A new treatment for eliminating surface bacteria using blue light and carvacrol, a phenol derived from edible oils, creates a photoxic, bacteria-specific reaction that does not contribute to antibiotic resistance. The technique, ...
Electromagnetic radiation (EMR) exposure from the sun and artificial lighting systems represent a health risk, therefore personalized methods for EMR dosimetry can guide people toward lifestyle behaviors that ensure healthy ...
Optogenetics is a technique that allows scientists to control neurons' electrical activity with light by engineering them to express light-sensitive proteins. Within the past decade, it has become a very powerful tool for ...
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Drinking milk helps your bones grow big and strong, but what if direct exposure to light could help, too? Now, researchers from Japan report that lighting up bone tissue could help treat bone disease.
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Blue light from LED lamps and consumer electronics can mess with your sleep because it disrupts production of the natural sleep hormone melatonin. Tinted glasses or displays in night mode can mask, but don't remove, a portion ...
Dec 14, 2023
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Breast cancer is the most common cancer affecting women in Singapore. Treatment is multimodal and often involves surgery to remove the cancer and lymph nodes involved.
Jul 19, 2023
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People who have lost control of their legs following a spinal cord injury may walk again someday. A research team affiliated with Université Laval and the CHU de Québec-Université Laval Research Center has pinpointed a ...
Apr 19, 2023
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A newly discovered "energy switch" in the immune cells of the brain may lead to the development of drugs for Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia.
Mar 15, 2023
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The eyes are often referred to as the "windows to the soul." In fact, there is a grain of neurobiological truth to this. An international research team from the Universities of Göttingen and Tübingen, Germany, and Baylor ...
Sep 29, 2022
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Too much screen use has been linked to obesity and psychological problems. Now a new study has identified a new problem—a study in fruit flies suggests our basic cellular functions could be impacted by the blue light emitted ...
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