This Blog Is Powered By Life Technology™. Visit Life Technology™ At www.lifetechnology.com Subscribe To This Blog Via Feedburner / Atom 1.0 / RSS 2.0.
News
Life Technology™ Medical News
Mental Health Hack for Teenagers: University Study Findings
Psychedelic Mushroom Compound Shows Antiaging Potential
Health System & Congregations Reduce Loneliness & ER Visits
Rare Hereditary Metabolic Disease Study Advances Knowledge
Novel LncRNA Network in Colorectal Cancer Progression
Balancing Excitatory and Inhibitory Signals in the Brain
Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1: Global Impact and Oral Symptoms
Biomarkers Panel for Early Alzheimer's Detection
Fungal Molecule Reprograms Lung Immune Cells
Rapid At-Home Tests: COVID-19 vs. Spring Allergies
Texas Measles Outbreak Ends in Gaines County
Israeli Study Reveals Home's Vital Role in Health
Study on Vector-Borne Chagas Transmission in Florida
Navigating Head and Neck Cancer Conversations
Global Collaboration Key in Fighting Antimicrobial Resistance
New Study: Multi-Contaminant Water Treatment Prevents 50K+ Cancer Cases
Study Links NRTIs to Higher Glaucoma Risk
Shoulder Instabilities: Challenges in Diagnosis
Longevity Linked to Cognitive Decline: Boost Memory with Brain Exercises
Importance of Implantable Bioelectronics in Neuroscience
Updated Guidelines for Managing WHO Grade 4 Glioma
Scientists Uncover Promising Drug Candidates for Tissue Stress Conditions
Boosting Skin-to-Skin Contact: Newborn Care Training Success
First Malaria Treatment for Newborns Approved by Swiss Health Regulators
Norwegian Policy Strains Family Caregivers
Human Stem Cells Prompted to Turn into Bone Cells by Squeezing
Study Reveals 1 in 10 Workers in Their 30s Use Drugs at Work
Prototype Imaging System Enhances Gastrointestinal Cancer Detection
Breakthrough Discovery: Adult Stem Cells Found in Non-Human Primate
New AI Diagnostic Approach for Neurodivergent Disorders
Life Technology™ Medical News Subscribe Via Feedburner Subscribe Via Google Subscribe Via RSSLife Technology™ Science News
Deciphering Sun's Secrets: Space Solar Eclipses
Research Reveals Key Role of Groundwater in Lake Water Supply
U.K. Satellite Mission Enhances Space Weather Observation
Rare Meteorite Discovery in Africa Reveals Lunar Secrets
Astronomers Seek Secrets of Cosmic Dawn
Young, Female, Well-Educated in Rich EU City? High Life Satisfaction
South Korea Bucks Global Trend: Low-Income Households Thrive
Does Free Will Exist? Interdisciplinary Analysis by Eric Kerckhofs
Melting Glaciers Reshaping Landscapes: Satellite Data Insights
New Method Detects Radioactivity: Cryogenic Decay Energy Spectrometry
Researchers Explore Two-Dimensional Materials for Sustainable Energy
Ribosomes Unveil New Protein Backbone Skill
High Demand for Magnetic Materials in Energy Storage & Robotics
Photosystem II: Vital Role in Oxygen Production
False Claims Spread Amid Texas Flash Flood Tragedy
Climate Change Accelerates Heat Wave Lengthening
Study Shows Surge in Atmospheric Methane Not from Tropical Wetlands
Debunking Myths: Raccoons in Germany
New Method for Building Microscopic Robots
New Selective Biocatalyst Produces Useful Epoxides
UC San Diego Scholar Amy Eguchi on AI's Impact on Education
Impact of Heat Stress on Broiler Chicken Meat Quality
Scientists Discover Luminescent Complex in Organic Molecules
University of Adelaide's Optical Quantum Clocks Outperform GPS
Study Reveals Sex-Specific Genetic Loci in Cichlid Fish
Catching Invasive Nocturnal Fish: A Guide
Study Reveals Restoring Seabird Populations Benefits Coral Reefs
Spanish Firefighters Fight Massive Forest Fire
Wildfire Forces Marseille Airport Closure
Peter Jackson's Rare Moa Bones Collection Sparks Biotech Partnership
Life Technology™ Science News Subscribe Via Feedburner Subscribe Via Google Subscribe Via RSSLife Technology™ Technology News
Eco-friendly method enhances perovskite solar cell quality using camphor-based additive
Camphor-Derived Substance Boosts Perovskite Solar Cells
Can ChatGPT actually 'see' red? New study results are nuanced
How ChatGPT Analyzes Text for User Responses
Novel system turns quantum bottlenecks into breakthroughs
Quantum Computers: Overcoming Single Program Limitation
Indie Rock Band Revealed as AI Music Project
'We're AI,' popular indie rock band admits
Researcher Maxim Van De Wynckel Defends Ph.D. on Indoor Positioning Systems
Interoperable indoor positioning systems can determine locations of people and objects within buildings
Scientists unlock key manufacturing challenge for next-generation optical chips
University of Strathclyde Unveils Breakthrough in Light-Control Tech
Wood-based material can improve safety and lifespan of lithium-ion batteries
Wood-Based Solution Enhances Lithium-Ion Battery Safety
ANU Scientists Develop Eco-Friendly Brine Resource Extraction
Thermodiffusion method offers greener extraction of valuable materials from brine deposits
Metal 3D Printing Boosts Strength with Cellular Structures
Study quantifies how cellular structures enhance strength in 3D-printed metals
Impact of Weather on CO2 Capture Efficiency in Germany
Direct air capture—A lever for climate action, but not cost-effective everywhere
"Governments Pass New Cybersecurity Laws Amid Record Investments"
Your data privacy is slipping away. Here's why, and what you can do about it
Test-time training could lead to LLMs that are better at complex reasoning
Challenges Faced by Large Language Models
AI personal assistants could buy your groceries and book your plane tickets
Tech Industry Introduces Digital Personal Shopping Assistants
What makes a good AI prompt? Here are 4 expert tips
Working Harmoniously with AI: A Key to Success
AI-Generated Video Revolutionizes Creative Industry
AI video becomes more convincing, rattling creative industry
Life Technology™ Technology News Subscribe Via Feedburner Subscribe Via Google Subscribe Via RSSWednesday, 25 September 2019
Secret-shopper-style study shows online birth control prescription overall safe, efficient
Web-based and digital-app services that offer oral contraception appear to be overall safe and efficient, according to the findings of a secret-shopper-style study conducted by researchers at Harvard Medical School and UC Davis that analyzed the birth control prescription services of nine U.S. vendors.
New insights into the healing capacity of the heart
A group of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the Texas Heart Institute and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston reveals today in the journal Genes & Development new insights into the recently discovered healing capacity of the heart involving the Hippo cellular pathway. The group previously reported that inactivating the Hippo pathway in the adult murine heart promoted cardiac muscle regeneration after injury, opening the possibility of developing promising heart failure therapies.
Study assesses asthma treatment options in African American children and adults
A new study of African Americans with poorly controlled asthma, found differences in patients' responses to commonly used treatments. Contrary to what researchers had expected, almost half of young children in the study responded differently than older children and adults, and than white children in prior studies.
Found: three black holes on collision course
Astronomers have spotted three giant black holes within a titanic collision of three galaxies. Several observatories, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory and other NASA space telescopes, captured the unusual system.
Boeing settles 1st Lion Air cases with MAX families, $1.2 mn per victim: source
Boeing has reached settlements with 11 families of victims from October's Lion Air crash, the first agreements following two deadly crashes that killed 346 people, a plaintiffs attorney said Wednesday.
Rhode Island is latest state to bar flavored vape products
Rhode Island became the latest state to restrict e-cigarettes Wednesday when Gov. Gina Raimondo signed an executive order banning the sale of flavored vaping products.
A mouse or an elephant: what species fights infection more effectively?
What species is better at fighting an infection, a mouse or an elephant? Body size is one of the most noticeable differences among species, but relationships between immune defenses and body size have largely been unstudied.
Minnesota moves to get more electric vehicles on roads
Minnesota will require car manufacturers to sell more electric vehicles in the state starting in the 2023 model year, Gov. Tim Walz said Wednesday, a move meant to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while defying the Trump administration's efforts to revoke California's clean air and fuel economy standards for cars and trucks.
Does migraine leave your head spinning? Noninvasive treatment shows early promise
There may be some good news for people with vestibular migraine, a type of migraine that causes vertigo and dizziness with or without headache pain. A small, preliminary study suggests that non-invasive nerve stimulation may show promise as a treatment for vestibular migraine attacks, a condition for which there are currently no approved treatments. The study is published in the September 25, 2019, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Emergency vaccination for deadly DR Congo measles outbreak: UN
The UN health agency on Wednesday said it would carry out an emergency vaccination campaign in six DR Congo provinces to counter an outbreak of measles that has killed 3,600 since the start of the year.
US appeals court to decide fight over jaguar habitat
It will be up to a federal appeals court to decide whether tens of thousands of acres in New Mexico should be reserved as critical habitat for the endangered jaguar.
Prediction system significantly increases palliative care consults
Palliative Connect, a trigger system developed at Penn Medicine and powered by predictive analytics, was found to be effective at increasing palliative care consultations for seriously ill patients, according to a new study from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. After the system was implemented, palliative care consultation increased by 74 percent. The study was published this month in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Fear not a factor in gun ownership: research
Are gun owners more or less afraid than people who do not own guns? A new study from researchers at Florida State University and the University of Arizona hopes to add some empirical data to the conversation after finding that gun owners tend to report less fear than non-gun owners.
AI helps scientists predict depression outcomes
The psychiatry field has long sought answers to explain why antidepressants help only some people.
Scientists solve mystery underlying heart toxicity caused by diabetes drugs
Like catching two fish with one worm, treating two problems with a single drug is efficient, but exceedingly difficult. In particular, for new diabetes medications, in which one drug aims to tackle two major complications of diabetes—the excess of both lipids and glucose in the blood—the therapeutic benefits, while great, frequently are accompanied by dangerous toxic effects to the heart.
NASA visualization shows a black hole's warped world
This new visualization of a black hole illustrates how its gravity distorts our view, warping its surroundings as if seen in a carnival mirror. The visualization simulates the appearance of a black hole where infalling matter has collected into a thin, hot structure called an accretion disk. The black hole's extreme gravity skews light emitted by different regions of the disk, producing the misshapen appearance.
Researchers developing new 'DNA stitch' to treat muscular dystrophy
A new therapeutic being tested by University of Alberta researchers is showing early promise as a more effective treatment that could help nearly half of patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).
Resistance to immune checkpoint blocker drug linked to metabolic imbalance
A metabolic imbalance in some cancer patients following treatment with a checkpoint inhibitor drug, nivolumab, is associated with resistance to the immunotherapy agent and shorter survival, report scientists from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, in collaborative work with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
Climate change could cause drought in wheat-growing areas: study
In a new study, researchers found that unless steps are taken to mitigate climate change, up to 60 percent of current wheat-growing areas worldwide could see simultaneous, severe and prolonged droughts by the end of the century. Wheat is the world's largest rain-fed crop in terms of harvested area and supplies about 20 percent of all calories consumed by humans.
Shoe-mounted laser to 'unfreeze' people with Parkinson's scoops €1 million prize
A shoe-mounted laser beam that helps people with Parkinson's disease 'unfreeze' by shining a green line in front of their feet has been awarded the EU's €1 million Horizon Prize for Social Innovation.
California ballot proposal would tighten data privacy rules
A San Francisco developer who pressured California lawmakers into enacting the nation's most sweeping data privacy act is pushing a ballot measure to expand the law.
Race against time to finish Brazil's particle accelerator
Brazilian scientists are racing against time to finish building a particle accelerator the size of the Maracana football stadium before government funds run out or it is superseded by rival technology.
Germany's climate-stressed trees face 'catastrophe' as bugs attack
Germany's forests have long been treasured by its people, so the country has reacted with alarm and dismay as a beetle infestation has turned climate-stressed woodlands into brown ecological graveyards.
Swedish climate activist Thunberg wins 'Alternative Nobel'
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is among four people named Wednesday as the winners of a Right Livelihood Award, also known as the "Alternative Nobel."
Beijing opens glitzy airport ahead of China's 70th anniversary
A futuristic new airport in Beijing, which is expected to become one of the busiest in the world, was opened by President Xi Jinping on Wednesday.
Caribbean gets smart to cope with hurricanes
After monster Hurricane Irma annihilated the farm sector of Barbuda in 2017, growers got smart: among other changes, they moved their crops to higher ground.
Facebook exempts political speech from fact-checking
Facebook will not fact-check the statements politicians post to the site, the social network announced Tuesday ahead of the US 2020 elections, even as it works to discredit false information meant to manipulate public opinion.
Officials: 75,000 vaping cartridges seized in Anoka County
Law enforcement officials say they've seized 75,000 vaping cartridges in Anoka County.
'Blue finance' hopes to put oceans on a sustainable path
The world's oceans are set to become an increasingly vital resource for helping the planet cope with soaring population growth, but officials are only beginning to craft regulatory frameworks that would ensure "blue financing" goes where it's needed most.
Greta Thunberg's 'How dare you?' a major moment for climate movement
Her imperious "How dare you?" to world leaders at the UN cemented Swedish teen Greta Thunberg's role as her generation's leading spokeswoman on climate change, the culmination of a year of dogged relentlessness, say those who know her.
California ramps up efforts to combat invasive swamp rodents
One of the most recent threats to California's environment has webbed feet, white whiskers, shaggy fur and orange buck teeth that could be mistaken for carrots.
Vox Media and owner of 'New York' magazine to merge
Vox Media announced a merger agreement Tuesday with New York Media, home of the prestigious "New York" magazine and a series of other titles.
Tropical fish swim into Europe's waters as common species head north
Cod, sole and plaice might be regulars on European dinner tables but as climate change heats the oceans common species are heading to cooler northern waters—with profound potential consequences for fish stocks and consumers.
First systematic review and meta-analysis suggests AI may be as effective as health professionals at diagnosing disease
Artificial intelligence (AI) appears to detect diseases from medical imaging with similar levels of accuracy as health-care professionals, according to the first systematic review and meta-analysis, synthesising all the available evidence from the scientific literature published in The Lancet Digital Health journal.
Bats use private and social information as they hunt
In the arms race between predators and prey, each evolves more and more sophisticated ways of catching or escaping from the other. Rachel Page, staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and Ximena Bernal, associate professor at Purdue University, review in Functional Ecology how bats use both private and social information to attack their prey.
Sexual trauma common in postmenopausal women veterans
Thanks to increased media attention, sexual assaults occurring in the military are finally getting the attention they deserve. However, most reports involve reproductive-aged women Veterans from recent service eras. A new study confirms the problem has a long history with assaults linked to numerous mental and physical problems. Study results will be presented during The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) Annual Meeting in Chicago, September 25 to 28, 2019.
Bird droppings defy expectations
For every question about bird poop, uric acid appears to be the answer.
Scientists identify benefits, challenges to using film in public health research
The research community is increasingly recognizing video as more than just a medium to disseminate scientific findings after a study's conclusion. A powerful tool, film can engage study participants and become an integral part of the scientific process, when deployed thoughtfully.
Studies link air pollution to mental health issues in children
Three new studies by scientists at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Cincinnati, highlight the relationship between air pollution and mental health in children.
Private boats in the Mediterranean have extremely high potential to spread alien species
This is the first study in the Mediterranean to combine boat and marina sampling data with crew surveys to better understand the role these boats play in spreading alien species. The researchers from the University of Pavia, Italy found that boats traveling to new marinas were likely to be transporting alien species in the biofouling: living growth on submerged areas of the vessel.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)