POSTS TAGGED AS infectious diseases

Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing for Infectious Diseases

Three Perspectives on Optimizing the Use of Next Generation Sequencing for Infectious Diseases
“One of the central archetypes of clinical practice [MORE]

Parasites Over Eons

Human or Host? Parasites in Human History & Prehistory
This piece isn’t our usual fare, but it is a reminder that [MORE]

Simulated Patients for in silico Clinical Trials

Virtual patients could revolutionize medicine
“According to a new proof-of-concept study published in Nature Communications, clinical studies conducted with simulated participants [MORE]

Nucleic Acid Vaccines

The race for RNA vaccines
Over the past year, reports about the COVID-19 vaccines have, with good reason, dominated the medical [MORE]

Organoids in Infectious Disease Research

Organoid applications
In 2009, Hans Clevers in The Netherlands first reported a method for growing and expanding human adult stem cell-derived [MORE]

Singapore University’s $1 Test for Multiple Diseases

enVision
Human papilloma virus has one hundred subtypes, five of which can cause cervical cancer.  Consequently, a point-of-care microfluidic device that [MORE]

Revenge of the Germs

Staphylococcus_epidermidis
This month marks the centennial of The Great War’s ending. But it also recalls the “Great Influenza” when somewhere between [MORE]

Antibiotics with Light Activated Nanoparticles

CU Boulder Researcher at Boulder at the BioFrontiers Institute
Drug resistance in several pathogenic species have raised alarms and stimulated a [MORE]

SPED: Self-Powered Electrochemical Device, POC Diagnostic

SPED POC Diagnostic Device
A paper-based diagnostic device that detects biomarkers and identifies infectious diseases by electrochemical analysis with reporting by [MORE]

Synthetic Prions

Prion Replication
It remains to be seen if autoimmune diseases are actually responses to self, when it’s at least possible they [MORE]

Medical Nanotech Review

Flexible Electronic Around Hair
Here is a convenient review of nanotech innovations for medicine, including developments in contact lenses, heart [MORE]

Smartphone/Microscope

Smartphone Microscope
With smartphone cameras now having super pixel capacity that was hardly imaginable more than a year or two [MORE]

“Gene Radar” Diagnostic

Nanobiosym Health Gene Radar
Nanobiosym (Boston, MA) has developed a mobile device named “Gene Radar” that can identify genetic [MORE]

Business Perspective on Molecular Diagnostics

Roche, Qiagen, BD, Novartis, Abbott, Hologic, Agilent/Dako, Cepheid, Seimens Healthcare and bioMérieux are the top ten makers of molecular [MORE]