Biomedical engineers are helping develop a prosthetic arm for amputees that can move with the person’s thoughts and feel the…
Cellular soldiers designed to kill cancer cells that get loose during surgery
Biomedical engineers have discovered a method to track down and kill escaping cancer cells during tumor removal surgeries. The method,…
Some Pacific salmon populations are especially at risk from climate change
Four population groups of Pacific salmon in California, Oregon, and Idaho are especially vulnerable to climate change, according to a…
Kids widely exposed to smoking in movies
More than half of the top-grossing movies in Ontario in the past 16 years featured smoking, according to researchers with…
Global HIV Treatment — Turning Headwinds to Tailwinds
We perhaps naively thought that the issue of which antiretroviral therapy (ART) to offer 38 million persons living with human…
Medical News Today: Why does the keto diet cause a skin rash?
People following a ketogenic diet can sometimes develop a red, itchy rash on their upper body. In this article, we…
Waist size is a forgotten factor in defining obesity
A new study finds that some people considered to be a normal weight could unknowingly be at high risk for…
To understand a childhood brain tumor, researchers turn to single-cell analysis
Investigators have revealed the cells of origin for specific subtypes of medulloblastoma, the most common malignant pediatric brain tumor. The…
Newly identified meningeal lymphatic vessels answers key questions about brain clearance
Meningeal lymphatic vessels at the skull base are found to be the major route for brain clearance. Reporting to see…
A new framework to study congenital heart defects
Researchers reveal for the first time the full spectrum of cells that come together to make a heart at the…