which also has an area of`Biotechnology and Drug Research of Biomedical engineering, Diagnosis and Treatment Equipment.
#Smart Sensor Chip with Nanocavities for Early Prostate Cancer Diagnosis Researchers at the University of Birmingham believe that the novel technology will help improve the process of early stage diagnosis. Glycoprotein molecules,
Problematically for diagnosis, the protein part of glycoproteins does not always change if the body is diseased.
The findings, published in the journal Chemical science, show how the rate of false readings that come with antibody based diagnosis can be reduced by the smart technology that focuses on the carbohydrate part of the molecule.
so there's a clear need for more accurate diagnosis. By focussing on the sugar, we appear to have hit the'sweet spot'for doing just that.
make a diagnosis and suggest treatment. hat kind of information has been unavailable until now, Yoon said. The mouth guard is an improvement over traditional bruxism therapies,
'The problem is that unlike blood, a skin sample or even a tissue biopsy, you can't take a piece of a patient's neural system,
says Professor Sargent. e see this as an effective tool for faster diagnosis and treatment of commonplace bacterial infections.
through proper diagnosis and medical care if it was available. Now, a British team of eye specialists are hoping to attach the diagnostic tools onto an iphone,
Many patients have suffered also from gastrointestinal symptoms before the Parkinson's diagnosis is made.""Patients with Parkinson's disease are constipated often many years before they receive the diagnosis,
which may be an early marker of the link between neurologic and gastroenterologic pathology related to the vagus nerve,"says Elisabeth Svensson.
helping them overcome the problem of wide variation between biopsies, suggests research published today in the journal Nature Genetics.
whereas standard biopsies take individual point samples. Oesophageal cancer is preceded often by Barrett oesophagus, a condition in
At present, Barrett's oesophagus and oesophageal cancer are diagnosed using biopsies which look for signs of dysplasia, the proliferation of abnormal cancer cells.
However, researchers from the University of Cambridge have shown that variations in mutations across the oesophagus mean that standard biopsies may miss cells with important mutations.
If youe taking a biopsy, this relies on your hitting the right spot. Using the Cytosponge appears to remove some of this game of chance.
Researchers concluded that the average age of diagnosis of breast cancer with this gene abnormality was 48 years old,
Roche agreed to support a new BIO-X project run by Karolinska Institutet spin out Liquid Biopsy in cancer diagnostics.
"We can take a biopsy from each patient, grow many new muscles to use as test samples
"The team is already working towards this goal--as well as towards growing the muscle tissue, not from a biopsy,
that make taking muscle biopsies difficult. If we could grow working, testable muscles from induced pluripotent stem cells,
The headphones are set to be used in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions such as meningitis and head trauma injuries
The ultra-high field MRI SCANNERS are around ten times more powerful than current models. hese new machines will allow scientists to make a very early diagnosis of cancer
Potentially in the future it will be useful for clinicians to select treatments and better diagnosis depression. ore precise diagnosis,
Rapid diagnosis of monogenic disease can be critical in newborns, so our initial focus was to create an analysis pipeline that was extremely fast,
The team looked at nerve biopsies taken from the patients to see what had gone wrong and found that particular pain-sensing neurons were absent.
and morphologyre useful mainly for the diagnosis of obvious cases of male infertility. The new test,
This was confirmed by their diagnosis noted the authors of the Science Translational Medicine article. According to Dr. Krawetz, the diagnostic potential of next-generation sequencing of sperm RNA indicates this method is suited"better to the task"of analyzing the male's role in infertility,
The current approach of detecting the cancer through biopsy can be a little hit and miss,
what they claim to be a more accurate tool for early-diagnosis. Billed as"a pill on a string,
Using biopsies to detect the pre-cancer condition is problematic for a couple of reasons. It requires trained scientists to pore over the samples looking for abnormalities,
the biopsy may not really reveal much at all. So Fitzgerald and her team developed a solution they say can provide more accurate results.
"If youe taking a biopsy, this relies on your hitting the right spot, "says Fitzgerald."
"The researchers are hopeful the Cytosponge could replace expensive and invasive endoscopies. Already more than 2, 000 patients have swallowed the device in testing,
the researchers believe it will be particularly handy in needlescopic surgery (also known as micro-laparoscopy). This involves making incisions so tiny that they can be sealed with surgical tape and leave no scar behind.
Like laparoscopy, but on a smaller scale, it is accomplished using tiny surgical instruments that are fed through narrow tubes into the incision,
Starting with skin cells from patient biopsies, scientists transformed them back into stem cells, and from those grew pea-sized,
#Rice Microendoscope Hopes to Make Esophageal Biopsies Thing of Past (VIDEO) At Rice university engineers have been working on making certain biopsies unnecessary by imaging suspected tissues without excising them.
Results of biopsies ordered after a traditional endoscopic imaging were compared with the results from the microendoscope.
These showed that the technology is capable of sparing patients unnecessary biopsies and can be used alongside traditional Lugol chromoendoscopy for diagnosing esophageal squamous cell neoplasia.
Three expert and four novice endoscopists performed white light endoscopy followed by LCE and HRME. All optical images were compared to gold standard of histopathology.
Using a per biopsy analysis, sensitivity of LCE vs. LCE+HRME was 96%vs. 91%(p=0. 0832), specificity 48%vs. 88%(p<0. 001), PPV 22%vs 45%(p
With use of HRME, 136 biopsies (60%;%95%CI: 53-66%)could have been spared, and 55 patients (48%;
38-57%)spared any biopsy y
#Robotic Arm System Senses Quadriplegic Man Intentions for Movement Control Brain-computer interfaces have been used in the past to control prosthetic devices.
#Researchers Unveil Surface Sampling Probe for Intraoperative Biopsies The Oak ridge National Laboratory, known best for nuclear weapons research,
which means the repeated biopsies and MRI scans can make such surgeries last for many hours.
2015the Universitat Politcnica de Valncia is coordinating a European project to develop a device for the quick and early diagnosis of cancer March 7th,
In this study, researchers analyzed prostate tissue biopsies from two cohorts of prostate cancer patients. The first cohort included eight men with non-progressing cancer
2015the Universitat Politcnica de Valncia is coordinating a European project to develop a device for the quick and early diagnosis of cancer March 7th,
2015sensors The Universitat Politcnica de Valncia is coordinating a European project to develop a device for the quick and early diagnosis of cancer March 7th,
2015military The Universitat Politcnica de Valncia is coordinating a European project to develop a device for the quick and early diagnosis of cancer March 7th,
2015the Universitat Politcnica de Valncia is coordinating a European project to develop a device for the quick and early diagnosis of cancer March 7th,
#Nanotechnology identifies brain tumor types through MRI'virtual biopsy'in animal studies: If results are confirmed in humans,
Biomedical researchers at Cedars-Sinai have invented a tiny drug-delivery system that can identify cancer cell types in the brain through"virtual biopsies
With the cancer's molecular makeup identified through this virtual biopsy, researches can load the"delivery system"with cancer-targeting components that specifically attack the molecular structure.
To show that the virtual biopsies could distinguish one cancer cell type from another, the researchers devised what is believed to be a unique method,
"MRI Virtual Biopsy and Treatment of Brain Metastatic tumors with Targeted Nanobioconjugates.""Publication Date (Web: April 23, 2015.
"finding a nanothermometer sensitive enough at this scale is a great step forward in the field of nanotechnology, with applications in biology, chemistry, physics and even in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases
News and information Scientists highlight the importance of nanoscale hybrid materials for noninvasive cancer diagnosis June 24th,
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2015announcements Scientists highlight the importance of nanoscale hybrid materials for noninvasive cancer diagnosis June 24th, 2015physicists fine-tune control of agile exotic materials:
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The studies can be used in the diagnosis, designing and production of anticancer drugs. The research team presented an effective method to detect the four-strand structure of DNA by using biosensors.
the Omnisense nanofluidic chip he is developing is the heart of a device that can assist in the swift and accurate diagnosis of bacterial
said UCSB mechanical engineering professor Sumita Pennathur. t a big step forward in terms of bringing out nanofluidic technology to real biomedical applications of disease diagnosis
#Sensor technology can improve accuracy of prostate cancer diagnosis, research shows Abstract: New research has shown how a smart sensor chip,
and efficiency of prostate cancer diagnosis. Researchers at the University of Birmingham believe that the novel technology will help improve the process of early stage diagnosis. Glycoprotein molecules,
Problematically for diagnosis, the protein part of glycoproteins does not always change if the body is diseased.
The findings, published in the journal Chemical science, show how the rate of false readings that come with antibody based diagnosis can be reduced by the smart technology that focuses on the carbohydrate part of the molecule.
so there's a clear need for more accurate diagnosis. By focussing on the sugar, we appear to have hit the'sweet spot'for doing just that.
builds on his group's earlier sucess using a similar strategy to mark tumors for both diagnosis and precise surgical removal.
"In vitro"diagnosis is based on the presence in physiological fluids (blood and urine, for example) of molecules characteristic for a particular disease.
Because of its noninvasiveness and ease of use, in vitro diagnosis is of great interest. However, in vitro tests are sometimes complex,
For the authors of the research, finding a nanothermometer sensitive enough at this scale is a great step forward in the field of nanotechnology, with applications in biology, chemistry, physics and even in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases s
because equipment to detect these diseases are expensive and so far only the visiting specialist can do this kind of diagnosis. t will help those that
while muscle cells could come from biopsies from large muscles, such as in the thigh.""If you took about 5 grams, the size of a finger,
#Laser'tricorder'can diagnose malaria through the skin It's a weapon that fights malaria a laser scan can give an accurate diagnosis in seconds,
taking only 15 to 20 minutes to give a diagnosis, but they could be simpler.
with less than 4 per cent of people living for five years or more after diagnosis. A major cause of this is that
so early diagnosis is crucial for improving survival rates. Now, researchers have identified a protein that is present in the blood at much higher levels
useful for picking out rare cells needed in a diagnosis. Grover's reservations are echoed by George Whitesides of Harvard university,
these devices can provide a field of view as wide as 120 degrees, a critical factor for endoscopy applications.
Kim studies glioblastoma, a deadly form of brain cancer that each year strikes about 18,000 people in the United states. The average length of survival after diagnosis is 15 months,
When the scientists analyzed human tumor samples, they found that a subset of patients with glioblastomas that had the highest CDC20 levels also had the shortest periods of survival after diagnosis. Kim's lab is exploring methods to block CDC20 in brain tumors,
Currently, diagnosis of Ebola requires a full vial of venous blood to be shipped to a laboratory with a high level of biosafety and staff expertise for testing by real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR).
In this study, the researchers compared the diagnostic accuracy of the new RDT against the benchmark RT-PCR test (altona Diagnostics) being used for clinical diagnosis in the field reference laboratory run by Public health England at Port
and occurs in all sports being able to make the diagnosis quickly and accurately is essential.
The challenge physicians have in identifying concussion is that the diagnosis is often based on self-reported symptoms.
and thus help the physician make a rapid and accurate diagnosis. By tracking eye movements they have been able to quantitatively assess the function of the brain.
Establishing a genetic cause confirms the clinical diagnosis at the molecular level, helps predict the future visual prognosis,
enabling much more accurate diagnosis. The next stage is to test it in the real world. Henggui Zhang, Professor of Biological Physics at The University of Manchester and lead author of the study,
In a large retrospective study of blood samples the researchers showed that the method called a liquid biopsy could accurately distinguish prostate cancer from normal controls without prior knowledge of the genetic signature of the tumors and with over three times the sensitivity of current prostate specific-antigen
Based on the reported data and work in progress I believe the'liquid biopsy'will revolutionize cancer diagnostics
The samples included PSA levels and prostate tissue biopsy grading called the Gleason score. The researchers reported that the technique distinguished prostate cancer from normal controls with 84-percent accuracy and cancer from benign hyperplasia and prostatitis with an accuracy of 91 percent.
and can be followed as a function of time without having to do an invasive tissue biopsy it is called a liquid biopsy.
While researchers around the world are working on their own liquid biopsies Mitchell said the group's technique takes a broader approach.
and liquid biopsies with only one or two mutations will allow cancer cell escape variants to go undetected he said.
Mitchell further predicted that liquid biopsies will quantify immediate tumor responses to therapy y
#New technology focuses diffuse light inside living tissue In the Jan 5 issue of Nature Communications Wang the Gene K. Beare Professor of Biomedical engineering at Washington University in St louis reveals for the first time a new
"Physicians routinely perform biopsies to evaluate concerning findings in the breast, either felt on exam
"However, about three-quarters of these biopsies prove to be benign and are referred to as benign breast disease (BBD)."
"Annually, more than a million American women have a biopsy with a benign finding and are left wondering
"Our new model more accurately classifies a woman's breast cancer risk after a benign biopsy than the BCRAT,
Dr. Degnim and her colleagues studied a cohort of approximately 10,000 women who had benign breast biopsies at Mayo Clinic
The BCRAT significantly underpredicted breast cancer risk after benign biopsy (P. 004), whereas predictions derived from the new model were calibrated appropriately to observed cancers (P. 247)."
versus additional biopsies incurred relative to other supplemental screening options. Recent studies have reported supplemental cancer detection rates of 1. 9 per 1000 women screened with automated whole breast ultrasound
Participants completed diagnostic interviews to assess psychiatric disorder diagnosis and assess childhood adversities including parental loss and childhood abuse and neglect.
"In vitro"diagnosis is based on the presence in physiological fluids (blood and urine, for example) of molecules characteristic for a particular disease.
Because of its noninvasiveness and ease of use, in vitro diagnosis is of great interest. However, in vitro tests are sometimes complex,
I diagnosis. The researchers analyzed the effectiveness of the biomarker by looking at the area under the curve (AUC),
which is still the gold standard in the health care industry for making a definitive diagnosis. Also routinely used today is a newer method for rapidly identifying bacteria based on a DNA-analysis technique called quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qpcr),
"This means the present method can be utilized as a prescreening test for point-of-care bacterial diagnosis for various applications including medicine and food hygiene.""
-which already has a prototype-was to"facilitate the diagnosis of bacterial meningitis using imaging technologies and algorithms."
"Array"We were searching for an alternative to the lumbar puncture (LP), the only existing procedure up until now for its diagnosis,
'With our ongoing studies on the regulation of GLUT1 by phosphorylation, we hope to identify pathways that may improve the diagnosis
diagnosis of these cancers at an early stage can improve survival rates. Doctors diagnose esophageal and gastric cancers by carrying out an endoscopy.
This is a procedure where the inside of the body is examined using a probe with a light source and video camera at the end via the mouth and down the gullet.
However, the procedure is invasive and costs the NHS around £400-£600 per endoscopy. Only two per cent of patients who are referred for an endoscopy by GPS are diagnosed with esophageal or gastric cancer.
The first study, published in the Annals of Surgery was carried out by an international team led by scientists at Imperial College London and clinicians at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
invasive and a diagnosis is made usually at a late stage and often the cancer has spread to other parts of the body.
because it can help diagnose patients with early nonspecific symptoms as well as reduce the number of invasive endoscopies carried out on patients,
Diagnosis at an early stage could give patients more treatment options and ultimately save more lives."
#Liquid biopsy identifies mutations in colorectal cancer undetected in tissue biopsy The results of the trial were twofold:
liquid biopsy effectively unmasked different tumor-related mutations. More specifically, in a subgroup of 41 patients who had received previously anti-EGFR therapy,
Such accurate information is difficult to obtain using tissue biopsy which could, in the absence of this data,
"This is the first large clinical trial to compare liquid versus conventional tissue biopsy data, and the results show the former (BEAMING technology) obtain more data on tumor mutation throughout the course of the disease,
but the genotype obtained at diagnosis can vary after different treatment lines. Therefore, DNA analysis using liquid biopsy has clear advantages over DNA analysis with tissue biopsy
and is rapidly gaining importance and momentum in the oncology field. Liquid biopsy, also known as a blood-based biomarker test, is a fast, simple method for detecting RAS (KRAS and NAS) mutation status in tumors
as it only requires a blood test rather than a tissue biopsy or surgical procedure. Further, it also provides mutation status results in a matter of days,
helping to determine the most specific, targeted treatment in each case. It represents one more important step in realizing the true promise of precision medicine in oncology--the main focus behind research at VHIO which aims to both advance
Although there are still some important questions that will need to be resolved concerning liquid biopsy for example, the possibility that not all tumors release enough DNA into the blood for it to be detected,
the CORRECT study shows that liquid biopsy could become an essential tool in clinical practice.
builds on his group's earlier sucess using a similar strategy to mark tumors for both diagnosis and precise surgical removal.
PCR is used in the early diagnosis of hereditary and infectious diseases, and for analysis of ancient DNA samples of mummies and mammoths.
but other molecules in breast cancers that may guide diagnosis, prognosis, and ultimately drug development and therapy y
This could provide a cheap and reliable diagnosis for all three diseases, that as quick as a home pregnancy test.
but the team are also working on a mobile phone application to aid diagnosis. n app could be very useful for diseases that are mosquito-spread,
and those that make taking muscle biopsies difficult. ursac and Madden started with a small sample of human cells that had progressed already beyond stem cells
Clenbuterol does not harm muscle tissue in rodents at those doses showing the lab-grown muscle was giving a truly human response. ne of our goals is to use this method to provide personalized medicine to patientssaid Bursac. e can take a biopsy from each patient grow many
Bursac#s group is also trying to grow contracting human muscles using induced pluripotent stem cells instead of biopsied cells. here are a some diseases like Duchenne Muscular dystrophy for example that make taking muscle biopsies difficultsaid Bursac. f
which is published by the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians. Many of the diseases affecting the commercial swine industry involve complex syndromes caused by multiple pathogens
In extreme conditions, pain or numbness is perceived by the brain using signals sent by these peripheral nerves. he problem is that unlike blood, a skin sample or even a tissue biopsy,
The team looked at nerve biopsies taken from the patients to see what had gone wrong and found that particular pain-sensing neurons were absent.
which looks for specific protein biomarkers to make a diagnosis . Although the IHC approach provides a high degree of spatial recognition,
rapidity and specificity of our method, there is great potential for our technology to assist surgeons in the detection of cancer from tissue biopsy samples,
have developed a new sensitive technique capable of detecting colorectal cancer in tissue samples a method that could one day be used in clinical settings for the early diagnosis of colorectal cancer.
the average biopsy size required for a colorectal biopsy is about 300 milligrams, says Furst. ith our experimental setup,
which could be taken with a syringe biopsy versus a punch biopsy. So it would be much less invasive.
the Omnisense nanofluidic chip he is developing is the heart of a device that can assist in the swift and accurate diagnosis of bacterial
said UCSB mechanical engineering professor Sumita Pennathur. t a big step forward in terms of bringing out nanofluidic technology to real biomedical applications of disease diagnosis
The new, graphene-based immunosensor could soon lead to a quantum leap in cancer diagnosis. Image credit:
and speed while most current techniques require full vials of blood for an accurate diagnosis,
thus providing earlier diagnosis and prognosis of conditions such as cancer, said Dr. Andreas Holzinger, another researcher involved in the study.
giving the option of more personalised diagnosis and treatment to cancer patients.""It's not ready for prime time yet,
Compared with an estimated cost of $100 for a PCR-based diagnosis Reebov runs just $15 per test. e were surprised by the performance, coauthor Nira Pollock,
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