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Medical Xpress / Robotic help in high-risk twin pregnancies: Panoramic guidance for a flexible laser scope
In Switzerland, around 2,400 children are born as twins every year. When the fetuses share a placenta, they are connected to one another via blood vessels. If the blood circulation becomes unbalanced, this can be life-threatening ...
Tech Xplore / DNA computer performs 100-bit calculations using heat, water and salt
Researchers at Maynooth University (MU) have developed a first-of-its-kind DNA computer, described as one of the most complex and fastest molecular computers yet reported.
Medical Xpress / Early changes in the tumor environment may explain why immunotherapy works for some patients but not others
Two patients receive the same immunotherapy for the same cancer. In one, the tumor retreats and stays gone for years. In the other, the treatment does nothing. Oncologists still have no reliable way to tell these patients ...
Phys.org / Heat-related lost labor emerges as a major cost of carbon emissions
As the climate warms, people are more exposed to heat stress, which depresses productivity and the global economy. A study from the University of California, Davis, quantifies the cost of heat stress on global labor.
Medical Xpress / Study calls safety of some trauma blood transfusions into question
New research by a University of Rochester Medicine team suggests that a certain type of blood transfusion is not nearly as safe as the medical establishment believes.
Phys.org / Predominantly online friendships linked to greater support for white nationalism
From social media to the streets of Washington, D.C., the organized white nationalist movement has become more visible in the United States over the past few decades. But the extent of this extremist movement's appeal to ...
Phys.org / Could expanding the U.S. nuclear arsenal make Americans less safe?
A new report from the Brookings Institution presents evidence that increasing the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal could make nuclear crises more likely. This raises an important challenge to arguments that the U.S. must ...
Medical Xpress / Decline in childhood vaccination rates in Europe since COVID-19
Childhood vaccination coverage has declined across most European Union (EU) countries in recent years, reversing some of the substantial progress made since 1980, according to a study published in The Lancet Regional Health—Europe.
Medical Xpress / Chronic stress may trigger hidden inflammation that damages the heart
Chronic stress from people's everyday lives may be causing lasting structural changes to the heart, harming health and reducing life expectancy.
Medical Xpress / Epstein-Barr virus activity may foreshadow multiple sclerosis attacks
A new study illuminates the connection between the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and multiple sclerosis (MS), pointing to a causal role for reactivation of the virus in triggering MS attacks in people with certain genetic risk ...
Medical Xpress / New guidance puts diabetes distress assessment alongside glucose care for adults
The European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) has published its first evidence-based clinical practice guideline, focussing on the assessment and management of diabetes distress in adults with type 1 diabetes ...
Phys.org / Developing new asymmetric catalytic reactions for the synthesis of complex molecules
Do Hyun Ryu's research team in the Department of Chemistry at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) has developed two new asymmetric catalytic methods for the precise synthesis of complex molecules using chiral organic catalysts.
