Acoustic Fabric Listens to Heart and Breathing, Works as Hearing Aid
Researchers at MIT have created an “acoustic fabric” that can listen to its surroundings and convert the vibrations made by sound into electrical signals, much like the human ear or a microphone. The technology consists of piezoelectric fibers that are woven into the fabric, and the resulting machine-washable material could prove useful for a variety of medtech applications, including functioning as a heart monitor, breathing monitor, and even as a component in technology designed to help the hearing impaired.
An increasing body of research involves adding new and sometimes unexpected functionalities to the everyday...
Source: Medgadget - March 25, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiology Diagnostics Materials mit Source Type: blogs
The Dietary Switch That Reduces Stomach Bloating
Eating high-fibre diets along with this type of food is a proven way to reduce bloating. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - February 20, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: Stomach bloating Source Type: blogs
Two New Articles Have Reminded Me Just How Tenuous The Viability Of The NBN Is!
There have been some interesting moves in the broadband space recently. Firstly, I noticed this: How we ’re building the fibre network of the future By Brendon RileyFebruary 2, 2022 As we edge further into a digital century, it’s clear that data is king. How much data you have; how fast it moves, and how much you can send are the currency of the digital realm. There’s more demand than ever for fast and capable networks to shuttle around huge amounts of data as the world digitises at an astronomical pace. Our hyper-connected age now needs a hyper-connected network so Aussies can stay on the cutting edge of the global ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - February 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
This Delicious Food Reduces Cholesterol
The food contains a healthy fibre that reduces the risk of heart disease and stroke. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - February 6, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: Cholesterol Source Type: blogs
The Technological Future Of Surgery
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” This quote by Arthur C. Clarke pretty much sums up the future of surgery. It offers fantastic cooperation between humans and technology, which could elevate the level of precision and efficiency of surgeries so high we have never seen before. A.I., surgical robots, 3D printing and new imaging methods are already used on a wide scale of procedures. But there’s much more to the future of surgery than that.
Today only 3% of surgical procedures are performed by robots, although 15% of all operations used robotic support or assistance in the ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 20, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Augmented Reality Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Healthcare Design Medical Education Robotics Virtual Reality 3d printing AI diagnostics Surgery technology gc4 surgical robot Source Type: blogs
Phonon Probe to Image Tissues Ultrasonically at Nanoscale
Visual signs of disease can often be spotted within affected tissues, and advances in histopathology have provided clinicians with powerful diagnostic tools to spot those signs. Microscopes are the cornerstone of this trade, and although they have proven to be extremely useful, they do suffer from some limitations. They are effectively 2D imaging devices that don’t offer a good perspective on the volumetric nature of things at small scales, and they only detect light, which can’t sense clinically important properties such as tissue stiffness.
The optical fiber imaging sensor has a diameter of 125 micrometers...
Source: Medgadget - May 5, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Materials Nanomedicine Pathology Radiology Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 14th 2020
In conclusion, aging alters the cerebral vasculature to impair mitochondrial function and mitophagy and increase IL-6 levels. These alterations may impair BBB integrity and potentially reduce cerebrovascular health with aging.
Senescent Cells Fail to Maintain Proteostasis
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2020/12/senescent-cells-fail-to-maintain-proteostasis/
Given the newfound consensus in the research community regarding the importance of senescent cells to degenerative aging, it isn't surprising to see a great deal more fundamental research into the biochemistry of cellular senescence now taking pl...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 13, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
HAND2 Overexpression in Sympathetic Neurons Slows the Onset of Sarcopenia in Aged Mice
We examined age-dependent expression of the heart and neural crest derivative 2 (Hand2), a critical transcription factor for SN maintenance, and we tested the possibility that inducing its expression exclusively in sympathetic neurons (SN) will prevent (i) motor denervation, (ii) impaired neuromuscular junction (NMJ) transmission, and (iii) loss of muscle mass and function in old mice. To test this hypothesis, we delivered a viral vector carrying Hand2 expression or an empty vector exclusively in SNs by vein injection in 16-month-old C57BL/6 mice that were sacrificed 6 months later.
Hand2 expression declines through...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 11, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 12th 2020
We report that FMT from aged donors led to impaired spatial learning and memory in young adult recipients, whereas anxiety, explorative behaviour, and locomotor activity remained unaffected.
This was paralleled by altered expression of proteins involved in synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission in the hippocampus. Also, a strong reduction of bacteria associated with short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) production (Lachnospiraceae, Faecalibaculum, and Ruminococcaceae) and disorders of the CNS (Prevotellaceae and Ruminococcaceae) was observed. Finally, the detrimental effect of FMT from aged donors on the CNS was confir...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 11, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Markers of Chronic Inflammation Correlate with Age-Related Loss of Muscle Mass and Strength
Chronic inflammation is a sizable component of aging. The immune system becomes inappropriately overactive, disrupting its normal participation in tissue maintenance, and producing alterations in the signaling environment that change the behavior of other cells for the worse. Inflammation appears to be important in the age-related decline of stem cell activity, for example. It is certainly important in the maintenance of muscle tissue. The study here is far from the only one to show a link between chronic inflammation and the age-related loss of muscle mass and strength, a condition known as sarcopenia.
Skeletal m...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 7, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
The Recent NBN Announcements Are Really A Pretty Big Change Of Direction For Fixed Broadband In Australia!
Interestingly we actually had 2 announcements on the NBN last week. First there was a business focused announcement. NBN Co to spend $700m on 240 'business fibre zones' across Australia By Ry Crozier on Sep 22, 2020 7:03AM Unveils three-year construction, rezoning package. NBN Co is set to spend as much as $700 million creating 240 “business fibre zones” across Australia where every business in the area can get a fibre connection at “CBD zone wholesale pricing”. The announcement, made a day before the release of the next NBN corporate plan, means “nine in 10 businesses will be able to order high-speed fibre broad...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 26, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Meeting as a church virtually (1)
Places of worship are doing lots of things online. Here is how things are being done, technically, at Hillsborough Tabernacle and Tapton Hill Congregational Churches in Sheffield.Our sons do the filming, I do the processing and uploading, and the Tabernacle website.I didn ' t know too much about this sort of thing before the lockdown, and that may show in my narrative below, which to some people might be stating the obvious! Sunday ReflectionsThese are filmed with a digital SLR, which I then plug into my Windows laptop with a USB cable, so I can copy the file across. The recordings are 5-10 minu...
Source: Browsing - May 28, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: blogs
Meeting as a church virtually
Places of worship are doing lots of things online. Here is how things are being done, technically, at Hillsborough Tabernacle and Tapton Hill Congregational Churches in Sheffield.Our sons do the filming, I do the processing and uploading, and the Tabernacle website.I didn ' t know too much about this sort of thing before the lockdown, and that may show in my narrative below, which to some people might be stating the obvious! Sunday ReflectionsThese are filmed with a digital SLR, which I then plug into my Windows laptop with a USB cable, so I can copy the file across. The recordings are 5-10 minu...
Source: Browsing - May 28, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: blogs
The Dietary Switch That Reduces Stomach Bloating
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Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - May 18, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: Stomach bloating Source Type: blogs
5 Things To Be Proud Of When Fighting Depression (And How To Get Better)
I have heard depression described as an angry black shadow that follows you wherever you go -- and this is a description I agree with wholeheartedly.
I mean, if you take a second to think about it, it just makes sense.
You are forever in its presence, constantly aware of it, but not often within its dark embrace. You feel it creeping away at the edge of your consciousness, but everytime you turn to look at it, it disappears into nothingness.
Then it suddenly engulfs you at the slightest provocation, and you are rendered completely and utterly incapitated.
During these times it feels as if the world is end...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 12, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lindsay Israel Tags: depression featured motivation psychology self-improvement positivity Source Type: blogs
