Genetics

Using metagenomics to identify viruses in plasma samples

A large team of medical scientists affiliated with a host of institutions in Nigeria and the U.S., has found that it is possible to use metagenomics to identify a host of viruses in real-world plasma samples. In their paper ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Sugar molecule in blood can predict Alzheimer's disease, suggests study

Early diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease requires reliable and cost-effective screening methods. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have now discovered that a type of sugar molecule in blood is associated ...

Health informatics

Creating an artificial pathologist

A team from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) in Erlangen has created a new, fast and precise method for clinicians to analyze cells in tissue samples from cancer patients without the need for a trained ...

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