Innovative treatment uses sound waves to help regrow bones
A tissue engineering advance using sound waves, could one day help patients regrow bone lost to cancer or degenerative disease.
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Joseph Shavit
Feb 22, 2022
Lego-inspired bone and soft tissue repair uses tiny, 3D-printed bricks
Researchers have developed a tiny, 3D-printed technology that can be assembled like Lego blocks and help repair broken bones and soft tissue
Joseph Shavit
Feb 20, 2022
Attractive people have stronger immune systems, study says
A new study finds an interesting link between how attractive someone is and the strength of their immune system.
Joseph Shavit
Feb 20, 2022
How well does your body fat function? It may be the key to fewer old-age ailments
Fat tissue plays an important role in human health. However, our fat tissue loses function as we age, which can lead to type 2 diabetes.
Joseph Shavit
Feb 19, 2022
Patient possibly cured of HIV infection by special stem-cell transplant
A patient with HIV who received a blood stem cell transplant for high-risk acute myeloid leukemia has been free of the virus for 14 months.
Joseph Shavit
Feb 19, 2022
MIT researchers uncover how dendrites help brain neurons perform complex calculations
Researchers demonstrated how dendrites help neurons perform computations on information that comes in from other parts of the brain.
Joseph Shavit
Feb 18, 2022
Researchers discover a possible cure for sickle cell anemia
While a remedy for this severe disease has remained elusive, a recent study, if proven applicable, may be a possible cure.
Joseph Shavit
Feb 18, 2022
Exercise can help adults retain their memories, study shows
Episodic memory is the kind that deals with events that happened to you in the past. It’s also one of the first to decline with age.
Joseph Shavit
Feb 17, 2022
Breakthrough study identifies the genes most likely to lead to heart attacks
The most critical genes that cause coronary heart disease and trigger heart attacks have been identified in a major new study.
Joseph Shavit
Feb 17, 2022
Virtual patient ‘surrogates’ can personalize cancer treatments
Scientists have developed mathematical models that act as patient ‘surrogates’ for evaluating potential prostate cancer treatments.
Joseph Shavit
Feb 17, 2022
Pimple secret popped: How fat cells in the skin help fight acne
Hair follicles assist in the development of a pimple, but new research suggests the skin cells outside of hair follicles play a larger role.
Joseph Shavit
Feb 16, 2022
Biohybrid fish made from heart muscle cells swims and could lead to artificial hearts
Researchers have developed the first fully autonomous biohybrid fish from human stem-cell derived cardiac muscle cells.
Joseph Shavit
Feb 15, 2022
Three-prong treatment eliminates cancer tumors in five minutes
Researchers have developed a nanoplatform that non-invasively eliminates solid liver cancer tumors with a single five-minute dose.
Joseph Shavit
Feb 14, 2022
"Math neurons" identified in the human brain
The findings indicate that some of the neurons detected are active exclusively during additions, while others are active during subtractions
Joseph Shavit
Feb 14, 2022
Researchers find clues in the brain linking pain and food
A new study suggests that circuitry in the brain responsible for motivation and pleasure is impacted when someone experiences pain.
Joseph Shavit
Feb 14, 2022
Bizarre 'metamaterial' helmet creates higher resolution brain scans
This gadget made of plastic and copper wire is a technological breakthrough with the potential to revolutionize medical imaging.
Joseph Shavit
Feb 14, 2022
Smartphone app can vibrate a single drop of blood to determine how well it clots
Researchers have developed a new blood-clotting test that uses only a single drop of blood and a smartphone vibration motor and camera.
Joseph Shavit
Feb 13, 2022
Scientists discover 9 new coronaviruses using $24,000 Amazon supercomputer
The Serratus Project is a supercomputing collaboration that analyzed close to 6 million biological samples, or 20 million gigabytes of data.
Joseph Shavit
Feb 12, 2022
Your microbiome shapes your life. But where did it come from?
The gut microbiome is an ecosystem of hundreds to thousands of microbial species living within the human body.
Joseph Shavit
Feb 12, 2022
Groundbreaking research uncovers how and why exercise improves health and longevity
Monash University, Australia scientists have discovered an enzyme that is key to why exercise improves our health.
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