Oncology & Cancer

New imaging technology helping detect oral cancer more accurately

A noninvasive device that enables doctors to quickly and accurately identify cancerous tissue in a person's mouth could result in more effective diagnosis and treatment of the disease, says a biomedical engineer at Texas ...

Medical research

Metabolic activity and health of the skin microbiome

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 ...

Oncology & Cancer

Golgi trafficking controlled by G proteins

A family of proteins called G proteins are a recognized component of the communication system the human body uses to sense hormones and other chemicals in the bloodstream and to send messages to cells. In work that further ...

Surgery

Fluorescent dyes 'light up' brain cancer cells

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 ...

Neuroscience

Waking up the visual system

The ways that neurons in the brain respond to a given stimulus depends on whether an organism is asleep, drowsy, awake, paying careful attention or ignoring the stimulus. However, while the properties of neural circuits in ...

Medical research

New infrared marker for bio-imaging

The recently developed fluorescent protein Amrose is now being used for advanced near-IR imaging procedures. With the aid of a novel evolutionary platform technology, scientists at the Helmholtz Zentrum München have developed ...

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