Wearable sensors mimic skin to help with wound healing process

Researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York, have developed skin-inspired electronics to conform to the skin, allowing for long-term, high-performance, real-time wound monitoring in users. “We eventually hope that these sensors and engineering accomplishments can help advance healthcare applications and provide a better quantitative understanding in disease progression, wound care, general health, fitness monitoring and more,” said Matthew Brown, a PhD student at Binghamton University. Biosensors are analytical devices that combine a biological component with a physiochemical detector to observe and analyze a chemical substance and its reaction…

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Sophie Turner Reveals How Joe Jonas Found Out the Ending of Game of Thrones

Reports have been circling for a few weeks now that Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner revealed how the show ends to her fiancé, Joe Jonas. During her recent appearance on Good Morning America, she revealed exactly how her man got ahold of such precious intel. “Actually, he was on set for most of it, so he kind of figured it out, and then he had to sign an NDA,” Turner said. “He had to have full photo approval on set, his camera was covered up, everything.” When asked if Jonas is good at keeping secrets,…

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Measurement of thoughts during knowledge acquisition

In a recent learning study they were able to show that new conceptual information is stored along spatial dimensions in form of a mental map located in the hippocampus. Together with colleagues from the Donders Institute at Radboud University in Nijmegen, they observed brain activity patterns that support the idea that the neural mechanisms that support navigation in physical space might also be involved in conceptual learning. “We, as humans, are remarkably flexible in the use of our knowledge: For instance we are able to apply what we have learned…

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Exercise helps prevent cartilage damage caused by arthritis

Exercise helps to prevent the degradation of cartilage caused by osteoarthritis, according to a new study from Queen Mary University of London. The researchers show for the first time how mechanical forces experienced by cells in joints during exercise prevent cartilage degradation by suppressing the action of inflammatory molecules which cause osteoarthritis. The study, published in the journal Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, demonstrates the benefits of exercise on the tissues that form our joints and how this is down to tiny hair-like structures called primary cilia found on living cells. During exercise…

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