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COVID-19 has placed tremendous pressure on health care systems, not only for critical care but also from an anxious public looking for answers.
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Researchers have demonstrated that a new mapping approach based on near infrared spectroscopy can distinguish between fat and muscle tissue in the heart. This distinction is critical when using radiofrequency ablation to ...
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Health care resources in low- and middle-income countries are often concentrated in urban areas, which puts medical treatment out of reach for millions of impoverished individuals who live in distant towns and villages.
Jul 08, 2020
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Bioengineers have considerably advanced cardiac scaffold engineering techniques to treat myocardial infarction, a form of cardiovascular disease and the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. However, it is still ...
Successful tissue regeneration can have major benefits in healing injuries or replacing portions of diseased or damaged tissue in bone, skin, the nervous system and in organs such as the muscle, kidney, liver, lung and heart. ...
Jul 07, 2020
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A recently published article from University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital reports new innovative use of machine learning to help understand the interplay of genetic and other breast cancer risk factors.
Jul 07, 2020
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Many of the latest developments in the global coronavirus pandemic revolve around testing—for active infection and immunity. Diagnostic and antibody tests for COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 are flooding the market, as leaders ...
Jul 03, 2020
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Life sciences company UCB is the first pharma company to join the COVID Moonshot crowdsourcing initiative, which involves the Diamond Light Source synchrotron facility in Oxfordshire and the Weizmann Institute of Science ...
Jul 03, 2020
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Scientists have found that human airway cells grown in a laboratory can reliably be used to study respiratory viruses such as COVID-19, which could help to minimize animal testing and fast-track drugs for human clinical trials.
Jul 02, 2020
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Although it might be tempting to rely on your fitness tracker to catch early signs of COVID-19, Northwestern University researchers caution that consumer wearables are not sophisticated enough to monitor the complicated illness.
Jul 01, 2020
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Australia has ruled out abandoning the government's COVIDSafe contact tracing app in favor of the rival "Gapple" model developed by Google and Apple, which is gaining widespread support around the world. Deputy Chief Medical ...
Jul 01, 2020
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed a new method for analyzing intact tumor samples in 3-D on a molecular level. The study is a collaboration with Karolinska University Hospital and is published ...
Jun 30, 2020
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Researchers at the USC Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Institute for Biomedical Therapeutics, the USC Institute for Technology and Medical Systems and the USC School of Pharmacy are developing an antimicrobial fluid to bolster ...
Jun 30, 2020
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Personal protective equipment (PPE) has been at the center of the fight against COVID-19. Like rarely before, the unforgiving virus has shown medical providers the essential importance of top-line devices.
Jun 30, 2020
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In new research from the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM), scientists have shown that bioengineered uteri supported fertilization, fetal development, and live birth with normal offspring. With further ...
Jun 29, 2020
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Powdered sugar is the special ingredient in a Rice University recipe for mimicking the body's intricate, branching blood vessels in lab-grown tissues.
Jun 29, 2020
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In the fight against COVID-19, researchers at Colorado State University have developed a new, non-invasive strategy to identify areas at greatest risk for spreading the disease.
Jun 26, 2020
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The blood circulatory system serves as critical infrastructure for mass transportation of nutrients and facilitates the exchange of gaseous and waste products from organs in the human body. These blood vessels are subjected ...
Jun 26, 2020
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More children are being vaccinated around the world today than ever before, and the prevalence of many vaccine-preventable diseases has dropped over the last decade. Despite these encouraging signs, however, the availability ...
Jun 26, 2020
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