Nigeria: Scientists Show How Stress Eases Cancer Cells' Growth, Spread
[Daily Trust] A team at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York has found how chronic stress leads to the formation of sticky webs of white blood cells, called neutrophils, which make it easier for cancer cells to invade tissues. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 28, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Nigeria Science and Biotechnology West Africa Source Type: news
Separate Reports Shed Light on Why CDC SARS-CoV-2 Test Kits Failed During Start of COVID-19 Pandemic
HHS Office of Inspector General was the latest to examine the quality control problems that led to distribution of inaccurate test to clinical laboratories nationwide Failure on the part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to produce accurate, dependable SARS-CoV-2 clinical laboratory test kits at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic continues […]
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Source: Dark Daily - February 28, 2024 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Jillia Schlingman Tags: Laboratory Management and Operations Laboratory News Laboratory Pathology Laboratory Resources Laboratory Testing anatomic pathology APHL Association of Public Health Laboratories BCFB Biotechnology Core Facility Branch CDC CDC Advis Source Type: news
Quintus Extends Portfolio of Solid-State Battery Presses with Compact MIB 120 Laboratory Model
Smaller Unit Incorporates Performance Parameters of Larger Equipment VÄSTERÅS, Sweden, Feb. 27, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Isostatic pressure has been shown to be a key process to ensure solid-state battery performance. This has now led to Quintus Technologies' introduction of a... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - February 27, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: PDT Source Type: news
Australia Moves to Fully Eliminate Cervical Cancer by 2035, Especially in Underserved and Diverse Populations
By emphasizing HPV vaccinations while having clinical laboratories continue to perform Pap smears, Australia’s rate of cervical cancer has dropped notably There is currently a global push to completely eradicate cervical cancer and Australia is leading the way with increased funding. It is also focusing on hard-to-reach and underserved populations. Australia is hoping to be […]
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Source: Dark Daily - February 26, 2024 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Jillia Schlingman Tags: International Laboratory News Laboratory Management and Operations Laboratory Pathology Laboratory Resources Laboratory Testing anatomic pathology Australia Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care Australian Labor Party Source Type: news
Comprehensive testing helps diagnose and manage rare genetic disorder
Lauri ’s daughter, Christy, a genetic counselor at Mayo Clinic, was instrumental in getting Lauri the testing she needed for an accurate diagnosis. Multiple doctors and multiple examinations could not figure out why Lauri Sieben had spent much of her life “never feeling quite right” physically. Fort unately for Lauri, that changed after her daughter Christy began working as a genetic counselor in Mayo Clinic’s Molecular Technologies Laboratory. After seeing similarities between the patient testing she was… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - February 25, 2024 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Ancient glue, crochet microbes, and more stories you might have missed this week
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Indigenous and Western scientists team up to reconstruct the history of North American horses
Established in 1923, the Newcomb Cleveland Prize is AAAS’s oldest prize, awarded annually to the authors of an “outstanding”
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Source: ScienceNOW - February 23, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Rice University Researchers Are Developing an Implantable Cancer Therapeutic Device That May Reduce Cancer Deaths by Half
Immunotherapy device could also enable clinical laboratories to receive in vivo biomarker data wirelessly Researchers from Rice University in Houston and seven other states in the US are working on a new oncotherapy sense-and-respond implant that could dramatically improve cancer outcomes. Called Targeted Hybrid Oncotherapeutic Regulation (THOR), the technology is intended primarily for the delivery […]
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Source: Dark Daily - February 23, 2024 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Jillia Schlingman Tags: Laboratory Instruments & Laboratory Equipment Laboratory Management and Operations Laboratory News Laboratory Pathology Laboratory Resources Laboratory Testing Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health AI anatomic pathology ARPA-H a Source Type: news
BMS to create 350 jobs in $400m Cruiserath expansion
The new investment will significantly expand the pharma company’s manufacturing and laboratory capacity at the Dublin 15 campus. Pharma giant Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) has announced a $400m investment for an expansion at its Dublin 15 Cruiserath facility. Construction of the new sterile drug…#dublin #pharma #bristolmyerssquibb #bms #ireland #cruiserath #cruiserathbiologics #padraigkeane #karinshanahan #evp (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 23, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Transgender men may still ovulate after hormone replacement therapy
This study is further evidence to support what we already know: Testosterone isn’t a contraceptive,” says Beth Cronin, an obstetrician and gynecologist at Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School who was not involved in the study. Regardless of gender, she says, “Everyone needs access to contraceptives.”
The idea to investigate these issues occurred to Joyce Asseler, a physician in the Netherlands specializing in fertility care for transgender people. A law passed 10 years ago changed how transgender people in the Netherlands received treatment. Before, transgender people had to be sterilized and und...
Source: ScienceNOW - February 22, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Scientists reveal for first time how STRESS causes cancer to grow and spread
Chronic stress encourages the spread of cancer throughout the body, a breakthrough study out of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York suggests. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Independent predictors of mortality for critically ill patients with polytrauma: a single center, retrospective study - Zhou P, Ling L, Xia X, Yuan H, Guo Z, Feng Q, Ma J.
Independent predictors of mortality and transfusion therapy in polytrauma patients from the Chinese population remain unknown. Here, we aimed to identify these predictors by retrospectively collecting and analyzing vital signs and laboratory results for 40... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Making the Move to Automated Liquid Handling
Laboratory scientists often feel the day-to-day strain of repetitive manual liquid handling processes, but many common workflows can benefit from automation. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - February 21, 2024 Category: Science Tags: The Marketplace Source Type: news
Scientists in Italy Develop Hierarchical Artificial Intelligence System to Analyze Bacterial Species in Culture Plates
New artificial intelligence model agrees with interpretations of human medical technologists and microbiologists with extraordinary accuracy Microbiology laboratories will be interested in news from Brescia University in Italy, where researchers reportedly have developed a deep learning model that can visually identify and analyze bacterial species in culture plates with a high level of agreement with […]
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Source: Dark Daily - February 21, 2024 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Jillia Schlingman Tags: Digital Pathology International Laboratory News Laboratory Instruments & Laboratory Equipment Laboratory Pathology Laboratory Testing AI Alberto Signoroni PhD American Type Culture Collection anatomic pathology antimicrobial ATCC bac Source Type: news
Uganda Sees Health Workforce Gains; Increases in Family Planning and Safe Deliveries at End of USAID Project
cbalesFebruary 19, 2024February 19, 2024Between 2017 and 2023, Uganda strengthened its health workforce and systems, improved health services, and championed locally led development in collaboration with IntraHealth ’sRegional Health Integration to Enhance Services in Eastern Uganda (RHITES-E) Activity.Led by IntraHealth in partnership with The AIDS Support Organization (TASO), Communication for Development Foundation Uganda (CDFU), Malaria Consortium, and Medic, the USAID-funded project worked closely with the government at the national and local levels to expand access to high-quality health services. RHITES-E also sup...
Source: IntraHealth International - February 19, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: cbales Source Type: news
The 2023 T ürkiye-Syria earthquakes: analysis of pediatric victims with crush syndrome and acute kidney Injury - Döven SS, Tezol, Yeşil E, Durak F, Mısırlıoğlu M, Alakaya M, Karahan F, Kıllı, Akça M, Erdoğan S, Can M, Delibaş A.
This study aimed to analyze the clinical and laboratory findings, as well as management of pediatric victims with Crush... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 19, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news
