A sugar analysis could reveal different types of cancer

In the future, a little saliva may be enough to detect an incipient cancer

15-Dec-2023 - Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have developed an effective way to interpret the changes in sugar molecules that occur in cancer cells. Glycans are a type of sugar molecule structures that is linked to the proteins in our cells. The structure of the glycan determines the function of ...

New blood test gives very high accuracy to screen for Alzheimer’s disease

08-Sep-2023 - A new blood test called p-tau217 shows promise as an Alzheimer's disease biomarker, and when used in a two-step workflow very high accuracy to either identify or exclude brain amyloidosis, the most important and earliest pathology. That is an innovation now presented by researchers at the ...

New tests identify very early changes in Alzheimer's disease before symptoms appear

07-Dec-2020 - Researchers at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, together with their colleagues at the Barcelona Beta Research Centre in Spain, the University Medical Centre in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and the University of Paris, have found new forms of tau protein that become abnormal in the very early ...

Trapping and watching motile cells

A new approach enables rapid characterization of living suspension cells in 4 dimensions

01-Apr-2015 - Optical imaging of highly motile cells or cells in suspension, such as bacterial systems, yeast cells, and immune cells, is a challenging task, in many cases it is just not possible. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), for example, can spread very efficiently from an infected T cell to an ...