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No bleeding required: anemia detection via smartphone

Biomedical engineers have developed a smartphone app with the aim of non-invasive detection of anemia. Instead of a blood test, the app uses photos of someone’s fingernails taken on a smartphone to determine whether the level of hemoglobin in their blood seems low. The results were published Tuesday, Dec. 4 by Nature Communications. 

Power & Precision: Proton therapy arrives in Georgia

With the opening of the Emory Proton Therapy Center, a first in Georgia and one of fewer than 30 in the nation, Winship Cancer Institute adds a powerful radiation therapy option to its broad array of cancer-fighting tools.

Experimental treatment helps 2 out of 3 peanut allergy sufferers, study finds

Results from a new study may lead to approval of what could be the first drug that ameliorates potentially deadly reactions in children with severe peanut allergies.

Zika may hijack mother-fetus immunity route

To cross the placenta, Zika virus may hijack the route by which acquired immunity is transferred from mother to fetus, new research suggests.

The results were published online Nov. 14 in Cell Host & Microbe.

Study: Majority of children unable to distinguish real guns from toy guns in comparison photos

A new research study found that a majority of children could not tell the difference between a real gun and a toy gun when presented with comparison photos. 

Marcus Autism Center Director awarded Ruane Prize by Brain and Behavior Research Foundation

The Brain and Behavior Research Foundation has selected Ami Klin, PhD, as the 2018 winner of the Ruane Prize. Klin is director of Marcus Autism Center, an affiliate of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar at Emory University.

Researchers suggest a global alternative for accurate child body measurements

A low-cost, portable, 3D scanner may reliably determine body measurements of young children within one millimeter of gold-standard manual measurements, according to recent research. 

The Marcus Foundation renews support for 15 physician researchers

The Marcus Foundation has announced a new $5 million gift to the Department of Pediatrics in Emory University School of Medicine to renew support for 15 pediatric physician/researchers in the Marcus Society in Pediatrics.