Researchers create nano-bot to probe inside human cells

15-Mar-2019 - University of Toronto Engineering researchers have built a set of magnetic 'tweezers' that can position a nano-scale bead inside a human cell in three dimensions with unprecedented precision. The nano-bot has already been used to study the properties of cancer cells, and could point the way ...

First-hand expertise at the biggest ever analytica Vietnam

14-Feb-2019 - analytica Vietnam 2019 in Ho Chi Minh City will be celebrating not just its tenth anniversary but also its biggest trade fair event yet. Approximately 130 exhibitors from 15 countries will be on show in the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center (SECC) from April 3 to 5, 2019. The exhibition ...

Aspirin cuts heart attack risk but increases chance of dangerous bleeding

24-Jan-2019 - Regular aspirin should not be recommended for preventing heart attack and stroke in people without cardiovascular disease. The researchers, from Imperial’s National Heart and Lung Institute and King's College London, analysed 13 clinical trials – involving more than 164,000 participants – that ...

Antibodies to a retina protein to be used as a kidney cancer marker

Suggestion of new method for diagnosing kidney cancer

22-Jan-2019 - Sechenov University together with their German colleagues suggest a new highly sensitive, quick, and pain-free method for diagnosing kidney cancer. This method is based on measuring of the immune response to arrestin-1, a retina protein that is synthesized in the cancerous cells of ...

Researchers lay foundation for smart contrast medium

Breakthrough in groundbreaking features in medical imaging

14-Dec-2018 - Under the leadership of TU Graz, an international research team has developed a contrast medium concept for MRI, promising unprecedented features in medical imaging. Molecular imaging techniques are playing an increasingly important role in medical diagnostics and developing new treatment ...

Classifying Alzheimer's patients in 6 subgroups

"Alzheimer's, like breast cancer, is not one disease" - Shubhabrata Mukherjee

06-Dec-2018 - Researchers studying Alzheimer's disease have created an approach to classify patients with Alzheimer's disease, a finding that may open the door for personalized treatments. "Alzheimer's, like breast cancer, is not one disease," said lead author Shubhabrata Mukherjee, research assistant ...

More sensitive MRI diagnostics thanks to innovative “elastic” contrast media

04-Dec-2018 - Researchers from the Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) have found a new method for obtaining high-quality images in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), that requires less contrast medium compared to current methods. It is made possible by using an “elastic” protein ...

Nano-scale process may speed arrival of cheaper hi-tech products

12-Nov-2018 - An inexpensive way to make products incorporating nanoparticles - such as high-performance energy devices or sophisticated diagnostic tests - has been developed by researchers. The process could speed the commercial development of devices, materials and technologies that exploit the physical ...

Half a needle in a haystack

New method rapidly detects trace amounts of small molecule compounds

07-Nov-2018 - Russian researchers from Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences(GPIRAS) and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology(MIPT) have developed the world’s first ultrasensitive method for rapid detection of small molecules. This method detects trace amounts of ...

analytica Vietnam records exhibitor rush

29-Oct-2018 - About half a year before the start of analytica Vietnam, the trade fair for laboratory technology, analysis, biotechnology and diagnostics in Ho Chi Minh City is in greater demand than ever before. Now, by the end of Octo-ber, about 60 percent more exhibitors than in the same period of 2016 have ...