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    AI can Predict Early Death Risk

    February 12, 2021, Categories  Health/Medical, Biology/Biotechnology

    Two New AI Can Predict a Person's Death and a COVID-19 Patients Mortality: One of Them is 90% Accurate!
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    HOUSTON, TX – JUNE 30: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Medical staff wearing full PPE wrap a deceased patient with bed sheets and a body bag in the Covid-19 intensive care unit at the United Memorial Medical Center on June 30, 2020 in Houston, Texas. Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations have spiked since Texas reopened, pushing intensive-care wards to full capacity and sparking concerns about a surge in fatalities as the virus spreads.

    Algorithm using echocardiogram videos of the heart outperforms other predictors of mortality. Researchers at Geisinger have found that a computer algorithm developed using echocardiogram videos of the heart can predict mortality within a year.

    The algorithm – an example of what is known as machine learning, or artificial...

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    STINGing Tumors with Nanoparticles

    February 12, 2021, Categories  Health/Medical, Biology/Biotechnology

    This artist’s rendering shows a synthetic polymer (purple) that activates STING proteins (yellow and green motifs) for cancer immunotherapy.
    Credit: Shenyang Zhiyan Science and Technology Co. Ltd

    A new nanoparticle-based drug can boost the body’s innate immune system and make it more effective at fighting off tumors, researchers at UT Southwestern have shown. Their study, published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, is the first to successfully target the immune molecule STING with nanoparticles about one millionth the size of a soccer ball that can switch on/off immune activity in response to their physiological environment.

    “Activating STING by these nanoparticles is like exerting perpetual pressure on the accelerator to ramp up the natural innate immune response to a tumor,” says...

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    Drug is promising against Pancreatic and Breast Cancers

    February 12, 2021, Categories  Health/Medical, Biology/Biotechnology

    Modulation of Cancer-Associated Fibrotic Stroma by An Integrin αvβ3 Targeting Protein for Pancreatic Cancer Treatment

    ProAgio, a drug developed by Georgia State University biology professor Zhi-Ren Liu and his team, is effective at treating pancreatic cancer and prolonging survival in mice, according to a study published in the journal Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

    A second study, published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, shows the drug is also effective against triple-negative breast cancer, a fast-growing and hard-to-treat type of breast cancer that carries a poor prognosis.

    ProAgio, created from a human protein, targets the cell surface receptor  integrin αvβ3 which is expressed on cancer-associated fibroblasts...

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    Coffee lovers, rejoice! Drinking more coffee associated with Decreased Heart Failure Risk

    February 10, 2021, Categories  Health/Medical, Biology/Biotechnology

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    Circulation: Heart Failure Journal Report..Dietary information from 3 large, well-known heart disease studies suggests drinking one or more cups of caffeinated coffee may reduce heart failure risk, according to research published today in Circulation: Heart Failure, an American Heart Association journal.

    Coronary artery disease, heart failure and stroke are among the top causes of death from heart disease in the U.S. “While smoking, age and high blood pressure are among the most well-known heart disease risk factors, unidentified risk factors for heart disease remain,” according to David P. Kao, M.D...

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