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New grant aims to develop digital tools for assessing patients with cardiovascular disease

A new grant will fund an international collaboration to develop tools to assess patients who suffer from cardiovascular disease.

15 Apr 2020

High-resolution imaging with elastography could accurately spot breast cancer in surgical margins

A high-resolution, three-dimensional imaging technique, when combined with quantitative measurement of tissue elasticity, could accurately detect cancer within the resected margins of surgical specimens taken from patients undergoing breast-conserving surgery.

15 Apr 2020

Research project to develop new high-precision radiology system for COVID-19

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid is participating in a research project together with the Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, the Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos and the company Sedecal Molecular Imaging, project coordinator, to develop a new high-precision radiology system for coronavirus pulmonary involvement.

15 Apr 2020

Real-time imaging reveals how infiltrating glioma cells alter brain function, blood flow

The first sign of trouble for a patient with a growing brain tumor is often a seizure. Such seizures have long been considered a side effect of the tumor.

15 Apr 2020

Study shows possible way to effectively deliver RNA drugs to tumors

In recent years, RNA molecules, with the ability to affect or turn off pathogenic genes, have become promising drug candidates in several areas.

15 Apr 2020

UMass Amherst scientists prepare chemical solution for COVID-19 diagnostic tests

Answering an urgent call for assistance from regional health care systems, a volunteer team of scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is preparing, testing and delivering thousands of vials of viral transport media, a chemical solution needed for COVID-19 diagnostic testing.

15 Apr 2020

New 3D imaging technique helps researchers watch neural activity in real time

Our ability to study networks within the nervous system has been limited by the tools available to observe large volumes of cells at once.

13 Apr 2020

New technique for imaging proteins in 3D

A team of scientists including researchers at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II)--a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility at DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory--have demonstrated a new technique for imaging proteins in 3-D with nanoscale resolution.

13 Apr 2020

Stanford scientists find gene variant that staves off Alzheimer's in some people

Stanford Medicine researchers have found a gene variant that protects carriers of another gene variant, ApoE4, from developing Alzheimer’s disease — the first demonstration of that beneficial effect.

13 Apr 2020

Tiny sensors reveal how oxygen transfer is altered in diseased lung tissue

A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has developed tiny sensors that measure oxygen transport in bovine lung tissue.

10 Apr 2020

Mechanical ventilators based on a simple modification of CPAP and BiPAP machines

As hospitals in New York City and beyond are facing a shortage of mechanical ventilators for COVID-19 patients in critical care, many are turning to readily available CPAP and BiPAP machines as a measure.

10 Apr 2020

Hinge Therapeutics and TUT collaborate to advance drug discovery by ion imaging

Hinge Therapeutics is an early-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing small-molecule therapeutics against traditionally undruggable/challenging targets for unmet medical needs.

9 Apr 2020

Purdue technology may help surgeons better map out tumors in the body

A new tool for medical professionals may help shed more light on tumors in the body and how the brain operates.

9 Apr 2020

New guidance on treating COVID-19 patients with heart attack signs

Much remains unknown about COVID-19, but many studies already have indicated that people with cardiovascular disease are at greater risk of COVID-19.

9 Apr 2020

Self-powered X-ray detector to revolutionize imaging for medicine, security and research

A new X-ray detector prototype could revolutionize medical imaging due to its dramatic reduction in radiation exposure.

9 Apr 2020

Structural protein may be new target for diagnosis, treatment of depression

Scientists have zeroed in on a structural protein as a new target for the diagnosis and treatment of depression, according to research recently published in JNeurosci.

9 Apr 2020

Ai used to detect COVID-19 pneumonia

Coronaviruses have 'spilled over' to human populations throughout history, causing respiratory illnesses, often associated with pneumonia. The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), which emerged in 2002 in China, and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), which was first seen in Saudi Arabia in 2012, are similar to the current global pandemic spreading worldwide, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

9 Apr 2020

MBI may give important clues about early stages of dementia

In recent years, scientists have conducted more than 100 clinical trials in the hopes of finding new indicators capable of diagnosing Alzheimer's disease prior to the manifestation of clinical symptoms such as memory loss.

8 Apr 2020

Visualizing 3D microanatomy of human nipple to understand and fight breast cancer

Nipple-sparing mastectomy is gaining ground as a treatment or preventive measure for breast cancer, given the understandable desire among patients to preserve natural appearance as much as possible. But the precise risk of preserving the nipple is not known as the cancer can spread along mammary ducts and to the nipple.

8 Apr 2020

Next-Generation Microscopy Image Analysis with Deep-Learning Technology

Image analysis is a critical part of many life science applications. Analyses that rely on segmentation to extract targets, such as cells and organelles, from the rest of the image are commonplace.

From Evident Corporation - Life Sciences 8 Apr 2020

Imaging News and Research

New grant aims to develop digital tools for assessing patients with cardiovascular disease

High-resolution imaging with elastography could accurately spot breast cancer in surgical margins

Research project to develop new high-precision radiology system for COVID-19

Real-time imaging reveals how infiltrating glioma cells alter brain function, blood flow

Study shows possible way to effectively deliver RNA drugs to tumors

UMass Amherst scientists prepare chemical solution for COVID-19 diagnostic tests

New 3D imaging technique helps researchers watch neural activity in real time

New technique for imaging proteins in 3D

Stanford scientists find gene variant that staves off Alzheimer's in some people

Tiny sensors reveal how oxygen transfer is altered in diseased lung tissue

Mechanical ventilators based on a simple modification of CPAP and BiPAP machines

Hinge Therapeutics and TUT collaborate to advance drug discovery by ion imaging

Purdue technology may help surgeons better map out tumors in the body

New guidance on treating COVID-19 patients with heart attack signs

Self-powered X-ray detector to revolutionize imaging for medicine, security and research

Structural protein may be new target for diagnosis, treatment of depression

Ai used to detect COVID-19 pneumonia

MBI may give important clues about early stages of dementia

Visualizing 3D microanatomy of human nipple to understand and fight breast cancer

Next-Generation Microscopy Image Analysis with Deep-Learning Technology

Leveraging the power of automation to boost research

Automating research - solutions and best practices

How can microdialysis benefit drug development

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