Credit: UnsplashBiomedical waste is the solid or liquid waste that comes from healthcare activities. Managing this waste is important to protect the health of the local community and the environment, as well as to avoid financial losses and maintain social and aesthetic values(taking care to ensure that the process doesn't negatively impact the visual...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA group of investigators associated with multiple organizations in Australia and the United States has discovered that taking an aspirin daily does not reduce the danger of bone ruptures in healthy older individuals. In their paper publicized in JAMA Internal Medicine, the team explains their investigation, which contained providing hundreds of...
Magnetic bacteria (gray) can squeeze through narrow intercellular spaces to cross the blood vessel wall and infiltrate tumors. Credit: Yimo Yan / ETH ZurichScientists worldwide are investigating how anti-cancer drugs can most efficiently reach the tumours they target. One probability is to use modified bacteria as "ferries" to bring the medications with the blood...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainThe natural world has its own intrinsic electrical grid composed of a world web of tiny bacteria-generated nanowires in the soil and seas that "breathe" by exhaling excess electrons.In a new study, Yale College researchers found that light is an unexpected ally in fostering this electronic activity within biofilm bacteria. Revealing bacteria-produced...
The first fully autonomous biohybrid fish from human stem-cell derived cardiac muscle cells. Credit: Michael Rosnach, Keel Yong Lee, Sung-Jin Park, Kevin Kit ParkerAn autonomously swimming biohybrid fish, designed to emphasize two crucial regulatory functions of the human heart, has shown the relevance of feedback mechanisms in muscle pumps (such as the heart). The...
spectrum.ieee.orgThis wearable gadget detects blood sugar and also carries out insulin as necessaryIN SOME WAYS, THIS IS A FAMILY STORY. Peter Kovatchev was a naval designer who raised his kid, Boris, as a trouble solver and constructed version ships with his granddaughter, Anna. He additionally dealt with a form of diabetes in which the...
Induction of neuronal assemblies in different regimes of excitation-inhibition balance. (A) Schematic of conventional protocols for the induction and investigation of plasticity often involving a small number of neurons and perturbations with brief pulses. (B to D) Analytical steps (B) to evaluate the effect of external perturbations on the formation of assemblies involving dynamics...
The study picture of the 3D-printed Eardrum Repair Patch being produced by the INVISIONTEC BIOPLOTTER 3D printer is being studied by a researcher. The Repair Patch will be made of a biodegradable elastomer that can be customized and has a circular and radial framework that mimics biological tissue. (Credit: Business Wire)A sweat-proof electronic skin...
