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An assessment of screening tools for identifying sepsis is pregnancy has revealed that they each have vastly different sensitivities and specificities. The study points to simple interventions that could reduce the number of maternal deaths.

A portable and affordable mobile diagnostic tool detects HIV viruses and monitors its management in resource-limited regions, utilizing a cellphone and nanotechnology.

A new method of selectively binding proteins to nanoparticles has been published. The nanoparticles automatically recognize specific peptides, i.e. small proteins, and enter into highly selective binding with them. Among the model peptides which the researchers examined were amyloids. The researchers hope that the mechanism they have discovered might provide a new approach to treating diseases in which such deposits occur, such as Alzheimer’s disease.

The infectious agent of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) has been found in the eyes of deceased CJD patients, raising concern for eye exams and transplants.

EXPLORER, the world’s first medical imaging scanner that can capture a 3D picture of the whole human body at once, has produced its first scans.

Doctors may one day be able to gauge a patient's risk of dementia with an MRI scan. Using a new technique for analyzing MRI data, researchers were able to predict who would experience cognitive decline with 89 percent accuracy.

Detection of this tumor marker may also play a role in a simple liquid biopsy to monitor disease stage and treatment.

Modern, sophisticated scans should be used in hospitals to pick out men whose prostate cancers have only spread to a limited number of sites, so they can be offered the chance of cure, a new assessment concludes.

A new approach to analyzing cell membrane proteins in situ could revolutionize the way in which we study diseases, such as cancer, metabolic and heart diseases.

A metabolite shuttle, or dialogue, provides a connection between hepatocyte and macrophage cell types in the liver and helps protect against tissue fibrosis.