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Promising new approach finds cancer, delivers therapy all at once
Julie Sutcliffe | Via WGNTV | June 28, 2023New research is offering some hope in the fight against pancreatic cancer. The answer is nuclear medicine. And the power to find cancer and deliver therapy all at the same time. Theranostics, combining therapy and diagnostics, is a promising approach to cancer treatment. While some people fear the idea of using radioactive isotopes as a […]
A unique study on COVID shows how machine learning can help personalize medicine
Jiayu Liao | Via Pharma Voice | June 26, 2023Based on real-world data from patients in China, researchers were able to pinpoint factors that led to recurring infections — and which drug combos helped. In the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors in China tried a barrage of drugs to quell the raging virus. In one Shenzhen hospital, treatments included combinations of up […]
DNA test could broaden access to cervical cancer screening
Rebecca Richards-Kortum | Via Rice University | June 21, 2023Rice University bioengineers have demonstrated a low-cost, point-of-care DNA test for HPV infections that could make cervical cancer screening more accessible in low- and middle-income countries where the disease kills more than 300,000 women each year. HPV, a family of viruses, infects nearly everyone at some point in their lives, often without symptoms. But more […]
Frozen in Time
John Bischof | Via Science | June 21, 2023Scientists are learning how to cryopreserve living tissues, organs, and even whole organisms, then bring them back to life The rat kidney on the operating table in front of Joseph Sushil Rao looked like it had been through hell. Which it had—a very cold one. Normally a deep pink, this thumbnail-size organ was blanched a […]
Patients Who Received Opioids During Surgery Had Better Outcomes
Patrick Purdon | Via Pain News Network | June 16, 2023As pressure grows on the Biden Administration to implement the NOPAIN Act and require Medicare to pay higher costs for non-opioid pain relievers during surgery, a new study shows that restricting the use of opioids during surgical procedures may do more harm than good. Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) analyzed the health records of […]
HHS and the American Society of Nephrology Announce Winners of $9.2 Million Artificial Kidney Prize Phase 2 at KidneyX Summit
Anthony Atala | Via Dept. of Health and Human Services | June 12, 2023Today, the Kidney Innovation Accelerator (KidneyX), a public private partnership between the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) announced the eight winners of the Artificial Kidney Prize Phase 2 at the KidneyX Summit in Washington, DC. The competition recognized participants’ innovative approaches to developing a bioartificial […]
HHS and the American Society of Nephrology Announce Winners of $9.2 Million Artificial Kidney Prize Phase 2 at KidneyX Summit
Shuvo Roy | Via Dept. of Health and Human Services | June 12, 2023Today, the Kidney Innovation Accelerator (KidneyX), a public private partnership between the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) announced the eight winners of the Artificial Kidney Prize Phase 2 at the KidneyX Summit in Washington, DC. The competition recognized participants’ innovative approaches to developing a bioartificial […]
Designing Surfaces to Improve Bone Grafts
Guillermo Ameer | Via Northwestern University | June 12, 2023The field of bone implants has taken incredible strides thanks to technological innovations that allow for stronger grafts that are easier to install. Yet even with these advances, there are still risks involved in such procedures. Implants can be loosened following operations, for example, which can lead to costly surgical revisions that lengthen the recovery […]
Lukasz Kurgan, Ph.D., computer science professor, inducted into the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
Lukasz Kurgan | Via Virginia Commonwealth University | June 9, 2023Kurgan’s research aims to improve understanding of life at the molecular level using computer-based modeling Lukasz Kurgan, Ph.D., the Robert J. Mattauch Professor and Associate Chair of VCU’s Department of Computer Science, has been inducted into the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA). He is among 38 new members EASA selected from 11 nations. […]
Study shows metformin lowers the risk of getting long COVID
David Odde | Via University of Minnesota | June 9, 2023In a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, University of Minnesota researchers found that metformin, a drug commonly used to treat diabetes, prevents the development of long COVID. The study investigated if early outpatient COVID-19 treatment with metformin, ivermectin, or fluvoxamine could prevent long COVID. A simulator developed by David Odde and team predicted […]
AI Model Aims to Support Cell Functioning Predictions
Dong Xu | Via Health IT Analytics | June 6, 2023Researchers from the University of Missouri (MU) enhanced their artificial intelligence (AI) model to improve its ability to predict protein location within cells of animals, humans, and plants, thereby enhancing disease treatment. According to the press release from MU, identifying the location of a protein in a cell is valuable information. This is because it […]
How the combination of advanced ultrasound and AI could upgrade cancer diagnostics
Azra Alizad | Via MedicalXpress | June 5, 2023Researchers have shown that an automated cancer diagnostic method, which pairs cutting-edge ultrasound techniques with artificial intelligence, can accurately diagnose thyroid cancer, of which there are more than 40,000 new cases every year. The method—deemed high-definition microvasculature imaging, or HDMI—noninvasively captures images of the tiny vessels within tumors and, based on the vessel features, automatically […]
Microparticles Trigger Treg Expansion to Cure Mice With Multiple Sclerosis-Like Disease
Jordan Green | Via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology | June 5, 2023While there is no cure for the autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis (MS), the results of a new study by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have pointed to the therapeutic potential of a promising approach that can reverse—and in many cases, completely alleviate—MS-like symptoms in mice. The strategy, tested in a mouse model of MS, harnesses biodegradeable […]
The Future of Low-Field MRI for Pediatric Imaging
Krishna Nayak | Via News Wise | June 5, 2023Recently, John Wood, MD, PhD, Director of Cardiovascular MRI at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, co-authored a breakthrough research finding: the first real-time, diagnostic quality MRI images of fetal heart disease. The study, co-led by Dr. Wood and Krishna Nayak, PhD, in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, takes advantage of a novel technology: low-field, high-resolution […]
40 Hz vibrations reduce Alzheimer’s pathology, symptoms in mouse models
Ed Boyden | Via MIT | June 5, 2023Evidence that noninvasive sensory stimulation of 40 Hz gamma frequency brain rhythms can reduce Alzheimer’s disease pathology and symptoms, already shown with light and sound by multiple research groups in mice and humans, now extends to tactile stimulation. A new study by MIT scientists shows that Alzheimer’s model mice exposed to 40 Hz vibration for […]
Artificial Biological Intelligence Could Play a Key Role in the Future
Ge Wang | Via Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | June 2, 2023Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Ge Wang, Ph.D. — Clark & Crossan Endowed Chair Professor, director of the Biomedical Imaging Center within the Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D. Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, and this year’s winner of the Wiley Distinguished Faculty Award — and Albany Medical College’s Joshua Goldwag ’20, a medical student and previously Ge […]
Proposed cancer treatment aims to harness ‘sentinels’ of immune system
Blaine Pfeifer | Via University at Buffalo | June 1, 2023They patrol inside our skin and other soft tissue. Their job: alert the immune system to toxic invaders so it can mount an attack. But these sentries – known as dendritic cells – often fail to warn of cancer’s arrival. Why? Scientists surmise that, because cancer develops within the body, immune system cells do not […]
Healing Big Broken Bones With a Small Molecule
Cato Laurencin | Via University of Connecticut | May 24, 2023Repairing severely damaged bones is a challenge—especially the long bones of the arms and legs. Now, UConn Health scientists describe a new method in the 22 May issue of PNAS that can promote regrowth of long bones more affordably and with fewer side effects than other techniques. Cleanly broken bones often heal without problems. But […]
New tests based on biomarkers may improve diagnosis and treatment of acute kidney injury
Jonathan Himmelfarb | Via News-Medical.net | May 24, 2023Hospital inpatients who develop an acute kidney injury (AKI) generally fare poorly after being discharged, and have few options for effective treatment. A UW Medicine-led study published recently in American Journal of Kidney Diseases suggests that new tests might improve this narrative. In the study, “about 30% of the patients that came into the hospital […]
A New Map Reveals the Complicated World in Which Cells Seek to Repair Damaged DNA
Trey Ideker | Via UC San Diego | May 22, 2023Writing in the May 22, 2023 issue of Cell Systems, a diverse team of scientists, led by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, have produced a novel map that depicts the human body’s enormously complicated and highly evolved system for addressing and repairing DNA damage — a cause and consequence of […]