Health and Medicine

This subject area encompasses research and studies in the field of human medicine.

Among the wide-ranging list of topics covered here are anesthesiology, anatomy, surgery, human genetics, hygiene and environmental medicine, internal medicine, neurology, pharmacology, physiology, urology and dental medicine.

Cardiovascular disease could be diagnosed earlier with new glowing probe

Researchers have created a probe that glows when it detects an enzyme associated with issues that can lead to blood clots and strokes. The team of researchers, from the Department…

Sex-specific genetics of autism

Girls with mutations in the gene EPHB2 may be at increased risk of autism. After reviewing a database of gene mutations in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a team…

Towards a treatment for myotonic dystrophy

First 3D model with patient cells … Myotonic dystrophy is a hereditary degenerative neuromuscular disease that occurs mainly in adults, affecting about 50,000 people only in Spain. Symptoms range from…

‘Last resort’ antibiotic pops bacteria like balloons

Scientists have revealed how an antibiotic of ‘last resort’ kills bacteria. The findings, from Imperial College London and the University of Texas, may also reveal a potential way to make…

Holographic histopathology enables fast, precise diagnostics

New optical diffraction tomography method increases imaging speed and resolution for improved diagnostics in histopathology. Histology is the study of biological tissues at a microscopic level. Also called microscopic anatomy,…

Heavy charge against water germs

Removing pathogens from drinking water is especially difficult when the germs are too tiny to be caught by conventional filters. Researchers at Empa and Eawag are developing new materials and…

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