by Karen Weintraub Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Personalized care has been a buzzword in medicine for years, but new research on cancer treatment is taking it to a new level. Detailed in a study published Thursday in Nature, the new approach combines several cutting-edge technologies to provide perhaps “the most complicated” treatment ever given. But by...
MAY 11TH, 2022 CONN HASTINGS GENETICS, MATERIALS, MEDICINE, ONCOLOGY, PATHOLOGY Researchers at Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science developed an advanced organ-on-a-chip system that incorporates heart, bone, liver, and skin tissue in independent niches that are linked with simulated vascular flows. The system even includes immune cells that circulate within the simulated vasculature....
INSELSPITAL, BERN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL The urea cycle is responsible for removing nitrogenous waste produced from the breakdown of protein in the organism. If the OTC enzyme is missing in this cycle, ammonia accumulation rises to toxic levels. An OTC deficiency is the most common disorder in the urea cycle. It could not be cured with...
MICHIGAN MEDICINE – UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN A decade-long study of the most common forearm fracture in older adults revealed that personalized medicine catering to a patient’s individual needs and environment, not age or X-rays, should guide treatment options. Led by a Michigan Medicine physician, the research team examined treatment outcomes over two years for patients...
Dr. Abhishek Jain, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Medical Physiology in the College of Medicine, collaborated with researchers from the Departments of Gynecologic Oncology and Cancer Biology at MD Anderson Cancer Center to gain a better understanding of the interaction among ovarian cancer tumors, blood vessels and platelets....
Wearable soft mask will be useful for new, cutting-edge sleep and psycho-social studies UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST ANNOUNCING A SOFT NEW WEARABLE EYE MASK FOR USE IN SLEEP AND OTHER STUDIES, LEAD AUTHOR TRISHA ANDREW AT UMASS AMHERST SAYS THAT RECORDING HEALTH AND BEHAVIOR SIGNALS ON OR… view more CREDIT: UMASS AMHERST/ANDREW LAB AMHERST, Mass....
Advance could help doctors choose the right drug at the right dose for the right person UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – LOS ANGELES SMARTWATCH TO TRACK MEDICATION LEVELS view more CREDIT: JIALUN ZHU, SHUYU LIN, AND YICHAO ZHAO (I²BL/UCLA) Engineers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and their colleagues at Stanford School of Medicine have...
As COVID-19 restrictions loosen this summer, Canadians will spend more time outdoors and make the most of the sunshine. A new study from McGill University suggests why men may be more genetically prone to develop skin cancer. The research led by Professor Ian Watson of McGill’s Goodman Cancer Research Centre (GCRC), published in the journal...
by University of Utah Health Sciences In her Genomic Signal Processing Lab, Alter develops new mathematical methods that are uniquely suited for personalized medicine. Credit: Nathan L. Galli, University of Utah For the past 70 years, the best indicator of life expectancy for a patient with glioblastoma (GBM)—the most common and the most aggressive brain...
CAMBRIDGE, MA — MIT researchers have developed a way to incorporate electronic sensors into stretchy fabrics, allowing them to create shirts or other garments that could be used to monitor vital signs such as temperature, respiration, and heart rate. The sensor-embedded garments, which are machine washable, can be customized to fit close to the body...
