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Image: Professor Bernhard Boehm and Dr Hou Han Wei holding their quick test kit for inflammation in diabetic patients (Photo courtesy of Nanyang Technological University).

Quick Test Detects Inflammation in Diabetic Patients

A new kit has been developed that will allow doctors to find out within minutes if diabetic patients are suffering from inflammation. Current procedures require patients to wait for several hours for the results obtained from the conventional full blood count test. More...
12 Oct 2016
Image: The Agilent 6890 gas chromatograph (Photo courtesy of Agilent Technologies).

Serum Metabolites Associated with Traumatic Brain Injury Severity

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of death and disability worldwide, especially in children and young adults and is an example of a medical condition where there are still major deficits in diagnostics and outcome prediction. More...
11 Oct 2016
Image: A new citrate-based material, made with naturally fluorescing polymer nanoparticles, can now be used for highly sensitive detection of chloride, a key marker of cystic fibrosis (Photo courtesy of the Yang Laboratory, Penn State University).

Low-Cost Sensor Developed for Cystic Fibrosis Diagnosis and Monitoring

Biomaterials scientists have developed an inexpensive method for detecting salt concentrations in sweat or other bodily fluids with a fluorescent sensor derived from citric acid molecules. The sensor is highly sensitive and highly selective for chloride, the key diagnostic marker in cystic fibrosis (CF). More...
04 Oct 2016

Simple Saliva Test Developed to Diagnose Asthma

Current clinical tests employed to diagnose asthma are inaccurate and limited by their invasive nature, but a new test that can diagnose asthma from a patient's saliva has now been developed. More...
29 Sep 2016
Image: The metabolic profiler system based on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and mass spectrometry (MS) (Photo courtesy of Bruker BioSpin).

Protein Particle Parameters Help Differentiate Acute Kawasaki Disease

Kawasaki disease (KD) is a self-limited vasculitis that typically presents in young children as an acute illness with fever and mucocutaneous changes. If KD is incorrectly diagnosed or left untreated, coronary artery aneurysms (CAA) may develop, predisposing KD patients to long-term cardiovascular complications including myocardial ischemia and infarction. More...
28 Sep 2016
Image: The BS-380 automatic biochemistry analyzer (Photo courtesy of Mindray).

Novel Turbidimetric Immunoassay Evaluated for Fecal Calprotectin

Calprotectin is a multifunctional protein that plays an important role in the diagnosis and follow-up of inflammatory bowel disease and high levels of calprotectin in stool samples are associated with inflammation of the intestinal tract. More...
28 Sep 2016
Image: The cobas h 232 POC system, designed for use with the Elecsys high sensitivity cardiac troponin (hs-cTnT) assay (Photo courtesy of Roche).

Optimal Rule-Out Biomarker Strategy Developed for Acute MI

Assessment of patients presenting to the Emergency Department (ED) with symptoms suggestive of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) represents a major clinical challenge, since the majority of patients do not have a final diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). More...
27 Sep 2016
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