Switching to 'green' inhalers could reduce carbon footprint by 37-fold
The NHS is being urged to replace metered-dose inhalers after Cambridge University researchers found they had a carbon footprint 37 times that of dry powdered ones. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 30, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Here Are All the 2019 Nobel Prize Winners
The 2019 Nobel Prize announcements are underway this week, with the first prize, in the category of physiology or medicine, going to a trio of scientists for their work on cells’ ability to sense and react to oxygen availability.
The Nobel Prize in physics, chemistry and literature have been announced and the prizes in peace and economic sciences will follow over the next few days. The awards are a recognition of work that advances each of the respective fields. Nobel winners are given a medal, a certificate and a cash award of about $900,000 (when multiple people win a single Nobel, they typically split the cash awa...
Source: TIME: Science - October 7, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Alex Fitzpatrick Tags: Uncategorized nobels onetime Research Success19 Source Type: news
Type 2 diabetes drug could offer hope for multiple sclerosis after a study on rats
Scientists from Cambridge University gave rats the blood-sugar lowering medication metformin for three months. They then stripped myelin from some of the nerves in the animals' brain. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 4, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Scientists Find the Skull of Humanity ’s Ancestor, on a Computer
By comparing fossils and CT scans, researchers say they have reconstructed the skull of the last common forebear of modern humans. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - September 11, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Carl Zimmer Tags: Paleontology Skull (Body Part) Fossils Neanderthal Man Evolution (Biology) Cambridge University Harvati, Katerina Africa Lahr, Marta Mirazon (1965- ) Mounier, Aurelien Nature (Journal) your-feed-science Source Type: news
Scientists Find the Skull of Humanity ’s Ancestor — on a Computer
By comparing fossils and CT scans, researchers say they have reconstructed the skull of the last common forebear of modern humans. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - September 10, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Carl Zimmer Tags: your-feed-science Paleontology Skull (Body Part) Fossils Neanderthal Man Evolution (Biology) Cambridge University Harvati, Katerina Africa Aurelien Mounier Marta Mirazon Lahr Nature (Journal) Source Type: news
Blood test is '100 times more sensitive at picking up on tumours in early-stage breast cancer'
Scientists from Cambridge University developed a tool that detects 'tumour DNA' in individual patients. It identified genetic mutations that were specific to 33 breast-cancer sufferers. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 8, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Exposure to oestrogen in the womb may increase a child's risk of autism
Scientists from Cambridge University tested the amniotic fluid of more than 200 pregnancies. They discovered four types of oestrogen hormones were higher in the babies who went on to develop autism. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 29, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
3D-Printed Flexible Mesh Eyed for Knee, Ankle Braces
While 3D-printing has allowed for the fabrication of materials that can customize certain types of prosthetics and other devices for medical use, typically they are made out of rigid materials, which limits the mobility of a patient using them.
Now researchers at MIT have 3D-printed mesh materials that can offer more customization and flexibility for medical devices and braces that support parts of the body that need to flex, such as muscles and tendons.
MIT engineers have 3D-printed stretchy mesh, with customized patterns designed to be flexible yet strong, for use in ankle and knee braces. (Image source: Felice Frankel...
Source: MDDI - July 24, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Tags: Design News Source Type: news
Cambridge University Researchers Recode E. Coli DNA to Create Living, Reproducing Bacteria with Entirely Synthetic DNA
Clinical pathologists may not see new diagnostics based on the technology anytime soon, but synthetic DNA could be immune to virus infections Can DNA of bacteria be manipulated to create new bacteria that can be used to manufacture useful things? Should scientists be creating life from lifelessness? Researchers at University of Cambridge in the UK […] (Source: Dark Daily)
Source: Dark Daily - July 17, 2019 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Jude Tags: Laboratory Pathology Source Type: news
Locum Consultant in Diabetes & Endocrinology (Thyroid and General)
Applications are sought for a full time Locum Consultant post in Endocrinology (Thyroid& General) and Diabetic Medicine at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Addenbrooke’s Hospital).Endocrinology and Diabetes services at CUHFT are based in the Wolfson Diabetes and Endocrine Centre (WDEC). The WDEC is a dedicated ambulatory centre within the Wellcome Trust -MRC Institute of Metabolic Science (IMS), a purpose-built centre dedicated to research, education and clinical care in the area of metabolic disease.The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to Thyroid and General Endocri...
Source: Society for Endocrinology - July 11, 2019 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
A doctor with good bedside manner could HALVE the risk of dying in 10 years for diabetes patients
Researchers from Cambridge University believe that if patients trust their GP, they can openly discuss any problems. They are also more motivated to take their medication as prescribed. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 8, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What makes a good excuse work? A Cambridge philosopher may have the answer
(University of Cambridge) The things we appeal to when making excuses are myriad: tiredness, stress, a looming work deadline, a wailing infant. But what do these various excuses have in common that allows us to recognize them all as plausible? A researcher from Cambridge University has suggested that the answers lie in what they all tell us about our underlying motivation. When excuses are permissible, it's because they show that while we acted wrongly, our underlying moral intentions were adequate. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - June 30, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Half of Ebola outbreaks undetected
(PLOS) An estimated half of Ebola virus disease outbreaks have gone undetected since it was discovered in 1976, according to research published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Although these tend to affect fewer than five patients, the study, led by Emma Glennon at Cambridge University, highlights the need for improved detection and rapid response, in order that outbreaks of Ebola and other public health threats are detected early and consistently. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - June 13, 2019 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Cambridge University Press publishes lexicon on J ü rgen Habermas
(Goethe University Frankfurt) A great honor for J ü rgen Habermas: in the year of his 90th birthday, Cambridge University Press has published an extensive lexicon about the philosopher and sociologist who was a professor at the Institute for Philosophy at Goethe University until 1994. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - June 3, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Energy storage in the Midwest and beyond: A timely analysis
(Cambridge University Press) As the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) released an update to last year's order on energy storage, MRS Energy& Sustainability today publishes a timely collection of papers that unpack the issue of energy storage in the Midwest and beyond. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - May 23, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: news
