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Scientists: New Device Accurately Identifies Cancer in Seconds

By Guest PostNovember 23, 2017Healthdiagnosing cancers, frozen section analysis, james suliburk, livia schiavinato eberlin, masspec pen, rapid cancer detection, tissue damage

AUSTIN, Texas – A team of scientists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin has invented a powerful tool that rapidly and accurately identifies cancerous tissue during surgery, delivering results in about 10 seconds—more than 150 times as fast as existing technology. The MasSpec Pen is an innovative handheld instrument that gives surgeons precise diagnostic information about what tissue to cut or preserve, helping improve treatment and reduce the chances of cancer recurrence. (more…)

Binge-watching ‘The Walking Dead?’ You might feel like a zombie yourself

By Guest PostNovember 13, 2017Entertainment, Healthbinge watching, game of thrones, harmful, jan van den bulck, liese exelmans, mental health consequences, the walking dead

ANN ARBOR — Binge-watching is a great way for young adults to catch up on multiple episodes of their favorite television series like “The Walking Dead” or “Game of Thrones,” but it comes at a price. (more…)

This 25-year-old doctor is ‘Making What’s Next’ for healthcare screening in Indian schools

By Guest PostNovember 9, 2017Health, Technologycare n grow, healthcare screening, indian schools, meghana kambham, vishakhapatnam

It was a typical balmy September afternoon in the coastal city of Vishakhapatnam. But little did Dr. Meghana Kambham know that her life and potentially those of hundreds of thousands of school children would change that day. (more…)

Scientists restore youthful plasticity to the brains of adult mice

By Guest PostNovember 5, 2017Healthadult mice, brains, imagination of scientists, jason shepherd, kyle jenks, mark bear, protein called arc, youthful plasticity

Like much of the rest of the body, the brain loses flexibility with age, impacting the ability to learn, remember and adapt. Now, scientists at University of Utah Health report they can rejuvenate the plasticity of the mouse brain, specifically in the visual cortex, increasing its ability to change in response to experience. Manipulating a single gene triggers the shift, revealing it as a potential target for new treatments that could recover the brain’s youthful potential. (more…)

What’s on Your Skin? Archaea, That’s What

By Guest PostNovember 3, 2017Healthalexander probst, archaea, archaeal signatures, christine moissl eichinger, giovanni birarda, hoi-ying Holman, human skin microbiome, skin, skin moisture

Berkeley Lab study on human skin microbiome finds archaea abundance associated with age

It turns out your skin is crawling with single-celled microorganisms – and they’re not just bacteria. A study by the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Medical University of Graz has found that the skin microbiome also contains archaea, a type of extreme-loving microbe, and that the amount of it varies with age. (more…)

Der evolutionäre Ursprung von Darm und Muskeln

By Guest PostOctober 26, 2017Healthdarm, evolutionaere ursprung, keimblatt theorie, muskeln, patrick steinmetz, ulrich technau

Wie sind Darm, Haut und Muskulatur während der Evolution der Tiere entstanden? Diese Frage beschäftigt WissenschafterInnen seit über 100 Jahren. Die Entwicklungsbiologen Ulrich Technau und Patrick Steinmetz von der Universität Wien stellen durch ihre Arbeiten an Seeanemonen die 150 Jahre alte “Keimblatt-Theorie” in Frage: Sie fanden heraus, dass Darm bildende Drüsenzellen nicht aus dem Entoderm, sondern aus eingestülptem Ektoderm entstehen. Damit werfen sie ein grundlegend neues Licht auf die Evolution von Darm und Muskelgewebe. Die Ergebnisse erscheinen in “Nature Ecology & Evolution”. (more…)

Wenn Musik männliche Gesichter attraktiver macht

By Guest PostOctober 24, 2017Entertainment, Health, Scienceattraktive, effekt von musik, helmut leder, maennliche gesicht, manuela marin, musik, sexuelle anziehung

Frauen bewerten Bilder von männlichen Gesichtern als attraktiver und würden diese Männer eher daten, wenn sie zuvor Musik gehört haben. Je größer die musikalische Erregung, desto größer ist der Effekt von Musik auf die sexuelle Anziehung. Was uns dieser Befund über den Ursprung von Musik verrät, legen PsychologInnen um Manuela Marin und Helmut Leder in ihrer neuesten Publikation in der Fachzeitschrift PLOS ONE dar. (more…)

A blood test can predict early lung cancer prognosis

By Guest PostOctober 23, 2017Healthblood test, liquid biopsies, lung cancer, lung cancer patients, metastases, microfluidic chips, prognosis, rhonda jack, rishindra reddy, satellite tumors, sunitha nagrath, tumor removal surgery, vasudha murlidhar

ANN ARBOR — Cancer cells obtained from a blood test may be able to predict how early-stage lung cancer patients will fare, a team from the University of Michigan has shown. (more…)

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