Medical News
Careless cancer cells may be susceptible to future drugs
EurekAlert! - 11 Mar 2020 06:00
(Uppsala University) Could the ability of cancer cells to quickly alter their genome be used as a weapon against malignant tumors? Researchers at Uppsala University have succeeded in developing a substance that has demon...
Hirose partners with Amphenol on release of ix Industrial connector
Medical Design Technology - 11 Mar 2020 15:30
Hirose has developed a partnership with Amphenol on the release of ix Industrial connectors. The ix Industrial is an ideal connection solution for factory and process automation, machine to machine communication, robotic...
Heavy stress and lifestyle can predict how long we live
EurekAlert! - 11 Mar 2020 06:00
(National Institute for Health and Welfare) Life expectancy is influenced not only by the traditional lifestyle-related risk factors but also by factors related to a person's quality of life, such as heavy stress.
The difference between instrumentation and differential amps
Medical Design Technology - 11 Mar 2020 23:56
Many of the test instruments used in industry today have inputs based on instrumentation amplifiers. This kind of amplifier, sometimes abbreviated as InAmp, is itself based on a more fundamental amplifier setup, the diff...
Could a Pandemic Start In the Lab?
Discover - 11 Mar 2020 22:38
A look at how biosafety scientists balance the need to learn about deadly pathogens and the danger of working with them.
Bumblebees aversion to pumpkin pollen may help plants thrive
Science Daily - 11 Mar 2020 22:19
Researchers have found that squash and pumpkin pollen have physical, nutritional and chemical defense qualities that are harmful to bumblebees. The results of their recent study suggest that deterring bumblebees from col...
How do sensors impact healthcare?
Medical Design Technology - 11 Mar 2020 21:43
The coronavirus, COVID-19, has brought significant attention to accurate, consistent and widely-available medical testing and diagnosis. Sensors provide the basis of providing the data and direction for many healthcare i...
More than half of Americans want money, control in exchange for genetic data
Science Daily - 11 Mar 2020 20:05
As people become more aware of privacy concerns and the ways in which genomic database companies are profiting from their data, their expectations for compensation and control may increase, according to researchers at Pe...
New method to grow human blood vessels
Science Daily - 11 Mar 2020 18:18
A team of researchers recently proved the ability to grow human-derived blood vessels in a pig -- a novel approach that has the potential for providing unlimited human vessels for transplant purposes.
Record and analyze signals to 26.5 GHz
Medical Design Technology - 11 Mar 2020 16:11
The Tektronix RSA7100B wideband RF signal analyzer and streaming recorder lets engineers working on wideband designs in communications, radar, and electronic warfare capture and analyze signal in the frequency domain. It...
High-current, four-terminal shunt resistors now in 1216 and 4026 sizes
Medical Design Technology - 11 Mar 2020 15:41
Low resistance values are important for high-efficiency current sensing in that lower values mean less wasted power on the current sensing measurement itself. But sensing low resistance values becomes challenging because...
Compute platform targets high-bandwidth cloud apps
Medical Design Technology - 11 Mar 2020 15:37
Xilinx, Inc. announced Versal Premium, the third series in the Versal ACAP portfolio. The Versal Premium series features highly integrated, networked and power-optimized cores and the industry’s highest bandwidth and c...
GaN flyback switcher ICs enable 55-W heatsinkless power supplies
Medical Design Technology - 11 Mar 2020 15:33
Power Integrations announced an expansion of its InnoSwitch 3 families of offline CV/CC flyback switcher ICs. The new INN3x78C devices incorporate a smaller "size 8" 750 V PowiGaN transistor, enabling compact, efficient ...
Digitizers tackle fast acoustical and mechatronics applications
Medical Design Technology - 11 Mar 2020 13:57
Eleven new digitizer products are specifically intended for the capture and analysis of electronic signals in the dc to 2 MHz frequency range. Offering signal acquisition at rates from 1 kS/sec to 5 MS/sec and with 16-bi...
Rural Hondurans embrace cancer screening opportunities
EurekAlert! - 11 Mar 2020 06:00
(Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center) Few people in low-income countries have access to cancer screening and their cancer rates are on the rise. To test the feasibility of cancer screening in a low-income country, researc...
Popular painkiller ibuprofen affects liver enzymes in mice
EurekAlert! - 11 Mar 2020 06:00
(University of California - Davis) The popular painkiller ibuprofen may have more significant effects on the liver than previously thought, according to new research from UC Davis. The study in laboratory mice also shows...
New COVID-19 content from Annals of Internal Medicine
EurekAlert! - 11 Mar 2020 06:00
(American College of Physicians) Below please find links to new coronavirus-related content published today in Annals of Internal Medicine. All coronavirus-related content published in Annals of Internal Medicine is free...
Addressing HPV vaccination concerns
EurekAlert! - 11 Mar 2020 06:00
(Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute) Research from the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute finds a promising avenue for addressing vaccine hesitancy around HPV vaccine. The study, 'Tailored Messages Addressing HPV V...
Validating a better way to stratify BPD risk in vulnerable newborns
EurekAlert! - 11 Mar 2020 06:00
(Children's National Hospital) Factoring in the total number of days that extremely preterm infants require supplemental oxygen and tracking this metric for weeks longer than usual improves clinicians' ability to predict...
LJI scientists identify potential targets for immune responses to novel coronavirus
EurekAlert! - 11 Mar 2020 06:00
(La Jolla Institute for Immunology) Publishing in the March 16, 2020, online issue of Host, Cell and Microbe, a team of researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology, in collaboration with researchers at the J. Craig ...
University of Minnesota first to prove new method to grow human blood vessels
EurekAlert! - 11 Mar 2020 06:00
(University of Minnesota Medical School) A team of researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School recently proved the ability to grow human-derived blood vessels in a pig -- a novel approach that has the poten...
JNK protein triggers nerve cells to withdraw their synapses when stressed
EurekAlert! - 11 Mar 2020 06:00
(University of Turku) New study from Eleanor Coffey's lab at Turku Bioscience Center in Finland identifies that the JNK protein triggers nerve cells to withdraw their synapses when stressed.