Cochrane Rapid Review Update: Protective clothes and equipment for healthcare workers to prevent them catching coronavirus and other highly infectious diseases

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The Cochrane Review, “Personal protective equipment for preventing highly infectious diseases due to exposure to contaminated body fluids in healthcare staff,” has been updated as a rapid review in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The full review is now published in the Cochrane Library and freely available here. Plain language summary – Protective clothes and…

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ISSCR takes 2020 Annual Meeting virtual

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Skokie, IL -In response to escalating concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic, the ISSCR is transforming its in-person annual meeting on 24-27 June, 2020 to a virtual event, ISSCR 2020 Virtual. “The Society remains committed to creating exceptional opportunities to share, discuss, and present new science in the stem cell field,” said Deepak Srivastava, ISSCR President.…

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With an NSF RAPID grant, NJIT engineers build a new model to track COVID-19

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A team of environmental engineers at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is developing a new way to track the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus, by combining advanced statistical methods with models that incorporate environmental conditions, such as wind speed, temperature and social distancing. To date, modelers are largely tracking the growth in the…

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BU engineers make breakthrough that could open doors to continuous health-monitoring devices

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Imagine a Fitbit that measures much more than steps, heart rate, and calories burned. It continually tracks all of the indicators of physiological health that currently require expensive and time-consuming analyses of blood plasma. The device is inexpensive, reliable, and powered by the same proteins that our bodies produce all day, every day. Although it…

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Does primary ovarian insufficiency affect your risks for obesity and diabetes?

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CLEVELAND, Ohio (April 15, 2020)–Are overweight women less fertile? Does primary ovarian insufficiency increase risks for obesity and diabetes? For years the controversy regarding the connection between reproductive health and body mass index has continued. A new study assessed the effect of ovarian reserve on obesity and glucose metabolism and found no correlation. Study results…

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