Research Features

Professor Douglas Vetter and his group at the University of Mississippi Medical Center are challenging the status quo of cochlear protection systems in the ear.
https://researchfeatures.com/…/cochlear -hpa-like-signalling/

Quite by chance, Professor Dan Berkowitz, a clinician and scientist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has reignited the discussion of the phenomenon of photorelaxation. Prof Berkowitz and colleagues have described a new mechanism for this activity, with the potential for clinical therapeutic use in hypertension and other diseases.
https://researchfeatures.com/…/lightbul b-moment-vasoregula…/

Dr Giorgio Bonmassar, Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, has developed a method of magnetically stimulating excitable tissues, such as those in the heart and brain, which overcomes many of the limitations of both direct electrical stimulation and transcranial magnetic stimulation.
https://researchfeatures.com/…/focusing -attention-transcra…/

Dr Chen uses sophisticated social network and data mining techniques to mine the vast stores of data held in electronic medical records, identifying patterns representing good practice in the implementation of collaborative patient-centred care.
https://researchfeatures.com/…/using-me dical-records-impro…/

Professor Jianming Hu is based at the Penn State College of Medicine. His work focuses on the hepatitis B virus, specifically how the protein shell or ‘capsid’ of the virus assembles and disassembles.
https://researchfeatures.com/…/hepatiti s-b-the-creation-an…/

Creative goods are highly differentiated and require extensive learning. Growth of their consumption relies upon the ability of creators to surprise and seduce consumers into discovering new pleasures and adopting unfamiliar goods: novelty lies at the heart of the problem.
https://researchfeatures.com/…/the-pref erence-discovery-pr…/

Research conducted by Professor Mats Målqvist of Uppsala University has the potential to save the lives of millions of vulnerable babies from low-income areas using simple, low-cost interventions.
https://researchfeatures.com/…/saving-l ives-vulnerable-bab…/

Prof Dr Christoph Stamm of the School of Engineering at University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) and AOS Technologies AG, a leading manufacturer of high-speed imaging systems, have developed a prototype of a high-speed camera that operates at over 500 frames per second and has high definition resolution video compression.
https://researchfeatures.com/…/developm ent-of-a-high-speed…/

Against animal testing? These researchers have found a novel approach that could avoid having to use live primates for a number of studies.
https://researchfeatures.com/…/macbrain resource-sharing-pr…/

Curing cancer is a difficult problem. Part of this is because cancer cells are very challenging to distinguish from our own healthy living tissue so it is difficult to create therapies that only target the cancerous cells.
https://researchfeatures.com/…/molecula r-probes-diagnosis-…/

Patients with foot drop find it difficult to lift the front part of their foot and toes. It is a debilitating condition, yet current treatments are limited.
https://researchfeatures.com/…/peroneal -tibial-nerve-trans…/

The ANYbotics team based in Zurich, Switzerland, have developed a solution to this problem in the form of ‘ANYmal’; a unique quadrupedal robot that can perform these roles autonomously, carrying sophisticated sensory equipment to any point of interest.
https://researchfeatures.com/…/anymal-u nique-quadruped-rob…/

Professor Curt Beckwith from the The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University heads up a training programme which equips researchers with the tools and skills they need to study the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases in criminal justice system populations.
https://researchfeatures.com/…/bring-hi v-research-to-justi…/

Calorie restriction has been presented as a method of increasing longevity and reducing the effects of ageing on cells. Yet, restricting calories has proven a difficult lifestyle for people to adhere to.
https://researchfeatures.com/…/altering -our-diet-could-hel…/

Dr Casey Theriot is an Assistant Professor at Theriot Lab. Her current work focuses on manipulating the gut microbiota to rationally alter the composition of the bile acid pool in the gut, and restore microbial competition, which has the potential to improve preventative and therapeutic approaches against many human diseases, including Clostridium difficile infection.
https://researchfeatures.com/…/combatin g-c-difficile-infec…/

MagnebotiX AG, formed in 2014 as a spin-off company of the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH Zürich), specialises in developing tools for use in microrobot manipulation in biomedicine and other applications and produces the MFG-100 magnetic field generating system.
https://researchfeatures.com/…/magnebot ix-ag-mfg-100-magne…/

At the time of the American Revolution, women, along with African and Native Americans, were excluded from political participation. However, this did not prevent them from contributing outspokenly through other venues of communication.
https://researchfeatures.com/…/gender-c omedy-american-revo…/

Exploit the untapped hydraulic potential of Switzerland’s drinking water network by developing an in-line turbine to generate electricity with minimal impact on the network, simple installation, low cost of ownership and a small environmental footprint.
https://researchfeatures.com/…/duoturbo -energy-existing-in…/

Professor Hannah Carter, from the UC San Diego School of Medicine, has helped to bring network mapping of protein-protein interactions to the search for precision medicine in the fight against cancer.
https://researchfeatures.com/…/mapping- path-personalised-c…/

To coincide with #InternationalWomensDay2018 we have created a magazine highlighting the incredible work being done by women in science. This special edition will be live on #InternationalWomensDay barrier free for all to read and enjoy. #IWD2018
http://researchfeatures.com/…/research- features-magazine-1…/

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