SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY NEWS A USC Viterbi undergraduate’s research could offer vital insights into diagnosing traumatic brain injury early with 99% accuracy. CT images of the brain. CT images of the brain. Image credit: Photo/Pexels Whether it’s from a sports injury, whiplash, or a bump to the head, many patients with mild concussion don’t even...
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY NEWS Researchers at Finland’s Aalto University have found a way to use magnets to line up bacteria as they swim. The approach offers more than just a way to nudge bacteria into order – it also provides a useful tool for a wide range of research, such as work on complex materials,...
Jul 11 2024 By Vijay Kumar Malesu Reviewed by Lily Ramsey, LLM In a recent study published in The Lancet Digital Health, a group of researchers estimated forced vital capacity (FVC) (Total air exhaled after the deepest breath) and forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) (Air exhaled in the first second of a forced...
Christina Szalinski July 11, 2024 Concerned about your patient’s type 2 diabetes risk? Along with the usual preventive strategies — like diet and exercise and, when appropriate, glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) agonists — there’s another simple, no-risk strategy that just might help: Turning off the light at night. A study in The Lancet found that...
Helen Leask July 11, 2024 A growing body of evidence has shown that people who regularly take aspirin have a lower risk for colorectal cancer (CRC) and are less likely to die if they do develop the disease. A 2020 meta-analysis, for instance, found that 325 mg of daily aspirin — the typical dose in...
by Medical University of Vienna Biology and Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2024.108796The artificial intelligence (AI) model GPT-4, known from its application in ChatGPT, shows impressive capabilities in biomedical research and can be used in many ways for simulations. A simulator developed at MedUni Vienna and based on GPT-4 shows increased accuracy in classifying the importance of...
by Lori Solomon First-trimester mRNA COVID-19 vaccine exposure is not associated with an increased risk for selected major structural birth defects, according to a study published online July 1 in JAMA Pediatrics. Elyse O. Kharbanda, M.D., M.P.H., from HealthPartners Institute in Minneapolis, and colleagues assessed whether receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine during the first...
by University of Manchester Credit: University of Manchester A global collaboration involving University of Manchester scientists has discovered a gene whose variants potentially cause neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) in hundreds of thousands of people across the world. The findings of the University of Oxford led study, published in Nature, are an exciting first step towards the...
by A.J. Hostetler, Virginia Commonwealth University Credit: Kampus Production from Pexels About 13% of individuals diagnosed with dementia may suffer instead from reversible cognitive decline caused by advanced liver disease, according to researchers from the Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Medicine and the Richmond VA Medical Center. Published recently in The American Journal of Medicine,...
by Serena Crawford, Yale University Superimposed structures of the SRA domain bound to DNA double helix (orange) from the 3CLZ.pdb, modeled CMFT bound SRA (yellow) and methylated cytosine (green). Credit: Journal of Biological Chemistry (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2024.107443In a new study, Yale researchers identified a molecule that binds to a disease-associated macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF)...
