A new tool for mobile devices can diagnose stroke as accurately as an emergency medicine specialist in just minutes, enabling patients to get brain-saving therapies in time for maximum benefit. According to researchers from Pennsylvania State University and Houston Methodist Hospital, the artificial intelligence (AI)-based tool could counterbalance physician biases, reducing both overuse of CT scans and underdiagnosis of mild and moderate stroke.

Researchers at Ontario’s University of Waterloo have developed a palm-sized device that uses radio waves to read blood glucose levels, as well as artificial intelligence (AI) software to get near instantaneous results.

BioWorld looks at translational medicine, including: Prenatal treatment normalizes brain development in Down syndrome model.

French researchers have shown that modifying peripheral macrophages could quell microglial activation in the central nervous system, slowing the rate of decline and extending survival in mouse models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

BioWorld looks at translational medicine, including: Engineered opsin restores vision.

New gene therapy approaches may be able to treat forms of vision loss that currently have no treatment options, and improve the treatment of others.

A multi-institutional team of researchers has implicated lipid droplets, which are key energy storage units of individual cells, in innate immune defense. "Until now it was thought that [lipid droplets] were at the service of viruses or bacteria during infection," Albert Pol told BioWorld. The new study, which was published in the Oct. 16, 2020, issue of Science, demonstrated that cells also use the droplets to coordinate their defense.