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Scientists identify five most promising application areas for magnetoresistive sensors

Excluding the information recording and reading technology, in the next 15-20 years, the hypersensitive sensors operating under the magnetoresistive principle will be applied in an extensive number of innovative areas.

22 Mar 2019

Hidden differences between pathology of CTE and Alzheimer's disease discovered

An international team of scientists at Indiana University School of Medicine, University of Kansas and the U.K. Medical Research Council have dismantled the belief that Alzheimer's disease and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy have identical pathology.

22 Mar 2019

Repurposing drugs to outsmart cancers

In an article published today by SAGE Publishing, investigators from The Nagourney Cancer Institute and The Albert Einstein Israelite Hospital in São Paulo, Brazil, announced a new approach to identifying effective treatments for patients with advanced metastatic cancers. A drug commonly used to treat kidney and liver cancer was discovered effective for breast cancer, which may open new drug therapies to patients regardless of tumor type.

22 Mar 2019

Naltrexone implant more effective in reducing relapses in HIV patients with opioid addiction

When patients with HIV who are also battling opioid dependence go without addiction treatment, they are more likely to stop taking their HIV medications than drug-free patients.

22 Mar 2019

The Brain Institute wins $7.04 million grant to investigate 'neurophilosphy of free will'

The newly-minted Institute for Interdisciplinary Brain and Behavioral Science (The Brain Institute) at Chapman University, with Dr. Uri Maoz as project leader, is the recipient of a total of $7.04 million to study how the human brain enables conscious control of decisions and actions.

22 Mar 2019

A new way to visualize the immune cell "landscape" of bowel cancer tumors

University of Otago scientists have discovered a way to view the immune cell "landscape" of bowel cancer tumours, paving the way towards more individualised medicine and treatment for many other diseases in future.

22 Mar 2019

Understanding maintenance of quiescent stem cells in chronic myelogenous leukemia

Most patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia can be treated with tyrosine kinase inhibitors. These drugs are highly effective and lead to deep remission and prolonged survival.

22 Mar 2019

Lung cancer survivor recounts her lifetime struggles

By any measure, lung cancer patients have it rough. But Maryland resident and special education teacher Montessa Lee has been through a particularly arduous ordeal.

22 Mar 2019

Research links participation in team sports to larger hippocampal volumes in children

Adult depression has long been associated with shrinkage of the hippocampus, a brain region that plays an important role in memory and response to stress. Now, new research from Washington University in St. Louis has linked participation in team sports to larger hippocampal volumes in children and less depression in boys ages 9 to 11.

22 Mar 2019

New nanotechnology approach shows promise in treating triple negative breast cancer

Unlike the three most common forms of breast cancer, triple negative breast cancer has no currently approved targeted therapies for treatment. That was one of the reasons it was chosen as a disease area of focus for the Indiana University Precision Health Grand Challenge initiative, aimed to research and develop better treatments, cures or preventions, as quickly as possible.

22 Mar 2019

VTT’s PreMed project introduces a corporate perspective to coordinate the use of health data

In Finland, the health data collected in national registries already serves fairly well the needs of clinical care and academic fundamental research, and statistical purposes.

22 Mar 2019

Pitt engineers win $550,000 NSF CAREER award to develop new intervention for people with ASD

Autism was first described by U.S. researchers more than 70 years ago, and today the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1 in 59 children are identified with autism spectrum disorder, affecting more than 3.5 million Americans.

22 Mar 2019

Creating diverse pool of trained scientists to address Alzheimer's research needs

Roberta Diaz Brinton, PhD, an internationally recognized expert on Alzheimer's disease and inaugural director of the Center for Innovation in Brain Science at the University of Arizona Health Sciences, has received a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health Institute on Aging.

22 Mar 2019

Lian wins ENGINE grant for stem-cell-based therapy to treat Type 1 diabetes

Xiaojun "Lance" Lian, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, was one of three recipients of the College of Engineering's ENGineering for Innovation & Entrepreneurship grant for "Small Molecule-Based Definitive Endoderm Kit and Pancreatic Progenitor Kit for Stem Cell Research and Therapy."

22 Mar 2019

Presence of bacteria in urine does not always point to infection, shows study

Doctors should think carefully before testing patients for a urinary tract infection (UTI) to avoid over-diagnosis and unnecessary antibiotic treatment, according to updated asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) guidelines released by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

22 Mar 2019

City of Hope exhibits current studies and data on cancer therapies at AACR

City of Hope, a world-renowned independent research and treatment center for cancer and diabetes, will showcase ongoing studies and data on chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy, immunotherapy against solid tumors and more at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting from March 29 through April 3 in Atlanta.

22 Mar 2019

New device approved by FDA for treating patients with moderate-to-severe heart failure

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the Optimizer Smart system for treating patients with chronic, moderate-to-severe heart failure who are not suited for treatment with other heart failure devices such as cardiac resynchronization therapy to restore a normal timing pattern of the heartbeat.

22 Mar 2019

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Scientists identify five most promising application areas for magnetoresistive sensors

Hidden differences between pathology of CTE and Alzheimer's disease discovered

Repurposing drugs to outsmart cancers

Naltrexone implant more effective in reducing relapses in HIV patients with opioid addiction

The Brain Institute wins $7.04 million grant to investigate 'neurophilosphy of free will'

A new way to visualize the immune cell "landscape" of bowel cancer tumors

Understanding maintenance of quiescent stem cells in chronic myelogenous leukemia

Lung cancer survivor recounts her lifetime struggles

Research links participation in team sports to larger hippocampal volumes in children

New nanotechnology approach shows promise in treating triple negative breast cancer

VTT’s PreMed project introduces a corporate perspective to coordinate the use of health data

Pitt engineers win $550,000 NSF CAREER award to develop new intervention for people with ASD

Creating diverse pool of trained scientists to address Alzheimer's research needs

Lian wins ENGINE grant for stem-cell-based therapy to treat Type 1 diabetes

Presence of bacteria in urine does not always point to infection, shows study

City of Hope exhibits current studies and data on cancer therapies at AACR

New device approved by FDA for treating patients with moderate-to-severe heart failure

Brain process common to sleep and aging discovered

Innovative membrane offers a viable solution for periodontitis

Combination of two topical creams can prevent cancer

Membrane proteins in focus: Turning high-risk targets into routine workflows

How metabolic phenotyping can detect viral infections in minutes

Directed enzyme evolution and the Nobel Prize: Making enzymes evolve in the lab

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