POSTS TAGGED AS cancer

Implantable, Electronic Drug Dispensing

A research group at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill recently presented their technology for delivering anticancer [MORE]

3D Skin Monitoring to Detect Melanoma

Using a hand-held six light device, researchers at the Machine Vision Laboratory (Bristol Institute of Technology, Bristol, UK) are [MORE]

A Really Smart Biosensor Chip

Protein scientists in Germany and Japan have developed a new biochip that can detect proteins for specific diseases and [MORE]

Rats

The tumor suppressor gene p53 is implicated in most forms of cancer, though the gene itself does not have [MORE]

Nanoparticles Deliver iRNA’s

Cancer researchers and physicians are awaiting clinical outcome data that Mark Davis and colleagues will present at the June [MORE]

Partners for Digital Pathology

Dr. Gerd Binning

Royal Philips Electonics, in the Netherlands, and Munich-based Definiens have signed an agreement to pursue molecular imaging.  [MORE]

Microfluidic Chip and Automated Imaging for Tumor Tracking

Using a microfluidic chip that researchers at Harvard developed three years ago to capture metastatic prostate cells in the [MORE]

Mapping Cancer on Chromosomes

A recent study reported on the importance of DNA copy number variations-both duplications and deletions on chromosomes-in causing cancers.  Indeed, [MORE]

Technology Workshop on Biospecimen Collecting and Banking

Dutch diagnostic company Qiagen will be holding a one day seminar, June 9, 2010, on recent technical advances in [MORE]

Business in Companion Diagnostics

As an indication of things to come, Qiagen (Venlo, The Netherlands) signed an exclusive agreement with Johns Hopkins [MORE]

Tracking Personalized Biomarkers

Residual cancer, after surgery, leaves biomakers in the blood-both protein and DNA.  Protein markers tend to be less specific [MORE]

Biological Differences in Lung Tumor Genomics by Gender and Age

It’s not surprising that in searching for genomic individuality, researchers would find pathway-exhibiting cohorts based on age and gender.  Still, [MORE]

Catheter-Based Imaging

“Cellvizio” is the name of a small microscope that can be inserted into the colon or pancreatic bile duct [MORE]

Self-Administered Chemotherapy

Swiss diagnostic and therapeutic giant, Roche, recently invested more than $181m in Halozyme Therapeutics (San Diego, CA) to develop a [MORE]

“Gene Chip” for Dosing Analysis

Recently, The Pharmacogenomics Journal published a study that John Deeken, at Georgetown University’s Lombardi Cancer Center, carried out [MORE]

IR Endoscope

Professor Huikai Xie, director of the Biophotonics and Microsystems Laboratory at the University of Florida, has developed an endoscope [MORE]

Gastrofish for Colon Cancer

Gastrocor, Inc. (Glen Allen, VA) has developed the first tissue-based fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) diagnostic test for chromosome abnormalities [MORE]

Dr. John Simpson-Angioplasty Pioneer

German physician Andreas Gruentzig invented balloon angioplasty in 1977, but University of Texas physician and bioengineer John Simpson developed the [MORE]

New Biomarker Test for Breast Cancer

Provista Life Sciences (Phoenix, AZ) is now marketing in 41 states a “Biomarker Translation Test” or “BT Test” for breast [MORE]

Minimally Invasive Innovation for Lung Disease

Broncus Technologies (Mountain View, CA) has installed its first “LungPoint” system at the John Lincoln Hospital in Phoenix.  It is [MORE]