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China on brink of heart disease 'epidemic': study
Mar 09, 2015 (AFP)
Unhealthy eating, smoking and obesity are threatening a heart disease epidemic in China, where three out of four people are in poor cardiovascular shape, said a...
Apple to tap iPhone users for medical research
Mar 09, 2015 (AFP)
Apple on Monday unveiled an initiative to help researchers tackle some of the world's most critical medical conditions by gathering data from willing iPhone use...
Pens filled with high-tech inks for do-it-yourself sensors
Mar 05, 2015 (SPX)
A new simple tool developed by nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego, is opening the door to an era when anyone will be able to build sensors...
Democratizing synthetic biology
Mar 05, 2015 (SPX)
Deep in the heart of synthetic biology are the proteins that make it tick. Protein engineering is the crucial pulse of the booming, relatively new scientific di...
Ubisoft game aims to be what the doctor ordered
Mar 03, 2015 (AFP)
Ubisoft on Tuesday unveiled a tablet video game crafted as a prescription for a medical condition known as "lazy eye," blending the worlds of play and health ca...
Fever alarm armband: A wearable, printable, temperature sensor
Feb 24, 2015 (SPX)
University of Tokyo researchers have developed a "fever alarm armband," a flexible, self-powered wearable device that sounds an alarm in case of high body tempe...
Scientists find molecule that may treatment inflammatory diseases
Feb 23, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists at Trinity College Dublin have uncovered a marvel molecule that blocks a key driver of inflammatory diseases. The finding could meet a major unmet cl...
Lab-in-a-box takes aim at doctors' computer activity
Feb 19, 2015 (SPX)
San Diego CA (SPX) Feb 15, 2015 They call it "the Lab-in-a-Box." According to Nadir Weibel, a research scientist in the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) d...
Potential new breathalyzer for lung cancer screening
Feb 19, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers from Chongqing University in China have developed a high sensitive fluorescence-based sensor device that can rapidly identify cancer related volatil...
Chinese cosmetic tourists reap regret in South Korea
Feb 18, 2015 (AFP)
Chinese businesswoman Chen Yili paid a South Korean hospital thousands of dollars to reshape her face in the hope she would look more like the glamorous stars s...
S. Korea cracks down on foreign-focused plastic surgery clinics
Feb 13, 2015 (AFP)
South Korea on Friday announced a crackdown on illegal brokers and unregistered clinics in a bid to protect medical tourists, especially those drawn by the coun...
Swedish children visit virtual hospital before surgery
Feb 12, 2015 (AFP)
Felicia Zander had a brain hemorrhage when she was six and spent more than a year in and out of hospital for x-rays, MRIs and about a dozen operations under gen...
Fewer viral relics may be due to a less bloody evolutionary history
Feb 11, 2015 (SPX)
A researcher from Plymouth University School of Biomedical and Healthcare Sciences had led an international team investigating viruses that entered the DNA of o...
Scientists discover viral 'Enigma machine'
Feb 05, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers have cracked a code that governs infections by a major group of viruses including the common cold and polio. Until now, scientists had not noticed t...
Artificial blood vessels
Feb 05, 2015 (SPX)
By combining micro-imprinting and electro-spinning techniques, researchers at Shanghai University's Rapid Manufacturing Engineering Center have developed a vasc...
Smartphone, finger prick, 15 minutes, diagnosis - done!
Feb 05, 2015 (SPX)
A team of researchers, led by Samuel K. Sia, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering, has developed a low-cost smartphone accessor...
No more money and time down the drain say antibody experts in Nature
Feb 05, 2015 (SPX)
In the latest issue of Nature, a worldwide group of antibody experts appeal for a standardised approach to the creation and use of antibodies in research and th...
Bioengineered miniature structures could prevent heart failure
Feb 05, 2015 (SPX)
The delivery of tiny biodegradable microstructures to heart tissue damaged by heart attack may help repair the tissue and prevent future heart failure. A team l...
Transparent PDMS eggshell created as step towards embryo lab on a chip
Feb 04, 2015 (SPX)
Lab-on-a-chip (LOC) systems have registered tremendous progress over the past 20 years. Myriad "chip" schemes have already emerged, ranging from the lung-on-a-c...
New technique captures real-time diagnostic 3-D images
Feb 03, 2015 (SPX)
This technique uses Optical Projection Tomography, which is "similar to X-rays, but uses light," explains UC3M researcher Jorge Ripoll, from the UC3M Department...
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