Medical News

(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 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...

(Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine) The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine -- a nonprofit with more than 25,000 members in California --filed a lawsuit against the State of California on March 11 f...

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...

A look at how biosafety scientists balance the need to learn about deadly pathogens and the danger of working with them.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

(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...

(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.

(Wiley) Newly updated evidence published in the Cochrane Library today compares Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and clinically-related Twelve-Step Facilitation (TSF) programs with other treatments, such as cognitive behavioura...

(Forschungsverbund Berlin) Scientists from Russia, Germany and Switzerland now confirmed a mechanism in mouse, bat and naked mole rat cells -- a 'mild depolarization' of the inner mitochondrial membrane -- that is linked...

(Ruhr-University Bochum) The short-chain fatty acid propionic acid influences the intestine-mediated immune regulation in people with multiple sclerosis (MS). This has been shown by a team from the Department of Neurolog...

(NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) Scientists at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions have devised a new strategy to stop tumors from developing the ...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) University of Colorado Cancer Center study shows African American patients were only about half as likely as non-Hispanic whites to receive PET-CT imaging during lung canc...

(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...