Neuroscience
Research offers new hope for people living with seizures
A research collaboration involving the University of Otago could change the lives of people living with seizures.
Mar 22, 2022
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News tagged with sound waves
Parkinson's & Movement disorders
'E-nose' could someday diagnose Parkinson's disease by 'smelling' skin
A couple of years ago, a woman named Joy Milne made headlines when scientists discovered that she could "smell" Parkinson's disease (PD) on people with the neurodegenerative disorder. Since then, researchers have been trying ...
Feb 23, 2022
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Biomedical technology
How sound waves could help regrow bones
Researchers have used sound waves to turn stem cells into bone cells, in a tissue engineering advance that could one day help patients regrow bone lost to cancer or degenerative disease.
Feb 21, 2022
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Radiology & Imaging
This bizarre looking helmet can create better brain scans
It may look like a bizarre bike helmet, or a piece of equipment found in Doc Brown's lab in Back to the Future, yet this gadget made of plastic and copper wire is a technological breakthrough with the potential to revolutionize ...
Feb 11, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Focused sound waves and immunotherapy combination shows promise in treating pancreatic cancers
Combining targeted, focused ultrasound and immunotherapy drugs could work as a new treatment for pancreatic cancers, a new study has shown.
Feb 7, 2022
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Neuroscience
Non-invasive method to deliver drugs to the brain
In a new study researchers from the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, in collaboration with the Noninvasive Surgery & Biopsy Laboratory led by Dr. James Choi at Imperial College London, have found that ...
Feb 4, 2022
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Biomedical technology
Microrobots designed to deliver drugs to diseased cells find inspiration in starfish larva
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a tiny robot that mimics the movement of a starfish larva. It is driven by sound waves and equipped with tiny hairs that direct the fluid around it, just like its natural model. In ...
Nov 9, 2021
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Health
Difficulty hearing speech could be a risk factor for dementia
In 2020 a landmark report by The Lancet Commission estimated that people with unaddressed midlife hearing loss are up to five times more likely to be affected by dementia than those without hearing loss.
Jul 21, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Breaching the blood-brain barrier to deliver precious payloads
RNA-based drugs have the potential to change the standard of care for many diseases, making personalized medicine a reality. This rapidly expanding class of therapeutics are cost-effective, fairly easy to manufacture, and ...
May 7, 2021
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Gerontology & Geriatrics
What to know about essential tremor and dramatically reduce its impact
The most important thing to know about essential tremor, or ET, is that although it can change your life, people with ET can still live life to the fullest.
Mar 26, 2021
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