Investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine have pinpointed a molecular defect that seems almost universal among patients with Parkinson’s disease and those at a high risk of... Read more
The pill is the first known working device capable of non-invasively and accurately assessing the profile of bacterial species inhabiting any stage of the gastrointestinal tract. A research... Read more
Virtual reality (VR) can identify early Alzheimer’s disease more accurately than ‘gold standard’ cognitive tests currently in use, suggests new research from the University of Cambridge. The... Read more
Analyzing brain waveforms using neuroimaging big data helps improve diagnosis accuracy A team of researchers from Osaka University and The University of Tokyo developed MNet, an automatic di... Read more
Researchers develop tool for speedy diagnosis of bacterial infections Using a small and inexpensive biosensor, researchers at UBC Okanagan, in collaboration with the University of Calgary, h... Read more
A Star Trek-inspired handheld device based on a silicon chip could help make rapid, sophisticated medical diagnostics more accessible to people around the world, scientists say. In a new pap... Read more
In a potential game changer for the health care industry, a new cell phone app and lab kit now allow a smartphone to identify bacteria from patients anywhere in the world. With the new app,... Read more
Test results are denoted by a colour change and could be further analysed by a smartphone app, making it attractive as a point-of-care diagnostic device A multidisciplinary team of research... Read more
A new diagnostic tool has been developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin that can easily, quickly and cheaply identify whether a mosquito belongs to the species that carr... Read more
Add rapid, mobile testing for Zika and other viruses to the list of things that smartphone technology is making possible. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a smartph... Read more
A new noninvasive alternative to colonoscopies is as easy as swallowing a pill. The patient ingests PillCam™ Colon 2, a capsule containing two miniature cameras on either end. As the capsule... Read more
“These described methods allow us to do this in two to three hours, a vast improvement over standard culturing practice, which can take as much as two weeks to provide a diagnosis.... Read more
