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Biochip-based device for cell analysis

(Phys.org) -- Inexpensive, portable devices that can rapidly screen cells for leukemia or HIV may soon be possible thanks to a chip that can produce three-dimensional focusing of a stream of cells, according ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created 4 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Discarded data may hold the key to a sharper view of molecules

(Phys.org) -- There's nothing like a new pair of eyeglasses to bring fine details into sharp relief. For scientists who study the large molecules of life from proteins to DNA, the equivalent of new lenses have come in the ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanomedicine: Quantum dots appear safe in pioneering study on primates

A pioneering study to gauge the toxicity of quantum dots in primates has found the tiny crystals to be safe over a one-year period, a hopeful outcome for doctors and scientists seeking new ways to battle diseases ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 20, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

New diagnostic tool for climate change research enables better understanding of global patterns

(Phys.org) -- Scientists have developed a new diagnostic tool that will enable better understanding of global climate patterns.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Screening for breast cancer without X-rays: Lasers and sound merge in promising diagnostic technique

X-ray mammography is an important diagnostic tool in the fight against breast cancer, but it has certain drawbacks that limit its effectiveness. For example, it can give in false positive and negative results; ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers combat global disease with a cell phone, Google Maps and a lot of ingenuity

(Phys.org) -- In the fight against emerging public health threats, early diagnosis of infectious diseases is crucial. And in poor and remote areas of the globe where conventional medical tools like microscopes and cytometers ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New technology sheds light on viruses

(Phys.org) -- Diagnostic tests that rapidly detect disease-causing viruses in animals and humans are being developed by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists using a new technology called "surface-enhanced ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Hyperspectral imaging: Shedding new light on wound healing

(Phys.org) -- Clinicians who treat severe wounds may soon have powerful new diagnostic tools in the form of hyperspectral imaging (HSI) devices, calibrated to new NIST standard reference spectra, which will ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers create molecular Braille to identify DNA molecules

Researchers at UCLA and New York University have developed a method to detect sequence differences in individual DNA molecules by taking nanoscopic pictures of the molecules themselves.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers increase speed of single-molecule measurements

As nanotechnology becomes ever more ubiquitous, researchers are using it to make medical diagnostics smaller, faster, and cheaper, in order to better diagnose diseases, learn more about inherited traits, and ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

They're mastering manufacturing

For millions of HIV-positive people in the developing world, accurate measurement of their medical condition is invaluable. So in recent years, Daktari Diagnostics, a Cambridge-based startup, has been developing ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Use of microfluidic chips a first in bitumen-gas analysis

A University of Toronto research team has developed a process to analyze the behavior of bitumen in reservoirs using a microfluidic chip, a tool commonly associated with the field of medical diagnostics. The process may reduce ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Light-emitting nanocrystal diodes go ultraviolet: Biomedical device potential for robust, implantable product

(PhysOrg.com) -- A multinational team of scientists has developed a process for creating glass-based, inorganic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that produce light in the ultraviolet range. The work, reported ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Grass to gas: Researchers' genome map speeds biofuel development

Researchers at the University of Georgia have taken a major step in the ongoing effort to find sources of cleaner, renewable energy by mapping the genomes of two originator cells of Miscanthus x giganteus, a large perenn ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The butterfly effect in nanotech medical diagnostics

Tiny metallic nanoparticles that shimmer in the light like the scales on a butterfly's wing are set to become the color-change components of a revolutionary new approach to point-of-care medical diagnostics, according to ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0