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MRI Technique Could Reduce Radiation Dose in Assessing Pediatric Cancer Treatment
Heike Daldrup-Link | Via Diagnostic Imaging | May 5, 2020Using whole body diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW MRI) to evaluate the efficacy on cancer treatment in children can potentially provide a more than three-quarters cut in radiation exposure, according to new research. A study, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), published today in Radiology shows that DW MRI can track tumor response […]
Monitoring COVID-19 from Hospital to Home: First Wearable Device Continuously Tracks Key Symptoms
John Rogers | Via Northwestern University | May 4, 2020Wireless sensor gently sits on throat to monitor coughs, fever, respiratory activity The more we learn about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the more unknowns seem to arise. These ever-emerging mysteries highlight the desperate need for more data to help researchers and physicians better understand — and treat — the extremely contagious and deadly disease. Researchers […]
New Ultrafast Camera Takes 70 Trillion Pictures Per Second
Lihong Wang | Via Caltech | May 4, 2020Just about everyone has had the experience of blinking while having their picture taken. The camera clicks, your eyes shut, and by the time they open again, the photo is ruined. A new ultrafast camera developed at Caltech, were it aimed at your lovely face, could also capture you looking like a dunce with your […]
María José Alonso leads a USC project aimed at developing a new vaccine against COVID-19 based on mRNA
María José Alonso | Via MJ Alonso Lab | May 4, 2020Developing and evaluating in preclinical studies a new vaccine based on mRNA against SARS-CoV2 capable of inducing long-term immune responses against the virus is the ultimate goal of the research project in which the laboratory led by María José Alonso participates together with the group led by Mabel Loza, both at CiMUS and FIDIS – […]
NLM Highlights Essential Role of Clinical Databases in Pandemic
Patricia Brennan | Via GovernmentCIO Media | May 4, 2020The National Library of Medicine is embarking on an extensive modernization effort of the world’s largest public clinical trial registry and results database, ClinicalTrials.gov, with the COVID-19 response underpinning the importance of the multi-year project. “This effort to improve the user experience and update the technology platform is critically important for so many things that […]
What is a Cytokine Storm?
J. Paul Robinson | Via CYTOMETRYman @ YouTube | May 1, 2020Protecting the Heart from COVID-19
Todd McDevitt | Via Gladstone Institutes | May 1, 2020It’s well-known that COVID-19 affects the respiratory system, infecting healthy lung cells with the COVID-19 virus, but if it spreads to the heart it could become a much more deadly disease. A recent study found that in more than 10 percent of COVID-19 cases where heart damage occurred, there was no history of cardiovascular disease. […]
Bonnie Berger elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2020
Bonnie Berger | Via MIT | May 1, 2020On April 27, the National Academy of Sciences elected 120 new members and 26 international associates, including three professors from MIT — Abhijit Banerjee, Bonnie Berger, and Roger Summons — recognizing their “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.” Current membership totals 2,403 active members and 501 international associates, including 190 Nobel Prize recipients. The […]
Nanostimulators boost stem cells for muscle repair
Joon Kong | Via UIUC | May 1, 2020In regenerative medicine, an ideal treatment for patients whose muscles are damaged from lack of oxygen would be to invigorate them with an injection of their own stem cells. In a new study published in the journal ACS Nano, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign demonstrated that “nanostimulators” – nanoparticles seeded with a […]
Cellular & Molecular Bioengineering Special Issue on ‘Emerging Technologies for Use in the Study, Diagnosis and Treatment of Patients with COVID-19’
Michael King | Via CAMB | April 30, 2020COVID-19 is predicted to overwhelm healthcare capacity in the US and worldwide. The cellular and molecular bioengineering community has a history of innovative approaches to address pressing biomedical challenges. As a voice for the this community, the journal Cellular & Molecular Bioengineering (CAMB) welcomes commentaries, reviews, and original research articles that reflect the ways in […]
Breakthrough helps fight ‘cold’ tumors that don’t respond to immunotherapy
Jeffrey Hubbell | Via University of Chicago | April 30, 2020Immunotherapy, which unleashes the power of the body’s own immune system to find and destroy cancer cells, has shown promise in treating several types of cancer. But the disease is notorious for cloaking itself from the immune system, and tumors that are not inflamed and do not elicit a response from the immune system—so-called “cold” […]
Breakthrough helps fight ‘cold’ tumors that don’t respond to immunotherapy
Melody Swartz | Via University of Chicago | April 30, 2020Immunotherapy, which unleashes the power of the body’s own immune system to find and destroy cancer cells, has shown promise in treating several types of cancer. But the disease is notorious for cloaking itself from the immune system, and tumors that are not inflamed and do not elicit a response from the immune system—so-called “cold” […]
BrunO2 project, Tripathi Lab earn University COVID-19 Research Seed Fund awards
Anubhav Tripathi | Via Brown University | April 30, 2020Brown Engineering professors Dan Harris, Jacob Rosenstein, Anubhav Tripathi and Roberto Zenit, are among the 15 teams of Brown faculty researchers receiving funds from a newly created University seed fund. Brown established the fund to fast track innovative research proposals that directly address the urgent needs of the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of $350,000 was […]
OHIO researchers win grant to study treatment for possible fatal complications of COVID-19
Doug Goetz | Via Ohio University | April 30, 2020Faculty researchers from Ohio University’s Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine and Russ College of Engineering and Technology have received a $100,000 grant to investigate possible treatments for mitigating the severity of COVID-19. Kelly McCall, Ph.D., and Douglas Goetz, Ph.D., will measure how effective a number of different chemical compounds are at preventing “cytokine storms,” a […]
Texas A&M Chemist Karen Wooley Elected To National Academy Of Sciences
Karen Wooley | Via Texas A&M | April 29, 2020Texas A&M University Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Karen L. Wooley has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Wooley, holder of the W.T. Doherty-Welch Chair in Chemistry and one of the world’s top chemists in the burgeoning field of materials and polymer chemistry and in creating new materials at the nanoscale level, is among […]
UC Davis Engineers, Clinician Develop Low-Cost, Portable Ventilator
Tingrui Pan | Via UC Davis | April 29, 2020Engineers at the University of California, Davis, are working with clinicians to create a simple, inexpensive ventilator. They have developed a prototype and plan to make plans freely available online. Versions could be in clinical use in about six months. “This is a critical device to have. It provides the vital functions of a ventilator […]
Sam Stupp elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Sam Stupp | Via Northwestern University | April 28, 2020Three Northwestern University faculty members — mathematician Laura DeMarco, engineer Yonggang Huang and materials scientist Samuel Stupp — have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. Membership in the academy is one of the highest honors given to a scientist in the United States. DeMarco, Huang and Stupp are among 120 new members […]
Giving Distressed Lungs a Safer Fighting Chance
William Federspiel | Via Global Health News wire | April 28, 2020A device designed at the University of Pittsburgh could help improve outcomes as a treatment for COVID-19 when used in conjunction with non-invasive or mechanical ventilation, and it recently received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Health records from a New York study showed that close to 90 percent of […]