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Recording Brain Activity With Laser Light

A Caltech professor, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Southern California, has demonstrated for the first time a new technology for imaging...

Inhalable ‘Nanobody’ Fights off COVID-19

Existing monoclonal antibodies such as Regeneron’s REGEN-COV cocktail offer potent treatment options for COVID-19. But they require high doses to be effective against the...

AI Technique Can Detect Cancerous Tissue in Real-time

The use of a new surgical technique developed at University College Dublin that uses artificial intelligence to detect cancerous tissue in real-time during surgery...

Detecting Skin Disorders Based With a Soft Sensing Device

By putting a piece of the soft, strain-sensing sheet on the skin may be able to detect skin disorders non-invasively and in real-time very...

BD Uses AI to Transform Microbiology Urine Testing

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) has announced the U.S. launch of a Urine Culture Application for use with the BD Kiestra™ lab automation incubation...

Woebot Health’s Digital Therapeutic to Treat Postpartum Depression

Woebot Heath has secured breakthrough device designation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its digital therapeutic to treat postpartum depression (PPD). WB001...

Machine Learning Models Predict Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Researchers effectively trained machine learning models to predict the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB) within six to twelve months of a patient being prescribed...

Cardiac MRI More Effective in Detecting Myocarditis than Symptom Testing

A cardiac MRI of athletes who had COVID-19 is seven times more effective in detecting inflammation of the heart than symptom-based testing, according to...

New Tool Activates Deep Brain Neurons by Combining Ultrasound, Genetics

Neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease and epilepsy have had some treatment success with deep brain stimulation, but those require surgical device implantation. A...

Gene-Silencing Nanoparticles to Treat COVID-19

Researchers at City of Hope, a research center based in California, and Griffith University in Australia have collaborated to create a new experimental anti-viral...