POSTS TAGGED AS melanoma

Skin Cancer Detecting Robot

Demascope to detect melanona
Last year, Stanford researchers reported on an artificial intelligence technology called a “convoluted neural network” to screen images [MORE]

Barcoding and Tracking T-Cells in Immunotherapy

T-Cell (orange) in Blood
In adoptive T-cell therapy for cancer, T-cells are isolated from the patient’s blood, and then grown up [MORE]

Gold Nanoparticles that Deliver Radiation

Antisenseoligonucleotide
Gold nanoparticles are not new to biomedicine; Michael Faraday described their synthesis in 1857. Nor is their preferential accumulation in [MORE]

Interesting Thermal Camera for a Smartphone

Seek Thermal Camera
This YouTube video is borderline goofy, but it refers to a $200 thermal camera (from Thermal.com) which can [MORE]

Sniffing Out Melanoma

Melanocyte
For nearly fifty years, the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia has pioneered much in the molecular biology of [MORE]

Color Sensing for Skin Diseases

Mazet Color Analysis
MAZeT GmbH (Erfurt, Germany) makes a multi-spectral color sensor that can be used (and may already be [MORE]

“MoleMate” Handheld Dermatology Device

Skin Diagram
Earlier this fall, the US FDA approved a hand held siascopy device, made by the Canadian firm MedX [MORE]

3D Skin Monitoring to Detect Melanoma

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

Spotting Melanomas with a Cellphone

Health Discovery Corporation (Savannah, GA) will soon release a cell-phone based application that forwards a picture of a mole to [MORE]