Medical News
Two for One: How Our Brains Reward Us Twice for Every Meal
Discover - 27 Dec 2018 01:49
Food. It's probably on your mind quite a bit this holiday season, whether you're anticipating festive meals or dreading the pounds you might pack on during a bout of epicurean overindulgence. Though tips on managing our ...
MODI: a DIY Development Kit for Iot Devices and Robotics
Medical Design Technology - 26 Dec 2018 23:41
Videos LUXROBO, an IoT robotics company, is showcasing its customizable IoT smart modules called MODI at the CES 2019 in Las Vegas. This device allows users to customize and code their own smart homes and smart classroom...
Forget Nail Polish: Fingernail Sensor Provides Health Insights
Medical Design Technology - 26 Dec 2018 23:23
Videos IBM researchers have created tiny fingernail sensors that help doctors detect and monitor both diseases and movement disorders. The prototype monitors the progression of the disease with AI analysis and grip stren...
Designing Self-Driving Cars for the Elderly
Medical Design Technology - 26 Dec 2018 22:33
Article A lot is going on when it comes to the topic of self-driving vehicles then. However, a lot of people are still skeptical about the technology. In fact, a survey by AAA suggested that around 75 percent of the publ...
Exoskeleton Event Brings Teams Together to Advance Exoskeleton Technology
Medical Design Technology - 26 Dec 2018 19:43
Article While many of us were celebrating the holidays with loved ones, there were soldiers overseas protecting us, allowing those special holiday moments to transpire. Recently, numerous organizations came together to s...
5G TTCN-3 Conformance Test Case to 3GPP RAN 5 for 5G NR Device Certification
Medical Design Technology - 26 Dec 2018 19:01
Product Announcement Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers, and governments accelerate innovation to... Contributed Author: Keysight Technologies...
Swedish Research Multiplies the Life of Rechargeable Nimh Batteries
Medical Design Technology - 26 Dec 2018 18:41
News Researchers at Stockholm University have developed a method to multiply the lifespan of nickel-metal hydride batteries. This means that the batteries can handle a great many more charging cycles without losing capac...
New Material Cleans and Splits Water
Medical Design Technology - 26 Dec 2018 18:36
News Some of the most useful and versatile materials today are the metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). MOFs are a class of materials demonstrating structural versatility, high porosity, fascinating optical and electronic......
Holiday Asteroid Imaged With NASA Radar
Medical Design Technology - 26 Dec 2018 18:27
News The December 2018 close approach by the large, near-Earth asteroid 2003 SD220 has provided astronomers an outstanding opportunity to obtain detailed radar images... Contributed Author: NASA Topics: Radar
Autophagy and mitochondria: Targets in neurodegenerative disorders
EurekAlert! - 26 Dec 2018 09:00
(Bentham Science Publishers) Cellular homeostasis depends on the timely clearance of damaged cellular organelles and proteins via pathways including autophagy. Mitochondria and mitochondrial autophagy play a vital role i...
News releases about health, Earth science and social sciences make up EurekAlert!'s 2018 trending news list
EurekAlert! - 26 Dec 2018 09:00
(EurekAlert!) Health news occupied six of the 10 most-viewed news releases on EurekAlert! in 2018. The most popular news release, 'Study: Lead and other toxic metals found in e-cigarette 'vapors,'' submitted by Johns Hop...
Novel biomarkers & therapeutic targets for atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases
EurekAlert! - 26 Dec 2018 09:00
(Bentham Science Publishers) In this review, the researchers describe the analytical techniques and workflow used in untargeted metabolomics. They also identify several case studies that highlight the use of untargeted m...
Producers of white colonies on kimchi surface, mistaken as molds, have been identified
EurekAlert! - 26 Dec 2018 09:00
(National Research Council of Science & Technology) Analyses of microbial community structures and whole genome sequencing were performed to the white colony-forming yeasts on kimchi surface. WiKim provides information f...
UC San Diego researchers identify how skin ages, loses fat and immunity
EurekAlert! - 26 Dec 2018 09:00
(University of California - San Diego) Some dermal fibroblasts can convert into fat cells that reside under the dermis, giving skin a youthful look and producing peptides that fight infections. University of California S...
Yale experts treat severe, disfiguring sarcoidosis with novel therapy
EurekAlert! - 26 Dec 2018 09:00
(Yale University) An all-Yale team of researchers successfully treated a patient with disfiguring sarcoidosis, a chronic disease that can affect multiple organs, with a drug approved for rheumatoid arthritis. Successful ...
Artificial activation of cancer cells to destroy them
EurekAlert! - 26 Dec 2018 09:00
(Far Eastern Federal University) This risky method of anti-cancer therapy was suggested by scientists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU). Their review of mechanisms for molecular activation of stem cells of gliomas...
Cell size and cell-cycle states play key decision-making role in HIV
EurekAlert! - 26 Dec 2018 09:00
(University of Illinois College of Engineering) Thanks to the development of antiretroviral drugs, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is considered a manageable chronic disease today. However, if left undiagnosed or untr...
Opioid use and misuse following treatment for head and neck cancer
EurekAlert! - 26 Dec 2018 09:00
(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Six months after treatment ended, 7 percent of patients remained on opioid pain medications.
New study shows link between secondhand smoke and cardiac arrhythmia
EurekAlert! - 26 Dec 2018 09:00
(University of California - Davis Health) Continuous indoor exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke triggers changes in the heart's electrical activity, known as cardiac alternans, that can predict cardiac arrhythmia and su...
Losing neurons can sometimes not be that bad
EurekAlert! - 26 Dec 2018 09:00
(Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown) Current thinking about Alzheimer's disease is that neuronal cell death in the brain is to blame for the cognitive havoc caused by the disease. But a new study suggests that neuronal ...
Kicking, yelling during sleep? Study finds risk factors for violent sleep disorder
EurekAlert! - 26 Dec 2018 09:00
(American Academy of Neurology) Taking antidepressants for depression, having post-traumatic stress disorder or anxiety diagnosed by a doctor are risk factors for a disruptive and sometimes violent sleep disorder called ...
How the brain enables us to rapidly focus attention
EurekAlert! - 26 Dec 2018 09:00
(University of Queensland) University of Queensland researchers have discovered a key mechanism in the brain that may underlie our ability to rapidly focus attention.Our brains are continuously bombarded with information...