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Ancient footprints reveal two hominin species coexisting 1.5 million years ago

More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake Turkana in Kenya, two completely different species of hominins may have passed each other as they scavenged for food.

28 Nov 2024

Nanoscale cellular interactions unveiled by the SoTILT3D imaging platform

A team of researchers led by Anna-Karin Gustavsson at Rice University has developed an innovative imaging platform that promises to improve our understanding of cellular structures at the nanoscale.

27 Nov 2024

CrestOptics and Tomocube partner to advance 3D imaging with new multimodal imaging platform

CrestOptics S.p.A., a manufacturer of high-end microscopy solutions and advanced systems for fluorescence microscopy, and Tomocube, a leader in holotomography (HT) technology, today announced a strategic collaboration to provide a next-generation multimodal imaging platform, the HT-X1™ Plus

From CrestOptics 25 Nov 2024

Could medical imaging innovation be the catalyst for precision medicine?

Precision medicine leverages genetic and lifestyle data to customize treatments, enhancing healthcare efficiency and patient outcomes in disease management.

24 Nov 2024

UVA researchers discover how blood pressure medications affect kidneys

University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have discovered how long-term treatment of high blood pressure with commonly prescribed drugs can destroy the kidney's ability to filter and purify blood.

21 Nov 2024

Study links heart shape to genetic risk of cardiovascular diseases

A new multi-national study has revealed that the shape of the heart is influenced in part by genetics and may help predict the risk of cardiovascular diseases.

14 Nov 2024

New wearable device provides immersive sensory feedback on the skin

A Northwestern University-led team of engineers has developed a new type of wearable device that stimulates skin to deliver various complex sensations.

6 Nov 2024

Researchers create first single cell atlas of prenatal human skin

For the first time, researchers have created a single cell atlas of prenatal human skin to understand how skin forms, and what goes wrong in disease.

18 Oct 2024

New imaging technology enhances real-time observation of living organoids

Organoids, which are 3D miniature organs that mimic the structure and function of human organs, play an essential role in disease research and drug development.

15 Oct 2024

Innovative tissue expansion technique transforms conventional microscopy capabilities

A classical way to image nanoscale structures in cells is with high-powered, expensive super-resolution microscopes. As an alternative, MIT researchers have developed a way to expand tissue before imaging it - a technique that allows them to achieve nanoscale resolution with a conventional light microscope.

12 Oct 2024

Revolutionary hand-held scanner enhances 3D imaging for early disease diagnosis

A new hand-held scanner developed by UCL researchers can generate highly detailed 3D photoacoustic images in just seconds, paving the way for their use in a clinical setting for the first time and offering the potential for earlier disease diagnosis.

30 Sep 2024

New 3D imaging tool offers accurate assessment of metabolic health

Mayo Clinic researchers are using artificial intelligence (AI) with an advanced 3D body-volume scanner – originally developed for the clothing industry – to help doctors predict metabolic syndrome risk and severity.

22 Aug 2024

Revolutionising organoid manufacturing: Monmouth Scientific Class 2 Biological Safety Cabinets enhance sterility and efficiency at Molecular Devices' new Life Science facility.

Global life science and 3D biology pioneers Molecular Devices has launched a groundbreaking facility in Cardiff, dedicated to research, development and industrial-scale manufacture of organoids.

From Monmouth Scientific 14 Aug 2024

Revolutionary 3D imaging model enhances IVF blastocyst selection

Innovative research, presented today at the ESHRE 40th Annual Meeting in Amsterdam, has introduced a novel 3D imaging model designed to identify features of blastocysts – the early stage of development for an implanted embryo – associated with successful pregnancies.

8 Jul 2024

Synthetic cell mimics immune response via symmetry breaking

In a feat aimed at understanding how cells move and creating new ways to shuttle drugs through the body, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have built a minimal synthetic cell that follows an external chemical cue and demonstrates a governing principle of biology called "symmetry breaking."

12 Jun 2024

Unveiling pancreatic mysteries: 3D imaging redefines islet cell distribution

Researchers at Umeå University have succeeded in imaging an entire human organ, a pancreas, in microscopic resolution.

22 Apr 2024

IVUS guidance improves angioplasty success rates in patients with peripheral artery disease

One-year success rates from angioplasty procedures to open clogged arteries in the legs were significantly higher among patients whose procedures were guided by intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) alongside angiography compared with those whose procedures were guided by angiography alone, in a study presented at the American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific Session.

8 Apr 2024

Virtual brain bank creates a powerful resource for research on epilepsy, brain tumors

A new virtual brain bank spanning five Chicago academic medical centers and led by University of Illinois Chicago will create a powerful new resource for clinical care and research on epilepsy, brain tumors and neurological disorders.

6 Nov 2023

Shaping the Future of Therapeutics with 3D Imaging Mass Cytometry

In this interview conducted at SLAS EU 2023 in Brussels, Belgium, we spoke to Laura Kuett, a Ph.D. student in Systems Biology, about the promise of 3D Imaging Mass Cytometry.

17 Oct 2023

Henry Ford Health performs first K-Clip procedure in the U.S. to treat severe tricuspid regurgitation

A team of interventional cardiologists from Henry Ford Health's Center for Structural Heart Disease recently became the first in the United States and the Western Hemisphere to repair a heart valve with severe tricuspid regurgitation in a patient using the investigational K-Clip™ Transvascular Tricuspid Repair System.

14 Sep 2023