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Cost of Covid-19 tests plays key role in people’s willingness to undergo testing

Where and how long can schools remain open in times of the Corona pandemic? How safe are public transport means? Which rules must be observed when organizing events? To answer these questions, systematic tests for Corona infections and antibodies are of decisive importance.

28 Oct 2020

Manchester hospitals deploy new wireless platform to monitor Covid-19 patients in hospital and at home

The surge in Covid-19 patients in Greater Manchester has provided the opportunity for two hospitals to deploy a new wireless monitoring platform which they hope will allow clinicians to identify and predict deteriorating patients faster and with less nurse to patient contact.

28 Oct 2020

Study shows COVID-19 can be detected through non-invasive breath test

Initial findings from a new study led by Loughborough University - published by The Lancet - has shown how Covid-19 can be detected via a non-invasive breath test, providing almost instant results.

28 Oct 2020

Stewart Kay joins Adaptate Biotherapeutics as Chief Business Officer

Adaptate Biotherapeutics, a company focused on developing antibody-based therapeutics for modulation of gamma delta T cells, today announced the appointment of Stewart Kay as Chief Business Officer.

28 Oct 2020

Scientists receive $3.9 million to optimize treatment for opioid use disorder

Drawing upon their experience and expertise in telehealth, collaborative care models, substance use disorders, depression and health information technology, Indiana University School of Medicine and Regenstrief Institute faculty have been awarded $3.9 million over four years to collaborate with Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute scientists on a trial to optimize treatment for opioid use disorder.

28 Oct 2020

Policy debate should move beyond federal incentives and requirements to adopt health IT

Despite significant investment in health information technology such as computerized health records and clinical decision support, leveraging the technology to improve the quality of care will require significant and sustained effort by health systems, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

28 Oct 2020

High dose of radiation eliminates brain tumors in mice without key side effects

Treating cancer without debilitating side effects has long been the holy grail of oncologists, and researchers at the University of California, Irvine, and Switzerland's Lausanne University Hospital may have found it.

28 Oct 2020

Low muscle quality and quantity linked to poor outcomes in colon resection surgery

Low muscle quality and quantity are both predictive of poor outcomes in colon resection surgery, according to a new study published in JAMA Surgery.

27 Oct 2020

Dietary 1H-NMR “Fingerprints” Could Help Fight Against Chronic Disease

Metabolic urine profiling could provide an approach to understand what people have been eating, without them needing to tell you. Here, researchers from Imperial College London, Prof Gary Frost, Prof Elaine Holmes, and Dr. Isabel Garcia-Perez, explain why this could be invaluable to both nutritional research and individuals.

From Bruker BioSpin Group 27 Oct 2020

Novel machine learning algorithm helps find drug binding sites

Scientists from the iMolecule group at Skoltech Center for Computational and Data-Intensive Science and Engineering developed BiteNet, a machine learning algorithm that helps find drug binding sites, i.e. potential drug targets, in proteins.

27 Oct 2020

Study identifies 17 new genes that could be targeted for treatment of psoriasis, eczema

A Swedish study has identified 17 new genes that could be targeted for treatment of psoriasis and eczema, two common hereditary skin diseases with no cure.

27 Oct 2020

For people with visual impairments, truly secret ballots are elusive

Norma Crosby remembers when she relied on blind faith to cast her vote.

27 Oct 2020

Study shows ultrasound treatment can destroy cancer cells without surgery

Focusing ultrasound energy on a target site in the body to generate heat can burn and destroy the tissue in the site without a surgical procedure.

27 Oct 2020

Scientists identify new therapeutic targets for SARS-CoV-2

To identify new potential therapeutic targets for SARS-CoV-2, a team of scientists at the New York Genome Center, New York University, and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, performed a genome-scale, loss-of-function CRISPR screen to systematically knockout all genes in the human genome.

27 Oct 2020

Food safety scientist receives prestigious award

The Frozen Food Foundation, in conjunction with the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP), presented Dr. Claire Zoellner, Food Safety Scientist at iFoodDecisionSciences, Inc., with the eleventh annual Frozen Food Foundation Freezing Research Award during IAFP's 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting today.

27 Oct 2020

Technology News and Research

Cost of Covid-19 tests plays key role in people’s willingness to undergo testing

Manchester hospitals deploy new wireless platform to monitor Covid-19 patients in hospital and at home

Study shows COVID-19 can be detected through non-invasive breath test

Stewart Kay joins Adaptate Biotherapeutics as Chief Business Officer

Scientists receive $3.9 million to optimize treatment for opioid use disorder

Policy debate should move beyond federal incentives and requirements to adopt health IT

High dose of radiation eliminates brain tumors in mice without key side effects

Low muscle quality and quantity linked to poor outcomes in colon resection surgery

Dietary 1H-NMR “Fingerprints” Could Help Fight Against Chronic Disease

Novel machine learning algorithm helps find drug binding sites

Study identifies 17 new genes that could be targeted for treatment of psoriasis, eczema

For people with visual impairments, truly secret ballots are elusive

Study shows ultrasound treatment can destroy cancer cells without surgery

Scientists identify new therapeutic targets for SARS-CoV-2

Food safety scientist receives prestigious award

Simple method provides real-time surveillance to control the spread of drug-resistant gonorrhea

COVID-19 vaccine tracker provides real-time updates on effective vaccine

New app tracks nutrition data in kidney and heart disease patients

New technique can detect TDP-43 protein in patients with ALS and frontotemporal dementia

Expression of a specific gene could regulate feelings of fear and its extinction

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

Advancing Intracellular Delivery with LumiPore®

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