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Released: 3-Feb-2021 8:15 AM EST
研究结果提高了无家族史女性乳腺癌风险评估的准确性
Mayo Clinic

妙佑医疗国际(Mayo Clinic) 病理学家Fergus Couch博士主持的一项新的多机构研究为携带乳腺癌易感基因遗传突变的美国女性提供了更准确的乳腺癌风险评估。于1月20日星期三发表在《New England Journal of Medicine》(新英格兰医学杂志)上的CARRIERS Consortium研究结果让医疗服务提供者能够更好地评估女性患乳腺癌的风险(其中许多女性都没有乳腺癌家族史),并提供更合适的风险管理策略。

Released: 3-Feb-2021 8:10 AM EST
Novel 3D printed stents deliver breakthrough treatment for oesophageal cancer
University of South Australia

World-first 3D printed oesophageal stents developed by the University of South Australia could revolutionise the delivery of chemotherapy drugs to provide more accurate, effective and personalised treatment for patients with oesophageal cancer.

Released: 3-Feb-2021 8:05 AM EST
نتائج دراسة تحسّن دقة تقديرات مخاطر الإصابة بسرطان الثدي للنساء بلا تاريخ عائلي للإصابة بالمرض
Mayo Clinic

تقدم دراسة جديدة شاركت فيها مؤسسات متعددة بقيادة فيرجوس كوتش، الحاصل على درجة الدكتوراه، أخصائي علم الأمراض في مايو كلينك، تقديرات أكثر دقة لخطر الإصابة بسرطان الثدي بالنسبة للنساء الأمريكيات اللاتي يحملن طفرات وراثية في جينات الأُهبة لسرطان الثدي. قد تتيح نتائج دراسة كاريرز كونسورتيوم، التي نُشرت يوم الأربعاء، 20 كانون الثاني/يناير في مجلة نيو إنجلاند الطبية، لمزودي الرعاية الصحية إجراء تقييم أفضل لخطر الإصابة بسرطان الثدي بالنسبة للنساء - وكثير منهن بلا تاريخ عائلي لسرطان الثدي- وتقدِّم استراتيجيات أنسب لإدارة المخاطر

Released: 3-Feb-2021 8:05 AM EST
In Ethiopia, Mother’s Wealth More Protective Against Child Marriage Than Father’s
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

For a girl in Ethiopia, her mother’s wealth can protect her from becoming a child bride – but if a father prefers child marriage, his own wealth may increase the likelihood that she will be married before 18, according to a Rutgers University-New Brunswick study.

1-Feb-2021 3:35 PM EST
Poll shows inequality among older adults in ability to isolate a COVID-19-positive person at home, or get outside
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

People who have tested positive for COVID-19 should isolate themselves from the other people they live with. But a new poll suggests that nearly one in five older adults don’t have the ability to do this – and that there are disparities by race, ethnicity, income and health status.

29-Jan-2021 11:45 AM EST
Urban agriculture in Chicago does not allow consumers to rely solely on local food
American Chemical Society (ACS)

A study of food raised around Chicago has shown that buying local can’t provide all necessary nutrients for area residents, though it could fulfill their needs if some nutrients were supplied as supplements.

29-Jan-2021 11:35 AM EST
Standard water treatment technique removes and inactivates an enveloped virus
American Chemical Society (ACS)

Researchers reporting in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology have discovered that a standard water treatment technique, called iron (III) coagulation, and its electrically driven counterpart, iron (0) electrocoagulation, can efficiently remove and inactivate a model enveloped virus.

29-Jan-2021 11:30 AM EST
Load-reducing backpack powers electronics by harvesting energy from walking
American Chemical Society (ACS)

Researchers have developed a prototype backpack that makes loads feel about 20% lighter and harvests energy from human movement to power small electronics.

Released: 3-Feb-2021 7:50 AM EST
دراسة مايو كلينك تشير إلى أن للعمر تأثيرات واضحة عقب أي نوبة قلبية على النتائج المرتبطة بالجنس
Mayo Clinic

مدينة روتشستر، ولاية مينيسوتا- تحدث قرابة 1.5 مليون نوبة قلبية وسكتة دماغية كل عام للرجال والنساء في الولايات المتحدة. ويلعب كلًا من الجنس والعمر دورًا كبيرًا في تحديد من يُصاب بنوبة قلبية، والطرق المستخدمة لعلاج هذه النوبات القلبية، والنتائج النهائية بعد الخروج من المستشفى للأشخاص المصابين بالنوبات القلبية.

Released: 3-Feb-2021 6:00 AM EST
3D-printed microbes open door to enhanced performance of biomaterials
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have developed a new method for 3D printing living microbes in controlled patterns, expanding the potential for using engineered bacteria to recover rare-earth metals, clean wastewater, detect uranium and more.

Released: 2-Feb-2021 5:55 PM EST
Amazon spreads vaccine misinformation, UW iSchool researchers find
University of Washington

Amazon’s search algorithm gives preferential treatment to books that promote false claims about vaccines, according to research by UW Information School Ph.D. student Prerna Juneja and Assistant Professor Tanu Mitra.

Released: 2-Feb-2021 3:50 PM EST
Researchers Propose Transformative Framework for Delivering Virtual Care
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

In “Ensuring Quality in the Era of Virtual Care,” published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the authors discuss the growing popularity of virtual care in an environment that has had limited discussions about its quality and trade-offs.

Released: 2-Feb-2021 3:45 PM EST
To Sleep or Not to Sleep?
Thomas Jefferson University

Neuroscience researchers study how fruit flies decide between sleep and other behaviors, like mating, and the factors that influence that decision.

Released: 2-Feb-2021 3:25 PM EST
Venus flytraps found to produce magnetic fields
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is a carnivorous plant that encloses its prey using modified leaves as a trap.

Released: 2-Feb-2021 3:15 PM EST
Science Snapshots From Berkeley Lab
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

These news briefs cover topics including gut microbes, tsetse flies in 3D, an energy use framework for heating and cooling, and new gravitational lensing candidates.

Released: 2-Feb-2021 2:50 PM EST
Age groups that sustain resurging COVID-19 epidemics in the United States
Imperial College London

Resurgent COVID-19 epidemics in the US in 2020 have been driven by adults aged 20-49, and in particular adults aged 35-49, before and after school reopening

Released: 2-Feb-2021 2:35 PM EST
Automated imaging detects and tracks brain protein involved in Alzheimer's disease
Massachusetts General Hospital

Amyloid-beta and tau are the two key abnormal protein deposits that accumulate in the brain during the development of Alzheimer's disease, and detecting their buildup at an early stage may allow clinicians to intervene before the condition has a chance to take hold.

Released: 2-Feb-2021 2:15 PM EST
Study reports preliminary efficacy and safety results from interim analysis of Russian COVID-19 phase 3 vaccine trial
Lancet

Interim analysis from phase 3 trial of nearly 20,000 participants suggests efficacy of two-dose regimen of the adenovirus-based vaccine is 91.6% against symptomatic COVID-19 - trial reports 16 COVID-19 cases in the vaccine group (0.1% [16/14,964) and 62 cases (1.3% [62/4,902]) in the placebo group.

Released: 2-Feb-2021 2:05 PM EST
A glowing new prospect for self-reporting batteries
Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne scientists have hit upon fluorescence as a way to shed light on what's happening with flow batteries as they operate.

Released: 2-Feb-2021 1:55 PM EST
Retrained generic antibodies can recognize SARS-CoV-2
University of Illinois Chicago

An alternative approach to train the immunity response is offered by researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago and California State University at Sacramento who have developed a novel strategy that redirects antibodies for other diseases existing in humans to the spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2.

   


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