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New blood test detects more than 50 types of cancer, including at early, more treatable stages

Researchers have developed a simple blood test that can detect over 50 types of cancer, often before signs or symptoms.

31 Mar 2020

Critical care team creates blueprint for emergency operations during COVID-19 epidemic

As patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) flood hospitals, the health care system must not only determine how to redeploy limited resources and staff to care for them but must also make well-calculated decisions to provide other types of critical care.

31 Mar 2020

Editorial challenges U.S. healthcare system to reconsider conventional care for diverticulitis

An editorial challenges physicians and the U.S. healthcare system to reconsider the current "one size fits all" care for diverticulitis and to employ a precision medicine approach to determine which patients should be referred for colonoscopy.

31 Mar 2020

New blood test accurately detects more than 50 types of cancer

Researchers have developed a blood test that could accurately detect up to 50 types of cancers, and some of these detections could be even before the symptoms appear. The test would help physicians detect the origin or the source of cancer within the body explain the researchers from the European Society of Oncology. The study titled, "Sensitive and specific multi-cancer detection and localization using methylation signatures in cell-free DNA," was published in the latest issue of the journal Annals of Oncology.

30 Mar 2020

Unraveling gut-to-brain communication paves way for targeted treatments

Scientists at Flinders University have, for the first time, identified a specific type of sensory nerve ending in the gut and how these may 'talk' to the spinal cord, communicating pain or discomfort to the brain.

30 Mar 2020

New drug shows promise to reverse treatment resistance in advanced multiple myeloma

Researchers at the VU University Medical Center in the Netherlands have tested a new drug in patient samples and mice with multiple myeloma and discovered that it was effective even in advanced disease - a point when many patients currently run out of options.

27 Mar 2020

New handheld, high-resolution medical imaging device has potential for bedside scanning

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore have developed the prototype of a handheld medical imaging device that can produce images down to resolutions of 1 to 2 micrometers.

25 Mar 2020

Consistent guidelines for treating urinary tract infections

They are among the most common ailments for those residing at post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) centers, yet diagnosing and managing urinary tract infections (UTIs) remains a challenging prospect for caregivers at these facilities.

19 Mar 2020

Using 'organs-on-a-chip' to study chronic inflammatory diseases

MIT biological engineers have created a multitissue model that lets them study the relationships between different organs and the immune system, on a specialized microfluidic platform seeded with human cells.

18 Mar 2020

People with a cancer history have increased risk of developing atrial fibrillation

People with a history of cancer have an over two-fold risk of developing atrial fibrillation (AFib), the most common heart rhythm disorder, compared to the general population, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific Session Together with World Congress of Cardiology

18 Mar 2020

SPRK1 enzyme plays role in reorganizing the paternal genome during fertilization

A sperm enters an egg, an embryo develops and eventually a baby is born. But back up a second -- how does the mother's half-genome actually merge with the father's half-genome to form one new human genome?

13 Mar 2020

Bowel cancer on the up in England’s young adults

A new study published in March 2020, in the British Journal of Surgery (BJS), shows that the number of young adults with bowel cancer is rising at an alarming rate in England.

11 Mar 2020

Blood test for microbial DNA could warn of cancer

A new study published in the journal Nature on March 11, 2020, could transform the currently held views on cancer causation and diagnosis. The researchers have come up with a new technique to detect the presence and type of cancer by looking at microbial DNA circulating in the blood of the person being screened.

11 Mar 2020

Microbial DNA in the blood could help identify who has cancer

When Gregory Poore was a freshman in college, his otherwise healthy grandmother was shocked to learn that she had late-stage pancreatic cancer. The condition was diagnosed in late December. She died in January.

11 Mar 2020

Exploiting careless cancer cells to develop new drugs

Could the ability of cancer cells to quickly alter their genome be used as a weapon against malignant tumors? Researchers at Uppsala University have succeeded in developing a substance that has demonstrated promising results in experiments on both animal models and human cancer cells.

11 Mar 2020

New imaging agent illuminates cancerous tumors and surrounding cells

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a new imaging agent that could let doctors identify not only multiple types of tumors but the surrounding normal cells that the cancer takes over and uses as a shield to protect itself from attempts to destroy it.

10 Mar 2020

CRISPR-Cas system can be used to effectively target colitis pathogen

Research at North Carolina State University shows that the CRISPR-Cas system can be used to effectively target and eliminate specific gut bacteria, in this case Clostridioides difficile, the pathogen that causes colitis - a chronic, degenerative disease of the colon.

10 Mar 2020

Colon News and Research

New blood test detects more than 50 types of cancer, including at early, more treatable stages

Critical care team creates blueprint for emergency operations during COVID-19 epidemic

Editorial challenges U.S. healthcare system to reconsider conventional care for diverticulitis

New blood test accurately detects more than 50 types of cancer

Unraveling gut-to-brain communication paves way for targeted treatments

New drug shows promise to reverse treatment resistance in advanced multiple myeloma

New handheld, high-resolution medical imaging device has potential for bedside scanning

Consistent guidelines for treating urinary tract infections

Using 'organs-on-a-chip' to study chronic inflammatory diseases

People with a cancer history have increased risk of developing atrial fibrillation

SPRK1 enzyme plays role in reorganizing the paternal genome during fertilization

Bowel cancer on the up in England’s young adults

Blood test for microbial DNA could warn of cancer

Microbial DNA in the blood could help identify who has cancer

Exploiting careless cancer cells to develop new drugs

New imaging agent illuminates cancerous tumors and surrounding cells

CRISPR-Cas system can be used to effectively target colitis pathogen

NCCN publishes recommendations for assessing quality improvements in cancer care

Study finds dramatic increase in the incidence of bowel cancer among adults under 50

Bacteria may be involved in the development of type 2 diabetes, study shows

Industry Focus eBook - Neurology/Neuroscience - 2nd edition eBook

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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