A research team at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and Harvard Medical School reports a new kind of genome analysis that could identify large fractions of the population who have a much higher risk of developing serious common diseases, including coronary artery disease, breast cancer, or type 2 diabetes. … Read more
Until now, some tests for predicting premature birth were available but they tended to work only in women at high risk and were accurate only about 20 percent of the time. The test measures the activity of maternal, placental and foetal genes, assessing levels of cell-free RNA, which are messenger molecules that carry the body’s … Read more
Epileptic seizures strike with little warning and nearly one third of people living with epilepsy are resistant to treatment that controls these attacks. More than 65 million people worldwide are living with epilepsy. “We are on track to develop an affordable, portable and non-surgical device that will give reliable prediction of seizures for people living … Read more
The apparatus consisting of a stethoscope and a microphone has to be wrapped around the abdomen. The stethoscope will listen to the intestinal sounds while the microphone will amplify it and send it to a smartphone, which will record these sounds. “Using a pre-trained machine learning classifier, the sounds will be classified as either a … Read more
