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Smartphone app will people with disabilities and seniors use autonomous vehicles

Self-driving cars will offer access to ride-sharing and ride-hailing with their suite of modern conveniences. However, many people with visual impairments who use these services rely on a human driver to safely locate their vehicle.

29 Jan 2021

Startup develops yeast-based test to detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in saliva

Incubated at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, and supported by São Paulo Research Foundation- FAPESP's Innovative Research in Small Business Program (PIPE), BIOinFOOD is a startup that is developing a rapid COVID-19 diagnostic test based on a patent application filed by students at UNICAMP's Genomics and Bioenergy Laboratory.

29 Jan 2021

Scientists develop a computational approach to understand how infants perceive language

Languages differ in the sounds they use. The Japanese language, for example, does not distinguish between "r" and "l" sounds as in "rock" versus "lock."

29 Jan 2021

New app aims to improve emotional well-being in young people

Improving emotional well-being and preventing depression in young people between 16 and 22 years old is the main objective of MyMoodCoach, an app developed by a European research team, in which the Psychology and Technology Laboratory (LabPsiTec) of the Universitat Jaume I of Castellón participated.

29 Jan 2021

New COVID-19 test uses a smartphone microscope to quickly analyze saliva samples

Researchers at the University of Arizona are developing a COVID-19 testing method that uses a smartphone microscope to analyze saliva samples and deliver results in about 10 minutes.

29 Jan 2021

Scientists unravel how lipids distribute proteins within cells

An international team of scientists, coordinated by the Seville Institute of Biomedicine and the University of Seville has solved one of the hitherto unresolved enigmas of basic biology: how exactly do lipids distribute proteins within a cell? To do this, they used a new, completely innovative microscopy technology, which they applied to "mutant" cells they designed in their laboratory.

29 Jan 2021

New gene-based vaccine strategy receives grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The AAVCOVID vaccine program, a novel gene-based vaccine strategy that utilizes an adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector, was granted an award for up to $2.1 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

29 Jan 2021

Vitamins and other antiviral drugs may help combat COVID-19

Evidence is emerging that vitamin D - and possibly vitamins K and A - might help combat COVID-19. A new study from the University of Bristol published in the journal of the German Chemical Society Angewandte Chemie has shown how they - and other antiviral drugs - might work.

29 Jan 2021

Study shows promising outcomes of new mitral valve replacement procedure in high-risk patients

An innovative mitral valve replacement procedure shows promise for high-risk patients in a new University of Miami Miller School of Medicine study led by Joseph Lamelas, M.D., chief and program director of cardiothoracic surgery.

29 Jan 2021

Scientists create new way to detect COVID-19 proteins and antibodies

Scientists have created a new way to detect the proteins that make up the pandemic coronavirus, as well as antibodies against it. They designed protein-based biosensors that glow when mixed with components of the virus or specific COVID-19 antibodies.

29 Jan 2021

New consortium aims to establish the biggest pathology data to advance artificial intelligence

A new consortium of the EU Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) aims to establish the biggest database of pathology images to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence in medicine.

28 Jan 2021

Saliva-based and antibody tests expand testing capacity, track vaccine response

Mason scientists employ a rapid-result, saliva-based test that significantly expands testing capacity, and an antibody test that can track vaccine response.

28 Jan 2021

Physicians receive Pfizer Prize for research on leukemia, cardiac arrhythmias

This year, four of a total of fifteen Pfizer Research Prizes have been awarded to physicians from the University of Bern and the Inselspital, University Hospital Bern.

28 Jan 2021

New approach to capture natural killer cells and harvest cancer-killing packets

Building on the promise of emerging therapies to deploy the body's "natural killer" immune cells to fight cancer, researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center and U-M College of Engineering have gone one step further.

28 Jan 2021

NEI scientists develop and test a promising gene therapy strategy for rare eye disease

Scientists at the National Eye Institute have developed a promising gene therapy strategy for a rare disease that causes severe vision loss in childhood.

28 Jan 2021

Self- or caregiver swabs are as effective as healthcare worker swabs for detecting pathogens

Self swabs and caregiver swabs are effective at detecting multiple pathogens and are just as accurate as those taken by healthcare workers, according to a team of Australian researchers.

28 Jan 2021

NUS researchers discover a mechanism controlling the replenishment of blood cells

Blood is vital to life, and a healthy body replenishes worn-out blood cells with new ones throughout one's lifetime. If something goes wrong with this process, serious illness will result.

28 Jan 2021

Can the US keep covid variants in check? Here’s what it takes

The covid-19 variants that have emerged in the United Kingdom, Brazil, South Africa and now Southern California are eliciting two notably distinct responses from U.S. public health officials.

28 Jan 2021

Common anticoagulant drug could be repurposed to help alleviate Covid-19 infections

An international team of researchers led by the Universities of Keele and Liverpool, working with Public Health England, has found that the common anticoagulant drug heparin inhibits the SARS-Cov2virus spike protein, by reducing the virus' ability to attach to human cells and infect them.

28 Jan 2021

Substances in tick saliva activate immune response-suppressing proteins in cattle

A tick saliva study reveals immune responses that could lead to better protection for cattle.

28 Jan 2021

Laboratory News and Research

Smartphone app will people with disabilities and seniors use autonomous vehicles

Startup develops yeast-based test to detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in saliva

Scientists develop a computational approach to understand how infants perceive language

New app aims to improve emotional well-being in young people

New COVID-19 test uses a smartphone microscope to quickly analyze saliva samples

Scientists unravel how lipids distribute proteins within cells

New gene-based vaccine strategy receives grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Vitamins and other antiviral drugs may help combat COVID-19

Study shows promising outcomes of new mitral valve replacement procedure in high-risk patients

Scientists create new way to detect COVID-19 proteins and antibodies

New consortium aims to establish the biggest pathology data to advance artificial intelligence

Saliva-based and antibody tests expand testing capacity, track vaccine response

Physicians receive Pfizer Prize for research on leukemia, cardiac arrhythmias

New approach to capture natural killer cells and harvest cancer-killing packets

NEI scientists develop and test a promising gene therapy strategy for rare eye disease

Self- or caregiver swabs are as effective as healthcare worker swabs for detecting pathogens

NUS researchers discover a mechanism controlling the replenishment of blood cells

Can the US keep covid variants in check? Here’s what it takes

Common anticoagulant drug could be repurposed to help alleviate Covid-19 infections

Substances in tick saliva activate immune response-suppressing proteins in cattle

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