Stiffness in Brain Tissue Niches Causes Declining Stem Cell Activity and Myelination
This study shows the same is true in our brains, and that age-related brain stiffening has a significant impact on the function of brain stem cells. Researchers studied young and old rat brains to understand the impact of age-related brain stiffening on the function of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs). These cells are a type of brain stem cell important for maintaining normal brain function, and for the regeneration of myelin - the fatty sheath that surrounds our nerves, which is damaged in multiple sclerosis (MS). The effects of age on these cells contributes to MS, but their function also declines with age in heal...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 15, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Working 9 to 5? Not me
There’s often an implication in social media comments on some of my updates that somehow my work ethic must be deficient because I don’t, apparently, adhere to the early starts, late finishes, working weekends, and checking in at the office even when on holiday, that some workers are inclined to do. Why should I? I’m self employed, I have parallel contracts (multiple bosses), but either work piecemeal or as work-for-hire, so that I can do the requisite work in my own time and pace and be paid the same, usually per job or per word. What could be better?
There are, of course, people who get more done and ha...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - June 2, 2019 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
World ’s First Surgical Vending Machine
Xenco Medical, a company that makes disposable spinal tools and implants, is unveiling a vending machine for tracking and dispensing these devices. Clinicians have a huge touchscreen display to choose what they’d like to retrieve out of the machine. The same display can be used to get some specs on the various devices and watch tutorials on how to use them.
The machine spits out pre-packaged sterile devices that are ready to ago as soon as they’re properly opened in the OR. The company believes that in addition to avoiding any potential for infection, the instruments will save time, clinical space normally devo...
Source: Medgadget - May 14, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Neurosurgery Orthopedic Surgery Urology Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
Big, when I ’ m on Twitter
I write a lot, it’s been my wont for 30+ years. Everything from astronomy to zoology, with a lot of chemistry, materials science, nanotechnology, pharmaceuticals and much else in between. Then, of course, there are the butterfly and moth photos, the birds, the songs and the tech stuff. As I mentioned recently, I feel like education hoodwinked me into becoming a chemist when my childish self imagined I’d be a marine biologist. My first professional article was about The Great Barrier Reef after Mrs Sciencebase and myself a trip took a trip down under in 1989). I suppose during the last decade or so I’ve tr...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - April 15, 2019 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Bluetooth-Enabled Subcutaneous Heart Monitors: Interview with Dr. Avi Fischer, Abbott
Abbott has developed an implantable device that continuously monitors the heart rhythm and allows for communication with a clinician via a smartphone. The paperclip-sized device, called the Confirm Rx insertable cardiac monitor (ICM), requires no re-charging and is inserted during an outpatient procedure that is often suture-free.
Monitoring a patient’s heart rhythm can tell clinicians a lot about why an individual might be experiencing symptoms, and the diagnoses made can be important in defining the best strategy for treatment. For instance, for patients with a documented rhythm abnormality, being able to calculate the...
Source: Medgadget - February 19, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiology Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Photoacoustic Imaging Measures Temperature Deep Within Body
When using heat and other forms of radiation to ablate tumors, it is usually difficult to know just how hot the tissues around your target are getting, particularly when working deep within the body. MRI and ultrasound can be useful in many cases, but they have limitations and can produce misleading readings. To have a better option, researchers at Duke University have been working on using photoacoustic imaging as a tool to remotely measure the temperature of deep-seated tissues.
Photoacoustic imaging involves shining light onto an object, heating it ever-so-slightly, and then using ultrasound to detect the waves that re...
Source: Medgadget - February 13, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Diagnostics Source Type: blogs
Diversity beyond gender – a new year pledge
You can read the original post Digital Science’s Medium blog.
Happy New Year! As we regret our former cheese-based life choices and get back into the swing of things, January is also a time to look forward and make resolutions. 2019 could be a year of great change and uncertainty. One topic never far from our minds is diversity and inclusion, specifically ensuring that ALL people are represented and heard. During this time of change, one way that we can achieve greater representation within research is to each commit to doing one small thing to change the current culture.
On Saturday 3rd November 2018 we held a sess...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - January 23, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Suze Kundu Tags: Uncategorized Diversity SpotOn SpotOn18 Source Type: blogs
Diversity beyond gender — a new year pledge
You can read the original post Digital Science’s Medium blog.
Happy New Year! As we regret our former cheese-based life choices and get back into the swing of things, January is also a time to look forward and make resolutions. 2019 could be a year of great change and uncertainty. One topic never far from our minds is diversity and inclusion, specifically ensuring that ALL people are represented and heard. During this time of change, one way that we can achieve greater representation within research is to each commit to doing one small thing to change the current culture.
On Saturday 3rd November 2018 we held a sess...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - January 23, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Suze Kundu Tags: Uncategorized Diversity SpotOn SpotOn18 Source Type: blogs
Introducing BMC Materials
In recent years, science and technology have revolutionized our way of life, improving well-being and comfort for all mankind. The discovery of new materials with unique features at the macro- and nano-scales has played a significant part in this advancement.
The possibility of producing materials able to perform different functions and respond to external stimuli will undoubtedly be an extremely important research area for the foreseeable future. These new materials will play a crucial role, for example in additive manufacturing, since they will be designed and structured to perform specific operations and adapt autonomou...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - January 22, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Harriet Manning Tags: Open Access Publishing Technology BMC Materials Source Type: blogs
An interview with Sunil Krishnan, new co-EiC of Cancer Nanotechnology
As you can read about here, we are delighted to welcome Sunil Krishnan of MD Anderson, Houston, Texas, as a new co-Editor-in-Chief of Cancer Nanotechnology. Sunil will join existing Editors-in-Chief Fred Currell, Dalton Cumbrian Facility, University of Manchester, UK, and Steve Curley, CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances, Texas, in helping to make Cancer Nanotechnology a premiere venue for research of its kind.
We caught up with Sunil to find out a bit more about him, his research and how he feels about his new role on the journal.
Sunil Krishnan; image courtesy of MD Anderson
Sunil, congratulations on becoming an EiC of Ca...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - November 6, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Matthew Smyllie Tags: Health Medicine Open Access Publishing cancer nanotechnology interview Source Type: blogs
An interview with Sunil Krishnan, new co-EiC of Cancer Nanotechnology
As you can read about here, we are delighted to welcome Sunil Krishnan of MD Anderson, Tyler, Texas, as a new co-Editor-in-Chief of Cancer Nanotechnology. Sunil will join existing Editors-in-Chief Fred Currell, Dalton Cumbrian Facility, University of Manchester, UK, and Steve Curley, CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances, Texas, in helping to make Cancer Nanotechnology a premiere venue for research of its kind.
We caught up with Sunil to find out a bit more about him, his research and how he feels about his new role on the journal.
Sunil Krishnan; image courtesy of MD Anderson
Sunil, congratulations on becoming an EiC of Canc...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - November 6, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Matthew Smyllie Tags: Health Medicine Open Access Publishing cancer nanotechnology interview Source Type: blogs
A new EiC and new identity for Cancer Nanotechnology
There have been some exciting developments recently for Cancer Nanotechnology. In August, the journal joined the BMC family of journals, and in doing so, became a part of a brand that has been a true innovator in open access publishing since its founding in the late nineties.
Itself a pioneer as a research venue at the intersection of cancer research and nanotechnology, Cancer Nanotechnology is naturally at home with BMC, and those of us working the journal are delighted to be a member of this prestigious family. We look forward to this new chapter in the journal’s life, and we invite you to learn more about our new fami...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - November 5, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Matthew Smyllie Tags: Health Medicine Open Access Publishing cancer nanotechnology materials science Source Type: blogs
