Archive for the ‘Diagnostics’ Category
Monday, October 24th, 2011
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A “smart” petri dish developed by engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California, USA) incorporates a lens-free microscopy imaging platform that enables the continuous imaging of cell cultures without removing them ...
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Sunday, October 23rd, 2011
IVD Technology Editor-in-Chief Richard Park authored a comprehensive overview of the IVD industry, in which he concludes that the IVD market is resilient and will not be stalled by difficult economic conditions. "IVD manufacturers continue to develop and release faster, more accurate and more-effective diagnostic devices," he writes. ...
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Friday, September 16th, 2011
Diagnostica Europe 2012, a unique exhibition designed exclusively for the clinical diagnostics and life science research industries, will debut in March at Messe Stuttgart. The exhibition is organised by UBM Canon and will run from 13th to 15th March 2012. Concurrent with Diagnostica Europe will be the MEDTEC Europe 2012 ...
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Thursday, July 7th, 2011
A newly developed technology that uses a laser and electric fields to manipulate fluids and tiny particles has a range of potential applications, including medical diagnostics. The technology could produce innovative sensors and analytical devices for lab-on-chip applications, or miniature instruments that perform measurements normally requiring ...
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Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Carclo plc announced today that it has formed a new company to license its enabling technology to customers in the point-of-care (POC) diagnostics arena. Carclo Diagnostic Solutions Ltd has developed a proof-of-concept, disposable electronic testing platform that takes a sample of body fluid and provides a permanent digital output of ...
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
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Engineers at Harvard Medical School and MIT have created a new microfluidic device that can detect single cancer cells and viruses in a blood sample. It is about the size of a dime and is made of carbon nanotubes with attached antibodies. Cells touch ...
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Monday, April 4th, 2011
Just days after the debut of the iPad 2, the intriguingly named Room4 announced that its multiplatform virtual slide application was demonstrated on the upgraded tablet. The demo happened during a lecture at a CATAI/UNESCO meeting regarding the use of iPhone and 4G mobile phones in telemedicine.
The application ...
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Friday, December 10th, 2010
Critical components of a biomedical lab-on-chip sensor that would enable rapid detection of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in DNA were presented at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco, CA, USA, this week by Panasonic. The items included a miniaturised pump for on-chip pressure generation, a micropillar filter optimised for DNA ...
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Monday, November 29th, 2010
A biosensing protocol developed by Japanese researchers may offer a rapid, highly sensitive, inexpensive and homogeneous means for detecting biorecognition processes. The novel method could also eliminate the use of substrates or magnetic sensors in point-of-care medical diagnostics.
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Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
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Here's a classic example of someone building the proverbial better mousetrap: A simple timer built into diagnostic devices improves the accuracy of paper-based IVD products. Many ...
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Monday, September 6th, 2010
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"There have been immense advances in surgical and pharmaceutical technology in recent years,” says Simon ...
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Researchers at Arizona State University have demonstrated a way to simplify testing patients for infectious diseases and unhealthy protein levels. New testing instrumentation developed by professors Antonia Garcia and John Schneider could make the procedure less costly and produce results in less time.
Current testing is slow and expensive because ...
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