POSTS TAGGED AS molecular diagnostics

Breath Analysis for Diseases

Breathlink System
According to Dr. Raed Dweik at the Cleveland Clinic, “there are clear signatures in the breath for liver [MORE]

Proteomic Analysis of Bone Matrix

Using laser capture micro-dissection and mass spectroscopy, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have been able to determine the proteomic “signatures [MORE]

A New Twist on the Biochemistry of Alzheimer’s Disease

For many years, neuroscientists have focused on the role amyloid beta plays in the plaques and tangles of neurons [MORE]

Aging vs. Immortality

If cancer cells represent a kind of immortality (having lost their inability to die naturally), then it is not [MORE]

Testing Breast Cancer Tests

Breast Cancer Research
In 1955, the National Cancer Institute began organizing oncologists into regional study groups to address specific interests [MORE]

Genomics Coaching, Colon Cancer

A rap against consumer genomics has been the lack of interpreting authority-e.g. what does a 30% increase in risk [MORE]

Cancer Detection in an Hour

One-Hour Cancer Detection
Investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for Systems Biology have used magnetic nanoparticles, with attached protein ligands, [MORE]

Circulating Tumor Cells, Alternative to Biopsy?

Circulating Tumor Cells
Capturing circulating tumor cells not only could be an alternative to taking a biopsy, their detection could hold [MORE]

Cancer Markers In Toenail Tissue

Nicotine accumulates in toenail tissue whether or not the toes belong to a smoker or a nonsmoker who had [MORE]

Magnetic Nanoparticles for Early Cancer Detection

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay diagnostic is the gold-standard for determining cervical cancer, but it is not particularly adept for identifying [MORE]

Scripps’ Study of Personal Genomics

Last year, an FDA report about the superficiality of personalized genomics tests forestalled drug stores selling those kits. Two [MORE]

Problems in Stem Cell Genetics

Stem Cell Errors
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego and the Scripps Research Institute recently made a [MORE]

Celera’s CHD-Risk Diagnostic

On the short arm of Chromosome 6 is a variant of the KIF6 gene (i.e. kinesin-like family protein 6) [MORE]

New Diagnostic for Metabolic Disease in Neonates

Tyrosinemia Type 1, like some other inherited amino acidurias, is a rare disease in most populations, but is treatable [MORE]