3+ hour, 15+ min ago   (666+ words) The autonomous blood draw robot that cleared US regulatory review last month will not appear at American labs or clinics for some time. Vitestro, the Dutch company behind it, plans a multicenter US clinical trial before commercial availability and says…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (846+ words) The overall figure understates the problem. Researchers found the models backed down most often when the clinical picture was worst. In a textbook severe case, correct advice survived only 22 percent of the time. In a scenario involving a man who…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (692+ words) Then comes the wrinkle. The dose that improved lung function the most was not the dose the clocks read as youngest. Researchers then ran those blood proteins through six aging clocks built by different teams using different methods, including ProtAge,…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (953+ words) The study was published in Science Advances. The work was done in mice and in mouse cells, and no part of it has been tested in humans. The finding is counterintuitive in a way that matters for how the public…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (959+ words) Biomedical engineers at Duke University have created an injectable material that turned the empty cavity left behind by a stroke into a place where new blood vessels and nerve fibers could grow, and mice treated with it recovered forelimb movement…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (733+ words) People do not evaluate religious exemption requests by a consistent standard. They evaluate them partly by whether the belief in question matches their own politics, and the pattern runs in both ideological directions. The study found a second effect layered…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (790+ words) For 17 years, scientists deliberately added sulfuric acid to a remote Ontario lake to recreate the effects of acid rain. The experiment was designed to answer a straightforward question: What happens to an entire freshwater ecosystem when its water becomes increasingly…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (621+ words) For more than three decades, psychology labs have had a dependable recipe for making a healthy adult miserable on command. Someone finally asked the people who cook it. The authors then turn that observation into an open research question. Does…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (586+ words) The number everyone quotes is about 14 times a day. It appears in textbooks, patient handouts, and clinic conversations. It now looks low. Researchers at the University of Maryland built a small electrochemical sensor that snaps onto ordinary underwear and tracks…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (916+ words) Novocure said Tuesday that a cybersecurity incident in mid-August involving unauthorized access to certain information systems exposed internal records belonging to more than 1,400 U.S. patients. The oncology company said it activated its response plan, put containment measures in place, and opened…...