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Researchers develop new OCT method to directly image cilia dynamics in living organisms

Researchers have developed a new optical coherence tomography (OCT) approach that can directly image coordination of tiny hair-like structures known as motile cilia in their natural environment.

2 Nov 2023

Synthetic melanin cream heals skin damage and promotes repair

Imagine a skin cream that heals damage occurring throughout the day when your skin is exposed to sunlight or environmental toxins.

2 Nov 2023

New wearable ECG device could help prevent heart attacks

A new compact, lightweight, gel-free and waterproof electrocardiogram (ECG) sensor offers more comfort and less skin irritation, compared to similar heart monitoring devices on the market.

31 Oct 2023

Rise in skin cancer cases underscores importance of early detection using machine learning

Image-processing techniques in machine learning (ML) for skin cancer detection using clinical images.

30 Oct 2023

Imperial researchers discover hidden mechanism behind feeling touch

Imperial researchers have discovered a hidden mechanism within hair follicles that allow us to feel touch.

27 Oct 2023

Breast cancer screening trial expands internationally to enhance diversity

A clinical trial led by the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group (ECOG-ACRIN) demonstrates how diversity among study participants is vital for reducing outcomes disparities.

27 Oct 2023

Reducing air pollution associated with lower risk of all-cause dementia and Alzheimer's disease

Previous reports have linked long-term air pollution exposure with accumulation of Alzheimer's disease-related brain plaques, but this is the first accumulated evidence that reducing pollution, especially fine particulates in the air and pollutants from the burning of fuel, is associated with lower risk of all-cause dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

27 Oct 2023

Apoptotic cells play key role in hair follicle regression

A new research paper was published in Oncotarget's Volume 14 on October 19, 2023, entitled, "Apoptotic cells may drive cell death in hair follicles during their regression cycle."

24 Oct 2023

Let’s have an honest conversation about what to expect as you age

How many of us have wanted a reliable, evidence-based guide to aging that explains how our bodies and minds change as we grow older and how to adapt to those differences?

20 Oct 2023

Wearable device generates power from finger bending and stores memories

Researchers have invented an experimental wearable device that generates power from a user's bending finger and can create and store memories, in a promising step towards health monitoring and other technologies.

18 Oct 2023

For people with sickle cell disease, ERs can mean life-threatening waits

Heather Avant always dresses up when she goes to the emergency room.

17 Oct 2023

Researchers identify genes that may improve success of fecal microbe transplants

Fecal microbe transplants from healthy donors can treat patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infections. However, after tens of thousands transplants, little was known about which donor strains provide long-term engraftment, and which engraft early after the transplant.

13 Oct 2023

‘I’m so burned out’: Fighting to see a specialist amplified pain for Riverside County woman

Teresa Johnson can't escape the pain. It's as if she's getting pierced by needles all over her body, all at once. At night, she sometimes jolts out of sleep thinking bedbugs are attacking her. But it's just the unfailing pain — day in and day out.

12 Oct 2023

Comparing the lasting effects: post COVID vs. non-COVID acute respiratory infections

Symptom profiles between individuals with prior COVID-19 and those with other acute respiratory infections (ARIs).

10 Oct 2023

What mobile clinics in dollar general parking lots say about health care in rural America

On a hot July morning, customers at the Dollar General along a two-lane highway northwest of Nashville didn't seem to notice signs of the chain store’s foray into mobile health care, particularly in rural America.

4 Oct 2023

Skin under pressure: tension affects skin's reaction to pollution

Researchers ratified previous findings that ozone (O3) exposure (an air pollutant) alters the antimicrobial peptide expression in the skin with and without tension.

27 Sep 2023

Gender inequalities worsen women’s access to cancer prevention, detection and care

Unequal power dynamics across society have resounding negative impacts on how women interact with cancer prevention, care and treatment.

26 Sep 2023

Researchers crack the genetic code of rare form of kidney cancer

The genetic code of a rare form of kidney cancer, called reninoma, has been studied for the first time. In the new paper, published today (25th September) in Nature Communications, researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Great Ormond Street Hospital and The Royal Free Hospital also revealed a new drug target that could serve as an alternative treatment if surgery is not recommended.

25 Sep 2023

Rare genetic variants involved in male-pattern hair loss identified

A receding hairline, a total loss of hair from the crown, and ultimately, the classical horseshoe-shaped pattern of baldness: Previous research into male pattern hair loss, also termed androgenetic alopecia, has implicated multiple common genetic variants.

22 Sep 2023

Researchers receive $1.2 million from NIH to expand and refine the robotic eye examination

A collaboration between researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Duke University has developed a robotic eye examination system, and the National Institutes of Health has awarded the researchers $1.2 million to expand and refine the system.

22 Sep 2023

Hair News and Research

Researchers develop new OCT method to directly image cilia dynamics in living organisms

Synthetic melanin cream heals skin damage and promotes repair

New wearable ECG device could help prevent heart attacks

Rise in skin cancer cases underscores importance of early detection using machine learning

Imperial researchers discover hidden mechanism behind feeling touch

Breast cancer screening trial expands internationally to enhance diversity

Reducing air pollution associated with lower risk of all-cause dementia and Alzheimer's disease

Apoptotic cells play key role in hair follicle regression

Let’s have an honest conversation about what to expect as you age

Wearable device generates power from finger bending and stores memories

For people with sickle cell disease, ERs can mean life-threatening waits

Researchers identify genes that may improve success of fecal microbe transplants

‘I’m so burned out’: Fighting to see a specialist amplified pain for Riverside County woman

Comparing the lasting effects: post COVID vs. non-COVID acute respiratory infections

What mobile clinics in dollar general parking lots say about health care in rural America

Skin under pressure: tension affects skin's reaction to pollution

Gender inequalities worsen women’s access to cancer prevention, detection and care

Researchers crack the genetic code of rare form of kidney cancer

Rare genetic variants involved in male-pattern hair loss identified

Researchers receive $1.2 million from NIH to expand and refine the robotic eye examination

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