At-home melanoma testing with skin patch test
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Melanoma testing could one day be done at home with a skin patch and test strip with two lines, similar to COVID-19 home tests, according to University of Michigan researchers.
A new research article published in the Journal of Participatory Medicine unveils how successive waves of digital technology innovation have empowered patients, fostering a more collaborative and responsive health care system. The paper, titled "From Internet to Artificial Intelligence (Al) Bots: Symbiotic Evolutions of Digital Technologies and e-Patients," explores the symbiotic evolution of digital health tools and the increasingly engaged e-patient.
A groundbreaking study by researchers at Zhengzhou University reveals a computational framework to identify key inflammatory genes and drug candidates for abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA). Using single-cell RNA sequencing and molecular docking, the team pinpointed SLC2A3 as a critical target and DB08213 as a promising therapeutic compound.