All posts by PIER MARIA FORNASARI

PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2025-03-15

Robotics and spinal stimulation restore movement in paralysis

Scientists at Neurorestore (EPFL/CHUV/UNIL) have developed an approach that combines rehabilitation robotics with spinal cord stimulation to restore movement in people with spinal cord injuries. The technology enhances rehabilitation and enables activities like cycling and walking outdoors. Spinal cord injuries are life-altering, often leaving individuals with severe mobility impairments. While rehabilitation robotics—devices that guide movement

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2025-03-08

FDA Approves Tenecteplase for Acute Ischemic Stroke

Key Takeaways The FDA has approved tenecteplase (TNKase; Genentech) for the treatment of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) in adults, according to a Genentech announcement.1 The thrombolytic medicine is an intravenous (IV) tissue plasminogen activator that is clot-dissolving, administered as a single 5-second IV bolus. The company noted that it will be providing a 25-mg vial configuration

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2025-03-06

Cultured tissue from nasal cartilage cells helps with complicated knee injuries

Damage to joint cartilage is painful and limits mobility. Researchers at the University of Basel and the University Hospital of Basel are therefore developing cartilage implants from cells from the nasal septum. A recent study shows that a longer maturation time for the cultured cartilage brings a significant improvement even in cases of complicated cartilage

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2025-03-06

Feeling is believing: Bionic hand ‘knows’ what it’s touching and grasps like a human

Pioneering prosthetic hand carefully conforms and adjusts its grasp to avoid damaging or mishandling whatever it holds Key Takeaways Johns Hopkins University engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its grasp to avoid damaging or mishandling whatever

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2025-03-06

Physical Activity may help delay cognitive decline by modulating neurodegeneration and AD-specific tau pathologies: a study reveals

Alzheimer disease (AD), the most common cause of cognitive impairment, is characterized by β-amyloid (Aβ) plaques and tau neurofibrillary tangles, which lead to neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration, and cognitive decline. Among various interventions, physical activity (PA) is widely recommended. Numerous studies suggest that PA not only slows cognitive decline but also improves specific cognitive functions. Potential mechanisms underlying the protective

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2025-02-26

Personalized mRNA vaccine added to standard treatment could offer new hope for pancreatic cancer patients

Adding a personalised mRNA vaccine to plain remedy might supply new hope for pancreatic cancer sufferers, a small but promising study from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The study adopted 16 sufferers, together with Barbara Brigham, who joined the trial after a routine scan found her early-stage pancreatic cancer. Alongside surgical procedure and chemotherapy, sufferers

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2025-02-26

Magnetic microrobots remove blood clot from sheep’s femoral artery

Researchers from the University of Twente’s TechMed Centre and Radboud University Medical Centre removed blood clots using wireless magnetic robots. This innovation could revolutionise the treatment of life-threatening vascular diseases such as thrombosis. Cardiovascular diseases such as thrombosis are a major health problem worldwide. Worldwide, one in four people die each year from conditions caused

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