-sparing cancer therapy

Medical physicist Dr. Aswin Hoffmann and his team from the Institute of Radiooncology - OncoRay at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) are the first researchers worldwide to combine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with a proton beam, thus demonstrating that in principle, this commonly used imaging method can indeed work with particle beam cancer treatments.

29 Nov 2018

Study highlights prevalence of regional disparities in the treatment of type 1 diabetes

How the autoimmune disease type 1 diabetes is treated also depends on where the patients live in Germany.

29 Nov 2018

New dye is a step towards personalized neuromedical prophylaxis of the future

Signs of neurodegenerative diseases, visible years before the emergence of clinical manifestations, can be detected during the examination of medical samples by means of fluorescence microscopy.

29 Nov 2018

Electronic shutter eyeglasses may be alternative treatment for amblyopic children in future

The standard treatment for so-called lazy eye (amblyopia) in children is to cover the nonimpaired eye with a patch. This trains the impaired eye to work harder. Such therapy is successful only when the patient wears the eyepatch for the prescribed period of time.

29 Nov 2018

University of Wuerzburg implements new turnkey confocal imaging system

Technology innovators in super-resolution microscopy, Amsterdam-based Confocal.nl,reports on the implementation of a new turnkey confocal imaging system in the laboratory of Professor Markus Sauer at the University of Würzburg.

From Confocal.nl 29 Nov 2018

The Native Antigen Company launches ground-breaking Zika virus immunoassays

The Native Antigen Company has launched a series of ground-breaking immunoassays for Zika virus, offering researchers in academia, public health and drug discovery the capability to work with unprecedented levels of specificity and sensitivity.

29 Nov 2018

Insights from the Shunde Biomedical Industry Investment Promotion Conference

From November 14-17, the 2018 Shunde Biomedical Industry Investment Promotion Conference was successfully held at the Ramada Plaza Hotel, Shunde, GuangDong, China

From Aurora Biomed Inc. 29 Nov 2018

Women with sleep apnea show higher risk of heart damage

A new study has found that a common but dangerous sleep disorder called obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) poses more of a cardiac risk to women than men.

29 Nov 2018

Scientists create mini-placenta's to study early stages of pregnancy

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have used organoid culture techniques to create a cellular model of the early stages of the placenta.

29 Nov 2018

RCSI study: One quarter of suicide attempts are associated with perceptual difficulties

Researchers at RCSI have revealed that one quarter of suicide attempts are associated with dysfunction in how the brain interprets basic perceptual information, such as what we see, hear and think.

29 Nov 2018

Study investigates how women value, use, and trust 'Dr Google'

Women experiencing signs of breast cancer vary in how they value, use, and trust 'Dr Google' when making sense of their symptoms, a new study in the journal Health, Risk & Society reports.

29 Nov 2018

Researchers find how skin cancer cells avoid attack by the immune system

Researchers at the Mainz University Medical Center discovered a new signal pathway employed by skin cancer cells to avoid attack by the immune system. In an animal model and through analysis of human tissue samples, Dr. Toszka Bohn, Dr. Steffen Rapp and Professor Tobias Bopp were able to demonstrate the significant role played by a specific protein called ICER.

29 Nov 2018

Regular sauna use linked with lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease

Regular sauna use is associated with a lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease in men and women aged 50 years and over, according to a study published in the open access journal BMC Medicine.

29 Nov 2018

New York State approves NYGC's Whole Genome and Transcriptome Sequencing for oncology

The New York Genome Center has received approval from the New York State Department of Health to offer whole genome and RNA transcriptome sequencing in its Clinical Laboratory Evaluation Program-certified laboratory.

29 Nov 2018

Researchers create largest publicly available virtual library of macrolide scaffolds

Researchers from North Carolina State University have created the largest publicly available virtual library of macrolide scaffolds. The library - called V1M - contains chemical structures and computed properties for 1 million macrolide scaffolds with potential for use as antibiotics or cancer drugs.

29 Nov 2018

FDA approves new drug for treatment of rare autoimmune disorder

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Firdapse (amifampridine) tablets for the treatment of Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS) in adults.

29 Nov 2018

Under Trump, number of uninsured kids rose for first time this decade

After years of steady decline, the number of U.S. children without health insurance rose by 276,000 in 2017, according to a Georgetown University report released Thursday.

29 Nov 2018

Researchers discover pathway for enhancing the self-repair efforts of injured kidneys

A team of researchers led by Jonathan Stamler, MD, of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, has discovered a pathway for enhancing the self-repair efforts of injured kidneys.

29 Nov 2018

New accelerator-based technology aims to reduce side effects of cancer radiation therapy

New accelerator-based technology being developed by the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University aims to reduce the side effects of cancer radiation therapy by shrinking its duration from minutes to under a second.

29 Nov 2018

Research News and Research

New diagnostic tool enables speedy diagnosis of bacterial infections

Study presents new opportunities for targeted, healthy tissue-sparing cancer therapy

Study highlights prevalence of regional disparities in the treatment of type 1 diabetes

New dye is a step towards personalized neuromedical prophylaxis of the future

Electronic shutter eyeglasses may be alternative treatment for amblyopic children in future

University of Wuerzburg implements new turnkey confocal imaging system

The Native Antigen Company launches ground-breaking Zika virus immunoassays

Insights from the Shunde Biomedical Industry Investment Promotion Conference

Women with sleep apnea show higher risk of heart damage

Scientists create mini-placenta's to study early stages of pregnancy

RCSI study: One quarter of suicide attempts are associated with perceptual difficulties

Study investigates how women value, use, and trust 'Dr Google'

Researchers find how skin cancer cells avoid attack by the immune system

Regular sauna use linked with lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease

New York State approves NYGC's Whole Genome and Transcriptome Sequencing for oncology

Researchers create largest publicly available virtual library of macrolide scaffolds

FDA approves new drug for treatment of rare autoimmune disorder

Under Trump, number of uninsured kids rose for first time this decade

Researchers discover pathway for enhancing the self-repair efforts of injured kidneys

New accelerator-based technology aims to reduce side effects of cancer radiation therapy

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