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Researchers detect positive COVID-19 cases in 20 minutes using blood samples

World-first research by Monash University in Australia has been able to detect positive COVID-19 cases using blood samples in about 20 minutes, and identify whether someone has contracted the virus.

17 Jul 2020

Study: Brain compensates for changes in the eye caused by glaucoma

People with early-stage glaucoma see the contrast of visible objects in a very similar way to people without the condition, a new study has shown.

17 Jul 2020

Chest X-rays reveal more severe COVID-19 in racial/ethnic minority patients

Racial/ethnic minority patients admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 infection are more likely to have more severe disease on chest X-rays than white/non-Hispanic patients, increasing the likelihood of adverse outcomes, such as intubation or death, according to a study published in the journal Radiology.

16 Jul 2020

A new strategy to combat treatment resistance in choroidal neovascularization

An international team of researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine and Houston Methodist has discovered a strategy that can potentially address a major challenge to the current treatment for choroidal neovascularization (CNV), an aggressive form of age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of irreversible blindness in the elderly.

16 Jul 2020

Why doctors keep monitoring kids who recover from mysterious COVID-linked illness

Israel Shippy doesn’t remember much about having COVID-19 — or the unusual auto-immune disease it triggered — other than being groggy and uncomfortable for a bunch of days. He’s a 5-year-old, and would much rather talk about cartoons, or the ideas for inventions that constantly pop into his head.

16 Jul 2020

Digital analysis process can improve children's cognitive, spatial, and artistic abilities

New research out of the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) utilizes digital image analysis technology to shed light on some of the challenges children face when representing their imaginations through the medium of paint.

16 Jul 2020

Obesity and metabolic syndrome increase risk for severe influenza, COVID-19

Metabolic syndrome increases the risk of severe disease from viral infection, according to a review of the literature performed by a team of researchers from St. Jude Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, both in Memphis.

15 Jul 2020

Study shows why humans don’t see eye to eye on debatable matters

We humans may not always see eye to eye on politics, religion, sports, and other matters of debate. But at least we can agree on the location and size of objects in our physical surroundings.

15 Jul 2020

Silver strands and graying hair are not signs of aging in chimpanzees

Silver strands and graying hair is a sign of aging in humans, but things aren't so simple for our closest ape relatives--the chimpanzee. A new study published today in the journal PLOS ONE by researchers at the George Washington University found graying hair is not indicative of a chimpanzee's age.

15 Jul 2020

Spectral notch filters in glasses enhance color vision for those with red-green CVD

A new UC Davis Eye Center study, conducted in collaboration with France's INSERM Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute, found that special patented glasses engineered with technically advanced spectral notch filters enhance color vision for those with the most common types of red-green color vision deficiency ("anomalous trichromacy").

14 Jul 2020

Fully automated chip can reliably determine blood type within minutes

The need to first zero in on a blood group can delay blood transfusions in emergency situations, and this in turn can prove fatal.

13 Jul 2020

7-day levofloxacin/dexamethasone eye drops as effective as standard treatment after cataract surgery

Santen EMEA and NTC are delighted to announce that the results of their phase III clinical study, LEADER7, have been published in Eye.

13 Jul 2020

Study finds link between mental imagery and vision

Medical University of South Carolina researchers report in Current Biology that the brain uses similar visual areas for mental imagery and vision, but it uses low-level visual areas less precisely with mental imagery than with vision.

12 Jul 2020

Researchers develop new approach to assess changes in tumor microenvironment

Research has shown that the tumor microenvironment (TME) can help cancers grow and evade the immune response. The TME has even been shown to inhibit cellular immunotherapy, a novel form of treatment in which the cells of a patient's immune system are re-engineered in the lab to attack cancer cells.

12 Jul 2020

Face blindness may arise from deficits beyond visual perception

The ability to recognize faces is a complex neurocognitive skill with important social implications. The disorder, which, according to some estimates, affects more than 2 percent of the population, can lead to isolation and anxiety and impair personal and work relationships.

12 Jul 2020