BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG Acquires Metanomics Health GmbH

04-Jan-2018 - BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG announced the acquisition of Metanomics Health GmbH. Metanomics Health is a metabolomics biomarker development and healthcare services specialist based in Berlin, Germany. At the same time, the company is closing a significant financing round to support future growth. ...

Revolutionizing electronics using Kirigami

12-Dec-2017 - A research team in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering and the Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute (EIIRIS) at Toyohashi University of Technology has developed an ultrastretchable bioprobe using Kirigami designs. The Kirigami-based bioprobe ...

Nanoparticles help with malaria diagnosis

New rapid test in development

23-Nov-2017 - Malaria is caused by parasites transmitted by mosquito bite. The most dangerous form of malaria is malaria tropica. Left untreated, it is fatal in most cases. An early diagnosis is vital for the timely and right kind of therapy. There are five different types of parasites at the origin of the ...

Revolutionary imaging technique uses CRISPR to map DNA mutations

22-Nov-2017 - A team of scientists led by Virginia Commonwealth University physicist Jason Reed, Ph.D., have developed new nanomapping technology that could transform the way disease-causing genetic mutations are diagnosed and discovered. Described in a study this novel approach uses high-speed atomic force ...

New imaging technique peers inside living cells

20-Nov-2017 - To undergo high-resolution imaging, cells often must be sliced and diced, dehydrated, painted with toxic stains, or embedded in resin. For cells, the result is certain death. But if researchers can only view the inner workings of dead cells, they're only seeing part of the story. They cannot ...

Hummingbird Diagnostics and Saarland University Collaborate in Early Disease Detection Based on Molecular Markers

16-Nov-2017 - Hummingbird Diagnostics GmbH, specialized in early disease detection using molecular markers derived from blood, and Saarland University agreed on a comprehensive framework agreement regarding an expanded collaboration in the field of molecular diagnostics. The work aims at the validation of ...

Integrated lab-on-a-chip uses smartphone to quickly detect multiple pathogens

20-Oct-2017 - A multidisciplinary group that includes the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Washington at Tacoma has developed a novel platform to diagnose infectious disease at the point-of-care, using a smartphone as the detection instrument in conjunction with a test kit in ...

Opening up a new chapter for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's

29-Sep-2017 - A research team led by DGIST Professor Moon Cheil at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences has identified the reason why the patients with the early stage of Alzheimer's fail to smell. The research team of Professor Moon Cheil conducted a joint research with the research teams led by ...

Holograms for molecules

27-Sep-2017 - Much can be detected in blood or urine: viral illnesses, metabolic disorders or autoimmune diseases can be diagnosed with laboratory tests, for instance. But such examinations often take a few hours and are quite complex, which is why doctors hand the samples over to specialist ...

Kit will identify genetic variations without need for lab analysis

19-Sep-2017 - Scheme Lab, a biotech startup incubated at the Center for Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Technology (CIETEC), in São Paulo, Brazil, is developing genetic tests that can be used anywhere - in factories, on farms, or even at home - without the need for analysis by specialized laboratories. These ...