New research by University of Georgia scientists sheds light on why people with obstructive sleep apnea may have associated autoimmune disorders. The results could lead to better approaches to treatment and possibly new drug therapies. The study, led by Bradley Phillips, builds on previous research showing that obstructive sleep apnea increases the risk for autoimmune diseases. Immune system disorders are a...
“Couche-Tard”. When their autistic child spoke the name of this well-known chain of Quebec convenience stores out loud in the car, his parents couldn’t believe their ears. How could their four-year-old have read the sign as they drove by? Until then, he’d never uttered a single word. This case of hyperlexia, the ability to decipher letters...
Vaccines are often ineffective in individuals with lymphoma, but a new shingles vaccine may change that, according to a new study. Researchers focused on this hard-to-vaccinate group and how best to prevent this particular illness because people with blood cancers are at higher risk of shingles and its complications, which can be fatal in this population....
By Michael Irving, November 18, 2020 MBI’s 3D scanner assigns colors based on different densities of tissue – so bones appear white, muscle appears red and implants appear blue and green. Mars Bioimaging Ltd As useful as X-rays are for imaging bones, there’s only so much we can see in a flat greyscale image. But...
A household breast cancer screening device that gives reliable results in minutes has won a £30,000 prize from billionaire inventor James Dyson. The Blue Box takes a urine sample and uses artificial intelligence to detect the early signs of breast cancer in just 40 minutes with 95 per cent accuracy. Inventor Judit Giro Benet, 23,...
by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne The researchers measured the heart rates of the participants as they went through each VR scenario, collecting a large body of heart-rate variation data under controlled experimental conditions. We all react to stress in different ways. A sudden loud noise or flash of light can elicit different degrees of response...
by Centenary Institute Research led by the Centenary Institute, the University of Technology Sydney and the University of Queensland has shown for the first time a link between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), an often fatal lung condition, and the gut microbiome. The findings, published in the high impact science journal Nature Communications, suggests that the gut may...
LUND UNIVERSITY Diabetes is currently treated using incretin hormones to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and other medical issues that the illness can trigger. Now researchers from Lund University in Sweden have noted new links between these hormones and arteriosclerosis, and believe their discovery could be significant for treatment of diabetes in the future. The study...
by Tel Aviv University Human chromosomes (grey) capped by telomeres (white). A new study from Tel Aviv University (TAU) and the Shamir Medical Center in Israel indicates that hyperbaric oxygen treatments (HBOT) in healthy aging adults can stop the aging of blood cells and reverse the aging process. In the biological sense, the adults’ blood cells...
DGIST (DAEGU GYEONGBUK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) IMAGE: (FROM THE LEFT) DR. MIN JEE KWON FROM HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, MYEONG HOON HAN AND BYUNG SU KO (RIGHT), DOCTORAL STUDENTS AT DGIST BRAIN AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES, AND PROF. SUNG BAE LEE DISCOVERED HOW ABNORMAL NEURONAL PROTEINS BECOME TOXIC IN NEURO DEGENERATIVE DISEASES. Thanks to modern...
