Health
Getting under your skin for better health with interstitial fluid testing
The next frontier of continuous health monitoring could be skin deep.
Jan 20, 2023
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News tagged with biomedical engineering
Immunology
Study shows effect of sex and prior exposure on vaccine immune responses
Scientists have described the differing responses that occur in response to a herpes simplex virus (HSV) 2 vaccine, based on a patient's sex and their prior exposure to the virus.
Jan 18, 2023
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Neuroscience
How old is your brain, really? AI-powered analysis accurately reflects risk of cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease
The human brain holds many clues about a person's long-term health—in fact, research shows that a person's brain age is a more useful and accurate predictor of health risks and future disease than their birthdate. Now, ...
Jan 7, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Does COVID change the body's response to other threats? Depends on your sex
The long-term effects of infection on the immune system have long intrigued John Tsang, a Yale immunobiologist. After the body has faced down a pathogen, does the immune system return to the previous baseline? Or does a single ...
Jan 4, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Tracking radiation treatment in real time promises safer, more effective cancer therapy
Radiation, used to treat half of all cancer patients, can be measured during treatment for the first time with precise 3D imaging developed at the University of Michigan.
Jan 3, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
New bacterial therapy approach to treat lung cancer
Lung cancer is the deadliest cancer in the United States and around the world. Many of the currently available therapies have been ineffective, leaving patients with very few options. A promising new strategy to treat cancer ...
Dec 24, 2022
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Can the AI driving ChatGPT help to detect early signs of Alzheimer's disease?
The artificial intelligence algorithms behind the chatbot program ChatGPT—which has drawn attention for its ability to generate humanlike written responses to some of the most creative queries—might one day be able to ...
Dec 22, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Reconsidering oxygen's role in growth of tumors
Yale researchers have made a discovery that changes conventional thinking about the role that oxygen plays in the growth of tumors—an area of cancer research that has been intensely studied in recent years.
Dec 14, 2022
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Vaccination
A strategy to thermally stabilize microneedle vaccine technology
Researchers in the Department of Biomedical Engineering—a shared department between the UConn Schools of Dental Medicine, Medicine, and Engineering—unlocked a new strategy using sugar molecules to thermally stabilize ...
Dec 2, 2022
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Neuroscience
New tools map seizures, improve epilepsy treatment
Two new models could solve a problem that's long frustrated millions of people with epilepsy and the doctors who treat them: how to find precisely where seizures originate to treat exactly that part of the brain.
Nov 29, 2022
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