Gait analysis systems measure certain metrics to give their results. These results then drive clinical treatment for gait correction. However, detailed gait analysis requires expensive equipment, a lot of space, markers, and time. On the other hand, measurements from markerless, video-based gait analysis systems are inaccurate. Researchers have now combined RGB camera-based pose estimation and an...
Year: <span>2022</span>
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Technology allows efficient encapsulation and UV light-regulated release of biomolecules and drugs
Researchers from Tel Aviv University (TAU) have developed a new technology that will allow controlled encapsulation and release of molecules by exposure to UV light. Efficient encapsulation of molecules has been considered a major technological challenge, say the researchers. The new technology, which allows for efficient encapsulation and high loading capacity of molecules, might address this need. The researchers...
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Exercise is medicine for cancer and every dose counts – even in late stages in the disease
EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY IMAGE: A SINGLE BOUT OF EXERCISE HAS BEEN FOUND TO PRODUCE ANTI-CANCER PROTEINS CALLED MYOKINES WHICH CAN SIGNIFICANTLY INHIBIT TUMOUR GROWTH EVEN IN ADVANCED STAGES OF THE DISEASE. CREDIT: EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY. It is well-known exercise has many benefits, but new Edith Cowan University (ECU) research has revealed just how critically important it can...
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Development of bio-friendly self-powered sensor technology that can accurately analyze exercise posture
DGIST (DAEGU GYEONGBUK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) □ DGIST (President: Kuk Yang) announced on Thursday, November 10 that a joint research team led by Professor Kim Hoe-joon of the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering and Professor Hong Seon-ki of the Department of Physics and Chemistry developed a high-efficiency piezoelectric energy harvesting technology using...
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Finding the principle in regulating the secretion of neurotransmitters… A clue to brain disease treatment
DGIST (DAEGU GYEONGBUK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) □ Professor Suh Byung-chang’s research team of the Department of Brain Sciences, DGIST (President: Kuk Yang), announced on Wednesday, November 23 that they have identified the molecular mechanism for the activation of ‘voltage-dependent calcium channels,’ an important protein that regulates the secretion of neurotransmitters at nerve cell...
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The key to new lupus treatment lies in the blood
SINGHEALTH Singapore, 14 December 2022 — A new study has shown that restoring the balance of a protein in blood may be a promising treatment option for systemic lupus erythematosus, or lupus, an incurable autoimmune disease. The protein, CXCL5, helps to regulate the immune system through neutrophils, a type of white blood cell. In patients with...
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Intermittent fasting may reverse type 2 diabetes
THE ENDOCRINE SOCIETY WASHINGTON—After an intermittent fasting diet intervention, patients achieved complete diabetes remission, defined as an HbA1c (average blood sugar) level of less than 6.5% at least one year after stopping diabetes medication, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Intermittent fasting diets have become popular in...
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Three approaches with a reputation for slowing aging processes proven largely ineffective
by Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e.V. (DZNE) To what extent can aging, measured as a multidimensional representation of age-dependent phenotypic change, be slowed in mice? a To estimate aging trajectories for a wide range of age-sensitive phenotypes (ASPs), we examined phenotypes across the lifespan of C57BL/6J mice, including hundreds of phenotypes derived from multi-dimensional...
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Reconsidering oxygen’s role in growth of tumors
by Yale University Graphical abstract. Credit: Cell Systems (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2022.11.003 Yale researchers have made a discovery that changes conventional thinking about the role that oxygen plays in the growth of tumors—an area of cancer research that has been intensely studied in recent years. The results, from the lab of Andre Levchenko, the John C. Malone Professor...
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Speeding up bone healing in menopausal females
by Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance Credit: Shutterstock Older women heal bone fractures slower than men. Now a team has found that a single, localized delivery of estrogen to a fracture can speed up healing in postmenopausal mice. The findings could have implications for the way fractures in women are treated in the future. Over...