Wearable sensors coupled with AI can generate blood pressure readings nearly as well as the invasive and risky arterial lines relied on in intensive care units and operating rooms, new work by Johns Hopkins University researchers demonstrates.

Researchers searching for genetic clues to the growing problem of malaria drug resistance identified new mutations associated with the parasite’s decreased susceptibility to current treatment. By sequencing the whole genomes of malaria parasites from the blood of hundreds of infected people in Uganda, a team of researchers lead by scientists at Brown University found that a cluster of genetic variants in some parasites showed significantly decreased susceptibilities to the drugs most commonly used to treat malaria in Africa and the United States. The findings of the federally funded study were published in Nature Medicine.