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Dental Research Effort Aims to Stem Oral Cancer in India

Pioneering use of laser technology to advance better methods of tracking and treating oral cancers is leading to the ability to noninvasively detect these cancers with a portable device.   More...
23 Sep 2015
Image: The droplet-on-thermocouple silhouette real-time polymerase chain reaction device (DOTS qPCR) (Photo courtesy of Dustin Harshman).

Medical Device Concept Reduces Time to Diagnose Infections

When a patient arrives at a hospital with a serious infection, doctors have precious few minutes to make an accurate diagnosis and prescribe treatment accordingly; however a new diagnostic device may significantly reduce the amount of time necessary to diagnose tissue infections.  More...
16 Sep 2015
Image: A comparison of stained bright-field microscopy (top row) and SLIM (bottom row) images in their respective abilities to show malignant and benign. The images were obtained from adjacent sections. Color bars are in radians (Photo courtesy of Hassaan Majeed).

Breast Cancer Diagnosis Uses Spatial Light Interference Microscopy

The standard practice in histopathology of breast cancers is to examine a hematoxylin and eosin stained tissue biopsy under a microscope to diagnose whether a lesion is benign or malignant.  More...
16 Sep 2015
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Latest Generation Tissue Embedder to Ease Burden in Histology Laboratories

Histology laboratories stand to benefit from the availability of a fully automated tissue embedder that was designed to eliminate the labor intensive necessity of manually orienting and embedding tissue specimens in paraffin blocks.  More...
16 Sep 2015
Image: The MOPID device atached to an iPhone (Photo courtesy Casey of Pirnstill/ TAMU).

Mobile Phone Microscope Aids Malaria Diagnosis

A 3-D printed polarized microscope that can be attached to a mobile phone could help faster malaria detection in areas with limited access to expensive lab facilities and expert technicians.   More...
16 Sep 2015
Image: Combining the Thermo Scientific Prelude MD HPLC (left), Endura MD mass spectrometer (right), and ClinQuan MD software, enables simple and confident attainment of the high quantitative accuracy of LC-MS (Photo courtesy of Thermo Fisher Scientific).

MD HPLC, MD Mass Spec, and Software Receive IVDD CE-Marking

The in vitro diagnostics device CE marking for the two high-performance instruments and software enables a combined system with the high accuracy of LC-MS to now be available to clinical laboratories in Europe for general IVD use.  More...
15 Sep 2015
Image: The Aura fully integrated fiber optic probe real-time Raman spectrometer (Photo courtesy of Verisante Technology Inc.).

Novel Blood Test for Colon Cancer Improves Colonoscopy Screening

Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy using silver nanoparticles as substrate is a multiplexed analytical technique capable of detecting biomolecules with high sensitivity.  More...
14 Sep 2015
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