Keeping you up to date on recent developments in cardiology, including: Remote help to lower BP, control cholesterol; Improving screening for dual heart disease; Candidate shows promise in reducing heart failure.
LONDON – The Google artificial intelligence company Deepmind has developed an algorithm that can predict the 3D structure of a protein from its amino acid sequence, making it possible to solve the structures of proteins, such as G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), which are a mainstay of drug targeting but whose structure is challenging to determine with current methods.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in orthopedics, including: Potential cellular target for eliminating bone breakdown in osteoporosis found; Popular weight-loss surgery in teenagers weakens bones; Study: Early, late stages of degenerative diseases are distinct.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in oncology, including: Nanoparticles may blunt TRIM37’s impact on metastasis in triple-negative breast cancer; Glycolysis inhibition via collateral lethality; Making exceptional responders unexceptional; Protons may spare cancer patients a hit to the heart.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in cardiology, including: 3D-printed heart models aim to train future surgeons; Researchers: Digital program lowered patients’ cholesterol, blood pressure; Additional monitoring may be needed for those at risk of atrial fibrillation.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in neurology, including: Wireless chip developed to improve brain research; Diabetes increases damage around amyloid plaques in Alzheimer’s; Smartphone keystrokes show promise in monitoring progression of MS.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in diagnostics, including: Imaging methods reveal underlying cause of unexplained heart attack; Questionnaire predicts people at high risk for heart disease; Bias skews tally on imaging diagnostic test accuracy studies.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in orthopedics, including: Exoskeleton-assisted walking improves mobility in individuals with spinal cord injury; Skoltech scientists developed a novel bone implant manufacturing method; Novel technique 'stuns' arthritis pain in shoulder and hip; New research reveals potential treatment to delay and manage osteoarthritis.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in oncology, including: Prolonged androgen-deprivation therapy confirmed as hit on CV health; Nanoparticle fights pancreatic cancer’s chemo resistance; Linking two liver cancer culprits; Reversal of pumping direction is reversal of fortune for tumor cells; Active surveillance backed for Black men with prostate cancer.
Researchers at the University of California at San Francisco have developed a method to diagnose any known pathogen from any body fluid within a day – or, depending on the sequencing method, within a few hours. For an unknown pathogen, the method spits out its nearest known relative.