News tagged with biosensors
New biosensors reveal workings of anti-psychotic drugs in the living brain
Scientists have resolved a question about how a popular class of drugs used to treat schizophrenia works using biosensors that reveal previously hidden components of chemical communication in the brain.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 13, 2009 |
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Magnetic Nanotags Spot Cancer in Mice Earlier Than Current Methods
(PhysOrg.com) -- Searching for biomarkers that can warn of diseases such as cancer while they are still in their earliest stage is likely to become far easier thanks to an innovative biosensor chip developed by Stanford University ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Implantable Glucose Sensor Could Spell Relief for Millions of Diabetics (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- UConn researchers have developed a tiny wireless device that can be inserted under a patient?s skin to monitor blood glucose levels over a period of several months.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Biosensor to help enlist cancer resistance fighters?
(PhysOrg.com) -- A powerful new biosensor developed by European researchers will help identify cells in the immune system that actively suppress tumour growth, then put them to use. Enlisting the patient?s ...
Oct 23, 2009 |
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Magnetic nanotags spot cancer in mice earlier than methods now in clinical use
Searching for biomarkers that can warn of diseases such as cancer while they are still in their earliest stage is likely to become far easier thanks to an innovative biosensor chip developed by Stanford University ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 13, 2009 |
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A flash of light turns graphene into a biosensor
(PhysOrg.com) -- Biomedical researchers suspect graphene, a novel nanomaterial made of sheets of single carbon atoms, would be useful in a variety of applications. But no one had studied the interaction between ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 23, 2009 |
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New biosensor can detect bacteria instantaneously
A research group from the Rovira i Virgili University (URV) in Tarragona, Spain, has developed a biosensor that can immediately detect very low levels of Salmonella typhi, the bacteria that causes typhoid fever. ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Sep 08, 2009 |
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A safe approach to nanotechnology: Boiling up zinc oxide nanorods without toxic solvents
A non-toxic and environmentally friendly way to make tiny nanorods of zinc oxide has been developed for the first time by researchers in Saudi Arabia. The approach, described in the current issue of the International Journal of ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 19, 2009 |
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Chemists explain the switchboards in our cells
Our cells are controlled by billions of molecular "switches" and chemists at UC Santa Barbara have developed a theory that explains how these molecules work. Their findings may significantly help efforts to ...
Aug 03, 2009 |
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Implantable Device Offers Continuous Cancer Monitoring
(PhysOrg.com) -- Surgical removal of a tissue sample is now the standard for diagnosing cancer. Such procedures, known as biopsies, are accurate but offer only a snapshot of the tumor at a single moment in time.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 21, 2009 |
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Toxin detection as close as an inkjet printer
If that office inkjet printer has become just another fixture, it's time to take a fresh look at it. Similar technology may soon be used to develop paper-based biosensors that can detect certain harmful toxins ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jul 13, 2009 |
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Small RNAs yield great amounts of data from ocean microbe samples
(PhysOrg.com) -- An ingenious new method of obtaining marine microbe samples while preserving the microbes' natural gene expression has yielded an unexpected boon: the presence of many varieties of small RNAs -- snippets ...
May 14, 2009 |
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Implant monitors tumors
Surgical removal of a tissue sample is now the standard for diagnosing cancer. Such procedures, known as biopsies, are accurate but only offer a snapshot of the tumor at a single moment in time.
May 13, 2009 |
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MIT reels in RNA surprise with microbial ocean catch
An ingenious new method of obtaining marine microbe samples while preserving the microbes' natural gene expression has yielded an unexpected boon: the presence of many varieties of small RNAs — snippets of RNA that act as ...
May 13, 2009 |
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Nanoneedle is small in size, but huge in applications
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a membrane-penetrating nanoneedle for the targeted delivery of one or more molecules into the cytoplasm or the nucleus of living cells. ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 28, 2009 |
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