Medical News
Baby Born With Heart Outside Her Body Is Still Alive, Against All Odds
Tech Times - 14 Dec 2017 23:53
Vanellope Hope Wilkins, who was born with her heart outside her chest, is still alive three weeks after being delivered. Doctors expected a next to impossible chance for survival, but the baby has defied the odds.
Standard Parts Improve the World: Transportable OP Microscope Receives the German Standard Parts Award 2017
Medical Design Technology - 14 Dec 2017 23:39
News The worldwide unique transportable OP microscope differs to conventional devices with a total weight of only 12kg ... Contributed Author: CADENAS
T Cell Traps
Medical Design Technology - 14 Dec 2017 23:32
News Wyss Institute researchers are generating implantable and injectable biomaterials to concentrate and trap disease-related T cells ... Contributed Author: Wyss Institute Topics: Implantables
Photo of the Day: Seeing Cells
Medical Design Technology - 14 Dec 2017 23:21
News This could allow us to see viruses on the surface of cells ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Medical Diagnostics
Spaghetti-Like, DNA 'Noodle Origami' the New Shape of Things to Come for Nanotechnology
Medical Design Technology - 14 Dec 2017 23:05
News To date, DNA nanotechnology scientists have had to rely on two main methods for making spatially addressable structures with finite dimensions ... Contributed Author: Arizona State University
Researchers Use WWII Code-Breaking Techniques to Interpret Brain Data
Medical Design Technology - 14 Dec 2017 22:58
News The same cryptography-inspired technique could eventually be used to decode more complex patterns of muscle activation ... Contributed Author: University of Pennsylvania Topics: Neurology
A Passion for Prosthetic Eyes
Medical Design Technology - 14 Dec 2017 22:42
News The second they got home, Dwayne went onto YouTube, looking up how to make a prosthetic eye for his daughter ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Implantables
'Man Flu' and Giant Wine Glasses: The BMJ's Christmas Issue
Discover - 14 Dec 2017 21:24
Scientists aren't always considered to be the most festive group of people. But The British Medical Journal does its part to celebrate the spirit of the holidays with its annual Christmas issue. Once a year, the journal ...
Discovery Clears Way for Human Body to Work as Robust Communication Network for Electronic Devices
Medical Design Technology - 14 Dec 2017 18:25
News An example of using a body as a wire is a doctor reprogramming a patient's pacemaker or other implantable device without making an incision ... Contributed Author: Phys.org Topics: Wearables
Micro-Grippers May Be Able to Navigate Unstructured Environments
Medical Design Technology - 14 Dec 2017 17:48
News The researchers created four different types of heat-powered micro-grippers, of differing shapes and sizes ... Contributed Author: Plos
Plasmonic Biosensors Enable Development of New Easy-To-Use Health Tests
Medical Design Technology - 14 Dec 2017 17:14
News Researchers created a new biosensor by depositing plasmonic metaparticles on a black, physical body that absorbs all incident electromagnetic radiation ... Contributed Author: Aalto University
New MRI Tech Could Help Doctors Detect Heart Disease with Better Accuracy
Medical Design Technology - 14 Dec 2017 17:06
News We created a nanoparticle-based contrast agent for MRI ... Contributed Author: Binghamton University Topics: Cardiovascular
Up to 650 000 people die of respiratory diseases linked to seasonal flu each year
WHO - 14 Dec 2017 10:00
Up to 650 000 deaths annually are associated with respiratory diseases from seasonal influenza, according to new estimates by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US-CDC), WHO and global health p...
Forty years after first Ebola outbreak, survivors show signs they can stave off new infection
EurekAlert! - 14 Dec 2017 07:00
(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) Survivors of the first known Ebola outbreak, which occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1976, may be key to development of vaccines and therapeutic ...
Bioluminescent worm found to have iron superpowers
EurekAlert! - 14 Dec 2017 07:00
(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego have made a discovery with potential human health impacts in a parchment tubeworm, found...
Food-induced anaphylaxis common among children despite adult supervision
EurekAlert! - 14 Dec 2017 07:00
(McGill University Health Centre) At least a third of reactions in children with food-induced anaphylaxis to a known allergen occur under adult supervision, according to a new study led by AllerGen researchers in Quebec,...
Finding a lethal parasite's vulnerabilities
EurekAlert! - 14 Dec 2017 07:00
(University of Pennsylvania) Researchers from Penn's School of Veterinary Medicine have landed on encouraging findings to take on Strongyloides stercoralis, a parasitic nematode that's infected millions of people around ...
Behaviour of millions still shaped by Industrial Revolution
EurekAlert! - 14 Dec 2017 07:00
(Queensland University of Technology) The Industrial Revolution of 200 years ago, powered by coal and steam engines, laid the foundations of modern society. World-first QUT-led research has found its effects are still fe...
All politics -- and cannabis marketing -- are local
EurekAlert! - 14 Dec 2017 07:00
(University of California - Davis) California's legal cannabis market, opening for business on Jan. 1, is expected to quickly grow to be the largest in the nation and worth more than $5 billion a year. County voting on P...
Liquid biopsy results differed substantially between 2 providers
EurekAlert! - 14 Dec 2017 07:00
(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Two Johns Hopkins prostate cancer researchers found significant disparities when they submitted identical patient samples to two different commercial liquid biopsy providers. Liquid biopsy is a n...
Little understood cell helps mice see color
EurekAlert! - 14 Dec 2017 07:00
(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have discovered that color vision in mice is far more complex than originally thought, opening the door t...
Mechanism identified of impaired dendritic cell function that weakens response to cancer
EurekAlert! - 14 Dec 2017 07:00
(The Wistar Institute) Wistar scientists revealed the mechanism implicated in the defective function of tumor-associated dendritic cells (DCs), a specialized type of immune cells that expose the antigens on their surface...