IDAMS Study Improves Early Prediction of Severe Dengue Outcomes
Dengue fever is entering a new era of clinical risk assessment as researchers seek to identify, as early as possible, which patients are likely to...
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Ultra-stretchable piezoelectric sensor monitors aircraft impacts across wide temperature ranges
Aircraft could soon gain a far more sensitive sense of touch. A new study by Zhou, Wei, Xu and colleagues describes a piezoelectric sensor designed...
Apophis Flyby in 2029 Offers Rare Opportunity for Planetary Science and Defense
Apophis, a near-Earth asteroid roughly 340 meters wide, will sweep past Earth on April 13, 2029, in one of the closest encounters of its size...
Telemedicine-Supported Home Injections Offer New Care Model for Breast Cancer Patients
Breast cancer patients receiving injectable gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist therapy may be able to shift a significant part of their treatment from the clinic to the...
Hydrogel platform streamlines creation of living tissue models
Researchers at Tampere University have developed a light-activated hydrogel platform that could make the construction of advanced biomaterials faster, simpler and far more adaptable. The...
Brexit Transformed the UK Healthcare Workforce but Failed to Alleviate Doctor Shortages
BOSTON, MA — Britain’s decision to leave the European Union was followed by a rapid transformation in the way the country recruited doctors and nurses...
Mainz cell biologist Uwe Wolfrum honored for major contributions to vision research
Inherited retinal disorders are among the most devastating genetic diseases affecting human vision. They damage the retina—the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye—and...
Targeted lipid nanoparticles enable in vivo editing of human blood stem cells
A new study reports a strategy for delivering gene-editing technology directly to human haematopoietic stem cells inside the body, using targeted lipid nanoparticles rather than...
How Climate Change Tests the Long-Term Resilience of Power Systems
For more than half a century, power-system resilience has been treated as a question with a relatively narrow answer: how well does the grid withstand...
Deep Learning Precisely Grades Schistosoma japonicum Liver Fibrosis Using Ultrasound Images
A new study published in Nature Communications is putting artificial intelligence at the center of a difficult medical challenge: determining how severely Schistosoma japonicum has...
Atopic Dermatitis Phenotypes Linked to Long-Term Body Mass Index Trajectories
Atopic dermatitis is often described as a skin disease, but a new study suggests that its effects may be visible far beyond the itchy rashes...
Study Finds Family Engagement Improves Follow-Up Participation Among High-Risk Infants
Premature birth and serious newborn illness can leave infants medically stable enough to go home while still facing elevated risks to their development, movement, hearing,...
Insilico’s Alex Aliper to Attend Two Hong Kong Summits on AI Healthcare
Alex Aliper, PhD, Co-founder and President of Insilico Medicine, is set to bring the rapidly evolving science of generative artificial intelligence to two major international...
Scientists trace the origins and domestication of modern cultivated chrysanthemums
For centuries, chrysanthemums have been shaped by human taste, regional horticultural traditions and the movement of plants across Asia. Now, a large-scale genomic study is...
Nationwide Study Examines Comorbidity Burden Predicting Three-Year Neurodevelopment in Extremely Preterm Infants
Extremely premature birth can leave infants facing a complicated web of medical challenges, but a new nationwide cohort study is examining whether those challenges can...