#Asthma Could Be cured Within 5 Years With This New Breakthrough Asthma could be cured in five years
and are used to treat people with osteoporosis. Researchers found that, when the drug is inhaled, it deactivates the cells and stops all symptoms.
to tackle the underlying causes of asthma symptoms, said Dr Samantha Walker, Director of research and Policy at Asthma UK. f this research proves successful we may be just a few years away from a new treatment.
Scientists are hopeful that patients can take the drug to prevent asthma attacks before they start ending the need to constantly carry an inhaler to end symptoms once an attack has started.
Walker added, ive percent of people with asthma don respond to current treatments, so research breakthroughs could be life-changing for hundreds of thousands of people.
The discovery could also lead to new treatments for chronic bronchitis or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a disease that kills tens of millions of people every year and for
the treatment that could effectively cure asthma would be available in the next 5 years. The research, funded by Asthma UK, the Cardiff Partnership Fund,
and a Biotechnology and Biological sciences Research Council award, was published in the Science Translational Medicine journal in April.
Much of the worst quake damage and injuries in recent years result from older buildings collapsinghat because modern buildings in earthquake zones are designed with devices called dampers or isolation units,
#World First Malaria Vaccine Approved and it Will be Not-for-Profit The world first malaria vaccine has been given approval by a European medical agency for future use in Sub-saharan africa, where more than a quarter million children under the age of five die every year from the disease.
European regulators examined phase III clinical trial results involving more than 16,000 young children conducted by research centers in eight African countries (Burkina faso, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria
with all that money going back into further research for a malaria vaccine that could be even more effective.
along with current Malaria prevention techniques, like bed nets. 80%of the children involved in the clinical trials were protected also by insecticide treated bed nets.
malaria cases were reduced by almost half in children aged 5-17 months at the time of first vaccination and by 27%in infants aged 6-12 weeks.
At study end, over four years of follow-up in children RTS, S reduced malaria cases by 39,
In areas of the highest malaria burden, more than 6 000 clinical malaria cases were prevented over the study period for every 1, 000 children vaccinated
#Nest Thermostats Now Link Up to Products From LG Philips Whirlpool and Others Last June, Nest announced some big names in the first round of integration with its thermostat,
a disease-agnostic universal score for predicting patient readmission and mortality risk, Perahealth software automatically pulls data from any major electronic health record in real-time.
The goal is to promote care team communication across shifts and alert clinicians earlier to unexpected health problems.
"False-positive alarms cause anxiety for care teams, patients and families, and can lead to clinicians becoming desensitized to true patient emergencies
and dsync+(TITECH/Georgia Tech) Near real-time plasma disruption detection using ADIOS (Princeton Plasma Research Lab/ORNL) Automated microscopy image analysis for cancer detection,
finding cures to Alzheimer and other diseases, developing new clean energy technologies, and promoting new advanced manufacturing opportunities.
such as disease fighting drugs from entering the nervous system. It only allows a selected few types of molecules to cross including water, some gases and lipid soluble molecules.
The scientists add that the method allows them to target multiple types of diseases by producing different carrier molecules.
which has been developing special carrier molecules for the past six years. t really opens the possibilities to use many different types of therapeutics for different diseases that we couldn really use before
Scientists add that it could become a significant step towards slowing the spread of brain diseases like Alzheimer, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson.
Tough yet flexible, these spongy devices can withstand both shock and stress, a feature that many stretchable electronics do not possess.
The brain activity was recorded in the USA from 7 epileptic patients who participated voluntarily in the study during their clinical treatments.
and have anxiety (even) with getting gas, said Sandoval. ow we can have confidence to charge our electric vehicles and drive them from place to place (in Nevada).
#Scientists grow human mini-brains that are giving big insights into autism Scientists first grew mini-hearts in a lab. Then they 3d printed skin.
In a study published last week in Cell, a team from Yale School of medicine used the technique to glean insight into why autism occurs in some people without a clear genetic cause.
Within a month, it was apparent that organoids created from people with autism overproduced one type of neuron that acts to dampen the chatter of normal neural activity.
and may in part cause the faulty wiring behind autism behavioral symptoms. Further sleuthing led the scientists to a single gene responsible for the glitch.
Before mini-brains, scientists had to shift through gobs of genomic data to fish out gene variants associated with autism.
If the rods and cones that make up the photoreceptors of the eye fail because of injury or illness,
and has restored already the sight of people with a specific form of blindness. About 200,000 people in the US have inherited diseases that cause problems for the photoreceptors in their eye.
#Machine that unboils eggs now being used to improve cancer treatment The device can rip things apart with great accuracy,
Using the invention on carboplatin a common cancer treatment drug, used against ovarian and lung cancers has boosted the potency by almost five times.
after fractures. While this 3d-bioprintable paste is yet to reach clinical trials, this study could be the first step to a revolutionary treatment method.
Potentially complicated applications such as filling bone fractures with this doughy material could make bones stronger during recovery from fractures.
virus infections, scams, and data leakage. At the same time, based on activity logs on PCS, such as when the PCS freeze, they have developed a technology for calculating different usersrisks of being victimized.
which accumulate in tumor cells and scatter light making the tumors easy to see with a special camera.
The particles are each about 140 nanometers (0. 000005 inches) across and consist of eight-point gold stars that are surrounded by a layer of dye
because earlier efforts to make such nanoparticles weren't able to produce the consistent shapes needed said Dr. Moritz Kircher a molecular imaging specialist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New york city.
so that they were very likely to develop cancer and injected them with the nanostars. The particles spread thorough the bloodstreams of the mice and built up in the cancerous cells.
and tumor cells that researchers had suspected existed but hadn't seen. It was thought precancerous cells also develop the larger pores like cancer cells.
The nanostars could be important in treating people with cancers in which the dangerous cells are sometimes hard to see such as liposarcoma a cancer that arises in fat cells.
You go in and open up the abdomen say and see all that fat Kircher said. You see some streaks that look abnormal
but don't know where edges of the tumor are. So doctors either have to take out all of the tissue that might possibly contain cancer
or risk leaving some cancerous cells in the body. These new nanoparticles would show where the dangerous cells are
The nanostars are nonspecific they don't need to be custom-made for each type of cancer. Earlier experiments with nanoparticles often required them to be built to order coated with proteins that would link to specific types of cancer cells.
For example, cancer researchers who want to deliver localized treatments to patients are using OWL's machines to build what Liverman called"microfluidic devices."
From strings of lights adding holiday cheer to artificial sunlamps alleviating seasonal affective disorder, they brighten our days.
how proteins aggregate in the earliest stages of diseases like Alzheimer and Huntington, has begun just.
Understanding disease progression at the single-molecule level could help identify when early intervention might be advantageous.
This results in disease that kills about 700,000 children every year, and stunts the physical and mental development of many more,
#Exoskeleton Helps Spinal cord Injury Patient Walk LAS VEGAS Bionic exoskeletons are helping spinal cord injury and stroke patients walk again.
One man with a partial spinal cord injury, Shane Mosko, demonstrated here today (Jan 8) at the 2015 CES how the new bionic legs operate,
More than 3, 500 patients with either spinal cord or stroke injuries have walked more than 15 million steps with the device,
The new exoskeleton can also help people with spinal cord injuries, like Mosko, who uses a wheelchair
however, is paralysis on either side of the body, which can cause loss of movement and diminished range of motion in the arms and legs.
either as a direct result of the tissue injury from stroke or through lack of use of the weaker side of the body.
can potentially affect many of the brain circuits that are impaired during stroke or other types of brain injuries.
Thus, rtms treatment could be potentially improve aphasia, hemispatial neglect or pain perception resulting from stroke or brain injury.
This bodes well for neurorehabilitation programs in the future shedding light on the possibility that this technology might not be limited to stroke recovery alone a
From sensors that aim to halt asthma in its tracks, to home monitors that warn the family
The Best Fitness Tracker Brands Derailing asthma Long before someone has an asthma attack there are warning signs that their respiratory function is going downhill.
which makes a new asthma monitor called the Adamm. But children and even adults often don't even realize they are having trouble breathing,
who has told asthma Live Science. Adamm is a wearable, three-sensor monitor that will hit the market later this year.
Allergic response Another device, the Veta, made by Aterica, is essentially a smart case for an Epipen,
a name brand injection device that delivers the medication epinephrine to treat the life-threatening allergic response called anaphylaxis.
#Cholera Bacteria Spear Their Prey to Grab Genes The bacteria that cause cholera grab genes from other organisms in a particularly predatory way, new research finds.
But researchers at The swiss Federal Institute of technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, found that cholera (formally called Vibrio cholerae) have a unique way of doing so.
Cholera is usually found in water and it feeds on chitin, the stuff that makes up crustaceans'shells.
and the cholera bacterium absorbs the freed genetic material. The 9 Deadliest Viruses On earth Making these spikes in itself isn't that unusual,
This is, however, the first time anyone has observed cholera bacteria or any bacteria using this system to gather up new genes.
Cholera makes people sick when it is ingested. The bacteria gets to the small intestine and then multiplies, producing proteins that are toxic to humans and cause watery diarrhea.
That in turn can cause severe dehydration and an imbalance of electrolytes. Without treatment cholera can be deadly.
Humans can build immunity to some strains of cholera. But sometimes, new strains appear, and the transfer of genes from other species of bacteria (including other kinds of cholera) might be one reason these new strains arrive."
"That's what we think what we see is part of what makes the most virulent strains so virulent,
"said Melanie Blokesch, a co-author of the research and an assistant professor of microbiology at the institute.
Not every kind of cell can contribute DNA to cholera, as there has to be some similarity between the cholera cell and its victim,
Blokesch said. Even so, some genes might alter the outer membrane of the bacteria, for example, making it less visible to the human immune system or tougher for people's stomach acid to kill.
This kind of gene transfer might well have been involved in a cholera epidemic that hit Southeast asia in the early 1990s
Blokesch added that the spearing mechanism might be one more reason the cholera bacterium is so virulent in the human gut.
Cholera might be spearing neighboring cells, killing them and exacerbating the problems it causes. Cholera won't pick up human DNA,
however, because it is too different.)The study appears today (Jan 1) in the journal Science S
whether they've been exposed to certain diseases. But now, researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston say they have created a tool that could reveal many of the viruses that have infected a person in the past.
the group ran the scan on people known to be infected with hepatitis C and HIV.
"Kula said this finding showcased one of the big advantages of this method of testing for a person's viral infection history:
chronic fatigue syndrome that researchers suspect may be caused by a virus but haven't proven for sure to have a viral origin.
if individual viruses are correlated to other diseases, or try to figure out why only a fraction of patients"are helped by certain cancer treatments,
Kula said. Because the new test is relatively cheap Kula noted the chemicals necessary are a few dollars per person,
Hepatitis C, Kula said, is detected often not for months or years, because few people think to ask about it.
or other therapies safely to sites of disease are already seeing the light of day.
The team was developing implantable capsules that can hold pancreatic islet cells as a potential therapy for Type 1 diabetes.
What investigators discovered is that spherical capsules 1. 5 millimeter in diameter were functional months after implantation in diabetic mice,
#Injectable Hydrogel Material Serves as Scaffold to Heal Wounds At UCLA researchers have designed an injectable hydrogel scaffold that promotes wound healing by serving as a 3d platform within which new tissue can grow.
as well as the overall chemical composition, allowing the material to be tailored to specific wounds. This is achieved using microfluidic methods methods that the researchers developed to produce the scaffolds.
Accelerated wound healing by injectable microporous gel scaffolds assembled from annealed building blockssource:
#Light Used to Control Larynx Muscle (VIDEO) In a world first, researchers at the University of Bonn in Germany made a skeletal muscle of a mouse contract in response to light.
particularly for new therapies to combat motor neuron disease. Here we show direct optogenetic stimulation of skeletal muscle from transgenic mice expressing the light-sensitive channel Channelrhodopsin-2 (Chr2.
offering a view of the cellular morphology that can show signs of the presence of cancer.
and China of patients suspected of having malignant squamous cell tumors, the device was used alongside a regular endoscope.
and waveforms with or without paresthesia, including burst and higher rate frequencies. Here a Boston Sci video about the Precision Novi r
Since there no need to swap tools, the procedure can move along faster without the potential risk of unnecessary injury to the esophagus.
Because of its high flexibility, the stent has shown to be positioned easily across different lesions while and maintaining its strength over considerable time periods.
or equal 2. 4). 88.6%freedom from target lesion revascularization, as measured at one-year using Kaplan-Meier analysis s
Currently, samples are taken to the pathology lab to confirm that all of the cancer has been removed. This takes considerable time,
and adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) from normal human pituitary gland and pituitary adenoma tissue sections, using a fully automated droplet-based liquid-microjunction surface-sampling-HPLCSI-MSS system for spatially resolved sampling, HPLC separation,
and non-secreting pituitary adenomas correlated with histopathological evaluation a
#Brainport V100 Turns Your Tongue Into an Eye If you can see with your eyes,
With Brainport Vision Technology One Day The Blind May See The World With The Tongue New Device Delivers Sound Through Tongue to Let Deaf People Hear (VIDEO) roduct page:
#Optical Probe to Help Remove Only Cancerous Tissues in Brain Surgeries Neurosurgeons removing a tumor have to be obsessive about resecting just enough
so that the cancer doesn come back while the patient is not left neurologically disabled. Tumors usually look the same as the healthy tissue just around them,
which means the repeated biopsies and MRI scans can make such surgeries last for many hours.
the fact that tumors tend to be denser was the basis for many designed devices,
but the Hopkins team focused on brain cancer cellslack of myelin sheaths as the marker that influences how light passes through them.
Detection of human brain cancer infiltration ex vivo and in vivo using quantitative optical coherence tomographyource: Johns Hopkins Medicine
The team tested the technology on mice with compression injuries, demonstrating that the drug reduced inflammation in the areas where the EM field was applied.
and deposited onto a spinal cord lesion in glial fibrillary acidic protein-luc transgenic mice (GFAP-luc mice). Overexpression of GFAP is an indicator of astrogliosis/neuroinflammation in CNS injury.
The corticosteroid DEX, a powerful ameliorator of inflammation, was released from the polymer by external application of an electromagnetic field for 2 h/day for a week.
#Artificial Neurons That Work Like Real Ones to Treat Neurological Conditions, Paralysis Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have created reportedly an artificial neuron that apparently works just like our own living neurons
The company microchips have gone already through a successful clinical trial on patients with osteoporosis, delivering teriparatide directly without having to go through regular injections.
This method is used to study the spatiotemporal mechanical response of MDA-MB-231 breast carcinoma cells to the inhibition of Syk protein tyrosine kinase giving insight into the signaling pathways by which Syk negatively regulates motility of highly invasive cancer cells.
Currently, finger pricking is the daily grind of diabetics worldwide, which also involves careful pipetting of the blood samples into the glucometer.
#Wize Mirror to Monitor Health, Prevent Cardio-Metabolic Diseases Seasoned primary care physicians often have an uncanny ability to notice symptoms by simply looking at their patients.
and help spot signs of cardio-metabolic diseases. There is a 3d scanning camera that notices changes to the structure of the skin,
even though the men have complete paralysis, there are still neural connections that remain that are able to take on new functions requested by the body.
which in the past has demonstrated considerable benefits for mice with spinal cord injuries. Toward the end of the study, amazingly the patients were able to move their legs on their own without the neurostimulators doing anything at all.
not only because cheap transcutaneous neurostimulators may be used in treating paralysis due to damaged spinal cords, but more importantly because there clear evidence that such patients may one day recover their natural walking ability thanks to these devices.
#Nanotechnology helps protect patients from bone infection Leading scientists at the University of Sheffield have discovered nanotechnology could hold the key to preventing deep bone infections,
from small dental implants to hip replacements, could protect patients from serious infection. Scientists used revolutionary nanotechnology to work on small polymer layers inside implants
the risk of deep bone infection is reduced substantially. ur research shows that applying small quantities of antibiotic to a surface between the polymer layers
which make up each device could prevent not only the initial infection but secondary infection it is like getting between the layers of an onion skin. one infection affects thousands of patients every year and results in a substantial cost to the NHS.
Treating the surface of medical devices would have a greater impact on patients considered at high risk of infection such as trauma victims from road traffic collisions or combat operations,
and those who have had previous bone infections. Professor Hatton added: eep bone infections associated with medical devices are increasing in number,
especially among the elderly. s well as improving the quality of life, this new application for nanotechnology could save health providers such as the NHS millions of pounds every year. ource:
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#World smallest spirals could guard against identity theft Take gold spirals about the size of a dime...
#A stretchy mesh heater for sore muscles If you suffer from chronic muscle pain a doctor will likely recommend for you to apply heat to the injury.
while deformed and under stress on knee and wrist joints. It is lightweight, breathable and generates heat over the entire surface area of the material.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a common disease-causing bacterium; Ralstonia, a genus of bacteria containing numerous soil-borne pathogen species;
and Staphylococcus epidermis, a bacterium that can cause harmful biofilms on plastics-like catheters-in the human body.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a common disease-causing bacterium; Ralstonia, a genus of bacteria containing numerous soil-borne pathogen species;
and Staphylococcus epidermis, a bacterium that can cause harmful biofilms on plastics-like catheters-in the human body.
The Bruchas lab studies circuits that control a variety of disorders including stress, depression, addiction, and pain.
2015the Universitat Politcnica de Valncia is coordinating a European project to develop a device for the quick and early diagnosis of cancer March 7th,
Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, are developing a new type of bandage that does far more than stanch the bleeding from a paper cut or scraped knee.
Thanks to advances in flexible electronics, the researchers, in collaboration with colleagues at UC San francisco, have created a new"smart bandage"that uses electrical currents to detect early tissue damage from pressure ulcers,
in the journal Nature Communications, could provide a major boost to efforts to stem a health problem that affects an estimated 2. 5 million U s. residents at an annual cost of $11 billion.
Pressure ulcers, or bedsores, are injuries that can result after prolonged pressure cuts off adequate blood supply to the skin.
Areas that cover bony parts of the body such as the heels, hips and tailbone, are common sites for bedsores.
"This bandage could provide an easy early warning-system system that would allow intervention before the injury is permanent.
"Bedsores are associated with deadly septic infections, and recent research has shown that odds of a hospital patient dying are 2. 8 times higher
when they have pressure ulcers. The growing prevalence of diabetes and obesity has increased the risk factors for bedsores."
"The genius of this device is that it's looking at the electrical properties of the tissue to assess damage.
To mimic a pressure wound, the researchers gently squeezed the bare skin of rats between two magnets.
The smart bandage was used to collect data once a day for at least three days to track the progress of the wounds.
reversible tissue damage while three hours of pressure produced more serious, permanent injury. Promising future"One of the things that makes this work novel is that we took a comprehensive approach to understanding how the technique could be used to observe developing wounds in complex tissue,
"said Swisher.""In the past, people have used impedance spectroscopy for cell cultures or relatively simple measurements in tissue.
and extract useful information from wounds developing in the body. That's a big leap."
and as we learn more and more about the responses the body has to disease and injury,
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#Predicting prostate cancer: Nanotechnology shows promise for more accurate prostate cancer screening and prognosis Abstract:
A Northwestern University-led study in the emerging field of nanocytology could one day help men make better decisions about
whether or not to undergo aggressive prostate cancer treatments. Technology developed by Northwestern University researchers may help solve that quandary by allowing physicians to identify which nascent cancers are likely to escalate into potentially life-threatening malignancies and
which ones will remain"indolent,"or nonaggressive. The prostate specific-antigen antigen (PSA) test was recommended once the screening tool for detecting prostate cancer,
but there is now disagreement over the use of this test because it can't predict which men with elevated PSA levels will actually develop an aggressive form of the disease."
"If we can predict a prognosis with our technology, then men will know if their cancer is dangerous
and if they should seek treatment, "said Vadim Backman, senior author of the study.""Right now there is no perfect tool to predict a prognosis for prostate cancer.
Our research is preliminary, but it is promising and proves that the concept works.""Backman is a professor of biomedical engineering at Northwestern's Mccormick School of engineering and Applied science.
Backman has been studying cell abnormalities at the nanoscale in many different types of cancers, using an optical technique he pioneered called partial wave spectroscopic (PWS) microscopy.
This is the first study to use PWS to predict a cancer prognosis, the likely course of the disease.
Prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in American men, but doctors also say it is often overdiagnosed and overtreated.
By age 80, more than 50 percent of men will develop prostate cancer but not all will have the aggressive,
deadly form of the disease. However, because their prognosis is unknown, many opt for aggressive treatments that have side effects that cause urinary,
"The goal is to find specific biomarkers of aggressive cancers, "said Charles Brendler, MD, Co-Director of the John and Carol Walter Center for Urological Health & Program for Personalized Cancer Care at Northshore and author of the study."
"These biomarkers will allow us to individualize our treatment recommendations and improve patient outcomes.""To be able to give a patient a prognosis,
not just identification of risk of tumors, would be said a major advancement Dr. Hemant K. Roy professor of medicine and Chief of gastroenterology at Boston Medical center and an author of the study."
"This approach may allow tailoring of clinical decisions regarding management of patients with prostate cancer,
In this study, researchers analyzed prostate tissue biopsies from two cohorts of prostate cancer patients. The first cohort included eight men with non-progressing cancer
and 10 with progressing cancer. The PWS operator was blinded to the clinical status of the patients.
The second cohort was comprised of 10 progressors and 10 non-progressors in which the PWS investigators were blinded to the entire group.
This assessment may represent a powerful biomarker to predict cancer progression for men with early-stage prostate cancer."
Backman also hopes to use similar techniques to predict cancer progression in ovarian, breast and esophageal cancers.##
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