Traditional Chinese Exercise, or TCE, has been around for ages. It's often used to help people with postmenopausal osteoporosis feel better. But does it really work? Researchers decided to find out by looking at a bunch of studies all at once. This is what they call a meta-analysis. They wanted to g
Ergothioneine, often found in our diet, is a powerful sulfur-containing amino acid with strong anti-oxidant and anti-inflammation properties. It's no surprise that it might help against liver fibrosis, a condition caused by chronic inflammation and oxidative stress. But how exactly does it work? Tha
Neurosurgery has always been a tough field to crack, but it seems like women are facing an extra challenge. Despite strides in gender equality across medicine, neurosurgery is playing catch-up. Let's zoom in on pediatric neurosurgery, often seen as the most welcoming for women. How has the gender ga
The COVID-19 pandemic taught us a lot about how diseases spread indoors. One big lesson was that crowded, poorly ventilated spaces can be hotspots for infection. Most classrooms in the U. S. don't have mechanical ventilation, so they can fill up with tiny virus particles in the air. Scientists used
Imagine you live in a poorer neighborhood. Would that affect your chances of getting prostate cancer? And if you did, would you be more likely to die from it? Scientists looked into this by studying a group of people in North America. They checked two things: how wealthy or poor an area was, and wha
The coronavirus disease, first identified in Wuhan, China, was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization. Older adults and those with underlying health issues, like cancer patients, were considered at higher risk for severe illness and death. Immunodeficiency caused by cancer and i
In October and November 2017, NASA and the Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON) teamed up for the ACEPOL campaign. This event saw six advanced instruments, including four multi-angle polarimeters (MAPs) and two lidars, fly over the western United States on NASA's ER-2 high-altitude aircra
Did you know that prostate cancer surgery can be likened to a game of 'guess the lymph node'? Surgeons often struggle to determine which lymph nodes to remove and which to leave alone. Enter the superhero: multispectral fluorescence imaging. This tech gem can light up the pathways of lymph nodes lik
Imagine you're standing on the beach, looking out at the sea. You spot an oil spill, and your first thought isn't just, "Yikes! " but also, "How much oil is that? " This is where a clever combo of fluorescence spectroscopy and chemometrics comes in. Scientists took two types of emulsified oil and me
You've probably heard about robots playing basketball. But did you know that these robots have trouble recognizing the ball and measuring distances? To fix this, scientists used a combination of robot operating systems and smart algorithms called IBN-YOLOv5s. They added a special module to the algor
