by Columbia University Irving Medical Center Diagram of the brain of a person with Alzheimer’s Disease. Credit: Wikipedia/public domain. Decades before the first symptoms of Alzheimer’s appear, the brain’s neurons start secreting tau proteins, one of the first changes known to occur in the course of the disease. High levels of secreted forms of tau—which can...
by Emory University Engineered adenovirus Ad5-3M with highlighted in red mutations that were introduced to target virus to tumor cells, reduce inflammation, and avoid interactions with blood factors and immune cells after systemic administration. Credit: Dmitry Shayakhmetov Many cancer researchers can claim to have devised “smart bombs.” What has been missing is the stealth bomber—a delivery...
by University of Oxford Credit: University of Oxford People with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) could soon benefit from a new drug treatment that not only suppresses inflammation but also significantly reduces patient reported pain scores. Otilimab is a monoclonal antibody, biologic drug, which targets and suppresses the inflammatory cytokine GM-CSF. In a multicentre, dose-ranging trial, led by...
Does the idea of miniature, insect-scale robots swarming toward their intended duties inside your body make your skin crawl? Medical researchers led by Dr. Shen Yajing from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) don’t wish to alarm you but they’ve just devised a simple method of making millirobots which can be employed in various biomedical applications like targeted drug delivery and catheter navigation. Their...
A collaboration between international and Vanderbilt University researchers is helping to update a tried-and-true medical technology for the 21st century. The development of an intelligent and autonomous Magnetic Flexible Endoscope holds the promise of making colonoscopies safer, less painful, more widely available and less expensive. The article “Enabling the future of colonoscopy with intelligent and autonomous magnetic manipulation”...
by Barcelona Institute for Global Health Coronavirus. Credit: European Centers for Disease Control A new study in health care workers led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) shows that IgA and IgM antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 decay quickly, while IgG antibody levels are maintained for at least three months after infection. The longer follow-up of...
by DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology) Though neurodegenerative diseases are becoming more common in today’s aging societies, the exact way in which accumulated abnormal proteins become toxic to neurons is unknown. In a recent study conducted at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, scientists have discovered a new mechanism of...
by Radiological Society of North America An example of a fundus eye images taken from the UK Biobank. A simple eye exam combined with powerful artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning technology could provide early detection of Parkinson’s disease, according to research being presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). Parkinson’s disease is a progressive...
MARTIN-LUTHER-UNIVERSITÄT HALLE-WITTENBERG Special activity trackers can be used to fairly accurately determine the respiratory rate of people while they sleep. This is the result of a new study conducted by researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) together with Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and published in the journal Scientific Reports. In the future, activity trackers could be used...
KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY IMAGE: RESEARCHERS IN LITHUANIA CAME UP WITH THE IDEA WHICH WOULD ALLOW MEASURING ELECTROLYTE BALANCE NONINVASIVELY AT HOME THROUGH AN ELECTROCARDIOGRAM. Researchers from Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania came up with the idea on how to measure fluctuating blood potassium levels non-invasively, through electrocardiogram. The researchers claim that their method may become a...
