Medical News
'Natural killer' cells could halt Parkinson's progression
EurekAlert! - 17 Mar 2020 06:00
(University of Georgia) Researchers at the University of Georgia's Regenerative Bioscience Center and their colleagues have found that 'natural killer' white blood cells could guard against the cascade of cellular change...
OFC plenary: 5G will drive optical
Medical Design Technology - 17 Mar 2020 23:01
China Telecom's Qi Bi told optical engineers how 5G will change their lives, and ours. 5G is more than wireless. Included in the 5G chain is fiber, lots of it. After all, how will all those mmWave small cells connect to ...
SiC MOSFET driver with fast short-circuit response achieve AEC-Q100 qualifications
Medical Design Technology - 17 Mar 2020 19:41
Power Integrations today announced that its SIC118xKQ SCALE-iDriver, a high-efficiency, single-channel gate driver for silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs, is now certified to AEC-Q100 for automotive use. Devices can be config...
UHF modules handle narrow-band Tx/Rx tasks
Medical Design Technology - 17 Mar 2020 18:26
Saelig Company, Inc. has announced the compact, multi-channel CDP-07M UHF Narrow-Band Transmitter/Receiver Pair: CDP-TX-07M (transmitter) and CDP-RX-07M (receiver). The modules contain almost all of the components necess...
Motion control ICs handle advanced velocity control of servomotors
Medical Design Technology - 17 Mar 2020 17:49
Performance Motion Devices, Inc. (PMD) today announced the availability of Juno Velocity Control ICs, new members of PMD’s Juno Motion IC family providing advanced velocity control of 3-phase Brushless DC and DC Brush ...
Physically aware RTL design system halves SoC implementation cycle
Medical Design Technology - 17 Mar 2020 17:45
Synopsys announced the immediate availability of RTL Architect, an innovative product that signifies a shift-left for RTL design closure. Synopsys RTL Architect is the industry’s first physically aware RTL design syste...
Heiland Electronics now stocking JAE DC04 HDMI 2.1 connectors
Medical Design Technology - 17 Mar 2020 17:38
Heilind Electronics has added JAE Electronics DC04 Series HDMI connectors to its growing inventory of audio and visual interconnects. As one of the first connectors approved for HDMI 2.1 use, the DC04 series meets the in...
Kit speeds IoT-based asset-tracking via sensor networks
Medical Design Technology - 17 Mar 2020 17:37
TT Electronics announced the launch of 'IOT OUT OF THE BOX', a new asset monitoring platform kit built in collaboration with Wittra Sweden AB, a developer of asset monitoring and positioning for the Internet of Things (I...
Free ebook covers Raspberry Pi essentials
Medical Design Technology - 17 Mar 2020 17:15
In celebration of Pi Day, the element14 community has published a new eBook: "Essential Raspberry Pi Tips". In recent years, the Raspberry Pi has transitioned from a tool for students and hobbyists to a viable option for...
Blocking sugar structures on viruses and tumor cells
EurekAlert! - 17 Mar 2020 06:00
(Technical University of Munich (TUM)) During a viral infection, viruses enter the body and multiply in its cells. Viruses often specifically attach themselves to the sugar structures of the host cells, or present charac...
UMass Amherst biostatistician lends expertise to white house coronavirus task force
EurekAlert! - 17 Mar 2020 06:00
(University of Massachusetts Amherst) A new study in the Annals of Internal Medicine calculates that the median incubation period for COVID-19 is just over 5 days and that 97.5% of people who develop symptoms will do so ...
Schedule announced for Nutrition 2020
EurekAlert! - 17 Mar 2020 06:00
(American Society for Nutrition) Nutrition 2020 is your source for the latest news on food, nutrition and health. This flagship meeting of the American Society for Nutrition, to be held May 30-June 2 at the Washington St...
Walter Reichman named SIOP Fellow
EurekAlert! - 17 Mar 2020 06:00
(Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology) Walter Reichman, Ed.D has been named a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). The profession of industrial and organizational psy...
Finding the Achilles' heel of cancer cells
EurekAlert! - 17 Mar 2020 06:00
(Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science) The key to effective cures for cancers is to find weak points of cancer cells that are not found in non-cancer cells. Researchers at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of M...
The COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic has a natural origin, scientists say
EurekAlert! - 17 Mar 2020 06:00
(Scripps Research Institute) Scripps Research's analysis of public genome sequence data from SARS-CoV-2 and related viruses found no evidence that the virus was made in a laboratory or otherwise engineered.
Vitamin D boosts chances of walking after hip fracture
EurekAlert! - 17 Mar 2020 06:00
(Rutgers University) Senior citizens who are not vitamin D deficient have a better chance of walking after hip fracture surgery, according to a Rutgers-led study. The findings in The American Journal of Clinical Nutritio...
Webinars with patients-survey: 73% with chronic illnesses feel more COVID-19 risk
EurekAlert! - 17 Mar 2020 06:00
(BrightPoint) Results issued from the first of a series of ongoing surveys, among 1,300 people living with or caring for chronic conditions, that is tracking their awareness of and concerns about the novel coronavirus pa...
Acid reflux drugs linked to increased fracture risk in kids
EurekAlert! - 17 Mar 2020 06:00
(Wolters Kluwer Health) Proton pump inhibitors -- a widely used class of drugs used to treat acid reflux and related symptoms - may lead to an increased risk of fractures in children and adolescents, reports a study in t...
A protein that controls inflammation
EurekAlert! - 17 Mar 2020 06:00
(VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology)) A study by the research team of Prof. Geert van Loo (VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research) has unraveled a critical molecular mechanism behind autoimmune and inflamm...
African-American men less likely to use targeted prostate cancer detection method
EurekAlert! - 17 Mar 2020 06:00
(University of Cincinnati) Researchers at the University of Cincinnati have found in a retrospective study that African-American men are less likely to use a more targeted biopsy option for prostate cancer, despite an in...
Bentham Science announces an important new journal, 'Coronaviruses'
EurekAlert! - 17 Mar 2020 06:00
(Bentham Science Publishers) Bentham Science announces a new journal, 'Coronaviruses' to cover the latest research on coronaviruses, related outbreak and the methods employed to treat coronavirus infections.
COVID-19: The immune system can fight back
EurekAlert! - 17 Mar 2020 06:00
(University of Melbourne) Researchers at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute) were able to test blood samples at four different time points in an otherwise healthy woman in her 40s, ...