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Image: The Varian Scimitar Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy instrument (Photo courtesy of S. Levchenkov).

Infrared Technology Used To Screen For Minimally Invasive Colitis

Inflammatory bowel diseases, which include ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, involve chronic inflammation of all or part of the digestive tract and can lead to life-threatening complications such as colorectal cancer. More...
18 May 2016
Image: The handheld device that can detect Ebola Virus Ribonucleic Acid (Photo courtesy of KIST Europe).

Palm-Sized Device Quickly Detects Ebola Virus

The gold standard method for identifying the Ebola virus in a blood sample requires packaging samples in cooled containers and sending them to specialized laboratories, often far away from where patients live. More...
18 May 2016
Image: A black cartridge containing the innovative paper-based diagnostic for detecting Zika virus: areas that have turned purple indicate samples infected with Zika virus, while yellow areas indicate Zika-free samples (Photo courtesy of Wyss Institute at Harvard University).

CRISPR-based Technology Enables High-Resolution Zika Detection On Low-Cost Paper Discs

Building off their earlier innovative development in “programmable diagnostics”, researchers on an international, multi-institutional team recently joined efforts to quickly prototype their low-cost rapid test with the goal that it could soon be used to screen samples (blood, urine, or saliva) for Zika virus and strain identification. More...
16 May 2016
Image: A smartphone readout from the Polarization Anisotropy Diagnostics (PAD) system reveals the pathogens responsible for an infection and factors such as antibiotic resistance (Photo courtesy of Dr. Chen-Han Huang and Dr. Ki Soo Park, Massachusetts General Hospital).

Microbiologists Display Prototype of Rapid Bacteriological Test Device

A prototype rapid diagnostic device was shown in a proof-of-concept study to identify pathogenic microorganisms with accuracy comparable to that of bacterial culture but with much shorter turnaround time. More...
16 May 2016
Image: The ANGLE Parsortix cell separation system (Photo courtesy of ANGLE).

Liquid Biopsy Clinical Application Demonstrated for Metastatic Breast Cancer

Metastasis is responsible for the vast majority of breast cancer related deaths and initial treatment recommendations for breast cancer are based on primary tumor biology from the initial solid biopsy at patient presentation. More...
10 May 2016

Method Preserves Microfluidic Devices for HIV Monitoring in Developing Countries

Microfluidic devices with immunochemistry have broad applications in chemotherapy monitoring, transplant patient monitoring, and especially in monitoring the efficacy of antiretroviral therapy. More...
03 May 2016
Image: A hybrid microfluidic chip (held by Dr. Fatih Sarioglu) uses a simple circuit pattern to assign a unique seven-bit digital identification number to each cell passing through the channels (Photo courtesy of the Georgia Institute of Technology).

Electronics-Enhanced Microfluidic Chip Counts and Characterizes Cells or Particles

In a proof-of-concept study, a team of electrical and computer engineers demonstrated the ability of an electronics-enhanced microfluidic chip to characterize and count ovarian cancer cells. More...
02 May 2016
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