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Image: The discovery of two classes of Crohn\'s has implications for scientists to deliver more targeted treatments (Photo courtesy of MNT).

Gene Activity Mapping Points to Two Subtypes of Crohn's Disease

Gene activity studies have found that there are two clinically relevant forms of Crohn's disease that are defined by molecular signatures that are not linked to tissue sampling location, patient age, or treatment status. More...
26 Oct 2016

Respiratory Tract Bacterium Triggers Serious Nervous System Disease

Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is an acute post infectious immune-mediated polyneuropathy and an acute life-threatening disease of the nervous system that leads to sensory disturbances and acute flaccid paralysis. More...
20 Oct 2016
Image: A photomicrograph of Prion Protein immunostaining from a biopsy in a patient with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (Photo courtesy of SPL).

Urine Test Could Diagnose Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Prions are infectious agents that cause invariably fatal brain diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) in humans, scrapie in sheep and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or 'mad cow disease') in cattle. More...
20 Oct 2016
Image: Immuno-wall chips with the photo reactive polymer in the center of the 40 microchannels are made with a biotinylated anti-R132H-IDH1 antibody (HMab-2), an anti-wild-type IDH1 antibody (RcMab-1), and fluorescent antibodies. It shows sensitive and specific fluorescence from mutant IDH1 (Photo courtesy of Nagoya University).

Novel Device Enables Rapid Identification of Brain Cancer Type

A device has been developed for quick, accurate identification of a mutation strongly associated with a cancer that affects the central nervous system, potentially enabling accurate removal of the entire tumor during an operation. More...
20 Oct 2016
Image: The Guardant360 kit for biopsy-free tissue sequencing for cancer (Photo courtesy of Guardant Health).

Liquid Biopsy Tests Identified Cell-Free Tumor DNA Mutations

The feasibility of using cell-free circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) next-generation sequencing (NGS) from liquid biopsies as a complement or alternative to tissue NGS has been evaluated. More...
20 Oct 2016
Image: A histopathology of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) in a liver biopsy (Photo courtesy of SPL).

Simple Blood Test Vastly Improves Severe Liver Disease Detection

A new non-invasive method of predicting the risk of developing a severe form of liver disease could ensure patients receive early and potentially life-saving medical intervention before irreversible damage is done. More...
19 Oct 2016
Image: The Quantum Blue rapid test allow for the immediate measurement of fecal calprotectin (Photo courtesy of Bühlmann Laboratories).

Unnecessary Endoscopies Could Be Avoided with Fecal Blood Test

The majority of primary care patients referred for bowel endoscopy do not have significant colorectal disease (SCD), and are unnecessarily exposed to a small but realistic risk of severe endoscopy-associated complications. More...
14 Oct 2016
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