After demonstrating that light accurately detected pre-cancerous cells in the lining of the esophagus, Duke University bioengineers turned their technology to the colon and have achieved similar results in a series of preliminary ...
Biochemistry
Oct 11, 2011
1
0
Researchers led by ETH professor Yaakov Benenson and MIT professor Ron Weiss have successfully incorporated a diagnostic biological "computer" network in human cells. This network recognizes certain cancer cells using logic ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 1, 2011
3
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Detecting cancer cells and destroying them, injecting drugs with extreme precision into diseased cells in the human body – these are just two examples of what EPFL scientists are attempting to accomplish ...
Bio & Medicine
Jul 1, 2011
0
0
Viruses that attack plants, insects, mammals and bacteria are proving effective platforms for delivering medicines and imaging chemicals to specific cells in the body, as building blocks for tiny battery electrodes and computer ...
Bio & Medicine
Jun 30, 2011
0
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a proof of principal study in mice, scientists at Johns Hopkins and the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) have shown that a set of genetic instructions encased in a nanoparticle can be used as an ...
Bio & Medicine
Dec 15, 2010
0
0
A new UK company set to transform the use of terahertz electronics for applications in security imaging, telecommunications and cancer detection has won (Wednesday 24 November) a prize in Research Councils UK (RCUK) Business ...
Engineering
Nov 26, 2010
1
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Diamond Light Source, the UK's synchrotron science facility, is being used by a Stoke-on-Trent based clinician to develop new ways to detect cancer.
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 14, 2010
0
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Florida scientists have developed a new nanoparticle that could improve cancer detection and drug delivery. The particle, called a 'micelle' and made up of a cluster of molecules called aptamers, ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 12, 2010
0
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of St Andrews have developed a powerful technique that could allow earlier cancer detection.
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 22, 2010
0
0
(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 ...
Bio & Medicine
Nov 17, 2009
0
0
