POSTS TAGGED AS Imperial College London

New Technique for Virus Hunting

Six different bioaerosol samplers
“An evaluation of methods and instrumentation used for airborne virus collection concludes that samplers operating cyclone sampling [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]

“Urine fingerprints” of metabolism

Food for your specific metabolism
From Imperial College London: “A newly developed test that measures a number of metabolites in urine [MORE]

A Simple Cancer Urine Test

Urine test for cancer
“Researchers at Imperial College London and MIT have developed a simple cancer urine test based on injected [MORE]

Heart Patches of Living Stem Cells

Heart patch
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Until heart doctors have a successful strategy for injecting stem cells directly into cardiac tissue to repair damage, this [MORE]

Mini-MRI for Knee Injury

Prototype of mini MRI for knee injuries
Besides the bones of the knee joint, there are tendons, the meniscus, and ligaments [MORE]

HIV Testing on a Thumb Drive

USB Stick for HIV Testing
HIV testing today can be as complicated as blood glucose monitoring was in the days before [MORE]

Mimicking Cartilage with Bio-Glass

 
Bioglass is a synthetic material made of silica and a polymer that was first used for treating bone injuries during [MORE]

Speeding up Nanopore Trapping

DNA Threaded Through Nanopipette
Collaborating researchers—chemists at Imperial College London, and electrical and biomedical engineers at the University of Minnesota—have devised [MORE]

Nanoneedles in Regenerative Medicine

Nanoneedles
Researchers at Imperial College London and the Houston Methodist Research Institute have developed a new nano device for delivering nucleic [MORE]

Self-Assembling Nanoparticles that Target Tumors

Self-Assembling Nanoparticles
You’ll have to go to the published study to get the exact details of this piece, but researcher at [MORE]

Bruise Trousers

Bruise Trousers
In developing sporting equipment for Paralympic athletes, a group of engineering students at Imperial College London created lycra trousers [MORE]

“I-Knife” for Surgery

Intellligent Knife
This is a second report in Tagline for an electrosurgical “I-knife” (I=intelligent) that cuts like a bipolar instrument [MORE]

Urine-Gas Test for Gastroesophageal Biomarkers

Infrared Spectroscopy
Using sealed specimen cups and mass spectroscopy, researchers at Imperial College London were able to detect gastroesophageal cancer [MORE]