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UC researcher focuses on light-mediated therapies to target breast cancer

When treatment is working for a patient who is fighting cancer, the light at the end of the tunnel is easier to see.

17 Oct 2018

New imaging tool helps visualize how sound-induced vibrations travel through the ear

Researchers have developed a new device that can be used to visualize how sound-induced vibrations travel through the ear.

17 Oct 2018

Scientists obtain clearest ever image of Ebola virus protein

For the first time, researchers have managed to image the structure of a central component of the Ebola virus.

17 Oct 2018

Patients once thought incurable can benefit from high-dose radiation therapy

In the first randomized, phase II clinical trial of its kind, researchers have shown that an aggressive form of high-precision radiation therapy can greatly increase how long oligometastatic patients live and doubles how long they live without cancer.

17 Oct 2018

Training young researchers to work with data volumes arising in the health sector

Investigation, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases give rise to big data volumes. Their systematic analysis may produce new findings for the diagnosis and therapy of diseases, such as cancer.

17 Oct 2018

New Metrohm IC method is reliable and convenient to use for zinc oxide assay

USP has updated the General Chapter <591> «Zinc Determination» monograph to include ion chromatography as the preferred method for measuring zinc oxide assay.

From Metrohm USA Inc. 17 Oct 2018

Using Galleria mellonella to assess acute toxicity of chemicals

TruLarv is considered a non-animal technology in the context of UK animal use regulations where procedures on this species are not regulated.

17 Oct 2018

Metrohm’s new ID Kit enables fast, easy, and accurate detection of heroin and other opioids

Heroin and other opioids pose a threat to communities all over the world.

From Metrohm USA Inc. 17 Oct 2018

Metrohm Raman introduces Mira P handheld Raman system

Metrohm Raman is pleased to present the Mira P handheld Raman system.

From Metrohm USA Inc. 17 Oct 2018

Humavox launches POD wireless charging device for hearing aids at EUHA 2018

Humavox, the leader in wireless charging technology, launches its POD wireless charging device for hearing aids at European Union of Hearing Aid Acousticians 2018.

17 Oct 2018

FDA, DHS announce memorandum of agreement to address cybersecurity in medical devices

As part of the Administration's ongoing efforts to strengthen cybersecurity in health care, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a memorandum of agreement to implement a new framework for greater coordination and cooperation between the two agencies for addressing cybersecurity in medical devices.

17 Oct 2018

Researchers awarded grant to advance testing of experimental heroin vaccine

Researchers at the U.S. Military HIV Research Program at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, N.Y., have been awarded a grant to advance an experimental heroin vaccine through Phase I/IIa clinical trials to assess both its safety and its efficacy against a morphine challenge.

17 Oct 2018

Study to explore bioethics of brain organoids

Research scientists around the world are now able to investigate the structural, cellular, and developmental intricacies of the human brain using bioengineered stem cell-based models called organoids.

16 Oct 2018

New findings reveal potential cellular players in tumor microenvironment

New findings presented today by CytoReason reveals possible new cellular players in the tumor microenvironment that could impact the treatment process for the most in-need patients - those who have already failed to respond to ipilimumab (anti-CTLA4) immunotherapy.

16 Oct 2018

Environmental conditions may drive development of multiple sclerosis

A new Tel Aviv University study finds that certain environmental conditions may precipitate structural changes that take place in myelin sheaths in the onset of multiple sclerosis. Myelin sheaths are the "insulating tape" surrounding axons; axons carry electrical impulses in neurons.

16 Oct 2018

Men who conform to 'the man box' more likely to consider suicide and violence

An Australian first study involving 1000 men aged 18 to 30 has found those who conform to traditional definitions of manhood - dubbed 'the man box' - are twice as likely to consider suicide and seven times more likely to be violent towards others.

16 Oct 2018

Simple, inexpensive test quickly detects antibiotic-resistant 'superbugs'

When you get sick, you want the right treatment fast. But certain infectious microbes are experts at evading the very anti-bacterial drugs designed to fight them.

16 Oct 2018

Interactive robot helps older people exercise and detects underlying health problems

According to the latest report on the evolution of worldwide population submitted by the United Nations, 13% of today's population is over 60 years of age; and by 2050 this percentage will almost double, reaching 25%.

16 Oct 2018

New smart watch algorithms can accurately monitor wearers' sleep patterns

New algorithms take advantage of multiple smart watch sensors to accurately monitor wearers' sleep patterns.

16 Oct 2018

Zebrafish study uncovers molecular 'brake' that helps control eye lens development

How different cells in a multicellular organism acquire their identities remains a fundamental mystery of development. In the eye, for example, the lens contains two cell types - lens epithelial cells and lens fiber cells -- the first of which differentiates into the second as an animal matures.

16 Oct 2018