UCLA researchers have discovered an optimal way to image the bile ducts during gallbladder removal surgeries using a tested and safe dye and a real-time near-infrared florescence laparoscopic camera, a finding that will make ...
Mar 10, 2016
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A breast cancer patient is wheeled into the operating room. She is connected to an IV that sends dye molecules into her blood that travel to her tumors. The surgeon inserts a small camera into the patient's chest and her ...
Jan 21, 2016
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The skin microbiome is considered our first line of defense against pathogens. Across our bodies, we are covered with a diverse assemblage of bacteria. However, the skin can be a harsh environment for beneficial bacteria ...
Jun 2, 2015
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Information processing and transmission in the brain hinge on electrical and chemical signals emitted and received by neurons. Now, A*STAR researchers have developed the first small molecule capable of selectively labeling ...
Apr 15, 2015
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(MedicalXpress)—A team of doctors and researchers at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles is taking a new dye into medical trials to see if it might help make for a better outcome for patients undergoing brain surgery ...
Two new fluorescent dyes attracted to cancer cells may help neurosurgeons more accurately localize and completely resect brain tumors, suggests a study in the February issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress ...
Jan 30, 2015
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With the goal of making it easier for surgeons to detect malignant tissue during surgery and hopefully reduce the rate of cancer recurrence, scientists have invented a new imaging system that causes tumors to "light up" when ...
Jan 21, 2015
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Although it is among the most highly metastatic of all cancers, multiple myeloma is driven to spread by only a subset of the myeloma cells within a patient's body, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have found in ...
Dec 8, 2014
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Scientists have created cells with fluorescent dyes that change color in response to specific neurochemicals. By implanting these cells into living mammalian brains, they have shown how neurochemical signaling changes as ...
Oct 26, 2014
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Eye doctor Dr. Toshihiko Matsuo and polymer science engineer Dr. Tetsuya Uchida have been developing a new type of retinal prosthesis that is based on a photoelectric dye. The photoelectric dye is an organic molecule that ...
Sep 30, 2014
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