By Ben Coxworth December 01, 2022 This diagram illustrates how the carbon nanofibers are arranged differently in the sensor’s two stacked membranesNano Research, Tsinghua University While some assistance is available to individuals who lack the power of speech, verbally communicating with other people can still be challenging. A new face-worn strain sensor could help, as...
DECEMBER 1ST, 2022 CONN HASTINGS GENETICS, MEDICINE Scientists at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology came up with a technique to increase the efficiency and potentially the efficacy of mRNA therapeutics. mRNA molecules have what is called a poly-A tail, which is basically a string of adenine nucleotides at one end. These researchers discovered...
AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY IMAGE: NEW STUDY FINDS UP TO 11 PERCENT OF PATIENTS HAD LUNG SCARRING AFTER COVID-19 INFECTION THAT MAY GET WORSE OVER TIME. CREDIT: ATS Dec. 2, 2022─ In a new study published online in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, researchers sought to determine the percentage of...
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA As the Christmas season starts to ramp up, University of South Australia researchers are reminding people to prioritise a good night’s sleep as new research shows that a troubled sleep may be associated with risk factors for type 2 diabetes. In the first study of its kind, researchers found that people who reported trouble sleeping were...
KLICK APPLIED SCIENCES Scientists at Klick Applied Sciences have discovered a way to transform a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) into a powerful diabetes screening and prevention tool using artificial intelligence. In findings presented Friday at the NeurIPS conference in New Orleans, Klick scientists revealed how they used machine learning and just 12 hours of data from CGMs to determine...
by Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania KET induces a switch in the active population of L2/3 neurons in S1. Credit: Nature Neuroscience (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-022-01203-5 Ketamine, an established anesthetic and increasingly popular antidepressant, dramatically reorganizes activity in the brain, as if a switch had been flipped on its active circuits, according to a...
by University of Massachusetts Amherst Mice expressing E46K alpha-synuclein developed neuropathological inclusions in the brain (shown in green) following injection with recombinant E46K fibrils. Red staining shows astrocytes, blue is cell nuclei. Credit: Woerman Lab, UMass Amherst A University of Massachusetts Amherst scientist has discovered that a mutation in the misfolding protein that causes Parkinson’s...
by Emerson Dameron, University of California – San Diego UC San Diego Researchers develop a self-powered ingestible sensor system designed to monitor metabolites in the small intestine over time. Credit: David Ballot for the Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego Engineering researchers have developed a battery-free, pill-shaped ingestible biosensing system designed to provide continuous...
by University of North Carolina Health Care Experimental Design. Two groups of 2-month old rhesus macaques (RMs) were immunized intramuscularly at weeks (wks) 0 and 4 with stabilized prefusion SARS-CoV-2 S-2P spike (S) protein of the Washington (SARS-CoV-2/human/USA/WA-CDC-02982586-001/2020) strain encoded by mRNA encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles (mRNA-LNP; n = 8) or purified S protein mixed with 3...
by Indiana University The platform tracks T cell infiltration of tumor spheroids, which are 3D structures made of cancer cells. Credit: Feng Guo An interdisciplinary team of researchers led by Indiana University bioengineer Feng Guo has developed a tool that could lead to improved cancer immunotherapy. The prototype platform facilitates automated drug screening and real-time,...
