Medical News

News Gymnastics is an Olympic staple, featuring the extremes of human balance, strength, and kinetic precision. However, with judges deducting and awarding points, sometime precision and fairness doesn't translate... Sta...

News Medical Design Technology randomly surveyed a number of industry experts in recent weeks to get their thoughts on the key trends for 2019. Here are their thoughts... Staff Author: Spencer Chin

News A research team, led by Professor Tetsuo Endoh at Tohoku University, has successfully developed 128Mb-density STT-MRAM (spin-transfer torque magnetoresistive random access memory) with a write speed... Contributed A...

News Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology proposed new quasi-1D materials for potential spintronic applications, an upcoming technology that exploits the spin of electrons. They performed simulations to demonstrat...

News The dawn of a new year brings new tech to the market. Starting with their 2019 Santa Fe SUV model, Hyundai Motor Company plans to phase out car keys with smart fingerprint technology. In the new Hyundai ride... Staf...

News For the first time, MIT researchers have shown that nerves made to express proteins that can be activated by light can produce limb movements that can be adjusted in real-time, using... Contributed Author: MIT Topic...

News Abandoned Christmas trees could be saved from landfill and turned into paint and food sweeteners, according to new research by the University of Sheffield... Staff Author: Spencer Chin Topics: Product Design and Dev...

News In a paper to be published in the forthcoming issue in NANO, researchers from the Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications have developed a simple... Contributed Author: World Scientific Topics: Product De...

News A computer virus hit newspaper printing plants in Los Angeles and at Tribune Publishing newspapers across the country. Tribune Publishing said a computer virus disrupted production of the Chicago Tribune and... Cont...

Article Drones have slowly worked their way from military use to an everyday consumer product. They have been used for nature photography, weddings, TV shows, films, and countless other areas of everyday life. One place ...

(Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) Chemotherapy is an effective treatment for breast cancer, yet some patients develop metastasis in spite of it. Researchers at EPFL have discovered that chemotherapy-treated ma...

(Salk Institute) For decades, scientists studying the visual system thought that individual brain cells, called neurons, operate as filters. Some neurons would prefer coarse details of the visual scene and ignore fine de...

(University of Bath) A significant new study shows that cannabis potency has doubled across Europe in the past 11 years.

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Stage IV ALK+ lung cancer patients treated at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital between 2009 and 2017 had median overall survival of 6.8 years.

(Istituto Neurologico Mediterraneo Neuromed I.R.C.C.S.) Spirulina is celebrated as a 'superfood' because of its possible beneficial properties, albeit its mechanism of action is still subjected to investigation. Sometime...

(PATH) Results from a PATH-led evaluation study in Vietnam demonstrate that HIV testing by lay providers is an effective approach to reach people at risk of HIV who have never been tested or test infrequently. Key at-ris...

(McGill University) A ground-breaking new study led by researchers from the Lady Davis Institute (LDI) at the Jewish General Hospital (JGH) has succeeded in compiling an atlas of genetic factors associated with estimated...

(American College of Physicians) Compared with a glucagon-line peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonist, canagliflozin was not associated with an increased risk for fracture in patients with type 2 diabetes at relatively low risk for f...