A new fiber optic technique for studying muscle health could remove the need for painful muscle biopsies Diagnosing a muscular disorder, disease or infection often requires a sample of the tissue to be extracted, but these biopsies can be painful and difficult to perform. Researchers at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) have developed a...
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Google’s artificial intelligence can detect tumours with a 92% accuracy rate and is quicker than human doctors
Currently the process of diagnosing cancer can take weeks or even months However, DeepMind is on the verge of becoming a much quicker method Owned by Google’s parent company, it is also more accurate than humans It could also be used to see if the disease has spread to other parts of the body Artificial...
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Epigenetic enzyme found to be lacking in some patients with Crohn’s disease
High magnification micrograph of Crohn’s disease. Biopsy of esophagus. H&E stain. A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team has found how a variant in an important epigenetic enzyme—previously associated by population-based genetic studies with Crohn’s disease and other immune disorders—interferes with the action of the innate immune system, potentially upsetting the healthy balance between...
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BLOOD TEST MAY HELP DIFFERENTIATE PARKINSON’S FROM SIMILAR DISEASES
MINNEAPOLIS – A simple blood test may be as accurate as a spinal fluid test when trying to determine whether symptoms are caused by Parkinson’s disease or another atypical parkinsonism disorder, according to a new study published in the February 8, 2017, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology....
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Ultrafast detection of a cancer biomarker enabled by innovative nanobiodevice
Pioneering nanobiodevice can isolate cancer biomarkers quickly with high resolution Quartz-made Nanopillars of 250-nm diameter were arrayed inside nanoslit region of 100-nm high and applied for ultrafast microRNA extraction from nucleic acids mixture. Like DNA, ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a type of polymeric biomolecule essential for life, playing important roles in gene processing. Short lengths...
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Combination of ground-breaking treatments offer powerful new path for blood cancer therapies
Researchers at Monash University and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre have identified for the first time how a new class of epigenetic drug engages with the immune system to kill off cancer cells, offering powerful new pathways for enhanced blood cancer therapies. BET-inhibitors are a relatively new class of drug which work to ‘switch off’ important...
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Stem cells make potential drug side effects personal
Researchers in Singapore have developed a way to use patients’ stem cells to see whether a cancer drug is safe for them In a promising development that strengthens the case for personalized cancer care, scientists in Singapore have demonstrated the possibility of predicting the potential for an individual to have adverse side effects to different drugs by first...
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A New Cancer Treatment Has Given Terminal Patients a Second Chance at Life
IN BRIEF Gene therapy has been shown in clinical trials to not just treat cancer, but possibly cure it. The treatments have risks — including death — so additional research is needed before they could become widely available. COULD THIS TREATMENT CURE CANCER? Despite the many advances in medicine over the last century, a cure...
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Supramolecular protein fishing with molecular baits
IBS researchers modified an anti-cancer drug to capture, purify a cancer-prone protein Scientists from the Center for Self-assembly and Complexity (CSC) successfully isolated a cancer-prone protein by fishing out the proteins using ‘molecular bait’. Cancer, according to the American Cancer Society, affects 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women, with prostate and breast...
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Here’s How Google’s AI Helps Detect Cancer Via Deep Learning
Deep learning, a form of artificial intelligence (AI) where computers are taught to recognize patterns in huge datasets, can now be useful in identifying breast cancer. Google reported March 3, Friday, that it has achieved groundbreaking results in using AI to analyze thousands of cancer cell slides from a Dutch university and diagnose the common form...