CELL PRESS VIDEO: A VIDEO DEMONSTRATION OF THE WIRELESS BIOELECTRONIC MASK FOR A REAL-TIME TEST CREDIT: MATTER/WANG ET AL. Scientists have created a face mask that can detect common respiratory viruses, including influenza and the coronavirus, in the air in droplets or aerosols. The highly sensitive mask, presented September 19 in the journal Matter, can alert...
KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET Early intervention with rituximab, a drug used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), can reduce the risk of deterioration in myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disease that causes loss of muscle control. This is according to a randomised clinical study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and published in the journal JAMA...
by Horacio de la Iglesia, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain With the school year underway around the U.S., parents and caregivers are once again faced with the age-old struggle of wrangling groggy kids out of bed in the morning. For parents of preteens and teenagers, it can be particularly challenging. Sometimes this gets chalked...
by University of Washington In a proof-of-principle study, University of Washington and University of California San Diego researchers have shown that smartphones are capable of detecting blood oxygen saturation levels down to 70%. The technique involves having participants place their finger over the camera and flash of a smartphone, which uses a deep-learning algorithm to...
by Diabetologia Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Performing proactive surgery to adjust the mechanics of the foot, appears to be effective to treat diabetic foot ulcers, a common and debilitating complication of diabetes, withoutthe potential complications and at significantly lower cost compared to conservative management. The preliminary study, being presented at the annual meeting of the...
by Kessler Foundation Dr. Sandroff is a senior research scientist in the Center for Neuropsychology and Neuroscience Research and director of the Exercise Neurorehabilitation Research Laboratory at Kessler Foundation. Here, he monitors a participant in an MS treadmill training study. Credit: Kessler Foundation/ Jody Banks Thalamic atrophy needs to be considered in clinical studies of...
DIABETOLOGIA A systematic review and meta-analysis of 19 cohort studies involving more than 1 million adults from eight countries finds that moderate consumption of black, green or Oolong tea is linked to a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The findings, being presented at this year’s European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD)...
by Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine Alveolar macrophages isolated from the lungs of wild-type mice (left) and Cebpb-deficient animals (right). Cells were stained using OilRed O staining to visualize intracellular lipids (red). Cells lacking Cebpb show a large, distended phenotype with high lipid deposition. Credit: AG Leutz, MDC The exchange of gases between the...
by Andrew Myers, Georgia Institute of Technology FAST sensor. Credit: Stanford University Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Stanford University have created a small, autonomous device with a stretchable/flexible sensor that can be adhered to the skin to measure the changing size of tumors below. The non-invasive, battery-operated device is sensitive to one-hundredth...
by McGill University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Spinal cerebellar ataxia 6 (SCA6) is an inherited neurological condition which has a debilitating impact on motor coordination. Affecting around 1 in 100,000 people, the rarity of SCA6 has seen it attract only limited attention from medical researchers. To date, there is no known cure and only limited...
