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Videos Researchers have developed a machine learning tool to better equip therapy robots in interpreting movements and expressions in a child with autism. They hope these developments provide a more individualistic appro...

What would it be like to live forever? The thought has likely crossed your mind. But you soon sober up -- it ain't going to happen. Nevertheless, the idea of living longer than your parents and grandparents is not farfet...

News MIT engineers have developed a simple, low-cost, passive prosthetic foot that they can tailor to an individual. Given a user's body weight and size, the researchers can tune the shape and stiffness of the prosthetic...

News People with diabetes could be able to monitor their blood sugar without drawing blood. Researchers combined radar and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to detect changes in glucose levels without the need fo...

News As the advancement of IT within healthcare is transforming the dynamics of the patient-physician relationship, it is important to integrate various apps into a centralized electronic medical record (EMR) system and ...

Product Announcement AutomationDirect's NITRA brand of pneumatic products now includes new 22mm pushbutton and switch pilot devices intended for use with pneumatic valve bodies... Contributed Author: AutomationDirect

News After realizing there was an obvious gap in mental health support, Gavin Dhesi developed a smartphone app called Spill, which offers an online service where users can feel safe talking to a trained counselor from th...

Product Announcement Gelest, Inc. has introduced ExSil 50, a new softer grade of an ultra-high elongation material that has been formulated to meet the requirements of soft-tissue implants or extracorporeal device applic...

News A research team has developed a technology that will advance micro LEDs. These blue f-VLEDs could be conformally attached to the curved skin and brains for wearable devices, and stably operated by wirelessly transfe...

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) Washing your hands and cleaning your house frequently may help to lower your contact with common flame-retardant chemicals, according to a new study by researchers ...

(Children's Hospital Colorado) Children's Hospital Colorado has announced that its Mike McMorris Cystic Fibrosis Research and Care Center, one of the largest cystic fibrosis clinical care centers in the U.S., is particip...

(Salk Institute) Salk scientists discover how learned behaviors are organized and controlled by different brain cell types, offering insight into Parkinson's, OCD.

(MediaSource) It wasn't the first wedding anniversary present that Lori Mines was hoping for. After seeking treatment for a debilitating migraine, Lori was diagnosed with advanced stage brain cancer. The prognosis for th...

(City of Hope) The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) board today awarded City of Hope $3.7 million to develop a phase 1 clinical trial for glioblastoma patients that will genetically engineer their st...

(University of Virginia Health System) With applications for asylum in the United States increasing sharply, a new paper from a team of asylum medicine and law experts is highlighting physicians' important role in evalua...

(Drexel University) The length of time a woman spends in poorer neighborhoods was found to be negatively tied to gaining a healthy amount of pregnancy weight, which is important for newborn health.

(American Association for Cancer Research) Implementation of educational interventions among operating engineers (heavy equipment operators) in Michigan significantly increased the use of sunscreen and decreased the numb...

(Elsevier) For the majority of affected youth, anxiety disorders are chronic, even after a successful course of evidence-based treatments, reports a study published in the July 2018 issue of the Journal of the American A...

(European Society for Medical Oncology) The Molecular Analysis for Personalised therapy (MAP) Congress is a one-of-a-kind meeting designed to answer the critical question about how to integrate the wealth of information ...

(Case Western Reserve University) A team from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, together with an international consortium of researchers, have discovered that men and women have different genetic risk f...

(Karolinska Institutet) Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and the University of Sussex, England, have discovered that the process of copying DNA generates a brake signal that stalls cell division. This molecu...

(Baylor College of Medicine) Four mutations of gene TRAF7 have been associated with a multisystem disorder.