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News Researchers at MIT's Little Devices Lab have developed a set of modular blocks that can be put together in different ways to produce diagnostic devices. These "plug-and-play" devices, which require little expertise ...

Product Announcement Molex introduces the CP3.3 Wire-to-Wire Connector System, designed to allow multiple same-circuit connectors to be used in products ranging from electronics and white goods to industrial and medical ...

News Ophthalmic medical device company Implandata Ophthalmic Products GmbH (Implandata) announced that the company accomplished a first closing of its Series C funding round... Contributed Author: Implandata Ophthalmic

News The University of Texas at Arlington has successfully patented in Europe an implantable medical device that attracts and kills circulating cancer cells. This cancer trap can be used for early diagnosis and treatment...

News Older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), often a precursor to Alzheimer's, showed significant improvement with certain complex thinking and memory skills after exergaming, according to a new study... Contr...

News According to a position statement from AASM, consumer sleep technology must be cleared by the Food and Drug Administration and rigorously tested if it is intended to diagnose or treat sleep disorders... Contributed ...

News UCLA bioengineer has developed a technique that uses a specially adapted 3D printer to build therapeutic biomaterials from multiple materials. The advance could be a step toward on-demand printing of complex artific...

(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Cell type switch helps colon cancer evade treatment, a study suggests.

(University of Nottingham) Patients with stroke caused by bleeding on the brain (intracerebral hemorrhage) may benefit from receiving a drug currently used to treat blood loss from major trauma and bleeding after childbi...

(EMBO) The recipients of the EMBO Gold Medal 2018 are Czech microbiologist Marek Basler and German biochemist Melina Schuh. Marek Basler, who is based at the Biozentrum at the University of Basel, Switzerland, receives t...

(Temple University Health System) Homocysteine occurs naturally in the human body, generated as a byproduct of methionine metabolism. Genetic diseases or an imbalanced diet, with too much red meat or B vitamins and folic...

(The North American Menopause Society (NAMS)) With obesity now a global epidemic, there is increased focus on risk factors that contribute to weight gain, especially in postmenopausal women. Although many women may blame...

(Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) EPFL scientists have identified two enzymes that protect chromosomes from oxidative damage and shortening. Blocking them might be a new anticancer strategy for stopping telome...

(Queensland University of Technology) Advances in medicine mean health care professionals can prolong life, yet some treatments have a low chance of providing tangible benefits to some patients, can result in a 'bad deat...

(Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation) To help increase the number of physician-scientists, the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation has created the new Damon Runyon Physician-Scientist Training Award, which provid...

(Goethe University Frankfurt) Professor Stefan Knapp from the Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Buchmann Institute of Molecular Life Sciences at the Goethe University has been elected as one of 62 new members in ...

(University of Minnesota Medical School) Existing state and local programs focused on good nutrition and physical activities for children have led to measurable improvement in practices by the state's child care programs...

(Canadian Glycomics Network) Dr. Robert Britton firmly believes every molecule is important. This chemist doesn't want any molecule sitting unused on a laboratory shelf or in a fridge.'I want every molecule to have a pur...

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) Study suggests dysregulation of gene NEUROG2 could be linked to development of focal cortical dysplasia, one of the most common causes of drug-resistant epilepsy. N...

(RIKEN) Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science have discovered a mutation that can protect against Alzheimer's disease in mice. Published in the scientific journal Nature Communications, the study found that a...

(St. Michael's Hospital) Nearly a quarter (23.9 percent) of initial opioid prescriptions in Ontario had a daily dose of more than 50 milligram morphine equivalents (MME), exceeding the suggested dose threshold for opioid...

(Florida Atlantic University) About 22 million Americans are substance dependent, yet only 2.5 million seek treatment. Reviewing 5,443 records of adult substance use treatment clients, a new study examined treatment read...