News tagged with analysis technology


Blood tests can provide fuller picture of mutations in cancer than traditional biopsies do

A new blood test revealed more of the gene mutations that sustain certain digestive-tract tumors than did a DNA analysis of a traditional tumor biopsy, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute investigators will report at a special symposium ...

Cancer created Apr 07, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Marking the spot: Collaboration aims to develop clinically useful tool to shed light on birth injury

University of Delaware researcher Jim Richards has successfully used motion analysis technology to allow elite figure skaters to explore "what-if" scenarios about their jumping technique. Now he hopes that ...

Other created Feb 28, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tiny tools help advance medical discoveries: Researchers are designing tools to analyze cells at the microscale

To understand the progression of complex diseases such as cancer, scientists have had to tease out the interactions between cells at progressively finer scales—from the behavior of a single tumor cell in ...

Medical research created Jan 08, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

MRSA outbreak mapped by DNA sequencing

Scientists have used DNA sequencing for the first time to effectively track the spread of, and ultimately contain, an outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), according to new research published in ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Nov 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Georgia Tech creating high-tech tools to study autism

Researchers in Georgia Tech's Center for Behavior Imaging have developed two new technological tools that automatically measure relevant behaviors of children, and promise to have significant impact on the ...

Autism spectrum disorders created Sep 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Breath analysis workshop for biomedicine, security

(Medical Xpress)—The Laboratory, in collaboration with the University of California, Davis and the Canterbury Respiratory Research Group, will host the 2012 International Breath Analysis Meeting, Oct. 28-Nov. ...

Medical research created Aug 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How fat are your lab mice?

Researchers are increasingly aware that fat in some parts of the body is more harmful than fat in other places. To help determine how obesity works, scientists turn to animal models and now, they are able ...

Medical research created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In sub-Saharan Africa, a shorter walk to water saves lives

In the fight against child mortality in the developing world, simple things make a big difference. A new study by Stanford researchers recently published online by the journal Environmental Science and Te ...

Health created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers crack code of German E. Coli outbreak

A team led by University of Maryland School of Medicine Institute for Genome Sciences researchers has unraveled the genomic code of the E. coli bacterium that caused the ongoing deadly outbreak in Germany that began in May ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jul 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast