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OU student wins NIH Award for a technique that may help improve pancreatic cancer detection

A University of Oklahoma engineering student has received the rare honor of being awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award from the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health.

17 Mar 2022

Positive oral CT contrast found to be better at detecting malignant deposits in intraabdominal nonsolid organs

According to ARRS' American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), the selection of oral contrast agent and optimization of bowel preparation for oncologic CT could help avoid potentially severe clinical consequences of missed malignant deposits.

16 Mar 2022

Deploying artificial intelligence to prevent delayed and missed care

Medical imaging is one of the most widely used diagnostic tools in health care with providers ordering dozens of imaging studies for their patients every day.

16 Mar 2022

Roche launched world's first COVID-19 PCR test two years ago

In the two years since it launched the world's first commercially available COVID-19 PCR test, Roche Diagnostics UK and Ireland has distributed ten million tests from its base in West Sussex.

From Roche Sequencing and Life Science 16 Mar 2022

Nanoparticle-enhanced phototherapies for cancer treatment

Treating cancer and other diseases with laser light is not currently considered routine in the clinical setting, but new approaches using nanoparticles show some promise in improving existing techniques.

15 Mar 2022

SARS-CoV-2 infection model generated from human tonsil epithelial organoids

Researchers evaluate the feasibility of tonsil epithelial cell-derived organoids as an ex vivo model for studying SARS-CoV-2 infection.

15 Mar 2022

Spray-on technology using customized gold nanoparticles could help treat heart disease

Could a spritz of super-tiny particles of gold and peptides on a damaged heart potentially provide minimally invasive, on-the-spot repair?

15 Mar 2022

One-step ELISA experiments

AMSBIO announces the launch of the QuicKey Pro™ range of ELISA kits – new easy-to-use assays that require just one step of washing, and one step of sample addition, resulting in a whole experiment taking only 90 minutes.

From AMS Biotechnology 15 Mar 2022

‘Foreign body reaction’ to implants can be reduced by incorporating drug into silicone coating

Long-term use of implantable electronic medical devices – such as pacemakers and cochlear implants – is hampered by the body's reaction to foreign bodies.

14 Mar 2022

UNC researchers offer solution to detect, issue warnings about tainted street drugs

With new grant funding, Nabarun Dasgupta '13 (Ph.D.), Gillings Innovation Fellow at the UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health and senior scientist at the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center, will work with colleagues across Carolina to develop systems to detect and issue public warnings about dangerous adulterants in street drugs.

14 Mar 2022

Irradiation of tumors with laser protons tested for the first time

Irradiation with fast protons is a more effective and less invasive cancer treatment than X-rays. However, modern proton therapy requires large particle accelerators, which has experts investigating alternative accelerator concepts, such as laser systems to accelerate protons.

14 Mar 2022

New smartphone app can calculate users’ genetic risk for coronary artery disease

A Scripps Research team developed a smartphone app that can calculate users' genetic risk for coronary artery disease (CAD) - and found that users at high risk sought out appropriate medication after using the app.

14 Mar 2022

Can wearables transform the future of healthcare?

In partnership with SLAS 2022, we spoke to Professor Michael Snyder about his latest research that investigates wearables and their future within healthcare.

From Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) 14 Mar 2022

KTU researchers improve an algorithm that detects Alzheimer's disease from MRI images

Lithuanian researchers from Kaunas University of Technology improved an algorithm that detects Alzheimer's disease from magnetic resonance imaging images.

14 Mar 2022

Efficient inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 on N95 masks by an antimicrobial coating

In a recent study, researchers demonstrate that Goldshield75 coating inactivated SARS-CoV-2 on N95 filters and masks.

14 Mar 2022

Modeling study assesses the effectiveness facemasks before and after COVID-19 vaccination

Scientists simulate different scenarios using facemasks through a computational Monte Carlo simulation model.

14 Mar 2022

AI companion tells stories to aid memory recollection, boost confidence in people with dementia

Researchers at the National Robotarium, hosted by Heriot-Watt University and the University of Edinburgh, are developing an artificial intelligence (AI) companion that will aid memory recollection, boost confidence and combat depression in people living with Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia.

14 Mar 2022

At-home test for influenza is as accurate as rapid diagnostic testing in clinical settings

Home-based, self-administered tests for influenza are comparable in accuracy to rapid diagnostic tests in clinical settings, according to a recently published, peer-reviewed study.

11 Mar 2022

Researchers develop a system of synthetic biosensors to assess the response of cancer therapy

Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) inhibitors have transformed the treatment of cancer and have become the frontline therapy for a broad range of malignancies. It's because they work better than the previous standard of care.

11 Mar 2022

Interdisciplinary researchers team up on $15 million NSF grant to establish an institute in ‘imageomics’

Researchers in three different disciplines at Virginia Tech are partnering in a $15 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish an institute in the new field of "imageomics," aimed at creating a new frontier of biological information using vast stores of existing image data, such as publicly funded digital collections from national centers, field stations, museums, and individual laboratories.

10 Mar 2022

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OU student wins NIH Award for a technique that may help improve pancreatic cancer detection

Positive oral CT contrast found to be better at detecting malignant deposits in intraabdominal nonsolid organs

Deploying artificial intelligence to prevent delayed and missed care

Roche launched world's first COVID-19 PCR test two years ago

Nanoparticle-enhanced phototherapies for cancer treatment

SARS-CoV-2 infection model generated from human tonsil epithelial organoids

Spray-on technology using customized gold nanoparticles could help treat heart disease

One-step ELISA experiments

‘Foreign body reaction’ to implants can be reduced by incorporating drug into silicone coating

UNC researchers offer solution to detect, issue warnings about tainted street drugs

Irradiation of tumors with laser protons tested for the first time

New smartphone app can calculate users’ genetic risk for coronary artery disease

Can wearables transform the future of healthcare?

KTU researchers improve an algorithm that detects Alzheimer's disease from MRI images

Efficient inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 on N95 masks by an antimicrobial coating

Modeling study assesses the effectiveness facemasks before and after COVID-19 vaccination

AI companion tells stories to aid memory recollection, boost confidence in people with dementia

At-home test for influenza is as accurate as rapid diagnostic testing in clinical settings

Researchers develop a system of synthetic biosensors to assess the response of cancer therapy

Interdisciplinary researchers team up on $15 million NSF grant to establish an institute in ‘imageomics’

Redefining control and consistency in anaerobic microbiome workflows

AI in Healthcare: How generative tools are transforming clinical practice

The future of automation: Machine learning–driven hepatocyte and organoid counting

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