The old story of a farmer trying to get a stubborn mule to pull a wagon by dangling a carrot in front of its nose, or hitting its rump with a stick, may not seem to have much to do with the practice of medicine.
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Merely a brief introduction to mindfulness helps people deal with physical pain and negative emotions, a new study by researchers at Yale, Columbia, and Dartmouth shows.
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An enriched environment–with increased opportunities for physical activity, socialization and exploring novel stimuli–helped lessen functional, anatomical and cellular deficits in an experimental model of brain damage caused by oxygen deprivation at birth.
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A new study published in the journal JAMA Surgery in February 2020 shows that patients with acute appendicitis that were successfully treated either by antibiotics or by appendectomy had identical satisfaction with their treatment and identical quality of life over the long term. The patients who were first treated conservatively and then had appendectomy had lower satisfaction rates.
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An innovative breath collecting device developed by academics at Northumbria University, Newcastle, could revolutionize the way we diagnose diseases, such as the newly emerged strain of coronavirus, COVID-19.
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UPM has joined a newly formed Finnish research consortium that plans to use extracellular vesicles to develop novel nano-biotechnological solutions for the early diagnostics and treatment of severe progressive diseases.
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Researchers at MILabs B.V. have succeeded at imaging the popular Zirconium-89 isotope in small animals of human disease at very high resolutions (<0.75 mm).
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BIA Separations, a leading bio-chromatography development and manufacturing company, announced it has signed a licensing agreement with the University of Zagreb to commercialize a novel elution method that helps preserve the integrity, infectivity and potency of viruses during immunoaffinity purification.
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As the day progresses, the strength of the brain’s global signal fluctuation shows an unexpected decrease, according to a study published on February 18 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Csaba Orban and a multi-disciplinary team of scientists from the Faculty of Engineering, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and N.1 Institute of Health at the National University of Singapore.
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DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences today announced a collaboration with the MRM Health NV, a biopharmaceutical company, focused on the discovery and development of innovative therapeutics based on the human microbiome.
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