by Emily Ayshford, University of Chicago Whole-tissue gene expression reveals the molecular effects of sepsis and endotoxemia across organs. a, Schematic overview of the experimental workflow. b, Heat map of DEGs (rows) from whole-tissue mRNA profiles ordered by k-means clustering (horizontal lines), organ types (top; colors) and time periods (bottom; tick marks for 0.25, 0.5, 1,...
by Northwestern University Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Secondary bacterial infection of the lung (pneumonia) was extremely common in patients with COVID-19, affecting almost half the patients who required support from mechanical ventilation. By applying machine learning to medical record data, scientists at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine found that secondary bacterial pneumonia that does not...
MAY 5TH, 2022 CONN HASTINGS CRITICAL CARE, DIAGNOSTICS, EMERGENCY MEDICINE, MEDICINE Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas, in collaboration with a company called EnLiSense, developed a wearable electrochemical sweat sensor that can detect chemokines in sweat, alerting the wearer and clinicians to a viral or bacterial infection. The device also warns of an impending...
