OSAKA — After contracting COVID-19, patients may have higher risk of heart failure from persistent viral infection in their hearts, even without developing notable heart disease, according to study results announced by Japanese researchers on Dec. 23. The team including researchers from Riken, Japan’s largest scientific institute, pointed out the possibility of a “heart failure...
WSOCTV.com News Staff Earlier this month, UNC Health Pardee became the first Western North Carolina hospital to administer a dose of a promising new Alzheimer’s drug, according to our news partners at WLOS in Asheville. ALSO READ: Former WSOC anchor dies after battle with Alzheimer’s disease The new drug is called Lecanemab and works by...
Today, medicines based on antibodies — proteins that fight infection and disease — are prescribed for everything from cancer to COVID-19 to high cholesterol. The antibody drugs are supplied by genetically engineered cells that function as tiny protein-producing factories in the biology laboratory. Confocal microscopic image shows mesenchymal stem cells (green) captured within nanovials (pink)....
An electronic smart glove that enables movement in the paralysed hand of stroke survivors – supporting their rehabilitation – has been invented by a team from the University of Southampton. The stroke glove prototype on a lab model. Image credit: University of Southampton The glove has electrodes printed on the sleeve that make contact with...
When you go to a doctor’s office, whether for an annual checkup or for specific symptoms, your doctor might ask you to provide a urine sample for testing at a clinical lab. The test can check for kidney disease and conditions that affect kidney function, such as diabetes and urinary tract infections.The human urine standard...
Amira Abdelrasoul, an associate professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan (USask), leads investigations into membrane technology that can improve outcomes for people with kidney disease. Losing a close family member to kidney failure inspired Amira Abdelrasoul to pivot her research direction and use her expertise in membrane science and nanotechnology...
AI algorithm can enhance decoding accuracy of brain signals in real-time brain-computer interfaces.Maryam Shanechi, Dean’s Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Founding Director of the USC Center for Neurotechnology, and her PhD students have developed a new, advanced deep-learning method for brain signals that can perform real-time decoding to advance neurotechnologiessignificantly. This work was...
A groundbreaking new technique invented by researchers at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Science may revolutionize the field of synthetic biology. Known as CReATiNG (Cloning Reprogramming and Assembling Tiled Natural Genomic DNA), the method offers a simpler and more cost-effective approach to constructing synthetic chromosomes. It could significantly advance genetic engineering and...
MIT researchers find that in mice and human cell cultures, lipid nanoparticles can deliver a potential therapy for inflammation in the brain, a prominent symptom in Alzheimer’s.Some Covid-19 vaccines safely and effectively used lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) to deliver messenger RNA to cells. A new MIT study shows that different nanoparticles could be used for a...
Weill Cornell MedicineA common type of brain bleed in older adults, known as subdural hemorrhage, is associated with the presence of amyloid deposits in cerebral blood vessels, according to a study led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian and Yale School of Medicine. The study is the first to link cerebral vessel amyloid to...
