The field of medicine is always on the lookout for better disease diagnostic tools—simpler, faster, and cheaper technologies to enhance patient treatment and outcomes. Currently, microfluidi... 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
Fast, accurate and inexpensive medical tests in a doctor’s office are only possible for some conditions. To create new in-office diagnostics for additional diseases, researchers report in th... Read more
Scientists use light to control the logic networks of a cell New technique illuminates role of previously inaccessible proteins involved in health and disease Proteins are the workhorse mole... Read more
Two new optical devices could reduce the need to take tissue samples during medical examinations and operations and to then send them for testing – potentially speeding up diagnosis an... Read more
Testing for health conditions usually involves needles, X-rays and other invasive or uncomfortable measures. To make diagnostics less burdensome for patients, scientists are developing alter... Read more
Detecting diseases such as cancer in their earliest stages can make a huge difference in patient treatment, but it is often difficult to do. Now scientists report in the journal ACS Central... Read more
McMaster researchers have come up a way for inventing molecule probes to quickly identify deadly bacterial strains of infectious disease. The find, published as a “hot paper” by a German sci... Read more
ETH researchers led by Raffaele Mezzenga have developed a new diagnostic method. It is based on Birefringence, the ability of substances to change the polarisation state of light. With this... Read more
Portuguese designer Susana Soares has developed a device for detecting cancer and other serious diseases using trained bees ( + slideshow). The bees are placed in a glass chamber into which... Read more
