Peer-Reviewed Publication AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY MAGE: USING A BIOLUMINESCENT SUBSTRATE THAT REACTS WITH SARS-COV-2 SPIKE PROTEIN (SHOWN IN THE INSERT), RESEARCHERS HAVE DEVISED A POTENTIAL ONE-MINUTE COVID-19 TEST. CREDIT: RYO NISHIHARA Cold, flu and COVID-19 season brings that now-familiar ritual: swab, wait, look at the result. But what if, instead of taking 15 minutes or...
OCTOBER 19TH, 2022 CONN HASTINGSDIAGNOSTICS, GERIATRICS, MEDICINE, NEUROLOGY Researchers at Hokkaido University in Japan have developed a biomarker test for Alzheimer’s disease that detects amyloid β binding exosomes in a blood sample. While amyloid β plaques in the brain are characteristic of Alzheimer’s, these researchers have previously reported that amyloid β build-up in the brain...
Researchers in the University of Georgia College of Engineering are developing a new way to detect potentially deadly Listeria contamination in food. Listeriosis, an infection caused by eating food contaminated by the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes, can cause severe illness in pregnant women, newborns, the elderly and people with compromised immune systems. Listeria is the third leading cause...
by University of Glasgow 3D medical animation still showing reduced blood flow in preventing the heart muscle from receiving enough oxygen. Credit: http://www.scientificanimations.com/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Led by Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, researchers from 31 European clinical institutions, including a team from the University of Glasgow, worked together as part of the DISCHARGE trial. The aim...
