A new artificial joint restores important wrist-like movements to forearm amputees, which could dramatically improve their quality of life. A group of researchers led by Max Ortiz Catalan, Associate Professor at Chalmers ...
Engineering
Nov 28, 2018
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When mass casualty incidents occur—shootings, earthquakes, multiple car pile ups—first responders can easily be overwhelmed by the sheer number of victims. When every second counts, monitoring all the victims in a chaotic ...
Engineering
Nov 27, 2018
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Nicole Sultanum says one of the fastest ways to understand information is by sight.
Software
Nov 22, 2018
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Monitoring cancer can often be an intrusive and exhausting process for patients. But with Brigham Young University chemistry professor Ryan Kelly's new research, there is hope for a simpler way: No more biopsies. No more ...
Analytical Chemistry
Nov 19, 2018
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Purdue University researchers have developed a technology aimed at making it easier to deliver cancer treatment to the right "address" in the body while also easing the painful side effects of chemotherapy on patients.
Bio & Medicine
Nov 15, 2018
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Why treat people and send them back to the conditions that made them sick? – Michael Marmot, The Health Gap, 2015
Social Sciences
Nov 14, 2018
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Researchers from the Collaborative Research Center CROSSING at Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany) have developed a solution that will ensure decades of safe storage for sensitive health data in a joint project with ...
Security
Nov 07, 2018
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Laughter is the best medicine, says medical research. But how are patients supposed to feel like smiling if the faces of the nursing staff and even their beloved ones are covered with masks? Researchers from Empa and EPFL ...
Nanomaterials
Nov 02, 2018
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Keratin is a naturally occurring protein that anchors skin cells to one another and plays a crucial role in forming the epidermis. But sometimes there can be too much of a good thing.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 01, 2018
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A drug discovery made at the University of Helsinki's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will increase the safety of animal sedation and anaesthesia. Vatinoxan, the pharmacological molecule discovered in the study, reduced the ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 31, 2018
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