Researchers have created a portable device that can detect colorectal and prostate cancer more cheaply and quickly than prevailing methods. The team believes the device may be especially helpful in developing countries, which experience higher cancer mortality rates due in part to barriers to medical diagnosis.
Read more …Researchers develop low-cost device that detects cancer in an hour
A new biomedical tool successfully delivers genetic material to edit faulty genes in developing fetal mouse brain cells. This might stop disease progression of genetic-based neurodevelopmental conditions before birth.
Read more …Could a new medical approach fix faulty genes before birth?
Scientists have found individuals in Nigeria are experiencing neurological manifestations of long COVID -- called neuro-long COVID -- such as brain fog, mild cognitive impairment, fatigue, sleep problems, headache, sensations of pins and needles, and muscle pain.
Read more …Nigerians are experiencing neuro-long COVID, research finds