Cancer cells obtained from a blood test may be able to predict how early-stage lung cancer patients will fare, a team from the University of Michigan has shown. This information could be used to determine which patients are most likely to benefit from additional therapies to head off the spread of the cancer to other...
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Autoimmune diseases increase cardiovascular and mortality risk
Confirmed thanks to the monitoring of almost 1 million people over a six-year period Researchers from the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) and IDIAP Jordi Gol have just published an article showing that autoimmune diseases significantly increase cardiovascular risk as well as overall mortality. This is particularly pronounced in people suffering rheumatoid arthritis...
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Cartilage degeneration algorithm predicts progression of osteoarthritis
A novel cartilage degeneration algorithm can predict the progression of osteoarthritis in individual patients, according to new research from the University of Eastern Finland. The new algorithm could greatly facilitate clinical decision-making in the treatment of osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis (OA) is a joint disease that deteriorates the articular cartilage. The most important risk factors are ageing and...
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Learning to improve foot control in cerebral palsy
A device to measure foot control is being trialled to improve walking ability for adolescents and young adults with cerebral palsy. Shari O’Brien, a researcher from The University of Queensland’s School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences is assessing if the device combined with ankle training will reduce tripping and injuries caused from poor muscle control...
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Google Glass is back — as a tool to coach autistic children, train doctors, and more
OAKLAND, Calif. — Google Glass, not long ago a laughing stock of the tech world, has been reinvented as a hot new accessory for doctors and patients. The pricey, web-connected eyewear computer, sold to consumers on a limited basis by the Silicon Valley titan from 2013 through early 2015, briefly seemed to be the next big...
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Nanomachines drill through cell membranes
Researchers in the US and the UK have developed a completely new technique to open cell membranes using photosensitive molecular machines. The devices, which drill their way through cellular lipid bilayers when exposed to light, can also destroy cells within minutes by disrupting the cell membrane. They might be used to deliver therapeutic drug payloads...
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Medical camera sees through the body
Scientists have developed a camera that can see through the human body. The camera is designed to help doctors track medical tools known as endoscopes that are used to investigate a range of internal conditions. The new device is able to detect sources of light inside the body, such as the illuminated tip of the endoscope’s long...
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Molecular nanosubmarines can target and kill specific cancer cells
In 2015, scientists from Rice University revealed they had created light-driven nanosubmarines. These tiny molecular machines were activated by ultraviolet light and based on earlier work from Nobel laureate Bernard Feringa, whose ground-breaking research won the prize for chemistry in 2016. These single-molecule machines have now been shown to be able to target, and drill into, specific...
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New way to kill cancer is better than chemotherapy: Treatment will use a patient’s immune system to wipe out all of a tumour’s cells
Scientists say they have found a way to prompt the immune system into helping They found a protein which enables chemotherapy to kill tumour cells ‘silently’ The new form of chemotherapy acts as sort of red flag to the immune system The drug could be available to Britain’s 356,000 cancer patients within decade Scientists have new...
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Scientists discover potential new improved way to kill cancer cells
Scientists at the University of Glasgow have discovered a process to trigger the death of cancer cells that could be more effective than current methods. The new method of killing cancer cells – called Caspase Independent Cell Death (CICD), and published today in Nature Cell Biology, led to the complete eradication of tumours in experimental models. Currently most...