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Wyss-designed Swabs Enter Human Trials for COVID-19
New low-cost nasopharyngeal swabs can be manufactured quickly to address the international shortage of swabs for testing and research.
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Smart Contact Lenses for Diabetes Monitoring
Recently, a research team at POSTECH developed wirelessly driven "smart contact lens" technology that can detect diabetes and further treat diabetic retinopathy just by wearing them.
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New Biomarker Distinguishes Early-stage Multiple Sclerosis From Similar Disorders
Researchers have developed a technique to diagnose early-stage multiple sclerosis, a disease of the central nervous system, and distinguish it from neuromyelitis optica, a rare yet severe autoimmune inflammatory process also affecting the central nervous system.
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New Alzheimer's Disease Blood Test Developed
A new blood test for Alzheimer's disease has been developed under the leadership of researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The method is based on measuring a specific variant of tau protein in ordinary blood samples, which makes the test relatively simple and cheap to perform.
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Wastewater Monitoring Gives Vital Clues About SARS-CoV-2 Spread
A new approach to monitoring SARS-CoV-2, known as wastewater-based epidemiology, mines sewage samples for vital clues about human health. It can potentially identify levels of coronavirus infection at both a local and global scale.
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New Heart Attack Testing Protocol Expedites Treatment in ER
A new protocol using highly sensitive blood tests to determine whether someone is having a heart attack could help to reduce wait times and overcrowding in emergency departments.
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Why Are So Many Football Players Receiving Inappropriate CTE Diagnoses?
A survey of former NFL players has revealed that some say they have received a CTE diagnosis, raising questions about diagnoses of degenerative brain disease.
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A New Biosensor for SARS-CoV-2 Detection
Researchers have succeeded in developing a novel sensor that could be used to measure the concentration of the novel virus in the environment.
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New Method Enables the Early Detection of Sepsis
Researchers have developed a ground-breaking method that uses biomarkers to detect sepsis two to three days before the first clinical symptoms appear.
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High-throughput Method Yields Libraries of Probes for Tetramer Assays
Researchers have developed a method to create libraries of probes for high-throughput, large-scale assessments of T cell repertoires in blood samples.
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