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Radiology & Imaging

AI-assisted technique offers effective and painless breast imaging alternative

A Caltech-led team has developed a safe, effective, and painless breast imaging technique that incorporates machine learning to help differentiate between suspicious and healthy tissue. The method has now been tested on patients ...

Immunology

Engineered protein can turn off tissue-damaging immune cells in autoimmune diseases

An engineered protein turns off the kind of immune cells most likely to damage tissue as part of type-1 diabetes, hepatitis, multiple sclerosis, shows a new study in mice.

Gastroenterology

New technology monitors bladder dysfunction in patients

Dr. Jason Kim and Dr. Steven Weissbart of the Women's Pelvic Health and Continence Center at Stony Brook University Hospital (SBUH) have successfully performed one of the nation's first—and the East Coast's very first—Glean ...

Radiology & Imaging

Dual wavefront correction enhances quality of deep-tissue imaging

Wavefront shaping is a promising approach to deep tissue imaging. Until now, it was possible only via an invasive approach: fluorescent points were manually inserted into the sample, and the tissue was indirectly mapped by ...

Gastroenterology

New 'smart capsule' tracks health of the GI tract

Scientists are increasingly finding that the gastrointestinal (GI) tract plays a vital role in our overall health. While its main functions center around digestion, the GI tract is also involved in the production of hormones, ...

Surgery

Scientists 3D-print part of human femur as strong as real bone

A group of North Texas doctors and scientists printed part of a human femur—the longest and strongest bone in the body—that mimics the strength, flexibility and overall mechanics of a real femur. The findings were published ...

Neuroscience

3D printed brain sheds light on neurological disorders

A research team has successfully developed a three-dimensional (3D) brain model that closely mimics the structure and function of the human brain. The study was published in the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing. ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Digital inhalers may detect early warning signs of COPD flare-ups

Digital inhalers may help predict impending acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a new study published in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: Journal of the COPD Foundation.

Addiction

New opioid testing techniques could lead to better therapies

As the opioid epidemic persists across the United States, a team of researchers from Brown University has developed new diagnostic techniques for detecting opioid compounds in adults with opioid use disorder and infants with ...

Cardiology

Hybrid biomaterial shows how aging in the heart could be reversed

A new lab-grown material has revealed that some of the effects of aging in the heart may be slowed and even reversed. The discovery could open the door to therapies that rejuvenate the heart by changing its cellular environment, ...

Health informatics

Algorithm streamlines vascular system design for 3D printed hearts

There are more than 100,000 people on organ transplant lists in the U.S., some of whom will wait years to receive one—and some may not survive the wait. Even with a good match, there is a chance that a person's body will ...