Biomedical engineering professor and BIO5 Institute Director Jennifer Barton has spent nearly a decade developing a falloposcope for ovarian cancer detection in its early stages. Banner – University Medical Center surgeon Dr. John Heusinkveld has now used the device to capture images of study participants’ fallopian tubes for the first time. Due to a lack of effective...
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Diagnosing Parkinson’s disease with skin samples could lead to earlier detection
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY IMAGE: ANUMNATHA KANTHASAMY AMES, Iowa – New research shows a simple skin test can accurately identify Parkinson’s disease, demonstrating for the first time the feasibility of the method. Currently diagnosed by clinical signs and symptoms but only definitively diagnosed at autopsy, Parkinson’s disease is commonly misdiagnosed early in the disease course, complicating clinical trials...
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Autism eye scan could lead to early detection
A new eye scan could help identify autism in children years earlier FLINDERS UNIVERSITY The non-invasive eye scan utilises a hand-held device to find a pattern of subtle electrical signals in the retina that are different in children on the autism spectrum, which are directly linked to differences in their brain development. The scan was...
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