Keeping you up to date on recent developments in oncology, including: Microscopic robots inch closer to clinical practicability; One thing often leads to another for cancer patients; PARP inhibitors under more scrutiny; New liposome may suppress false positives in FDG-PET.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in cardiology, including: Differences seen between the sexes in terms of stroke survival; Light used to control cardiac waves; 3D-printed blood vessels ID possible link between coronavirus, stroke.
HONG KONG – A research team at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has developed a fully automated, low-cost and rapid microrobotic diagnostic system that can be used with multiple pathogens, including COVID-19. The system works by integrating fluorescent microrobots with an external magnetic actuation system to detect pathogens in patient samples.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in orthopedics, including: Remote monitoring leads to fourfold decline in returns to hospital after joint surgery; Researchers identify rare genetic bone disorder through massive sequencing methods; Orthogrid Systems says data support the use of its technology for orthopedic surgery; Exercise may protect bone health after weight loss surgery.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in oncology, including: Multicancer screening paradigm bolstered in new study; Potentiating PARP inhibitors; New non-viral vector siRNA approach described; NICE nods to combo therapy for HCC.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in cardiology, including: Biomarkers can forecast the development of incident heart failure; Mouse model helps researchers find MAARS lncRNA; Heart disease deaths rise in age of COVID-19.
Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University have found that using ultrasound to pop microbubbles already present in a contrast agent nearly doubled liver tumor response to transarterial radioembolization. The procedure raised no safety concerns and increased the likelihood of patients receiving a liver transplant.
PERTH, Australia – Researchers at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Queensland have developed a way of testing whether COVID-19 patients’ immune systems are gearing up to fight the virus that causes the disease.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in neurology, including: Research suggests SARS-CoV-2 enters the brain; Technique developed to predict seizures; Machine intelligence improves brain mapping research; Hearing, blood sugar linked to cognitive function among older Latinos.
Using in vivo imaging technology, investigators at the University of Utah and the University of Padua have identified a new signaling mechanism for glutamate that was linked to the onset of spreading depression or spreading depolarization, a neuronal activity pattern that plays a role in multiple neurological disease states. In mouse models of migraine, glutamate, which is the major excitatory neurotransmitter of the brain, was released in what the authors called "plumes" or puffs.