Medical News
New Camera Designed To Track Endoscopes Can See Through The Human Body
Tech Times - 4 Sep 2017 13:37
Scientists developed a new camera that can detect light passing through tissues such as those from the illuminated tip of medical tools. The device is designed to track endoscope inside the human body.
Building interdisciplinary bridges for research and recognition of intersexed bodies
EurekAlert! - 4 Sep 2017 06:00
(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) The Hebrew University of Jerusalem will host an international conference, 'Building Interdisciplinary Bridges for Research and Recognition of Intersexed Bodies,' focused on the comple...
Cannot sleep due to stress? Here is the cure
EurekAlert! - 4 Sep 2017 06:00
(University of Tsukuba) Everyone empirically knows that stressful events certainly affect sound sleep. Scientists in the Japanese sleep institute found that the active component rich in sugarcane and other natural produc...
Deadly parasite messaging tactic may help curb sleeping sickness
EurekAlert! - 4 Sep 2017 06:00
(University of Edinburgh) New insight into the parasites that cause sleeping sickness could offer a new pathway to tackling the disease, which poses a major threat to human health and causes severe livestock losses in pa...
Diabetes and heart disease linked by genes, reveals Penn-led study
EurekAlert! - 4 Sep 2017 06:00
(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Now, in a large analysis of genetic data, published in Nature Genetics, a team has first looked into what causes T2D and second clarified how T2D and CHD -- the two disease...
Discovery of dynamic seasonal changes in color perception
EurekAlert! - 4 Sep 2017 06:00
(National Institutes of Natural Sciences) In many areas, the environment fluctuates greatly depending on the season, and animals living in those areas must adapt to the changing environment. A research group from the Nat...
Epileptic brain activity in widely used lab mice
EurekAlert! - 4 Sep 2017 06:00
(Society for Neuroscience) Multiple laboratories have observed unusual neural activity resembling epilepsy in some lines of genetically modified mice widely used in neuroscience research. Reporting their findings in eNeu...
Face value
EurekAlert! - 4 Sep 2017 06:00
(Harvard Medical School) Scientists have long deemed the ability to recognize faces innate for people and other primates -- something our brains just know how to do immediately from birth. However, the findings of a new ...
First detailed decoding of complex finger millet genome
EurekAlert! - 4 Sep 2017 06:00
(University of Zurich) Finger millet has two important properties: The grain is rich in important minerals and resistant towards drought and heat. Thanks to a novel combination of state-of-the-art technologies, researche...
Largest ever genetic study marks likely osteoporosis treatment target
EurekAlert! - 4 Sep 2017 06:00
(University of Queensland) Scientists are honing in on a potential treatment for osteoporosis, after performing the largest ever genetic study of the common age-related bone-thinning disease.Researchers from the Universi...
Links between poor sleep and poor mental well-being
EurekAlert! - 4 Sep 2017 06:00
(University of Leeds) Inadequate sleep at night leads to poor memory and increases the risk of depression, anxiety and stress, according to research revealed today.
Blame it on the bossa nova: How music changes our perception of touch
EurekAlert! - 4 Sep 2017 06:00
(Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences) Music touches. Until recently, this was only meant in a figurative way -- now it can also be taken literally. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human...
Mayo Clinic researchers review the clinical potential of senolytic drugs on aging
EurekAlert! - 4 Sep 2017 06:00
(Mayo Clinic) Researchers are moving closer to realizing the clinical potential of drugs that have previously been shown to support healthy aging in animals. In a review article published online in the Journal of the Ame...
More than €56 million raised to fund initiative to fight antibiotic resistance
EurekAlert! - 4 Sep 2017 06:00
(Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative) Germany together with a number of countries and foundations today pledged €56.5 million to help develop new treatments to fight against antibiotic resistance, during a fundrais...
New device for refined neural recording in mice could transform dementia research
EurekAlert! - 4 Sep 2017 06:00
(National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs)) New ultra lightweight TaiNi system represents a significant refinement for mice used in neurological research.
One in 8 older adults in Ireland are deficient in vitamin D
EurekAlert! - 4 Sep 2017 06:00
(Trinity College Dublin) The figure rises to one in four during the dark winters in Ireland, while the research also points to rising age, smoking, living alone, and living in a lower socioeconomic background as factors ...
PSA screening significantly reduces the risk for death from prostate cancer
EurekAlert! - 4 Sep 2017 06:00
(American College of Physicians) After differences in implementation and settings were accounted for, two important prostate cancer screening trials provide compatible evidence that screening reduces prostate cancer mort...
Recurrence of prostate cancer could be reduced thanks to exciting new discovery
EurekAlert! - 4 Sep 2017 06:00
(University of Surrey) Groundbreaking research could reduce the recurrence of prostate cancer in males, a new study in the journal Nature Communications reports.
Researchers take a holistic approach to threats to humanity
EurekAlert! - 4 Sep 2017 06:00
(Chalmers University of Technology) What risks threaten the entire future of humanity within the next hundred years? And what should we do to protect against them? A group of researchers will take on these questions in t...
Rethinking serotonin could lead to a shift in psychiatric care
EurekAlert! - 4 Sep 2017 06:00
(Imperial College London) A better understanding of how a key chemical messenger acts in the brain could lead to a radical shift in psychiatric care, according to a new research paper.
Scientists discover and target brain area in patients with schizophrenia who 'hear voices'
EurekAlert! - 4 Sep 2017 06:00
(European College of Neuropsychopharmacology) For the first time, scientists have precisely identified and targeted an area of the brain which is involved in 'hearing voices,' experienced by many patients with schizophre...
Study associates schizophrenia with defective processing of messenger RNA in cells
EurekAlert! - 4 Sep 2017 06:00
(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) An alteration impairing the expression of certain proteins might hide the genesis of part of brain dysfunctions observed in schizophrenia patients.