Medicine

Small Liquid Sensor May Detect Cancer Instantly, Could Lead to Home Detection Kit

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What if it were possible to go to the store and buy a kit to quickly and accurately diagnose cancer, similar to a pregnancy test?
A University of Missouri researcher is developing a tiny sensor, known as an acoustic resonant sensor, that is smaller than a human hair and could test [...]

Tags: breast cancer, breast cancer detection, disease screening, jae kwon, liquid sensor, prostate cancers, resonant sensors, tiny sensor
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Could Mini Labs and Plant-Based Vaccines Stop the Next Pandemic?

Texas researchers are planning to use a combination of tobacco plants and podlike laboratories to speed the production of new vaccines
The H1N1 virus’s rapid spread worldwide last year exposed the weaknesses in the global system for swiftly developing, manufacturing and distributing vaccines for newly identified strains of influenza. In Texas, researchers [...]

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Destroying cancer cells with exploding gold nanoparticles

One of the most promising applications in the emerging field of nanomedicine is cancer treatment.
The ability to target individual cells provides safer and more effective treatment than current approaches like chemotherapy in which healthy cells become collateral damage in the effort to knock out cancerous tumors. This potential has again [...]

Tags: cancer cells, cancer treatment, cancerous tumors, exploding gold nanoparticles, nanomedicine, promising applications
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Non-invasive infrared scanner to detect deadly melanoma

Although melanoma is one of the less common types of skin cancer, it is responsible for the majority (around 75 percent) of skin cancer related deaths. Part of the problem is that current diagnoses rely on subjective clues such as size, shape and coloring of a mole. With the aim of [...]

Tags: cancer cells, infrared camera, infrared cancer scanner, infrared image, infrared images, kimmel cancer center, skin cancer
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A machine that prints organs is coming to market

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Making a bit of me
THE great hope of transplant surgeons is that they will, one day, be able to order replacement body parts on demand. At the moment, a patient may wait months, sometimes years, for an organ from a suitable donor. During that time his condition may [...]

Tags: body parts, human tissue, organs, printing organs, regenerative energy
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