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Tech Xplore / Superpixel-based virtual sensor grid enables robust, low-cost infrastructure monitoring
Structural health monitoring (SHM) and condition monitoring are crucial processes that ensure reliability and safety of engineering systems in a variety of fields, including aerospace, civil engineering, and industry. These ...
Medical Xpress / Risk of death after surgery is significantly higher for residents of low-income neighborhoods, study reveals
New research from St. Michael's hospital found patients from the lowest-income areas in Ontario had a 43% higher chance of dying within 30 days of surgery compared to those from the highest-income areas in the province.
Medical Xpress / Frozen tater tots recalled over plastic contamination
Thousands of cases of frozen tater tots are being recalled amid concerns they may contain pieces of hard plastic, federal health officials say.
Phys.org / The secrets of the invasive short-spined thrips
Lush homeowner gardens and thriving farms and nurseries across the globe are fighting a tiny invader considered one of the world's most damaging pests.
Medical Xpress / Why deadly ovarian cancers hide from the immune system, and how to stop them
More than two-thirds of deaths from ovarian cancer are attributable to high-grade serous carcinoma. In one particularly aggressive form, only a small number of inactive immune cells can be found near the tumor. Such tumors ...
Medical Xpress / Investigating HIV's hidden immune evasion strategy
A Northwestern Medicine study published in Nature Communications has revealed how HIV can protect infected cells by altering the sugars on their surface, hindering the host immune system and avoiding detection.
Medical Xpress / Colorado's getting $1 billion to 'transform' rural health care: Hospitals aren't thrilled with the state's plan
Colorado will receive about $1 billion in federal funding to reshape rural health care over the next five years, but hospital CEOs aren't happy with the state's plan to spend the money.
Medical Xpress / Trial finds Zanidatamab + chemo beneficial in HER2-positive gastroesophageal cancer
For patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive (HER2-positive) metastatic or locally advanced unresected gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma (mGEA), zanidatamab and chemotherapy, with or without tislelizumab, ...
Medical Xpress / Axonal protein synthesis defect identified as potential early driver in ALS progression
Researchers at VIB and KU Leuven have identified a molecular process that allows motor neurons to maintain protein production, a process that fails in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The study, published in Nature Neuroscience, ...
Medical Xpress / Eye gel injection restores vision in patients with rare low-pressure condition, finds study
A new study demonstrates the effectiveness of a widely-used eye injection to manage the previously untreatable rare condition, hypotony, in a project by clinical researchers at UCL and Moorfields Eye Hospital.
Medical Xpress / Whole-genome sequencing may optimize PARP inhibitor use for cancer patients
A whole-genome sequencing approach shows early promise over current commercial methods for identifying more patients likely to benefit from PARP inhibitor cancer treatments, according to a study led by Weill Cornell Medicine ...
Medical Xpress / Uncovering how occludin protein maintains blood-brain and blood-retinal barriers
The blood-brain and blood-retinal barriers are protective systems that prevent harmful substances from entering the brain and eyes. These barriers are created by cells that are joined tightly together by proteins. Dysfunctional ...
