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Videos This technology can help those with prostate cancer ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Oncology

News ECN is proud to announce the launch of the fourth annual ECN IMPACT Awards. The 2017 ECN IMPACT Awards are the culmination of a Product Technology Awards history stretching back 60 years. At the ECN IMPACT Awards, a...

Product Announcement These oil-less single WOB-L piston units can be used for pressure or vacuum operation and are engineered to be versatile and reliable for a wide array of mark ... Contributed Author: Gardner Denver T...

Bioengineers have made great strides harnessing the body's ability to start over, whether regenerating heart tissue and bones, or using stem cells to regrow fingertips. Still, much of regenerative medicine's promise rema...

News Using that data, researchers then applied transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) at the same theta frequency to the subjects ... Contributed Author: McGill University Topics: Neurology

News The devices were used to record the large signals generated by pre-epileptic activity in rats, as well as the smaller levels of brain activity ... Contributed Author: Graphene Flagship Topics: Neurology

A team of scientists successfully transform a simple spinach leaf into heart tissue. The interdisciplinary team's success could solve bioengineering's long-standing human tissue regeneration problem.

Japanese researchers are the first to discover salt intake is directly connected to frequent nocturnal urination. Their study suggests restricting salt consumption can help reduce the problems associated with nocturia.

Blog As the growth of internet medical devices begins to take off, the issue of how to build security into these devices is a major factor. Implementing strong security into a device begins at the developer level, with s...

Italy has been named the healthiest country in the Global Health Index released by Bloomberg with the United States ranked at 34. The indexes found Italians relatively free from high blood pressure, cholesterol, and poss...

The tick season in 2017 is making an early appearance and Lyme disease is likely to become more widespread, according to experts. But there are other tick-borne diseases to watch out for amid rising temperatures.

Simple random errors during cell division cause 66 percent of cancerous mutations, versus lower numbers for environmental and lifestyle factors. But it's not just a case of bad luck: Cancer and lifestyle still have stron...

News The Mirabilis System combines high-speed therapeutic ultrasound technology with an advanced robotic system ... Contributed Author: Mirabilis Medical, Inc. Topics: Surgical

News The chip utilizes microfluidics and integrates sample volume transition, lysis, nucleic acid isolation, amplification ... Contributed Author: Future Science Group Topics: Medical Diagnostics

News The MRI scans identified that the degree of functional connectivity between an important emotion processing center ... Contributed Author: Emory Health Sciences Topics: Neurology

News The astroglia, or astrocytes, were passed over in silence partly because they weren't considered to be important ... Contributed Author: Washington University in St. Louis Topics: STEM

News The material is a molecule tagged with Actinium-225, a radioactive isotope ... Contributed Author: Brookhaven National Laboratory Topics: Oncology

News In search of a better assay, Manoj Kanakasabapathy and colleagues created a portable device that quantified sperm concentration ... Contributed Author: American Association for the Advancement of Science Topics: Med...

The accidental cure discovered for sepsis has led to a flurry of excitement in the medical world. Here's a look at the symptoms, causes, and proposed treatment to counter the deadly condition.

(Massachusetts General Hospital) A Massachusetts General Hospital study has found that US youth infected with HIV around the time of their birth are at higher risk throughout their adolescence and young adulthood for exp...

(University of British Columbia) New UBC research on bacteria that cause major problems for those with cystic fibrosis reveals clues as to how it proliferates for so long in the lungs and offers new ideas for treatments ...

(Lund University) The usual way of cultivating cells is to use a flat laboratory dish of glass. However, inside a human body, the cells do not grow on a flat surface, but rather in three dimensions. This has lead researc...