A new study in Burns & Trauma, published by Oxford University Press, reveals promising new strategies to prevent skin scarring after injuries. While scars are common when wounds heal, hypertrophic scarring is a skin condition characterized by deposits of excessive amounts of collagen. This results in a thick and often raised scar. The underlying mechanisms…
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Scientists at the University of California San Diego have a much clearer idea thanks to the evolution of an advanced imaging system designed to record ultra-precise brain activities in flies. Called “Flyception” when it was announced in 2016 as a system that could record freely walking flies, the new “Flyception2” employs a more advanced tracking…
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ANN ARBOR–It’s 5 p.m. as you leave the parking garage at work, but you realize you have no idea which way to turn to travel home. You know where you are and what street your house is on–it’s just that you can’t remember how to get there. This is what happens to patients with damage…
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Despite claims that owning a gun makes a person feel safer and sleep easier, gun owners don’t actually sleep any better than non-gun owners, according to a new study by University of Arizona researcher Terrence Hill. Gun owners also aren’t any happier than those who don’t own guns, Hill found in a second study. That’s…
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A new handheld 3D printer can deposit sheets of skin to cover large burn wounds – and its “bio ink” can accelerate the healing process. The device, developed by a team of researchers from the University of Toronto Engineering and Sunnybrook Hospital, covers wounds with a uniform sheet of biomaterial, stripe by stripe. The bio…
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San Francisco, CA–Just as computer scientists developed standards to deliver digital content across the globe to your laptop, neuroscientists are working to break down barriers in data sharing. Neurodata Without Borders (NWB) is an alliance organized around a common mission: make precious brain recordings from individual labs standardized, sharable and open-sourced. By promoting collaboration, NWB…
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ROCHESTER, Minn. — In a new paper published Feb. 4 in JAMA, Mayo Clinic researchers describe the benefits of in-home noninvasive ventilation therapy ? which includes a type referred to as bilevel positive airway pressure, or BiPAP ? for many patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The team identified a number of benefits, including…
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ImageSheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, at a conference last year in Munich.Credit…Lino Mirgeler/DPA, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, announced her engagement to Tom Bernthal, the founder of a Los Angeles-based strategic consulting agency, on Monday. “Engaged!!! Tom Bernthal, you are my everything. I could not love…
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ImageRush Limbaugh at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in West Palm Beach, Fla., in December.Credit…Andrew Harnik/Associated Press The conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh said on his live show on Monday that he had advanced lung cancer. He told listeners that he had noticed some shortness of breath but was not experiencing…
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Aperitif liqueurs, both imported and domestic, continue to gain in popularity. Select, an example from Venice that’s been around for 100 years, hit the American market late last summer, and, with its ruby color, suits a Valentine toast. The blend of botanicals includes a good dose of juniper and was created by the brothers Mario…
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