POSTS TAGGED AS diagnostics

Medicine in the year 2060

Physicist Michio Kaku predicts how today’s breakthroughs in medicine and healthcare-organ regeneration, nanoparticle drug delivery, implantable robots, “smart” bathrooms, [MORE]

Blood Biomarker for Parkinson’s

Alpha-synuclein is a protein in neural tissue of unknown function, except that its mutations or post translation modifications have [MORE]

Multiplexed Microneedle Biosensor Assay

Research collaborators in North Carolina, New Mexico and California have developed a microneedle biosensor that loads electrochemicals into multiple [MORE]

Breath Test for Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis typically is diagnosed by an expensive MRI scan or an invasive lumbar puncture.  This piece, however, reports [MORE]

Stamping Out Lab Chips

Besides the $1,000 genome sequence, wouldn’t it be nice to have a ten cent medical lab-on-a-chip that could diagnose [MORE]

Schizophrenia’s RNA Expression Pattern

A main aim of genetics in psychiatric epidemiology is to sort out much finer definitions of mental disorders beyond [MORE]

“Watson’s” Debut in Healthcare: 2012

If you saw IBM’s supercomputer, “Watson,” challenge two of “Jeopardy’s” all time winners, you know that the “machine” made [MORE]

Will Qualcomm be First with a “Tricorder?”

Remember “Dr. Bone’s” “tricorder” from Star Trek?  It was a handheld device that scanned a 23rd century person and [MORE]

Trends in Point-of-Care Devices

This perspective piece, from an interview with Tufts University School of Medicine pathology professor James Nichols, describes the cutting [MORE]

Hand-Held Genomics Meter

It doesn’t take much of a leap of faith to imagine a handheld glucose meter-like device used to sense [MORE]

Nutritional Biomarkers

Sooner or later, personalized medicine will encompass the individual’s daily nutritional needs, but that area of investigation probably is [MORE]

Biomarkers in Fingerprints

It is known that residues of nicotine and illegal drugs can be detected in sweaty palms and moist fingers, [MORE]

Single Cell Science

Genomics scientists at the University of British Columbia have developed an integrated microfluidics device that performs cell capture, lysis, [MORE]

Imaging “Invisible” Tooth Decay

Using a small digital camera and Qualitative Light Induced Fluorescence Technology, clinicians and engineers at the University of Liverpool’s [MORE]

Microarray Diagnostic for Cystic Fibrosis

Over 1,500 DNA mutations have been implicated in cystic fibrosis, and as much as 5% of Caucasians have one [MORE]

A Newer Marker, CD49f, for Hematopoietic Stem Cells

The first hematopoietic stem cell isolator-Baxter’s Isolex machine-targeted CD34+ cells with a mouse monoclonal antibody Johns Hopkins University oncologist [MORE]

Microarrays for Autoimmune Diagnosis

Researchers at Sweden’s Lund University recently reported on their use of protein microarrays to differentiate systemic lupus erythematosis from [MORE]

Markers of Depression

Psychiatric disorders amply illustrate that “diseases” are intellectual artifacts which don’t exist naturally; the natural phenomenon is the mentally [MORE]

$10m Prize for Mobile Medical Diagnostics

Last month, the X Prize Foundation (Playa Vista, CA) announced its $10m prize for a portable diagnostic device that [MORE]

“POC” Killer Apps

“Microfluidic-based diagnostic devices are on the brink of supporting decentralized testing,” asserts this report.  But “brink” is not quite there [MORE]