News • Promising biomarker found
Who will develop long Covid? It's in the blood
New research has found molecular signature differences in the blood of patients who fully recover from Covid-19 and those who develop long Covid.
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News • Understanding the role of sex hormones
Multiple sclerosis: Why are women affected more often?
Multiple sclerosis affects three women for every one man. French scientists are studying the role of the sex hormones in order to better understand this discrepancy.
News • Digital research enrolment
First Dutch eConsent trial to facilitate patient participation
A Dutch trial for Covid-19 drug research will be the country's first to enable patients to digitally consent to their participation. It is hoped that this will reduce delays in trial enrolment.
News • Metabolic activity diffusion imaging
New MRI technique reveals cells’ energy activity in organs and tissues
US researchers have developed a way to use MRI scanning to map body cell metabolism, opening up new possibilities for detecting cancers and revealing if a tumor is responding to treatment.
News • Electric stimulation instead of drug therapy
A new approach to treat Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) Disease
A research team from DGIST develops an electronic medicine technology that restores abnormal protein behavior, the cause of Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease (CMT).
News • Mortality rates in times of Covid-19
‘Excess deaths’: Gap between Europe and US widens
Among all but oldest age groups, the US has higher death rates than five high-income European nations, according to new UCLA research. However, this gap is only partly due to Covid-19.
News • SWIR for intraoperative tumor delineation
Combining machine learning with multispectral infrared imaging to guide cancer surgery
A UK research team has developed a new technique that combines machine learning with short-wave infrared (SWIR) fluorescence imaging to detect precise boundaries of tumors.
News • Diagnosis done quick
New sensor tells apart Covid-19 and flu infections - in 10 seconds
US scientists report using a single-atom-thick nanomaterial to simultaneously detect Covid-19 and flu viruses — at much lower levels and much more quickly than conventional tests for either.
News • Flexible electronics and human stem cells
‘Biohybrid’ device could restore function in paralysed limbs
Cambridge researchers have developed a new type of neural implant that could restore limb function to amputees and others who have lost the use of their arms or legs.
News • Protein controls resistance
Targeted approach holds promise to improve chemotherapy
Chemotherapy resistance is a main cause of treatment failure and death in cancer patients. Researchers from Brussels found how cancer cells protect themselves from the aggressive treatment.
News • What's your sound barrier?
Misophonia: new insights into intolerance of everyday sounds
UK researchers have shown that misophonia, a condition where those affected show a strong negative reaction to everyday sounds, may affect almost one fifth of the general population.
News • Cardiology study
Does the ‘obesity paradox’ exist? New research debunks myth
New research has debunked the idea of an “obesity paradox”, whereby overweight or obese patients with heart failure are less likely to end up in hospital or die than people of normal weight.
News • Fluorescence-guided surgery
"Lighting up" brain tumours for better surgical removal
A new real-time imaging technique that uses a type of infrared light has, for the first time, been used during surgery to differentiate between cancerous tumours and healthy tissue.
News • Access to medical information
Bad news from test results? Patients still want to know right away
A recent survey of more than 8,000 patients found that users overwhelmingly supported receiving their test results immediately, even if their provider had not yet reviewed them.
News • Blood cancer research
Novel disease models for multiple myeloma
A team of scientists has successfully generated genetically defined mouse models for two subtypes of multiple myeloma. This will contribute to a better understanding of how the disease develops in humans.
News • Alternative to liver biopsy
Exploring the benefits of non-invasive MR Elastography in obese patients
Omar Darwish, PhD student at King's College London, is researching new approaches to 3D MRE sequences for measuring liver fibrosis and inflammation simultaneously in obese patients.
News • MR-Linac measures oxygen levels
One step closer to targeted real time treatment of hypoxic cancers
Imaging researchers have taken a major step towards their ultimate goal of identifying cancers that are starved of oxygen so that altered treatment can be used to target them more effectively.
News • Deep learning text-to-image
Can AI image generator DALL-E 2 advance radiology?
A new paper describes how generative AI text-to-image models such as DALL-E 2 could represent a promising future tool for image generation, augmentation, and manipulation in health care.
News • Immunotherapy effectiveness
Sex differences in pancreatic cancer: researchers reveal possible explanation
For pancreatic cancer, the effect of immunotherapy is limited and differs between men and women. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have now found a possible explanation for this sex difference.
News • Muscle degeneration score
New tool to diagnose and assess sarcopenia severity
Researchers at the University of Barcelona have developed a new tool to assess the presence and severity of sarcopenia, using an ultrasound-based muscle quality scoring system.
News • Secondary tumours
Scientists discover new way to help prevent breast cancer ‘time bomb’
Scientists have discovered why breast cancer cells that have spread to the lungs may ‘wake up’ following years of sleep - forming incurable secondary tumours.
News • Tissue tension measurement
New ultrasound method could lead to easier disease diagnosis
A new ultrasound method that can measure the level of tension in human tissue for the first time - a key indicator of disease - has been developed by researchers from the University of Sheffield.
News • Curative effects of Sonata KV488
Epilepsy: researchers dispel "Mozart myth"
A new study by psychologists at the University of Vienna shows that there is no scientific evidence supporting the alleged positive effect of Mozart's Sonata KV448 on epilepsy.
News • Scientific publications
What is a preprint – and why does that matter?
New research suggests most people don’t understand the difference between a preprint and a published academic journal article. Here is the distinction between the two – and why it is important.
News • MTX in the mix
Researchers develop novel therapy for vancomycin-resistant infections
Researchers from the US, Singapore and Geneva have developed a novel combination therapy using an anticancer agent for treating vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis (VRE).
