A radar system developed at the University of Waterloo can wirelessly monitor the vital signs of patients, eliminating the need to hook them up to any machines. Housed in a device smaller than a cellphone, the new technology records heart and breathing rates using sensitive radar waves that are analyzed by sophisticated algorithms embedded in…
IMAGE: Scheme shows Δ40p53 as a modulator of p53 tumor suppression and oncogenic activities in endometrial cancer cells. view more Brazilian scientists identify the predominant presence of a truncated variant of the p53 protein in amyloid aggregates in endometrial cancer cells. Such structures are related to the progression of this tumor. A finding by Brazilian researchers…
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (news.ucr.edu) — A new UC Riverside study asserts that women don’t engage in “tear-down” gossip any more than men, and lower income people don’t gossip more than their more well-to-do counterparts. It also holds younger people are more likely to gossip negatively than their older counterparts. It’s the first-ever study to dig deep…
People have certain physical ‘tells’ when they conceal information – and studies show that good liars can prevent these ‘tells’ being detected by displaying physical red herrings of their own. But scientists have now shown that even a brain imaging technique called fMRI, which in theory is much harder to trick, can be beaten by…
Being able to measure, and monitor, temperatures and temperature changes at miniscule scales–inside a cell or in micro and nano-electronic components–has the potential to impact many areas of research from disease detection to a major challenge of modern computation and communication technologies, how to measure scalability and performance in electronic components. A collaborative team, led…
Millions of people are infected with hepatitis B every year. Hundreds of thousands die. And small children are particularly at risk. Due to high cost and the stable environmental conditions required for vaccine storage, many people in developing countries are not vaccinated against this dangerous virus. As such, researchers have been working to produce a…
IMAGE: Klaus Gerwert (left) and Andreas Nabers aim at improving the Alzheimer sensor step by step. view more Credit: RUB, Marquard Using current techniques, Alzheimer’s disease, the most frequent cause of dementia, can only be detected once the typical plaques have formed in the brain. At this point, therapy seems no longer possible. However, the first…
IMAGE: Grunting noises in tennis influence the prediction of ball flight. Sport psychologists from Jena University come to this conclusion in a new study. view more Credit: Anne Guenther/University Jena Exceeding noise levels of 100 decibels, the grunting sounds produced by some tennis players when hitting the ball are on a par with motorbikes or chainsaws.…
A faculty-researcher at Rochester Institute of technology has developed a prototype micro device with bio-sensors that can detect the deadly Ebola virus. With this type of device, those infected can be treated earlier, and the early detection process can potentially decrease the spread of infections. Ke Du, a faculty-researcher in RIT’s Kate Gleason College of…
IMAGE: Paul Sajda, Columbia Engineering professor of biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, and radiology, has been awarded the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF) for 2019. The five-year, $3 million fellowship will… view more Credit: Eileen Barroso for Columbia Engineering New York, NY–May 2, 2019–Paul Sajda, professor of biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, and radiology, has been awarded the…