Category: Education
Green tea compound may have life-saving benefits, biomedical engineers say
A team of engineers at Washington University in the US and their German collaborators say a compound found in green tea may have life-saving potential for patients suffering from multiple myeloma and amyloidosis who face often-fatal medical complications associated with […]
Experimental male contraceptive gel successful in monkey trials
An experimental new type of contraceptive for males that blocks sperm flow with a gel has been successful in monkey trials. Vasalgel acts as a physical barrier once injected into the tubes that sperm would swim down to the penis. […]
Laser technology could help oncologists remove brain cancer
A study has shown that lasers could aid surgeons in quickly analyzing brain cancers and deciding how much tissue to remove during surgery as taking too little leads to the cancer coming back, while too much could lead to disability. […]
WHO urges early cancer diagnosis, treatment to increase survival rate
The World Health Organization (WHO) wants to step up the efforts in diagnosing and treating cancer to increase the chances of survival of patients. Late diagnosis of the disease, the WHO said, leads to millions of people enduring needless suffering […]
Key malaria drug fails to treat patients in the UK for the first time
For the first time in the UK, a key malaria treatment has failed to cure four patients, all of whom visited Africa, showing early warning signs that the parasite is developing resistance against the drug, doctors said. The drug combination […]
Outdoor camping resets internal body clock, sleeping habits
Camping and spending time in the great outdoors resets the body’s internal clock that influences sleeping habits, a team of scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder in the US has found. The team said that spending time outdoors and […]
Psychologists look to virtual reality to diagnose, treat visual vertigo
A team of psychologists at the Cardiff University in the UK is working to develop virtual environments to help with diagnosis and rehabilitation of people suffering from visual vertigo. The psychologists believe using virtual reality has “real potential” to diagnose […]
Lundbeck turns to shark antibodies to develop new brain drugs
Denmark-based international pharmaceutical company Lundbeck looks to shark antibodies for new possible ways of developing drugs to fight brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s, after an early research with privately-owned US biotech firm Ossianix proved to be successful in getting drugs […]
Repurposed AI identifies skin cancer as accurately as trained specialists
Artificial intelligence (AI), repurposed from software developed by tech giant Google, is able to identify skin cancer through photographs as accurately as trained specialists, according to a study by a team of scientists in the Stanford University in the US. […]
VocaliD offers customized synthetic voices for individuals unable to speak
Individuals who are unable to communicate using their own voices may soon have the option to speak through customized synthetic voices instead of using the robotic, GPS-like electronic voices that are used today. Researchers at VocaliD – a technology company […]
