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Medical Xpress / Brain-computer interface enables avatar speech and gestures for people with paralysis
A scientific team has shown that a new brain-computer interface (BCI) can allow people with vocal tract and bodily paralysis to convey both speech and upper-body gestures simultaneously. While BCIs have facilitated one or ...
Medical Xpress / Newly found dendrite bottlenecks may reshape how neurons handle information
Neurons receive thousands of signals via tree-like extensions called dendrites. Until now, these dendrites were thought to be relatively smooth cables that conduct electrical signals to the cell body. An international research ...
Medical Xpress / Blocking gene boosts T-cell attacks on chronic hepatitis B virus and tumors
A research team led by Professor Zhou Xuyu from the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with researchers from Beijing Ditan Hospital and Capital Medical University, has identified ...
Medical Xpress / Bacteria in the airway may shape air pollution health risk
Air pollution is linked to different risks of bacterial pneumonia, sepsis and meningitis, depending on the bacterial subtype a person carries, new research suggests.
Medical Xpress / Engineered vesicles protect brain from bacterial toxin
Bacterial meningitis can cause severe brain damage even when patients receive antibiotic treatment promptly. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed tiny biological vesicles that, in animal studies, were able ...
Medical Xpress / Fine-tuning medical AI can improve diagnosis but also creates privacy risks
Qingyu Chen, PhD, and his team set out to study how artificial intelligence language models are adapted for medicine and found that what these models memorize can be both useful and risky. A model may retain valuable medical ...
Medical Xpress / Metabolic vulnerability identified that may affect heart development
The heart undergoes major changes during the first weeks of life. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have now shown that a previously unknown metabolic vulnerability in mitochondria can disrupt heart development. The study, ...
Medical Xpress / Magnetic pulses reprogram immune cells to fight breast cancer in preclinical models
Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have demonstrated an innovative approach for targeted breast cancer therapy using pulsed electromagnetic fields (PEMFs). The NUS team successfully reprogrammed tumor-associated ...
Medical Xpress / FMN1 gene is essential for hearing, study reveals
A new study has identified FMN1 as a gene required for hearing in both humans and mice, revealing a previously unknown role for formin-1 in maintaining the microscopic cellular architecture of the inner ear. The findings ...
Medical Xpress / Beyond BMI: Waist size can show who is most at risk from air pollution
Ultrafine particulate air pollution floats through the air like a miasma, leaving heart disease, dementia and asthma in its wake. But ultrafine pollution doesn't affect everyone equally. Researchers from the University of ...
Medical Xpress / RSV immunization 97% effective against ICU admission in infants, study finds
A new immunization, offered free to all infants through universal programs in two Canadian provinces, provided strong protection against respiratory syncytial virus, commonly referred to as RSV, sharply reducing hospitalizations ...
Medical Xpress / Nationwide safety program associated with 65% reduction in hospital-onset MRSA bloodstream infections
A large-scale, quality improvement program developed in collaboration with infection prevention experts at the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality was associated with a 65% reduction in hospital-onset ...
