Newsletter tagged with 'Medical News Today'
MicroLED Potential for Medical Devices
The University of Strathclyde’s (Glasgow, Scotland) Institute of Photonics is a leading R&D center for micro light-emitting diodes, and [MORE]
Chromosomal Microarray Proposed as New Standard for Pediatric Testing
Most tests for genetic diseases seek a single mutation or observable chromosome abnormality. Chromosomal microarrays, by comparison, reveal copy [MORE]
Biology of Tasting Salt
In 1932, plant geneticist Albert Blakeslee and DuPont chemist Arthur Fox determined that taste acuity was a Mendelian trait [MORE]
Automated Eye Scan for Diabetes-Related Lesions
University of Iowa researchers have tested two computerized image analyzer programs and found both comparable for accuracy to expert [MORE]
How Spiders Store their Silk-Making Proteins
Using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, researchers at two German universities were able to unravel the process by which spiders [MORE]
Simulation Lab at GWU’s New School of Nursing
George Washington University has spun out a nursing school from its existing School of Medicine & Health Sciences, and located [MORE]
Micromasonry for Artificial Tissue Engineering
Micromasonry is the term researchers at the MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and Technology have coined for encapsulating living [MORE]
Untangling Brain Pathways of Pretzel Syndrome
The mTOR pathway (named for the mammalian target of rapamycin), keys on a protein kinase that is involved in [MORE]
Smell Sensor for Cell Phones to Detect Airborne Toxins
Mimicking sensory cells in the human nose, Michael Sailor, professor of biochemistry at UC-San Diego, and engineers at a [MORE]
Air Pollution Induced Hypertension
Researchers at the University of Dusiburg-Essen in Germany recently reported on their study that links air pollution to hypertension. [MORE]
Metal Foam Mimics Bone
In making both orthopedic and dental implants, the weight-bearing strength of the material is crucial-it ought not be weaker [MORE]
RFID Interference Protocols
About a year ago, alarm surfaced over RFID active tags interfering with hospital equipment, such as infusion pumps. Only one [MORE]
A Radioisotope Battery
Electrical and computer engineering professor, Jae Kwon, at the University of Missouri, has developed a radioisotope battery about the size [MORE]
The ICEMan Cometh- MD-ICEMAN
Anyone who has visited a seriously sick person in the hospital, or witnessed a major surgery can envision the [MORE]
Mayo-Scottsdale to Stop Taking Medicare Patients
Every hospital in the country is trying to figure out how to break even financially on its Medicare patients. The [MORE]
Home Monitoring of Hypertension
Medical News Today recently posted a documercial for Omron Healthcare (a leading manufacturer of home blood pressure monitors, in Bannockburn, [MORE]
First Artificial Cellular Organelle
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY) have taken lab-on-a-chip thinking to the next level; they have created a microfluidics [MORE]
Stress vs. Strikes
University of Warwick (UK) researcher Bernard Casey recently presenting his analysis showing that work-related stress accounted for more loss of [MORE]
Protein Biochips
Materials scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research in Germany have developed a thin hydrogel biochip that can [MORE]
Virtual Allergy Sufferer
Researchers in the School of Pharmacy at Keele University (Staffordshire, UK), have created a virtual allergy sufferer that students can [MORE]