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Online Calculator Can Predict Your Stroke Risk, Study Finds

August 14, 2020
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Charlottesville, VA — Doctors can predict patients’ risk for ischemic stroke based on the severity of their metabolic syndrome, a conglomeration of conditions that includes high blood pressure,...

Implantable Transmitter Provides Wireless Option for Biomedical Devices

August 5, 2020
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West Lafayette, IN — Purdue University innovators are working on inventions to use micro-chip technology in implantable devices and other wearable products such as smart watches to improve biomedical...

New Treatment Approach Uses Killer Cells to Treat Deadly Brain Tumours

July 10, 2020
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West Lafayette, IN — Glioblastomas are the most common malignant brain tumours in adults. Treatment options are extremely limited and usually not effective, leading to death for most patients within...

Clinical-Grade Wearables Offer Continuous Monitoring for COVID-19

July 1, 2020
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Evanston, IL — 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...

New Research Shows Tiny, Decoy ‘Sponges’ Attract Coronavirus Away From Lung Cells

June 19, 2020
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Boston, MA — Imagine if scientists could stop the coronavirus infection in its tracks simply by diverting its attention away from living lung cells? A new therapeutic countermeasure, announced in a...

Global Team Develops Open-Source N95 Respirator

June 19, 2020
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Amherst, MA — In one of the latest COVID-19 response projects at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the Advanced Digital Design and Fabrication (ADDFab) laboratory is collaborating with a global...

Adhesive Film Turns Smartwatch into Biochemical Health Monitoring System

June 18, 2020
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Los Angeles, CA — UCLA engineers have designed a thin adhesive film that could upgrade a consumer smartwatch into a powerful health-monitoring system. The system looks for chemical indicators found...

Microneedling Therapeutic Stem Cells Into Damaged Tissues

June 10, 2020
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Los Angeles, CA — Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are multipotent in that they naturally replenish the cell types that build our bone, cartilage and adipose tissues. However, their much broader regenerative...

Researchers Find New Way to Detect Blood Clots

June 5, 2020
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College Station, TX — Researchers in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University are working on an entirely new way to detect blood clots, especially in paediatric patients. Unlike...

New Technique Takes 3D Imaging An Octave Higher

June 3, 2020
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Fort Collins, CO — A collaboration between Colorado State University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign resulted in a new, 3D imaging technique to visualize tissues and other biological...

Cutting Edge Two-Photon Microscopy System Breaks New Grounds in Retinal Imaging

May 20, 2020
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Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong — Retina is the only part of the central nervous system (CNS) that can be visualized noninvasively with optical imaging approaches. Direct retinal imaging plays an important...

Iron Nanorobots Go Undercover

May 20, 2020
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Thuwal, Saudi Arabia — Living cells inside the body could be placed under surveillance–their location and migration noninvasively tracked in real time over many days–using a new method...

Artificial Pieces of Brain Use Light to Communicate With Real Neurons

May 20, 2020
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Tokyo, Japan — A prosthesis is an artificial device that replaces an injured or missing part of the body. You can easily imagine a stereotypical pirate with a wooden leg or Luke Skywalker’s famous...

New Tool Helps Distinguish the Cause of Blood Clots

May 13, 2020
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Cambridge, UK — A new tool using cutting-edge technology is able to distinguish different types of blood clots based on what caused them, according to a study published in eLife. The tool could...

Researchers Develop New Microneedle Array Combination Vaccine Delivery System

April 22, 2020
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Philadelphia, PA — In parallel to their current work on a potential coronavirus vaccine, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have developed a new vaccine delivery system...

Engineers Design UV Stations to Aid Healthcare Workers During COVID-19 Pandemic

April 22, 2020
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Binghamton, NY — As the COVID-19 pandemic continues into its second month across the U.S., supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE) such as N95 masks and face shields continue to run low at...

Innovators Moving to Fast-Track COVID-19 Diagnostic, Therapeutic Solutions

April 1, 2020
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West Lafayette, IN — As the coronavirus pandemic spreads across the U.S. and the world, Purdue University scientists are working to move solutions to diagnose and treat the virus to the marketplace...

Institute Invites Public to Join App-Based Detect Study, Leveraging Wearable Data to Potentially Flag Onset of Viral Illnesses

March 28, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — The Scripps Research Translational Institute has launched an app-based research program that will analyze participants’ wearable health data—including heart rates, sleep and activity...

Self-Sanitizing Face Mask Project Receives Funding

March 25, 2020
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Evanston, IL — A Northwestern University researcher has received funding to develop a new self-sanitizing medical face mask that deactivates viruses on contact. Last week, the project received a...

Coronavirus Testing Kits to Be Developed Using RNA Imaging Technology

March 20, 2020
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Burnaby, BC, Canada — Simon Fraser University researchers will use their pioneering imaging technology–called Mango, for its bright colour– to develop coronavirus testing kits. They’re...

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