Medical News
Is It Time to Give Bug Burgers a Chance?
Discover - 31 Aug 2017 21:47
A Swiss supermarket is doing its part to get Westerners hooked on the eco-friendly superfood of the future: bugs. Coop is one of Switzerland's largest food retailers with over 2,200 outlets throughout the country, and it...
Magewell to Unveil Ultra-Flexible, Multi-Channel HDMI Input-Output Card at IBC2017
Medical Design Technology - 31 Aug 2017 15:49
Product Announcement Combining channel density with exceptional flexibility, the first two Flex I/O models each feature four input channels ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler
Bioengineering a Functional Vascularized Lung Scaffold
Medical Design Technology - 31 Aug 2017 14:40
News They developed an airway-specific method to remove the pulmonary epithelium ... Contributed Author: Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science
Self-Driving Vehicles at the Microscale
Medical Design Technology - 31 Aug 2017 14:39
News Until now, micro- and nanomachines have been restricted to navigation that uses a closed-loop control system ... Contributed Author: Lisa Zyga
Robotic System Monitors Specific Neurons
Medical Design Technology - 31 Aug 2017 14:39
News This technology could allow more scientists to study single neurons and learn how they interact with other cells to enable cognition ... Contributed Author: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Video of the Day: Super Muscle Lifts 165
Medical Design Technology - 31 Aug 2017 14:38
Videos The device can be applied to technology, such as steerable catheters ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler
Tiny Bat Shrugs Off Stings From Deadly Scorpion
Discover - 31 Aug 2017 08:46
Pallid bats (Antrozous pallidus) are quirky little creatures, the sole species in their genus. Their long ears, which can equal half their body length, make them look quintessentially batty, but unlike most of their nigh...
Cross-kingdom regulation of honeybee caste development by dietary plant miRNAs
EurekAlert! - 31 Aug 2017 06:00
(Nanjing University School of Life Sciences) Honeybee larvae develop into workers but not queens, in part, because their diet of beebread/pollen is enriched in plant miRNAs. While miRNAs are generally negative regulators...
Discrimination leads older Chinese-Americans to consider suicide at high rates
EurekAlert! - 31 Aug 2017 06:00
(University of Michigan) Elderly Chinese-Americans feel helpless when faced with racial biases and become twice as likely to consider suicide than those who don't encounter similar discrimination, according to a new Univ...
Exploring periodontitis in patients with Chédiak-Higashi syndrome
EurekAlert! - 31 Aug 2017 06:00
(International & American Associations for Dental Research) IADR and AADR have published an article titled 'Periodontitis in Chédiak-Higashi Syndrome: An Altered Immunoinflammatory Response' in the JDR Clinical & Transl...
Family of proteins involved in brain's connectivity are controlled by multiple checkpoints
EurekAlert! - 31 Aug 2017 06:00
(University of Bristol) University of Bristol scientists have found that the delivery of a group of proteins involved in the information flow between the brain's nerve cells to the synapse is much more sophisticated than...
For older adults with chronic conditions, non-drug behavioral treatments may help
EurekAlert! - 31 Aug 2017 06:00
(American Geriatrics Society) In a study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, researchers note that little is known about treating symptoms of multiple illnesses because people with two or more co...
Inflammation may precede sleep apnea, could be treatment target
EurekAlert! - 31 Aug 2017 06:00
(Penn State) Inflammation is traditionally thought of as a symptom of sleep apnea, but it might actually precede the disorder, potentially opening the door for new ways to treat and predict sleep apnea, according to rese...
Lek-Heng Lim receives Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis & Scientific Computing
EurekAlert! - 31 Aug 2017 06:00
(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) SIAM is proud to award Lek-Heng Lim, University of Chicago, with the James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing in 2017.
Low health literacy is associated with preventable emergency department visits
EurekAlert! - 31 Aug 2017 06:00
(Society for Academic Emergency Medicine) Low health literacy is a risk factor for potentially preventable emergency department (ED) visits, particularly those that result in hospital admission.
Mayo Clinic researchers identify genes fueling neuroblastoma spread
EurekAlert! - 31 Aug 2017 06:00
(Mayo Clinic) For the first time, Mayo Clinic researchers and colleagues present data on how nervous system tumors, called neuroblastomas, spread. Their paper, published in Cancer Cell, clarifies the relationship between...
Measuring the cost of quality measurement
EurekAlert! - 31 Aug 2017 06:00
(Boston Children's Hospital) Less than 2 decades after publication of the National Academy of Medicine's (formerly the Institute of Medicine) Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, quality ...
Mind wandering is common during driving
EurekAlert! - 31 Aug 2017 06:00
(Frontiers) American scientists have investigated mind wandering in volunteers during a driving simulation. Astonishingly, during the simulation, the volunteers reported mind wandering 70 percent of the time. The researc...
More evidence: Untreated sleep apnea shown to raise metabolic and cardiovascular stress
EurekAlert! - 31 Aug 2017 06:00
(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Sleep apnea, left untreated for even a few days, can increase blood sugar and fat levels, stress hormones and blood pressure, according to a new study of sleeping subjects. A report of the study'...
New Zealand researchers makes 'natural born killer' cell discovery
EurekAlert! - 31 Aug 2017 06:00
(University of Otago) An unexpected role for a white blood cell called the Natural Killer (NK) cell -- a critical cell for ridding the body of infection and cancer, has been discovered by researchers t New Zealand's Univ...
New assessment predicts fracture risk for patients in long-term care
EurekAlert! - 31 Aug 2017 06:00
(Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research) Researchers from Hebrew SeniorLife's Institute for Aging Research have developed and validated a new assessment to predict the risk of falls in long-term care patients. Th...
New boarding procedures, smaller cabin size may limit infection on planes
EurekAlert! - 31 Aug 2017 06:00
(Florida State University) During major epidemics, cramped airplane cabins are fertile ground for the spread of infection, but new research suggests changing routine boarding protocols could be a key to reducing rampant ...