JULY 23, 2024 by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology The KAUST-developed technology uses simple molecular biology strategies to seek out the genomic regions that are suspected of harboring complex mutations, deletions or rearrangements. Credit: 2024 KAUST.Despite rapid advances in genetic testing in recent decades, more than half of people worldwide with suspected Mendelian...
When you go to a doctor’s office, whether for an annual checkup or for specific symptoms, your doctor might ask you to provide a urine sample for testing at a clinical lab. The test can check for kidney disease and conditions that affect kidney function, such as diabetes and urinary tract infections.The human urine standard...
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY IMAGE: THE RESEARCH RESULTS ARE PUBLISHED AS AN INSIDE BACK COVER PAPER IN ADVANCED MATERIALS. CREDIT: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (KIST) The stiffness levels and distributions of various biological materials reflect disease-related information, from cells to tissues. For example, malignant breast tumors are usually stiffer and...
ELSEVIER IMAGE: ATYPICAL LIPOMATOUS TUMOR/WELL-DIFFERENTIATED LIPOSARCOMA (LEFT-HAND); LIPOMA (RIGHT-HAND) CREDIT: TONY NG, MD, PHD, THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Philadelphia, February 4, 2021 – Researchers have leveraged the latest advances in RNA technology and machine learning methods to develop a gene panel test that allows for highly accurate diagnosis of the most common types of liposarcoma. It...
