Building on the success of projects to boost strength by adding motors to conventional knee, hip and ankle braces, a University of Michigan team is exploring how well this approach could work for relieving knee pain from osteoarthritis.

AMHERST, Mass. — Textile wastewater treatment practices inadvertently produce toxic byproducts—including chloroform and bromoform—at alarming levels that pose a clear occupational health hazard and lead to unknown environmental effects downstream. University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have found.

iiCON: the Infection Innovation Consortium has successfully secured funding from COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) to establish a unique pan-European COST Action network with over 70 collaborators from 21 countries and international organisations to harmonise the European response to infectious disease threats.

Topics range from the exploration of extraterrestrial life to the paper applications of the future / Approximately €170 million in funding for the first funding period

A new Cochrane review finds that while some commonly used breast cancer risk models perform reasonably well, none are highly accurate at identifying which women will go on to develop breast cancer.

Researchers from VIB, VUB, and an international network of collaborators have created the most comprehensive single-cell atlas to date of tumor-associated dendritic cells. By integrating data from 14 mouse tumor models and 10 human cancer types, the study provides a detailed, cross-species view of how these key immune cells are organized and altered in cancer. This work, which appeared in Nature Communications, can guide the development of next-generation therapies.