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Acquisition Sees Agilent Gain Powerful NGS IP Portfolio
News Jul 26, 2017Agilent Technologies announces its acquisition of the molecular and sample barcoding portfolios of Population Genetics Technologies.
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Tiny “Tornado” Boosts Performance of Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry
News Jul 25, 2017Known as Dry Ion Localization and Locomotion (DRILL), the new device creates a swirling flow that can separate electrospray droplets depending on their size.
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Protein Discovery Could Lead to Better Diagnosis of Stress
News Jul 25, 2017Researchers have found a protein that is present in people while they are in stressful situations. The discovery could lead to identifying new ways to predict, diagnose and treat stress.
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Potential Barcode Identified for a Form of Alcoholic Liver Disease
News Jul 19, 2017NIAAA-supported researchers have discovered that extracellular vesicles released by liver cells in a mouse model of alcoholic steatohepatitis contain a miRNA signature detectable in the blood.
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Microscopy Technique Could Enable More Informative Biopsies
News Jul 18, 2017MIT and Harvard Medical School researchers have devised a way to image biopsy samples with much higher resolution — an advance that could help doctors develop more accurate and inexpensive diagnostic tests.
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Material From Shellfish Boosts Sensitivity of Diagnostic Tests
News Jul 18, 2017By adding polydopamine at a key step, the sensitivity of diagnostic tests and bioassays can be increased by as many as 100 to 1,000 times.
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Optofluidic Device Detects Tumour Cells in Blood
News Jul 18, 2017A team of researchers has patented a mobile device that can monitor cancer quickly, cheaply, effectively and non-invasively.
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Enterome and Nestlé Health Sciences Launch New Diagnostics Company
News Jul 18, 2017Enterome and Nestlé Health Sciences join to create Microbiome Diagnostics Partners, a company that will enable the development and diagnostics for multiple diseases including inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and liver diseases.
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Miniature Technology, Big Hope for Disease Detection
News Jul 12, 2017Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have described a new sequence of printing steps that are less damaging to bioreceptors than previous approaches.
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Biopolar Biomarkers May Differ Between Men and Women
News Jul 12, 2017Penn State researchers have found that men and women react differently to compounds associated with the immune system's response to bipolar disorder.
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