Unveiling a new era of imaging: Boston University engineers lead breakthrough microscopy techniques

Researchers made significant advancements in the field of vibrational imaging

06-Dec-2023 - When microscopes struggle to pick up faint signals, it’s like trying to spot subtle details in a painting or photograph without your glasses. For researchers, this makes it difficult to catch the small things happening in cells or other materials. In new research, Boston University Moustakas ...

Detecting blood clot risk using biomarkers

17-Mar-2017 - Cancer is one of the hardest medical conditions to overcome, and for those who do so, the battle often does not stop at remission. Many cancers predispose patients to develop blood clots, particularly patients who are diagnosed at a late stage, which often complicates their treatment and reduces ...

Mechanically-driven portable device that extracts nucleic acids from blood to measure HIV viral load

11-Jun-2013 - Research describes the development of a portable device that can extract HIV viral RNA from whole human blood to produce a purified and thermally-stable sample without the use of electric power. The technology has the potential to enable accurate monitoring of patient response to HIV treatment in ...

Detecting tiny twists with a nanomachine

Nanoscale device may reveal spin-dependent fundamental forces and provide new methods of characterizing torque-generating molecules and DNA strands

04-Nov-2008 - Researchers at Boston University working with collaborators in Germany, France and Korea have developed a nanoscale torsion resonator that measures miniscule amounts of twisting or torque in a metallic nanowire. This device, the size of a speck of dust, might enable measurements of the untwisting ...

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008

For the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP

08-Oct-2008 - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2008 jointly to Osamu Shimomura, Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, MA, USA and Boston University Medical School, MA, USA, Martin Chalfie, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA and Roger Y. ...

Researchers use light to detect Alzheimer's

New technique may help identify ways to predict and prevent deadly disease

18-Mar-2008 - A team of researchers in Bedford, Mass. has developed a way of examining brain tissue with near-infrared light to detect signs of Alzheimer's disease. In the March 15 issue of the journal Optics Letters, published by the Optical Society of America, the team describes how they used optical ...

Researchers Discover Gene Believed Responsible for Age-Related Macular Degeneration

14-Mar-2005 - Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (UT Southwestern), and SEQUENOM, Inc. report the discovery of a genetic variation that is the strongest known risk factor associated for age-related macular ...