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Real-time data from smartphone thermometers can effectively track and predict influenza activity at national and regional levels.When a flu season is more severe than expected—like this year’s—the surge of patients can overwhelm clinics, emergency rooms, and hospitals.An accurate forecast of flu activity could provide advanced warning and help health care systems and public health departments be better prepared.

Current guidelines in the United States and Europe recommend treatment with parenteral prostanoids for severe or rapidly progressing pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).2-4 However, risks and complexities associated with the current intravenous (IV) and subcutaneous (SC) delivery systems limit the acceptance of parenteral therapy. IV delivery via an indwelling central venous catheter is associated with the risk of serious bloodstream infections...

As the month of December draws ever closer, the online excitement is at an all time high for Star Warsfanatics. The latest installment of the Star Wars saga, Star Wars: The Last Jedi is to be released on 15th December.With the internet abuzz about recent trailers,looming figuresappearing in posters and spoilers inbeer glasses, it looks like no one is immune to Star Wars fever, not even cyber-criminals.

A multidisciplinary group that includes the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Washington at Tacoma has developed a novel platform to diagnose infectious disease at the point-of-care, using a smartphone as the detection instrument in conjunction with a test kit in the format of a credit card.

When bacteria enter our body, they kick-start a powerful immune response. But this chain of reactions doesn't fully account for our immediate responses. KU Leuven researchers show that so-called ion channels play a key role as ‘first responders’.When we get a bacterial lung infection, the cells lining our airways are the first line of defence. These cells recognise the lipopolysaccharide molecules typically found on many bacteria, inc...

On August 17, a team of four Carnegie astronomers provided the first-ever glimpse of two neutron stars colliding, opening the door to a new era of astronomy.Along with colleagues at UC Santa Cruz, the team used the Swope telescope at Las Campanas Observatory to discover the light produced by the merger, pinpointing the origin of a gravitational wave signal less than 11 hours after it was detected.

MIT researchers have developed a paper-based test that can diagnose Zika infection within 20 minutes. Unlike existing tests, the new diagnostic does not cross-react with Dengue virus, a close relative of the Zika virus that can produce false positives on many Zika tests.This test could offer an easy-to-use, cheap, and portable diagnostic in countries where Zika and Dengue are both prevalent and the gold-standard test that measures viral RNA in th...

Switched on by tapping a mobile phone key, and producing multicolour lights that flicker to the tune of rock, pop or jazz, this digital-sound-controlled electric bulb called Heelight is catching this premier commercial and trading city by storm.

Engineered strands of DNA — nanoscale tools called “nanoswitches” — could be the key to faster, easier, cheaper and more sensitive tests that can enable high-fidelity detection of biomarkers indicating the presence of different diseases, viral strains and even genetic variabilities as subtle as a single-gene mutation.

Led by a group at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, a collaborative team of scientists have successfully protected nonhuman primates against one of the most deadly viruses in the world, Lassa fever, eight days after they became infected. The findings are now available inNature Medicine.