Tag: Diagnostics

October 18, 2019

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed a new cheap method that can identify highly heterogeneous tumors that tend to be very aggressive, and therefore need to be treated more aggressively. The technique is presented in the scientific journal […]

July 31, 2019

An international collaborative led by Ludwig Cancer Research and Cancer Research UK has identified key areas that are central to uncovering the complex relationship between nutrition and cancer. Advancing research on these core areas using a holistic, cross-disciplinary approach could […]

September 10, 2018

Half of over-65s suffer from dizziness and problems with balance. But some tests to identify the causes of such problems are painful and can risk hearing damage. Now, researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a new testing […]

July 5, 2018

Organ-on-a-chip systems are emerging rapidly: they will be capable of mimicking the functionality of an entire organ, by using just a tiny part of it on a microchip with fluid channels. Researchers of the University of Twente already booked good […]

January 9, 2018

Roche has signed a strategic collaboration with GE Healthcare to co-develop and co-market digital clinical decision support solutions to improve treatment for oncology and critical care patients. The long-term partnership will use advanced analytics to develop a digital platform for […]

December 15, 2017

Five years ago, Companion DX Reference Lab hoped to cash in on cutting-edge genetic tests paid for by Medicare. The Houston lab marketed a test to assess how a person’s genes affect tolerance for drugs such as opiates used to […]

October 31, 2017

UCLA researchers have identified four biomarkers that could help doctors diagnose brain trauma and concussions through a simple blood test. The biomarkers are proteins, from brain cells called astrocytes, which are released instantly into the bloodstream when astrocytes’ outer membranes […]

September 14, 2017

Applications include sepsis, antibiotic resistant infections, flu and cancer DNAe, the inventor of next generation semiconductor DNA sequencing technology and developer of a new, game-changing test for bloodstream infections, announces that its CBO, Nick McCooke presented an update on its […]

August 8, 2017

What was once the stuff of science fiction is now becoming a reality: entire organs may soon be “healed” by simply touching a small chip. A team of researchers from the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Ohio State’s […]

February 28, 2017

At the Waseda University in Japan, researchers have come up with a new, cheaper way of producing electronic devices that are flexible, elastic, and adhere to the skin. This development may help body monitoring electronic skin patches that interface with […]

December 2, 2016

Researchers from Purdue University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Oklahoma State University have developed an electronic patch that is extremely pliable and can be applied to the skin at just about any location and remain there without causing discomfort. […]

November 30, 2016

A new study looking at deaths from cancer, cardiovascular disease and all causes suggests that an inflammatory marker detected in blood tests in middle-aged adults can better predict the risk of death compared with another similar biomarker. The study is […]

November 17, 2016

Beyond Verbal, a company that provides voice analysis software, has announced that its algorithms were used successfully to help detect the presence of coronary artery disease (CAD) in a group of patients. Results of a study conducted at the Mayo […]

October 18, 2016

In people over 50 years of age, fractures are so common that for example one in three women will suffer a wrist, ankle or hip fracture during their life. Low-energy fractures caused by bone weakening are one manifestation of osteoporosis. […]

August 30, 2016

A European scientific collaboration headed by scientists at ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona, Spain, has produced a small microscope that can help to quickly identify bacterial pathogens and presence of certain biomarker proteins. While the potential of this […]

August 11, 2016

Mayo Clinic has launched a new type of blood test that will be used to predict adverse cardiovascular events in patients with progressing coronary artery disease (CAD). The test measures blood concentrations of plasma ceramides, a class of lipids that […]

July 28, 2016

New research suggests that an electroencephalogram (EEG) could be a strong indicator of the level of awareness of patients in a vegetative state after a severe brain injury. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has repeatedly shown that a significant minority […]

May 10, 2016

At Massachusetts General Hospital researchers have been working on a point-of-care device for diagnosing bacterial infections in hospitalized patients. Currently healthcare-associated infections are identified following the appearance of symptoms, and frequently require slow the incubation of bacterial colonies before using traditional genetic testing […]

April 30, 2015

Patients with traumatic brain injuries are not benefiting from recent advances in cognitive neuroscience research – and they should be, scientists report in a special issue of Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. Those who treat brain-injured patients rarely make use […]