by European Society of Cardiology Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain It could be the shopping trip that saves your life: supermarket carts are helping to diagnose atrial fibrillation which can then be treated to prevent disabling or fatal strokes. The research was presented at ACNAP 2023, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and published in the Journal...
By UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON JUNE 23, 2023 Three elderly men diagnosed with an until-now irreversible heart condition, transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis, experienced an unprecedented spontaneous recovery confirmed by medical scans, leading researchers at UCL and the Royal Free Hospital to identify a unique amyloid-targeting immune response in these patients. This breakthrough raises the potential for new treatments and the possibility...
by Royal Holloway, University of London A recent study by academics at Royal Holloway, published in Cognition, shows how our hearts influence the extent to which we are suggestible to other people’s opinions. The study, led by Dr. Mariana von Mohr and Professor Manos Tsakiris from the Department of Psychology, investigated how signals from our heart to...
By Rhiannon Williams STEPHANIE ARNETT/MITTR | GETTY A significant proportion of people paid to train AI models may be themselves outsourcing that work to AI, a new study has found. It takes an incredible amount of data to train AI systems to perform specific tasks accurately and reliably. Many companies pay gig workers on platforms...
Nancy A. Melville June 09, 2023 UPDATED June 12, 2023 // Editor’s note: This story has been updated with additional comments from Dr Ahmed Obeidat from the Medical College of Wisconsin. Frexalimab, a novel, second-generation anti-CD40L antibody, shows “strikingly positive” effects in the treatment of relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS), significantly reducing disease activity. “We should be very excited about these results,...
Jacob Plieth The private group celebrates a double first for its mRNA-generated Car-T therapy in myasthenia gravis. Using Car-T therapy in autoimmune disease, beyond its natural habitat of oncology, has gained huge traction of late. But the prospect of having patients undergo burdensome chemo conditioning, while acceptable in cancer, might stifle serious uptake in chronic diseases....
The gut microbiome may influence heart health, research shows. Laura Herrera/Stocksy Over the past few years, researchers have discovered more details on how the body’s gut microbiome affects its overall health. An unhealthy gut microbiome, for example, has been linked to a variety of diseases. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison have now identified specific bacteria in the...
UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA IMAGE: PROFESSOR MANUEL VÁZQUEZ-CARRERA, FROM THE FACULTY OF PHARMACY AND FOOD SCIENCES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA AND THE INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICINE OF THE UB (IBUB). CREDIT: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA There are still many enigmas about the mechanism of action of metformin, the most prescribed drug to treat diabetes mellitus, also known...
UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND An emotion recognition tool – developed by University of the West of Scotland (UWS) academics – could help people with neurodiverse conditions including autism. Traditionally, emotion recognition has been a challenging and complex area of study. However, with recent advancements in vision processing, and low-cost devices, such as wearable...
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY IMAGE: SARAH DU, PH.D., INVENTOR AND AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, FAU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE. CREDIT: ALEX DOLCE, FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY In the United States, sickle cell disease affects about 100,000 people and about 2 million Americans carry this genetic mutation. The most common and serious problems caused by sickle cell...
