UNIGE researchers have developed a portable device capable of diagnosing within ten minutes of mild traumatic brain injury, using a single drop of blood. UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE Every year in Europe, three million people are admitted into hospitals for suspected mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) cases. Yet 90% of these patients will be able to return home...
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Google Glass Is Back, And May Have Finally Found A Place It Belongs
“IT’S BAAACK.” Jennifer Bennett, a technical director for Google Cloud, announced that Google Glass would be returning. But instead of being a goofy headset that your everyday person can use to covertly record everyday life, it’s geared towards industrial applications. The factory floor is really where people could use some hands-free assistance, and might not mind...
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Treating Cancer With Vitamins
Vitamin C–filled foods are the go-to when hoping to help prevent illness or speed up the recovery process. Now this vitamin may help with not only the common cold but cancer as well. Loss of Tet2 protein function, which regulates transcription and plays an important role in blood cell production, underlies some cases of blood...
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Genetic variation may increase risk of liver damage in patients with chronic hepatitis B
July 27, 2018, Westmead Institute for Medical Research A new study has shown that genetic variation may increase the risk of severe liver damage in Caucasians with chronic hepatitis B infection. First author Dr. Rasha El Sharkawy. Credit: The Westmead Institute for Medical Research Researchers from the Westmead Institute for Medical Research found that Caucasian...
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Cannabis does not improve breathlessness during exercise in patients with advanced COPD
AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY July 27, 2018–Inhaled vaporized cannabis does not appear to improve or worsen exercise performance and activity-related breathlessness in patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a randomized controlled trial published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society. IMAGE: CANNABIS NEITHER IMPROVES NOR WORSENS BREATHLESSNESS IN PEOPLE WITH ADVANCED...
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Breast cancer diagnosed by pill
Scientists have developed a pill that lights up breast cancer tumors. Approximately one in three breast cancer patients undergo unnecessary surgery or chemotherapy on tumors that are benign. There are also women with treatable cancers who die due to undetected tumors that are hidden by dense breast tissue. This is due to difficulties inherent in...
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Aegle Therapeutics is Awarded IND to Test Extracellular Vesicles from Stem Cells in Burn Patients
Aegle Therapeutics is a Miami, FL-based biotechnology company that has taken a completely novel approach to regenerative medicine. Aegle Therapeutics has developed new techniques to isolated extracellular vesicles made by cultured stem cells. Specifically, Aegle Therapeutics isolate extracellular vesicles from bone marrow-based mesenchymal stem cells for therapeutic purposes. Scientists at Aegle Therapeutics have shown that...
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Depleting microbiome with antibiotics can affect glucose metabolism
A new study from the Salk Institute has found that mice that have their microbiomes depleted with antibiotics have decreased levels of glucose in their blood and better insulin sensitivity. The research has implications for understanding the role of the microbiome in diabetes. It also could lead to better insight into the side effects seen in people...
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Test to save patients from invasive open biopsies
July 23, 2018, University of Queensland University of Queensland researchers are developing diagnostic tests for a genetic condition which can cause the body to fatally overheat while under a general anesthetic. School of Biomedical Sciences Associate Professor Bradley Launikonis said malignant hyperthermia was caused by mutations in muscle proteins and could cause death under stressful conditions. “It is...
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Commonly used yeast could cause drug-resistant infections
A recent genetic study finds that a type of yeast commonly used in the food industry is genetically identical to one that causes severe drug-resistant fungal infections. Scientists call for changes to be made. Candida albicans (depicted here) may be the most well-known species of pathogenic yeast. In the same way that bacteria are now...