Setting the record straight! Dua Lipa clarified that she is not pregnant with her and Anwar Hadid’s first child amid rumors. Halsey, Jennifer Aniston and More Celebs Who’ve Slammed Pregnancy Rumors The speculation began with the “little random emojis” that the singer, 25, used to caption Wednesday, January 13, Twitter photos, she told Jimmy Kimmel […]
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Using gene expression data to compare laboratory cancer models to real tumors
Cancer cell lines, grown from tumor cells and cultivated under laboratory conditions, are a mainstay of cancer research. They provide valuable insights into cancer genomics and biology, but for several reasons, scientists often struggle to compare data from cell line-based experiments with those from their complementary tumors, or select the best cell lines for modeling […]
Proportion of older adults owning, using hearing aids increasing
(HealthDay)—The proportion of U.S. older adults who reported owning and using hearing aids increased from 2011 to 2018, according to a research letter published online Dec. 7 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Nicholas S. Reed, Au.D., from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, and colleagues analyzed data from the 2011, 2015, and […]
Should we all be using ‘sniff tests’ to screen for COVID-19?
One of the best ways of containing the spread of COVID-19 is to rapidly identify people infected with the coronavirus and prevent them from passing it to others. Temperature checks are now being used as a public screening tool for identifying people with COVID-19, with countries such as Taiwan using temperature checks as a key […]
Low cost, customized prosthesis using 3-D printing
Upper limb forequarter amputations which involve the removal of the entire arm and scapula require highly customized prosthetic devices that are expensive but yet, usually underutilized due to their high maintenance and low comfort levels. At the same time, while cosmetic prostheses—artificial limbs which provide patients the appearance of a pre-amputated body part—have a higher […]
Expert warns against 'hack' of using your hair to floss your teeth
The ‘hack’ we’re about to detail will either absolutely horrify you… or you will have been doing it for ages. People on TikTok are recommending that when you have food stuck in your teeth and don’t have any floss to hand, you should just yank out a strand of your hair and use that to […]
11 years of data add to the evidence for using testosterone therapy to treat obesity
New research covering 11 years of data presented at this year’s European and International Congress on Obesity (ECOICO 2020) show that, in obese men suffering from hypogonadism (low testosterone), treatment with testosterone injections lowers their weight and improves a wide range of other metabolic parameters. The research has been led by Dr. Farid Saad, Consultant, […]
Human lungs rejected for transplant recovered using novel technique
A multidisciplinary team from Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and Columbia University has demonstrated that injured human donor lungs declined for transplant can be recovered by cross-circulation between the human lung and a xenogeneic host. The new technique, described in a study published recently in Nature Medicine, has the potential to increase the supply of […]
Using electrical stimulus to regulate genes
This is how it works. A device containing insulin-producing cells and an electronic control unit is implanted in the body of a diabetic. As soon as the patient eats something and their blood sugar rises, they can use an app on their smartphone to trigger an electrical signal, or they can preconfigure the app do […]