Personalized sweat sensor reliably monitors blood glucose without finger pricks
Credit: Adapted from ACS Sensors 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.1c00139 Many people with diabetes endure multiple, painful finger pricks each day to ...
Tag: Diagnostics
UBCO cardiovascular researcher urges women to listen to their hearts
Ignoring medical symptoms can lead to stroke, dementia, early deathCredit: UBCO A UBC Okanagan researcher is urging people to learn ...
With new treatments, PET imaging adds valuable information to brain metastasis monitoring
Credit: Image created by N. Galldiks et al., Research Center Juelich, Juelich, Germany. Reston, VA--For patients with brain metastases, amino ...
Cellphone converts into powerful chemical detector
With only $50 worth of components, an ordinary cellphone transforms into a sophisticated scientific instrument, capable of identifying chemicals, drugs, ...
Harvard University licenses its nasal swab collection technology to Rhinostics
The combined technologies could reduce labor and time required for COVID-19 diagnostic testing 10-fold, and facilitate future diagnostic testing of ...
Towards a treatment for myotonic dystrophy: First 3D model with patient cells
Credit: IBEC Myotonic dystrophy is a hereditary degenerative neuromuscular disease that occurs mainly in adults, affecting about 50,000 people only ...
Landscape study launched to detect liver cancer early in Singapore
Credit: Mole DJ et al. Plos One. 2020;15(12):e0238568 Singapore, 3 May 2021 - A first of its kind cohort study ...
Holographic histopathology enables fast, precise diagnostics
New optical diffraction tomography method increases imaging speed and resolution for improved diagnostics in histopathologyCredit: Hugonnet et al. Histology is ...
World’s first fiber-optic ultrasonic imaging probe for future nanoscale disease diagnostics
Credit: Dr Salvatore La Cavera Scientists at the University of Nottingham have developed an ultrasonic imaging system, which can be ...
Wearable glucose monitors shed light on progression of Type 2 diabetes in Hispanic adults
Study by Sansum Diabetes Research Institute and Rice University points to new directions for improved diabetes careCredit: Image courtesy of ...
Decrease in prostate cancer diagnoses due to pandemic
Credit: Mikael Wallerstedt During the first wave of the corona pandemic, 36 per cent fewer men were diagnosed with prostate ...
Medical textbooks must be rewritten about low blood sugar, urge experts and patients
Professor Henrik Christesen and a mom to two children living with unexplained low blood sugar has united around research in ...
Researchers use AI to detect wrist fractures
Credit: Radiological Society of North America OAK BROOK, Ill. - An automated system that uses artificial intelligence (AI) is effective ...
The first comprehensive single-cell atlas of human teeth
Credit: ZZM/UZH During the last 30 years, medical and dental research has attracted a large number of scientists and practitioners ...
New rapid COVID-19 test the result of university-industry partnership
Innovative platform pairs mass spectrometry with machine learningCredit: UC Davis Health A partnership between UC Davis and Maurice J. Gallagher, ...
New testing strategy can speed up COVID-19 test results for healthcare workers
In The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics investigators share a new methodology for testing pooled samples that maximizes the proportion of ...
VR visualization supports research on molecular networks
A new VR platform enables the display of huge amounts of data. This can be helpful in the study of ...
First clinical trials set for MRI cancer detection
Case Western Reserve University-developed imaging agent for MRI prostate cancer detection gets FDA approval for safety trials, set to begin ...
A “finger phantom” to train treatment of trigger finger using ultrasound guidance
This 3D-printed anatomical finger model is a low-cost ultrasound training tool for procedural guidance in corticosteroid injections.Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ...
Brushing away oral health disparities in America’s rural children
Children living in rural America are less likely to receive preventive dental care than their urban counterparts, according to a ...
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