Medicine & Health
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New method brings growth charts to children with rare genetic conditions
University of BristolPeer-Reviewed Publication
Growth charts for children with rare genetic disorders - giving healthcare professionals and families clearer guidance on how a child is developing - have been created by an international team, led by the University of Bristol.
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- European Journal of Human Genetics
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- National Institute for Health Research
Improved cough-detection tech can help with health monitoring
North Carolina State UniversityPeer-Reviewed Publication
Researchers have improved the ability of wearable health devices to accurately detect when a patient is coughing, making it easier to monitor chronic health conditions and predict health risks such as asthma attacks. The advance is significant because cough-detection technologies have historically struggled to distinguish the sound of coughing from the sound of speech and nonverbal human noises.
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- IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
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- U.S. National Science Foundation
Study: When stress helps — or hurts — at work
Portland State UniversityPeer-Reviewed Publication
Not all stress at work is bad, according to new research out of Portland State University.
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- Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
Lysosome: a potential target for anti-aging
Science China PressPeer-Reviewed Publication
Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) is a rare premature aging disease, and approximately 90% of cases are caused by progerin. Progerin is toxic and causes diverse abnormalities. More and more studies show that progerin is also detected in physiological aging and chronic kidney disease (CKD). Thus, targeting progerin clearance shows powerful potential for the treatment of HGPS, CKD and aging-related diseases. Now, Zhang group from Peking University and Kunming University of Science and Technology, reports that activating lysosome biogenesis can promote progerin clearance and alleviate cellular senescence in HGPS. They identify lysosome defects as a prevalent feature in HGPS, which impairs progerin clearance, and reveal that activating lysosome biogenesis can counteract lysosome defects and accelerate progerin clearance and mitigate DNA damage, cell cycle arrest, low proliferation ability and senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) in HGPS cells. The findings highlight the vital role of lysosomes in progerin clearance, and uncover the potential of targeting lysosome biogenesis in anti-senescence.
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- Science China Life Sciences
New national standard to boost trust in edible bird’s nest industry
Duke-NUS Medical SchoolBusiness Announcement
Singapore has launched its first national standard to authenticate the quality of edible bird’s nest (EBN), a billion-dollar delicacy in Asia. The new standard strengthens consumer trust and levels the playing field for producers in a market long plagued by counterfeits and substitutes.
Researchers from the UJI and the UA defend the integration of the impacts of marine noise pollution in international criminal law with an analysis from ecocriminology
Universitat Jaume IIn an article published in the journal Kriminologie, a team of researchers from the universities of Castelló and Alicante suggest that the effects of underwater noise pollution should be included in international criminal and administrative law.
Anthropogenic noise can be not only a serious public health problem, but also a significant stressor for marine and terrestrial life. Scientific evidence has shown that there is a cause-and-effect relationship between underwater noise pollution and the development of some species, and although it has been identified by the World Health Organisation as one of the world's most important pollutants, comprehensive strategies to address its impact on the marine environment have only been developed in the last decade.
After analysing international legislation on the subject, the team believes that this type of pollution "needs to be addressed in a single but integrated approach" because even if the activities are authorised, their effects can be difficult to reverse. In their view, "the law must deal with the protection of the environment in a comprehensive manner" and develop a model of protection that includes administrative sanctions, but also criminal sanctions in very serious cases.
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- Universitat Jaume I