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    Grocery Store Carts set to help Diagnose common Heart Rhythm Disorder and Prevent Stroke

    June 27, 2023, Categories  Biology/Biotechnology, Health/Medical

    Supermarket trolleys with ECG sensors can help prevent stroke risk: Study
    Supermarket trolleys, equipped with electrocardiogram (ECG) sensors, may help diagnose atrial fibrillation – which can then be treated to prevent disabling or fatal strokes.

    It could be the shopping trip that saves your life: supermarket trolleys are helping to diagnose atrial fibrillation which can then be treated to prevent disabling or fatal strokes. The research is presented today at ACNAP 2023, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

    “This study shows the potential of taking health checks to the masses without disrupting daily routines,” said study author Professor Ian Jones of Liverpool John Moores University, UK. “Over the course of two months, we identified 39 patients who were unaware that they had atrial fibrillation...

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    Wear and forget: An Ultrasoft Material for On Skin Health Devices

    February 10, 2023, Categories  Biology/Biotechnology, Health/Medical

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    Conceptual illustration of conventional nonporous (A) and multifunctional porous (B) EGaIn composites upon compression. Here, porous structures can provide damping effect to substantially reduce stresses induced on liquid metal conductive pathways (see details in fig. S5), therefore endowing leakage-resistant property. In addition, antimicrobial additive can offer antibacterial and antiviral property. (C) Chemical structure of the antimicrobial additive, ε-PL, modified with BEHS for uniform dispersion in solvents. (D) Schematic of the EGaIn particle made by tip sonication of bulk EGaIn. (E) 3D tomography image of porous composites before sintering, showing EGaIn particle (yellow) distributions in elastomers (pink). Scale bar, 100 μm. (F) Photographs of compr...
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    Harnessing the Heart Regeneration Ability of Marsupials

    August 26, 2022, Categories  Biology/Biotechnology, Health/Medical

    diagram of mouse and opposum heart regeneration

    Wataru Kimura and colleagues at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan have discovered how the hearts of newborn marsupials retain the ability to regenerate for several weeks. Using this knowledge, the team was able to repair mouse hearts that were damaged a week after birth. The findings, published in the journal Circulation, are expected to contribute to the development of regenerative heart medicines.

    Heart disease is a leading cause of human death and is associated with numerous other secondary illnesses. For humans and other mammals, damaged heart muscle—such as occurs after a heart attack—cannot be naturally repaired because matured heart-muscle cells do not regenerate...

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    Immune Cells produce Chemical Messenger that Prevents Heart disease–related Inflammation

    March 30, 2022, Categories  Biology/Biotechnology, Health/Medical

    The immune system’s white blood cells, which are produced in the bone marrow, mostly help to defend against bacteria and injury, but sometimes they can turn against the body—for example, in cardiovascular disease, their inflammatory aggression can harm arteries and the heart. New research in Nature Immunology that was led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) provides insights into the pathways that increase or decrease the bone marrow’s output of these cells. The findings may lead to new treatments for conditions that arise when the balance of white blood cell production goes awry.

    Senior author Matthias Nahrendorf, MD, Ph.D...

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