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Scientists Target Protein to Lower the Risk of Prostate Cancer Spread

According to a study conducted by Cedars-Sinai Cancer investigators, targeting a particular protein usually overexpressed in prostate cancer can assist stop or retard the disease from spreading to other body parts. The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications, opens the possibility of using available commercial medications, including one approved by the Fda for...

Scientists Craft Living Human Skin For Robots

In the culture medium a robotic finger covered with human living skin self heals after researchers covered its wound with a collagen sheet. Credit: Shoji Takeuchi From action heroes to villainous assassins, biohybrid robotics constructed from both living and also artificial materials have actually been at the focus of many sci-fi fantasies, motivating today's...

Paving the Way for Quicker Computers, Longer-Lasting Batteries

University of Queensland researchers have cracked an issue that's frustrated chemists and physicists for many years, potentially causing a new age of effective, efficient, and environmentally friendly technologies Utilizing quantum mechanics, Professor Ben Powell from UQ's School of Mathematics and Physics has discovered a recipe that enables molecular switches to function at room temperature. "Switches are...

Bacteria with Recording Function Capture Gut Health Status

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Our intestine is residence to plenty of bacteria, which help us digest food. However, just what do the microorganisms do inside the body? Which enzymes do they create, and when? And how do the bacteria metabolize health-promoting foods that aid us in minimizing disease? To obtain replies to such matters, researchers at...

Scent Dogs Detect Coronavirus Accurately from Skin Swabs

Dogs to detect COVID-19. Credit: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. A current research by the University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital affirmed that scent detection dogs can be taught to recognize people with a coronavirus infection from skin swabs. In the experimental set-up at Finland's Helsinki-Vantaa International Airport, the dogs' accuracy in...

Exercise and Lengthy COVID Syntoms

Research study: Signs and symptom variant, connections, and relationship to physical activity in Long Covid: an intensive longitudinal study. Credit: The Science Advisory board. In a recent study posted to the medRxiv preprint web server. Researchers reviewed associations between physical activity as well as long coronavirus disease (COVID) signs. History Post-acute sequelae of COVID 2019 (COVID-19)...

Three Reasons an Amazing Patient Experience Commences in the Waiting Room

Credit: The Symphony Agence. All of us know that the healthcare market is continuously altering and advancing. Patients frequently expect nothing less than the best possible care and experience when they get into a dental practice. What the majority of us do not realize is that a great patient experience begins even before the patient...

Old Zircons provide Insights into Earthquakes of the Past

These rocks at the Devil’s Punchbowl geologic formation near Los Angeles were uplifted by movement along the Punchbowl Fault, a now-inactive portion of the larger San Andreas Fault New study might develop understanding of how today's tremors release energy Earthquakes have rocked the planet for ages. Studying the quakes of old could aid scientists in better...

Research Examines Why the Memory of Fear is Seared Into Our Brains

Illustration of the brain. Credit: Capillary Technologies. Experiencing a frightening incident is likely something you will always remember. Why does it remain with you when other kinds of events become increasingly hard to remember with time? A mechanism for the formation of fear memories in the amygdala, the emotional center of the brains, has been identified...