Studies and Analyses
innovations-report maintains a wealth of in-depth studies and analyses from a variety of subject areas including business and finance, medicine and pharmacology, ecology and the environment, energy, communications and media, transportation, work, family and leisure.
Mitral valve repair: Surgery or interventional treatment?
A leaking mitral valve can be repaired surgically or with catheter-based techniques. A so-called mitral valve prolapse is particularly common, in which part of the valve protrudes (prolapses) into the…
Large-scale study enables new insights into rare eye disorders
EMBL-EBI researchers use UK Biobank data to uncover new information about rare diseases of the eye. Researchers have analysed image and genomic data from the UK Biobank to find insights…
How does the immune system react to altered gravity?
Parabolic flights: a simulated gravity laboratory. Space travel has always tested the human body by the effects of the new conditions of altered gravity on biological systems. It has long…
Locating poor air quality in cities
Thanks to a current study with significant participation of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, the distribution of particulate matter in cities can be calculated more precisely. Within the framework of the United…
Acceleration of global sea level rise
… imminent past 1.8℃ planetary warming. A study published in Nature Communications by an international team of scientists shows that an irreversible loss of the West Antarctic and Greenland ice…
AI improves colorectal cancer screening in Lynch syndrome
First study of AI-assisted colonoscopy for colorectal cancer surveillance in patients with genetic predisposition – People with Lynch syndrome have a higher hereditary risk of colon cancer. Despite regular endoscopic…
