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Bioimaging & Simulation

Deep Learning Enhances Cancer Diagnostic Tools

September 27, 2021
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Urbana, IL — Yi “Edwin” Sun, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and member of the Beckman Institute’s Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory...

New Microscopy Technique Reveals Activity of One Million Neurons Across the Mouse Brain

September 20, 2021
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New York, NY — Capturing the intricacies of the brain’s activity demands resolution, scale, and speed—the ability to visualize millions of neurons with crystal clear resolution as they actively call...

Overcoming Obstacles to Promote Repair in Multiple Sclerosis

August 31, 2021
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San Francisco, CA — In the nearly 1 million Americans living with multiple sclerosis, the fatty substance that insulates the nerves of the central nervous system—called myelin—is damaged. This slows...

First 3D-Bioprinting of Entire Active Tumour

August 24, 2021
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Tel Aviv, Israel — A scientific achievement for researchers at Tel Aviv University: printing an entire active and viable glioblastoma tumor using a 3D printer. The 3D-bioprinted tumor includes a complex...

New Blood Test Improves Prostate Cancer Screening

August 20, 2021
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Solna, Sweden — Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden recently reported that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could reduce overdiagnoses and thereby improve prostate cancer screening. Now,...

Fast, Accurate System for Quickly Solving Stubborn RNA Structures from Pond Scum, the SARS-CoV-2 Virus and More

August 19, 2021
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Menlo Park, CA — The single-stranded genetic material RNA is best known for guiding the assembly of proteins in our cells and carrying the genetic code for viruses like SARS-CoV-2 and HIV. But 40 years...

Deep Learning Model Classifies Brain Tumours with Single MRI Scan

August 17, 2021
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Oak Brook, IL — A team of researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have developed a deep learning model that is capable of classifying a brain tumour as one of six common types using...

Taking Microscopic Shape without Microscope

August 16, 2021
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Ikoma, Japan — Scientists from Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) measured changes in electrical conductivity caused by cells passing through a tiny channel to determine if they were...

Development of a Novel Technology to Check Body Temperature with Smartphone Camera

July 29, 2021
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Suwon, Republic of Korea — Thermal-imaging sensors that detect and capture images of the heat signatures of human bodies and other objects have recently sprung into use in thermostats to check facial...

3D Imaging Reveals Neural ‘Vicious Cycle’ in Fatty Liver Disease

July 27, 2021
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Solna, Sweden — With the application of a novel three-dimensional imaging technology, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered that one portion of the autonomic nervous system...

Noninvasive, Label-Free Optical Method Visualizes Deep, Cellular Brain Disease In Vivo

July 22, 2021
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Davis, CA — Central nervous system (CNS) diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD) manifest early at the microscopic (i.e. cellular) level, deep in the brain. Yet, optical microscopes that can...

Team Find Brain Mechanism that Automatically Links Objects in Our Minds

July 12, 2021
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Baltimore, MD — When people see a toothbrush, a car, a tree — any individual object — their brain automatically associates it with other things it naturally occurs with, allowing humans...

New Super-Resolution Microscopy Method Approaches the Atomic Scale

June 17, 2021
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New York, NY — Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed a computational technique that greatly increases the resolution of atomic force microscopy, a specialized type of microscope that...

Research Harnesses AI to Fight Breast Cancer

May 11, 2021
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Cardiff, UK — Breast cancer has recently overtaken lung cancer to become the most common cancer globally, according to the World Health Organization. Advancing the fight against breast cancer, the...

First Images of Cells Exposed to COVID-19 Vaccine Reveal Native-Like Coronavirus Spikes

April 9, 2021
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Southampton, UK — New research has for the first time compared images of the protein spikes that develop on the surface of cells exposed to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to the protein spike of the...

Creation of 3D Organoid Models to Fine-Tune Radiation Dose for Nasopharyngeal Cancer

April 6, 2021
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Singapore — A*STAR’s Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) has teamed up with Singapore Institute of Advanced Medicine Holdings Pte Ltd (SIAMH) to establish the first of its kind...

Method Offers Inexpensive Imaging at the Scale of Virus Particles

March 30, 2021
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Cambridge, MA — Using an ordinary light microscope, MIT engineers have devised a technique for imaging biological samples with accuracy at the scale of 10 nanometers — which should enable them...

First 3D Images of a Giant Molecule

March 25, 2021
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Würzburg, Germany — SMN or in full Survival Motor Neuron: Professor Utz Fischer has been analyzing this protein and the large molecular complex of the same name, of which SMN is one of the building...

Zooming In on Muscle Cells

March 25, 2021
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Dortmund, Germany — Sarcomeres are small repeating subunits of myofibrils, the long cylinders that bundle together to make the muscle fibres. Inside the sarcomeres, filaments of the proteins myosin...

Redox Imaging Allows Measurement of Drug Responses in Lab-Grown Cancer Samples

March 23, 2021
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Cardiff, UK — Organoids are tiny three-dimensional cellular assemblies that are grown in a laboratory from tissue-specific cells. They are particularly interesting to biologists because of their ability...

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