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News A multidisciplinary team has developed a high-tech fix that utilizes metal nanostructures to increase fluorescence intensity by 100 times in diagnostic tests. It's a cheap and easy solution to what's previously been...

It all starts with Professor George Church's vision. Church is a core faculty member at the Wyss Institute and professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School. In 2005, he launched the Personal Genome Project (PGP), whic...

Article Given the increased need for EMC considerations, the International Electrotechnical Commission revised its standard specific to EMC for medical devices, IEC 60101-1-2. The latest 4th edition provides guidance on ...

News Researchers developed a C-reactive protein sensor integrated onto a medical catheter for direct CRP sensing. This organic sensor has a total thickness of approximately 1/50th of Asian human hair, which can save the ...

News Nanofiber-based wound dressings loaded with vitamin D spur the production of an antimicrobial peptide, a key step forward in the battle against surgical site infections, or SSIs... Contributed Author: Oregon State U...

News A team of engineers led by Tufts University has developed a prototype bandage designed to actively monitor the condition of chronic wounds and deliver appropriate drug treatments to improve the chances of healing......

Videos A study led by Stanford colleagues describes a new imaging method that uses a type of strobe-action amplification technique. It has the ability to blow up the minute heartbeat-induced pulsations of the brain to pr...

(Washington University School of Medicine) People with multiple sclerosis (MS) can find an abundance of conflicting advice suggesting that special diets will ease their symptoms. But the evidence is scanty. Laura Piccio,...

(University of California - San Diego) Through x-ray crystallography and kinase-inhibitor specificity profiling, University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers, in collaboration with researchers at Pek...

(The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice) Researchers at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice received a $2.1 million funding award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Rese...

(American Psychiatric Association) Rates of routine screening of U.S. adults for depression have increased slightly in recent years, but remain very low. Adults were screened in about 3 percent of office visits in 2015, ...

(Institut national de la recherche scientifique - INRS) INRS Prof. Nicolas Doucet's research team was involved in the discovery of a key high-speed control mechanism for cell signalling.

(University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) Millennials living more dangerously and settling down later could be creating a new generation of addicted smokers and e-cigarette users, according to the surprising...

(Goethe University Frankfurt) Goethe University has a new LOEWE Centre under its belt -- together with its own research building that is planned for completion by 2023. As announced on June 29, a good € 73.4 million ar...

(City University London) Changing public health messaging to focus on the impact of our actions -- for example the potentially harmful impact of infecting a colleague with a cold, rather than whether we will infect them ...

(Boston University School of Medicine) Noyan Gokce, M.D., professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, has received a four-year, $2.2 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health. Gokce, alo...

(Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care) In two early benefit assessments, IQWiG was unable to derive an added benefit from the data presented because current standards of care were not implemented in the st...

(University of Basel) Parkinson's disease was first described by a British doctor more than 200 years' ago. The exact causes of this neurodegenerative disease are still unknown. In a study recently published in eLife, a ...

(Institut Pasteur) In 2017, the European Commission gave its go-ahead to Infravec2, the EU-funded global source for no-cost vector research products and services. In June, 2018, the Infravec2 team unveiled its updated on...

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) A study led by researchers at the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health has identified a constellation of metab...

(Instituto de Medicina Molecular) A group of researchers led by Edgar Gomes, Group Leader at Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes (iMM; Portugal) identifies in muscle cells a new mechanism that activates lo...

(Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago) Young adults who had parents incarcerated during childhood do not receive timely healthcare and have more unhealthy behaviors, Lurie Children's researchers find.