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Clear Signs of Brain Injury With Severe COVID-19

June 22, 2020
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Gothenburg, Sweden — Certain patients who receive hospital care for coronavirus infection (COVID-19) exhibit clinical and neurochemical signs of brain injury, a University of Gothenburg study shows....

Could the Blood of COVID-19 Patients be Used to Predict Disease Progression?

June 8, 2020
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Berlin, Germany — People respond very differently to infection with the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). While some patients develop no symptoms at all, others will develop severe disease and may even...

Silver Nanocubes Make Point-of-Care Diagnostics Easier to Read

May 14, 2020
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Durham, NC — Engineers at Duke University have shown that nanosized silver cubes can make diagnostic tests that rely on fluorescence easier to read by making them more than 150 times brighter. Combined...

Wastewater Test could Provide Early Warning of COVID-19

March 31, 2020
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Bedford, UK — Researchers at Cranfield University are working on a new test to detect SARS-CoV-2 in the wastewater of communities infected with the virus. The wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE)...

Crumpled Graphene Makes Ultra-Sensitive Cancer DNA Detector

March 24, 2020
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Champaign, IL — Graphene-based biosensors could usher in an era of liquid biopsy, detecting DNA cancer markers circulating in a patient’s blood or serum. But current designs need a lot of DNA....

Microbiome Search Engine can Increase Efficiency in Disease Detection and Diagnosis

March 24, 2020
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Beijing, China — Big data makes big promises when it comes to providing insights into human behaviour and health. The problem is how to harness the information it provides in an efficient manner. An...

New Technology Helps in Hunt for New Cancer Drug Combinations

March 19, 2020
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Parkville, Australia — A revolutionary new technology has been applied to reveal the inner workings of individual cancer cells – potentially identifying more effective treatment combinations...

Biomarker in Saliva Predicts Childhood Obesity Risk

March 9, 2020
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Nashville, TN — A molecular marker in saliva is associated with the emergence of childhood obesity in a group of preschool-aged Hispanic children. The intriguing discovery, reported in the journal BMC...

New Biomarkers for Diagnosis and Prognosis of Lung Cancer, Researchers Identify

February 25, 2020
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Málaga, Spain — Applying bioinformatics to resolve biological problems. This is the objective of the research group of the University of Malaga “BI4NEXT”, which, in one of its latest studies,...

Autism Eye Scan could Lead to Early Detection

February 24, 2020
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Adelaide, Australia — A new eye scan could help identify autism in children years earlier than currently possible. The non-invasive eye scan utilises a hand-held device to find a pattern of subtle...

Human Gut-in-a-Dish Model Helps Define ‘Leaky Gut,’ and Outline Pathway to Treatment

February 11, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Once a vague scapegoat for a variety of ills, increasing evidence suggests a condition known as “leaky gut” — in which microbes and other molecules seep out of the...

PET/MRI Identifies Notable Breast Cancer Imaging Biomarkers

January 23, 2020
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Reston, VA — Researchers have identified several potentially useful breast cancer biomarkers that indicate the presence and risk of malignancy, according to new research published in the January issue...

Objective Subtle Cognitive Difficulties Predict Amyloid Accumulation and Neurodegeneration

January 3, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System report that accumulating amyloid — an abnormal protein linked...

Single-Molecule Detection of Cancer Markers Brings Liquid Biopsy Closer to Clinic

December 19, 2019
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Champaign, IL — A fast, inexpensive yet sensitive technique to detect cancer markers is bringing researchers closer to a “liquid biopsy” – a test using a small sample of blood or...

New Way to Identify and Track Progression of Huntington’s Disease

December 17, 2019
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Southampton, UK — Researchers at the universities of Southampton and Cambridge have developed a new technique to analyse biochemical changes unique to Huntington’s disease. The breakthrough has...

New Study Reveals Function of Corpora Amylacea to Remove Brain Waste Substances

December 5, 2019
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Barcelona, Spain — An article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) describes a new pathway in the central nervous system to expel waste substances from the brain through...

Pacifier Biosensor could Help Monitor Newborn Health

October 24, 2019
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Madrid, Spain — Wearable biosensors that non-invasively monitor health and fitness are growing in popularity among adults. But adapting this technology for use with babies is difficult because the...

Scientists Work Toward a Rapid Point-of-Care Diagnostic Test for Lyme Disease

October 17, 2019
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Bethesda, MD — A study published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology describes a new rapid assay for Lyme disease that could lead to a practical test for use by healthcare providers. The researchers...

Novel Strategy Using MicroRNA Biomarkers can Distinguish Melanomas from Nevi

September 30, 2019
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San Francisco, CA — Melanoma is the least common but one of the most deadly skin cancers. It accounts for only about one percent of all cases globally, but the majority of skin cancer deaths. Accurate,...

Semen miRNAs could be Non-Invasive Biomarkers for Prostate Cancer

September 26, 2019
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Barcelona, Spain — Researchers of the Human Molecular Genetics group at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), led by Dr. Sara Larriba, in collaboration with Dr. Francesc Vigués and...

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