New non-invasive early screening device could be a game changer for detection of colorectal cancer
The device, developed by Israeli company OutSense, clips onto the toilet and operates automatically, non-invasively, discreetly and without active user intervention. In addition to being 90% accurate in detecting traces of blood in stool — a possible sign of disease — the technology can also detect dehydration and urinary tract infections using multispectral optical sensors. Dr. Tali Treibitz, who heads the Marine Imaging Lab at the Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, is a key member of OutSense’s leadership team. The company hopes to expand trials in Israel and abroad and initiate US Food and Drug Administration approvals by next year. >>READ MORE
A new study reveals an alarming year-over-year spike in anti-Semitic tropes, images and rhetoric on TikTok. “TikTok caters primarily to young, impressionable and naive audiences.
A collaborative study by Drs. Tamar Lotan and Shani Levy (Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences) and Dr. Mickey Kosloff (Department of Human Biology) has discovered surprising evolutionary