Month: March 2018
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Complications Can Result from Plastic Surgery Tourism
Surgeons at a Boston hospital report a continuing flow of cases where people go overseas for plastic surgery, only to encounter complications needing repair, including drug-resistant bacterial infections, after they return.
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RNA Treatment Tested for West Nile Virus
A therapy for West Nile Virus made with interfering RNA molecules is shown in lab mice to reduce viral loads, including in the brain where the disease can do serious damage.
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Time To Replace Your Business Equipment? Let’s Find Out
What are the signs that you do need to upgrade your tech and how should you handle it when this day comes?
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Team Performance Explored in Multi-Sensory Work Sites
A research project is underway that examines the ways teams of workers adapt and perform in new industrial environments demanding attention to visual information as well as cues from sound and touch.
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Drug Shown Able to Kill Malaria-Carrier Mosquitoes
A clinical trial in Kenya shows blood from people who take a current anti-parasite drug can kill mosquitoes carrying malaria, offering a potential new strategy for controlling this disease.
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FDA Authorizes Interoperable Glucose Monitoring System
The Food and Drug Administration authorized a device that electronically monitors blood glucose levels in people with diabetes, but is also designed to exchange data with other compatible electronic systems.
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Paper Art Form Boosts Bandage, Wearables Adhesion
An engineering lab adapted the traditional Japanese art form of kirigami to create a surface for bandages and wearable devices on knees and elbows that bend a great deal and thus are difficult to stay on.
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Perfect Your Marketing Strategies Like A Pro
Marketing is where you reach out to your intended target audience and show them why they should all be doing business with you, whether that means buying your products or using the services that you are providing.
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Patent Awarded for Nanoparticle Drug, Cannabis Delivery
A delivery technology for therapeutic compounds in nanoscale natural oil particles received a U.S. patent, which the company owning the technology says can be applied to drugs, nutritional supplements, and cannabis-based treatments.
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Crowdsourced Project Building Whole Beta Cell Model
A new initiative is seeking participants from the worldwide research community to develop a multi-dimensional online model of the beta cell that produces insulin, found in the pancreas.