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  • Cheaper 3D-Printed Model Just As Effective at Student Training

    Cheaper 3D-Printed Model Just As Effective at Student Training

    Researchers from Stanford University have developed a way to replicate a patient’s blood vessels in a 3D-printed model, a cheaper, yet as effective, method as commercially available models for training medical students in interventional radiology vascular access. The study was presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting. Interventional Radiology Compared to open… Read More

  • Subtle Blood Flow Changes Can Reveal Your Emotions

    Subtle Blood Flow Changes Can Reveal Your Emotions

    Subtle changes in blood flow color around the face reveal the mood we’re in, even before our faces move to form the expression we want, according to a groundbreaking study by The Ohio State University. This is the first study to ever document connections between blood flow color change and facial expression without facial movement.… Read More

  • Simple Test for Fluoride Can Help Prevent Crippling Bone Disease

    Simple Test for Fluoride Can Help Prevent Crippling Bone Disease

    A simple test to detect fluoride in drinking water quickly could prevent skeletal fluorosis, a crippling bone disease, according to a team of researchers from the Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies and the Water Innovation and Research Centre (WIRC) at the University of Bath, UK. The study is published in the journal Chemical Communications. Fluoride is… Read More

  • New Method for Testing Potential Antibiotics ‘Puts Bacteria to Work for Us’

    New Method for Testing Potential Antibiotics ‘Puts Bacteria to Work for Us’

    Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin have developed a method to quickly test hundreds of thousands of potential infection-fighting drugs, which involves constructing bacteria to produce and test molecules that could be self-damaging. This research comes at a pivotal time, for humans are increasingly becoming immune to existing antibiotics. The method is described… Read More

  • Writing ‘To-Do’ Lists Can Help You ‘Fall Asleep Faster’

    Writing ‘To-Do’ Lists Can Help You ‘Fall Asleep Faster’

    Researchers at Baylor University have recently demonstrated that writing a “to-do” list before bed may reduce the amount of time it takes to fall asleep. “We live in a 24/7 culture in which our to-do lists seem to be constantly growing and causing us to worry about unfinished tasks at bedtime,” Michael K. Scullin, lead… Read More

  • Innovative Immunotherapy Method Targets and Kills Cancer Cells Remotely

    Innovative Immunotherapy Method Targets and Kills Cancer Cells Remotely

    Researchers at UC San Diego, along with others from the University of Southern California and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, have developed an innovative immunotherapy method to target and kill cancer cells remotely. This non-invasive method uses an ultrasound-based system to manipulate genetic processes in live immune T cells remotely, so they… Read More

  • Exposure to Nature Boosts Mental Health of City Dwellers

    Exposure to Nature Boosts Mental Health of City Dwellers

    A team of researchers led by King’s College London, UK, has found that exposure to nature in cities increases the levels of a person’s mental wellbeing. In the study, the researchers used a smartphone app they developed to measure a person’s experience of city living in the moment. The study was a cross-disciplinary collaboration among… Read More

  • Decker School of Nursing Gives Telemedicine a Big Boost

    Decker School of Nursing Gives Telemedicine a Big Boost

    The Decker School of Nursing at Binghamton University is giving telemedicine a big boost with its new Southern Tier Telemedicine and Mobile Health Research Development and Training Center. Telemedicine brings healthcare to a patient via telecommunication and information technology without the patient having to travel. “With the new Center, we are able to expand simulation… Read More

  • TU Eindhoven Is Turning Smartphones Into Tricorders

    TU Eindhoven Is Turning Smartphones Into Tricorders

    Just like the tricorder popularized by Star Trek, smartphones outfitted with a micro-spectometer recently developed by researchers at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands could be used by users to glean crucial information from the environment around them. The new micro-spectrometer is small enough to fit in a cell phone, but precise… Read More

  • Timely Zap to the Brain Prevents Impulsive Urges

    Timely Zap to the Brain Prevents Impulsive Urges

    Researchers at Stanford University have identified a particular pattern of an electrical activity in the key brain region that predicts impulsive actions before they occur. They also found that a short electrical pulse delivered to that particular brain region at the right time can prevent these actions. The researchers believe that this biomarker can be… Read More

  • Some Brains Are Wired to Switch Focus Faster

    Some Brains Are Wired to Switch Focus Faster

    A team of researchers from Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania recently conducted a cognitive switch test and concluded that some brains are more naturally wired to switch focus quickly. The study is published in Nature Human Behavior. Led by John Medaglia, assistant professor of psychology at Drexel’s College of Arts and Sciences, the… Read More

  • University of Calgary Researchers Perform Brain Surgery Without Cutting the Skin

    University of Calgary Researchers Perform Brain Surgery Without Cutting the Skin

    Physicians at the University of Calgary, Canada, in partnership with researchers at the Hotchkiss Brain Institute, have successfully performed nine brain surgeries on patients with essential tremor movement disorder without cutting the skin or drilling into the skull. Using magnetic resonance guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) technology, the physicians are able to see the brain with… Read More

  • Tri-C Students Create 3D-Printed Devices to Help Disabled Veterans

    Tri-C Students Create 3D-Printed Devices to Help Disabled Veterans

    A group of students at Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) in Ohio is using 3D printing techniques to create affordable assistive devices for disabled veterans. In doing so, the students are applying the knowledge they gain from their 3D Digital Design & Manufacturing Program, a one-year program constructed to prepare students in the field of 3D… Read More

  • New UK Study Ties Remission of Type 2 Diabetes to Weight Loss

    New UK Study Ties Remission of Type 2 Diabetes to Weight Loss

    A team of researchers in the UK has found that it is possible to reverse Type 2 diabetes through a low calorie diet program, without any help from medications. The study, which was funded by Diabetes UK, was led by Professor Roy Taylor from Newcastle University and Professor Mike Lean from the University of Glasgow.… Read More

  • Cardiff University Researchers Develop Two Unique Methods to Attack Cancer

    Cardiff University Researchers Develop Two Unique Methods to Attack Cancer

    Researchers at Cardiff University in the UK have developed two unique ways of attacking cancer cells. The first method targets cancer-ridden T-cells without harming healthy ones, while the second method uses genetically engineered healthy T-cells to destroy cancerous cells. T-cells, a type of white blood cell, are a part of the immune system that help… Read More

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