World of Warcraft (WoW), the world's most popular online game (10 million users), has changed the life of a young American with Asperger's syndrome, a particular form of autism. At
PlusWe can no longer ignore the information, it is everywhere: the star molecule of the Vichy laboratories - Stemoxydine - allows the appearance of 1700 new hairs after three months of regular use. For the first time, a brand has succeeded in demonstrating the crucial importance of stem cells in the hair field.
PlusNowadays, almost everyone uses their mobile phone as a camera. The medical profession would be wrong to deprive itself of it. A student at the HES-SO Valais-Wallis, the Swiss University of Applied Sciences, has developed a mobile application that could make the work of the medical profession easier. Recently presented at a
PlusHealth technologies refer to all the technological developments that are essential to biomedical progress, both at the fundamental level (observing and understanding the mechanisms of living organisms) and at the clinical level (transferring knowledge to therapeutic solutions). Four main areas are concerned: imaging, drug development,
PlusA telemonitoring box for heart failure patients is being developed in Nancy. It will make it possible to monitor several cardiac and renal parameters in order to quickly and effectively adapt treatment after initial hospitalization. The objective is to reduce the high rate of death and re-hospitalization that
PlusA consortium comprising Imaxio, the Jenner Institute (University of Oxford, UK), the European Vaccine Initiative and Preclin Biosystems was selected by the FP7 grant programme. The objective of the project is to bring the development of a vaccine against Staphylococcus aureus to a Phase I clinical trial Read More
PlusA cocktail composed of a drop of blood, a swig of water, a dose of DNA and a few particles of gold: this mixture could well change and improve the diagnosis and treatment of certain diseases in the near future. Read More
PlusORA: a patented medical innovation designed to restore the body's balance, resolve and anticipate back pain, neck pain, muscle and joint tension through daily work of the Temporo-Mandibular Joints (TMJ), created by Bogumila Cyrulik, Doctor of Science in Human Biomechanics. Read More
PlusScientists in Ontario seek to unravel the mystery of childhood brain cancer A scientist from Ottawa, Canada, has just been awarded a grant to study, for the first time, a specific gene that may be linked to childhood cancer. This study could provide insights into
PlusThe ubiquity of the automobile and its trends converging with those of digital health are giving rise to promising alliances. Read More
PlusCurie-Cancer and Vygon sign a partnership agreement for the development of innovative medical devices. Within the framework of this multi-year partnership, Curie-Cancer and Vygon develop catheters and implantable chambers more resistant to nosocomial infections for international marketing. Read More
PlusIncreased pre-operative comfort, better view of the surgical field, greater precision... Robots in medical engineering are today able to provide important services to the medical profession, but also to ensure better patient care. The main objective of medical robotics is therefore to assist the medical gesture for an improvement in the quality of care.
PlusIn January 2005, Laurence Summers, President of the prestigious American University of Harvard, declared that "the low number of women in scientific disciplines is due to their innate inability to succeed in these fields"! The statement caused a scandal in academic, feminist and scientific circles. The mainstream press
PlusAt the beginning of 2013, the sixth Netexplo Forum was held at the Palais de l'Unesco in Paris, inviting ten prize-winners-inventors to present their creations. This year, the jury of around 15 experts awarded a digital tattoo. It was "Electronic Tattoos", an electronic tattoo developed by Lu Nanshu, a Chinese scientist who was accompanied by her husband, a Chinese scientist.
PlusWe are immersed in a digital world. This is profoundly transforming our lifestyles, our relationships with others, our relationship to knowledge. New questions are emerging, on the societal, economic, technological and legal levels. At the end of 2012, in the prestigious hemicycle of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council, business stakeholders,
PlusHow do social networks shape our eating practices? On Friday 14 December, the results of the ANR research project "Anamia" on anorexia and bulimia - "ana" and "mia" in Internet jargon - were unveiled at the BnF (Paris), during
PlusIn an article published by PLoS ONE, a French team comprising members of two joint research units (Laboratoire Evolution et diversité biologique - EDB, (CNRS/Univ Toulouse3/Ecole nationale formation agronomique) and Laboratoire d'écologie fonctionnelle et environnement - ECOLAB (CNRS/Univ Toulouse3/ INP Toulouse/ INRA) report an unprecedented predation behaviour
PlusTo make a smartphone, you have to extract rare metals from about a ton of earth. Mobile phones, flat screens, satellites: in the high-tech world, they are everywhere - yet they are called "rare earths": metals with very special properties. For the high-tech industry, the
PlusPublished November 29 in the science journal ScienceXpress, three articles analyzing data collected by the NASA Messenger spacecraft confirmed the long-standing hypothesis that water may be present on Mercury in the form of ice. Read More
PlusWatchFrog, headed by Gregory Lemkine and based at Genopole®, has just won, with its partners, the AAP Eco-industries 2012 call for projects from the French Ministries of Productive Recovery and the Environment to create effluent monitoring stations, a real innovation in the hospital world. Read More
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