POSTS TAGGED AS diagnostics

Cortisol in Hair as a Biomarker for Diagnosis

Measuring stress levels by analyzing cortisol in hair
“In a new study out of Linkoping University in Sweden, a team examined [MORE]

Continuous Blood Monitoring

RT-ELISA prototype for blood monitoring
“The innovative new system has been dubbed by the researchers [at Stanford University] Real-time ELISA (RT-ELISA). [MORE]

Hand Held Infrared Spectroscopy Device

Chemist Igor Lednev displays portable Raman spectrometer
“Forensic chemistry is an important area of analytical chemistry. This field has been rapidly [MORE]

Micro-qPCR Chip for Pathogen ID (including SARS CoV)

Silicon based micro qPCR Chip
From bioengineers at Imperial College London: “we report a disposable silicon-based integrated Point-of-Need transducer (TriSilix) for [MORE]

NASA’s Breath Analyzer—Multiple Biomarkers

Jing Li PhD NASA E-Nose Breath Analyzer
“Methane, Hydrazine, Nitrogen dioxide, Hydrazoic acid, Sulfur trioxide, Hydrogen chloride, Formaldehyde, Acetone, Benzene, Chlorine [MORE]

Tear Analysis from a Contact Lens

Biosensor contact lens
“Researchers at the Terasaki Institute in Los Angeles have developed a prototype of a contact lens that can [MORE]

Liquid Biopsy for Cancer, Pros and Cons

Liquid biopsy
“. . .  liquid biopsy entered a new era in August with FDA’s approval of two tests that use [MORE]

Clonal Hematopoiesis Confounding Liquid Biopsy for Prostate Cancer

Cell-free DNA liquid biopsy for prostate cancer
“[University of Washington] scientists found that about half of the mutations that liquid biopsies [MORE]

Measuring Cortisol in Cerumen

Measuring cortisol in cerumen with special cotton swab
Two groups of researchers in London have created and tested a simple tool [MORE]

Nanozymes in Detecting Alzheimer’s

PhD students Lyu and Ding helped develop Alzheimer’s blood test
“The team at [Washington State University] has developed a single-atom nanozyme: [MORE]

The Greatest TED-Med talk to Date

Daniel Kraft-MD
Aerospace physician and futurist Daniel Kraft, MD offers a TED talk in this piece that plays off the idea [MORE]

Highly Accurate AI Test for Prostate Cancer

Prostate cancer
Researchers in Pittsburgh, Tel Aviv and Johannesburg report they have developed “An accurate, robust, and validated AI-based algorithm to [MORE]

Quick Diagnosis of Breast Cancer

CytoPAN – diagnosing breast cancer in less than one hour
Researchers in Boston, Singapore and South Korea have developed a point [MORE]

Detecting Malignant Melanoma in a Urine Test

Myeloma diagnosis with urine tests
“Our goal [biochemists at Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice, Slovakia]was to find a link between [MORE]