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Microscopy Technique Could Enable More Informative Biopsies
NewsMIT 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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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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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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Technique Enables Faster Diagnosis of Inherited Nerve Disease
News Jul 12, 2017A modified skin biopsy could help earlier diagnosis of an inherited and progressively fatal nerve disease and seems to offer a clearer view of the disorder’s severity and progression.
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Inflammatory Biomarkers Indicating Brain Injury Identified
News Jul 11, 2017Researchers at the University of Birmingham have identified inflammatory biomarkers which indicate whether the brain has suffered injury. It is hoped that the biomarkers could be used to develop a diagnostic test to rapidly detect brain injury at the scene of an incident.
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A Test to Detect Sepsis in a Single Drop of Blood
News Jul 11, 2017University of Illinois researchers and physicians at Carle Foundation Hospital developed a rapid test for sepsis that counts white blood cells and certain protein markers on their surface to monitor a patient's immune response.
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Single Molecule microRNA Technology Proves Useful for Liver Toxicity Detection
News Jul 10, 2017Breakthrough research published in PLOS ONE demonstrates quantitative, PCR-free detection of microRNA.
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