NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY IMAGE: DEVELOPED BY NTU SINGAPORE AND TTSH, MRBA IS A WEARABLE ASSISTIVE ROBOT THAT CAN DETECT AND PREVENT A FALL BEFORE IT HAPPENS, REDUCING THE USER’S RISK OF SUSTAINING INJURIES. CREDIT: NTU SINGAPORE JOINT NEWS RELEASE Singapore, 7th September 2022 Researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) have developed a...
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA Researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine and MU Health Care have discovered how obstructive sleep apnea affects the gut microbiome in mice and how transplanting gut bacteria from sleep apnea affected mice can cause cardiovascular changes in the recipient mice. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a chronic sleep condition affecting more than 1...
by University of Arizona Credit: CC0 Public Domain A study led by researchers at the University of Arizona Health Sciences discovered new information about the inner workings of the immune system that could have a profound impact on T cell therapies for cancer and other diseases. T cells are a type of white blood cell...
by University of Helsinki Mutational signatures of formalin exposure. a C>T FFPE-only mutation count increases with formalin fixation time. We observed this increase in both unrepaired and repaired-FFPE samples from study 1 (the fixation group). FFPE-only mutations refer to mutations that are only discovered in FFPE but not in FF samples or known germline databases....
by Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Vitronectin illustration. Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys/Francesca Marassi Research led by Sanford Burnham Prebys professor Francesca Marassi, Ph.D., is helping to reveal the molecular secrets of macular degeneration, which causes almost 90% of all age-related vision loss. The study, published recently in the Biophysical Journal, describes the flexible structure of...
by European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology Credit: CC0 Public Domain Vitamin D levels affect overall survival for melanoma (skin cancer) patients, a new study presented at the 31st European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) Congress has shown. Dermatology researchers discovered that those who were deficient in vitamin D (lower than 10ng/mL) following their melanoma diagnosis were twice as...
by Wiley Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a study published in Arthritis & Rheumatology, a decrease in body mass index (BMI) was associated with both a lower incidence of the structural defects of knee osteoarthritis and a lower likelihood that such defects would progress, or get worse. Researchers examined radiographic analyses of knees at baseline and at 4...
by European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A novel imaging technique significantly improves the accuracy of the diagnosis of basal cell carcinoma (BCC)—the most frequent skin cancer—compared to clinical and dermoscopic examinations alone, according to new research being presented at the 31st European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) Congress. The...
by University of Exeter Research led by the University of Exeter and Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust, published in Age and Ageing, assessed a new tool designed to calculate which medicines are more likely to experience adverse anticholinergic effects on the body and brain. These complications can occur from many -prescription and...
by Karen Murphy, The Conversation Credit: Peter Chou from Pixabay., CC BY Soy is common in many Asian cuisines, and is growing more popular in Western countries as many people aim for predominantly plant-based diets. It offers many potential health benefits and is generally cheaper than meat. However, you might have heard soy is linked...
