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Fast Mobile Testing via Cloud
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[29/01/2013] An innovative lab-on-a-chip checks a patient's HIV status anywhere in the world with just a finger prick. It also synchronizes the results automatically and instantaneously with central health-care records. Fast Mobile Testing via Cloud - Read more
TB Test Promises to Be Cheap and Fast
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[24/05/2012] Biomedical engineers at University of California Davis have developed a microfluidic chip to test for latent tuberculosis. They hope the test will be cheaper, faster and more reliable than current testing for the disease. TB Test Promises to Be Cheap and Fast - Read more
Biochip Measures Glucose in Saliva, Not Blood
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[25/01/2012] Engineers at Brown University have designed a biological device that can measure glucose concentrations in human saliva. The technique could eliminate the need for diabetics to draw blood to check their glucose levels. Biochip Measures Glucose in Saliva, Not Blood - Read more
Recognising Blood Poisoning Quickly
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[02/12/2011] Is the patient suffering from blood poisoning? To answer this question, the doctor draws a blood sample and sends it to a central laboratory for testing. In future, physicians will be able to analyse blood there and then and have the results within twenty minutes. This is made possible by a biochip, developed by scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM. Recognising Blood Poisoning Quickly - Read more
Ultrathin Flexible Brain Implant Offers Unique Look at Seizures
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[18/11/2011] Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have developed a flexible brain implant that could one day be used to treat epileptic seizures. In animal studies, the researchers used the device – a type of electrode array that conforms to the brain's surface – to take an unprecedented look at the brain activity underlying seizures. Ultrathin Flexible Brain Implant Offers Unique Look at Seizures - Read more
Retinal Implant Allows Blind Patients to Recognize Letters and Words
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[03/11/2010] Researchers at the Department for Ophthalmology at the University of Tübingen, Germany, have shown in a study that a light-sensitive chip, implanted beneath the retina, is able to restore meaningful images in blind patients, up to the point of recognizing letters and words. Retinal Implant Allows Blind Patients to Recognize Letters and Words - Read more
Microchip Helps Identify Neurotoxins
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[03/02/2010] Scientists have invented a new analytical method for the rapid neurotoxicity screening. They grow neurons on a microchip and check for substances that inhibit the formation of a network between the cells. Microchip Helps Identify Neurotoxins - Read more
Deep Brain Stimulation against Depression
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[04/11/2009] In deep brain stimulation, doctors specifically target the impaired function of certain areas of the brain with an electric brain pacemaker. Deep Brain Stimulation against Depression - Read more
Magnetic Nanotags Spot Tumors
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[26/10/2009] Searching for biomarkers that can warn of diseases such as cancer while they are still in their earliest stage is likely to become far easier thanks to an innovative biosensor chip developed by Stanford University researchers. Magnetic Nanotags Spot Tumors - Read more
Sensor Biochips May Help
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[22/10/2009] It is very difficult to predict whether a cancer drug will help an individual patient: only about one third of the drugs will work directly in a given patient. Researchers have now developed a new test for cancer drugs. Sensor Biochips May Help - Read more
Chip-based and Mobile
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[13/10/2009] The blood analysis takes just a few minutes: An improved marker-free technique might provide the basis for faster analysis, whether in a hospital or for mobile blood donations. Chip-based and Mobile - Read more
Acoustic Tweezers Can Position Tiny Objects
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[15/09/2009] Manipulating tiny objects like single cells or nanosized beads often requires relatively large, unwieldy equipment, but now a system that uses sound as a tiny tweezers can be small enough to place on a chip. Acoustic Tweezers Can Position Tiny Objects - Read more
Lab-on-a-Chip Measures Mechanics of Biofilms
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[27/07/2009] Researchers at the University of Michigan have devised a microscale tool to help them understand the mechanical behavior of biofilms, slimy colonies of bacteria involved in most human infectious diseases. Lab-on-a-Chip Measures Mechanics of Biofilms - Read more
Proteins in Gel
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[30/06/2009] Biochips are already in widespread use for DNA testing. Researchers have recently developed a gel which also allows fixing proteins on their surface. Proteins in Gel - Read more
Lab-on-a-Chip Leads to Better Therapies
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[23/03/2009] Engineers have invented a method that could be used to help figure out how cancer cells break free from neighboring tissue - an "escape" that can spread the disease to other parts of the body. Lab-on-a-Chip Leads to Better Therapies - Read more
Jack of Medical Trades (Part 2)
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[15/03/2009] by Wiebke Heiss / MEDICA.de Jack of Medical Trades (Part 2) - Read more
Molecules, Technique and Therapies (Part 1)
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[15/11/2008] by Wiebke Heiss / MEDICA.de
Detergents, plants resistant to bugs, drugs - chemistry, physics, biology – in the country, at sea or in the air. Biotechnology is everywhere since it is one of the most interdisciplinary branches of research – and helps medicine to combat diseases formerly known as not being treatable. Molecules, Technique and Therapies (Part 1) - Read more
