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Collaborating researchers from the University of Cambridge in the U.K., the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines in Paris, and the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm) recently engineered an electrophoretic drug delivery method to treat neurological disorders via a neural probe implant in rodents.
While wireless networks have become an everyday necessity in work and social interactions, their capacities are now expanding their use into crucial medical settings.
This past weekend, students and healthcare professionals from across the country gathered at the annual MedHacks competition hosted by Hopkins students.
Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed non-skin-related cancer in men and the second leading cause of cancer deaths in American men. With the largest risk factor being age, all men have the risk of developing prostate cancer during their lifetime.
At this point, global warming is not a mystery to most people. The causes and risks associated with the phenomenon are very much real and capable of producing irreversible damage to the planet that we and many other species calls home.
While it may be the norm for one to put great effort into making good first impressions in social situations, recent studies are leading scientists to believe that one may have less control over first impressions than they may believe.
Spinal cord injuries are among the most alarming and unpredictable of injuries, carrying the possibility of paralysis. Compounding this fact, since severed nerve fibers in the central nervous system, which comprises the brain and spinal cord, do not regenerate, the paralysis has the potential to be permanent.
As the only known planet with life, it makes sense to assume that life began on Earth. Numerous experiments have recreated the environment of the early Earth and determined that biological molecules could have first formed on our planet.
For the past half-decade, statistics for the number of sexually transmitted disease (STD) diagnoses have shown an upward trend. All together, the numbers for novel cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis total to nearly 2.3 million for 2017 in the United States alone.
For millennia, scientists and philosophers have pondered what separates man from animal. Whether it was utilizing the mirror recognition test, examining ancient weapons and tools, or even looking into our own choices and decisions, we have always wondered what makes us so different.
Sleeping is often considered one of the most primitive and mundane aspects of biological existence. Some scientists claim that it is a survival instinct that has evolved for millions of years. However, despite its ancestral roots, sleep is not very well understood. In fact, countless mysteries take place when we sleep: How does the mind create dreams? Do dreams come in colors or black-and-white? Most importantly, how does the brain sustain and maintain high levels of activity during certain periods of the sleep cycle?
Brazilian researchers at the University of São Paulo’s Institute of Biosciences (IB/USP) have found a potential therapeutic effect of the Zika virus (ZIKV) in tumors of the human central nervous system (CNS).
I’m not sure how, exactly, sharks became my favorite animal. I was 10 years old when they became my new obsession. Whatever the inspiration, I was hooked. I set out to learn as much as I could about them. And when I was 11, I started a PowerPoint in order to retain the facts I was gathering from books and TV specials.
Ovarian cancer is often called the “silent killer” because its symptoms are difficult to detect until the cancer has developed into later, deadlier stages. Since it is commonly detected only at an advanced stage, chemotherapy and surgery regularly fail to prevent ovarian cancer from recurring. The five-year survival rate for stage IV invasive epithelial ovarian cancer is a mere 17 percent.