UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO ANSCHUTZ MEDICAL CAMPUS On a mission to increase early detection of esophageal cancer, University of Colorado (CU) Cancer Center member Sachin Wani, MD, is leading a study to see if a novel diagnostic platform can help endoscopists better identify the disease in patients with a condition called Barrett’s esophagus. Barrett’s esophagus, a...
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Researchers develop new tool to help better monitor lupus
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS USA A new paper in Rheumatology, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that researchers have developed a new, easier, and more accurate tool to measure the progress of lupus in patients. Systemic lupus erythematosus affects up to 1.5 million people in the United States and about one in 1000 people in the United Kingdom....
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Unprecedented cellular maps of tissues enabled by new tool
Ability to combine cell function and spatial information key to understanding life at molecular level and making cellular maps of tissues. The study of the human body at single-cell level has received a boost with the creation of a new tool, which will allow researchers to see not only the function of cells, but also...
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Intellia announced a new tool for gene editing
Jason Mast Editor Alexis Komor David Liu, the Harvard biochemist, was sitting in a meeting last week when his phone started buzzing repeatedly. Unbeknownst to him, minutes prior the CRISPR company Intellia had finished unveiling their approach to base editing at a Cold Spring Harbor Lab conference. First pioneered by Liu and his lab in...
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Stanford researchers develop new tool for watching and controlling neural activity
A new molecular probe from Stanford University could help reveal how our brains think and remember. This tool, called Fast Light and Calcium-Regulated Expression or FLiCRE (pronounced “flicker”), can be sent inside any cell to perform a variety of research tasks, including tagging, recording and controlling cellular functions. “This work gets at a central goal...
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New tool can diagnose strokes with a smartphone
PENN STATE IMAGE: KATHRYN ATKINSON, A PATIENT AT HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL, PARTICIPATES IN A SMARTPHONE SCREENING TEST TO ANALYZE STROKE-LIKE SYMPTOMS SHE’S EXPERIENCING. THE TEST IS POWERED BY A MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHM DEVELOPED. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A new tool created by researchers at Penn State and Houston Methodist Hospital could diagnose a stroke based on abnormalities...
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A promising new tool in the fight against melanoma
EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY IMAGE: EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ELIN GRAY An Edith Cowan University (ECU) study has revealed that a key blood marker of cancer could be used to select the most effective treatment for melanoma. The discovery, which has the potential to improve melanoma survival rates, was published today in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal...
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New tool shows main highways of disease development
UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN THE FACULTY OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL SCIENCES As people get older they often jump from disease to disease and carry the burden of more chronic diseases at once. But is there a system in the way diseases follow each other? Danish researchers have for the past six years developed a comprehensive tool,...
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