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Innovation roadmap to improve smartphone apps for point-of-care diagnosis and treatment guidance

April 19, 2021
A new review paper looks at advanced research in smartphone-based imaging systems for healthcare. The researchers focused on understanding the core functionality necessary for biomedical imaging and the most effective...

Articulating the earliest true opposed thumb in Earth’s history; Monkeydactyl

April 13, 2021
The application of micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) scanning has enabled digital modelling and articulation of a fossil that has provided the evidence needed to record the first discovery of a pterosaur...

Making music with spiders webs and talking arachnid: discover more at ACS Spring 2021

April 12, 2021
Imagine being able to talk to spiders in their own language! Scientists report that they have translated the structure of a web into music, which could help them communicate to...

Meta analysis confirms comorbidity increases risk for COVID patients

March 31, 2021
New research shows how comorbidities increase risks for COVID patients following a review of more than fifty studies involving over 100,000 patients. Comorbidities such as heart disease, respiratory disease, renal...

Machine learning plus vital signs provides objective patient pain levels

March 18, 2021
Describing pain from zero to ten is currently as good as it gets on the hospital floor when it comes to understanding a patient's pain levels and is very subjective....

Tracking mosquito flight patterns in 3D using digital holography and mathematics

March 12, 2021
Researchers have been asked to use large field-of-view digital holography to accurately apply 3D tracking to mosquito flight. By capturing the diffraction pattern of mosquitoes in a telecentric volume, the...

Bringing DNA sequencing to the frontlines in the fight against anti-microbial resistance

March 10, 2021
The future may see DNA sequencing as a routine bacterial diagnostic technique in hospitals and clinical care settings. An interdisciplinary network of academics and industry experts aim to bring the...

Crowd research recovers biodiversity as 17 previously lost plant species are rehabilitated

March 9, 2021
Imagine rediscovering not one, but seventeen species that had been designated as extinct? A well organised network of researchers across research institutions, universities, museums, botanic gardens and biobanks has demonstrated...

Ultra-high definition predictive brain tool to guide surgery in drug-resistant epilepsy patients

February 25, 2021
A third of epilepsy cases are drug resistant and removal of the area of the brain where seizures emerge is the only treatment option. Now, a new tool offering high...

Mapping neural dynamics: Making sense of mass neuron-generated data

February 19, 2021
How do animals process information and adapt to environmental change? New research applies AI driven information geometry to capture network correlations, simplify neural mapping and enable advanced calculation methods for...

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