Medical News

(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have pinpointed a genetic variation responsible for driving the development of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The genetic...

In recent columns, we’ve given a quick review of some basic instrumentation common to most engineering work benches. Here are a few more instruments found in many engineering labs. Signal generator Signal Generator is ...

MIL-rugged rackmount enclosures support deeper modules than the standard 160-mm depth of OpenVPX. Many designers utilize OpenVPX or its general mechanicals for their designs. Combining advanced RF or other device capabil...

It is helpful to know how the material properties and geometries of magnetic cores affect the ability of inductors to store energy or filter current. There can be a mystique surrounding the specs of magnetic cores used i...

Despite built-in safe-guards, Bluetooth Low Energy IoT devices are vulnerable to hacks when they communicate over the air. Here are the basics of the problem. Leland Teschler, Executive Editor If you eyeball internet-of-...

(Washington University School of Medicine) Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is launching a clinical trial for patients hospitalized with COVID-19 at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. The trial will investigate...

(ERA-EDTA) The ERA-EDTA has established a European database that collects granular data of individual dialysis patients and transplanted patients with COVID-19. The hope is to achieve insights into patient and treatment ...

(Uppsala University) What does it actually look like deep inside our ears? This has been very difficult to study as the inner ear is protected by the hardest bone in the body. But with the help of synchrotron X-rays, it ...

(Mayo Clinic) As COVID-19 testing becomes more widely available, it's vital that health care providers and public health officials understand its limits and the impact false results can have on efforts to curb the pandem...

(Nagoya University) A new study at Nagoya University has highlighted the extraordinary ability of plants to communicate between their shoots and roots to prevent starvation.

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) Some types of gut bacteria are better than others at stimulating certain immune cells, specifically CD8+ T cells. And while these CD8+ T cells normally help protect the body a...

(University of Montreal) Canadian institutions are pooling their scientific expertise to develop an extraordinary immunization program using passive plasma to fight COVID-19.

(University of Gothenburg) In Sweden, care for bipolar disorder shows inequalities. They are associated both with socioeconomic factors and with gender, according to research from the University of Gothenburg. For instan...

(Mayo Clinic) Much remains unknown about COVID-19, but many studies already have indicated that people with cardiovascular disease are at greater risk of COVID-19. There also have been reports of ST-segment elevation (ST...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) A team at Penn Medicine launched the United States component of a global registry that aims to help protect health care providers who intubate patients with COVID-19 and be...

(University of California - Davis Health) In a perspective published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and from U...

(University of Turku) New study from researchers in Finland and the United Kingdom reveals that tumors lacking a protein called BAP1 have an ineffective immune reaction against cancer, thus rendering immunotherapies inef...

(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) In an article published in Nature Communications, Moffitt Cancer Center researchers provide a closer look at a mathematical model and data showing that individual patie...

(The Cure Alliance) After a lightening round of proposals and reviews, the FDA has authorized a team of scientist brought together by the non-profit organization, The Cure Alliance, to immediately begin a clinical trial ...

(University of Exeter) A pioneering study has shed new light on how a group of novel organelle-based disorders affect cells.

(Elsevier) Approximately 5% of women experience two or more miscarriages, a condition known as recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL). Although genetic testing is important for evaluating RPL, current tests have revealed shortco...

(Kanazawa University) Researchers from Kanazawa University have found a new sublineage of enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) C4 subgenotype with two possible recombinant strains during the 2015-16 outbreak of hand-foot-and-mouth d...