APRIL 25TH, 2023 CONN HASTINGS DIAGNOSTICS, MEDICINE, PUBLIC HEALTH Researchers at Penn State have engineered a rapid testing technology for mpox, previously known as monkeypox. The mpox virus, which is transmitted through close contact with an infected person and that spread around the world last year, left healthcare staff grappling with a new problem. As the disease...
by National Institutes of Health Duplex lateral flow assay for typhoid and malaria. Several drops of human serum are placed in the cartridge at the bottom. As the sample flows across the test strip in the cartridge, the red balls (nanoparticles) detect typhoid creating a red line and the blue nanoparticles detect malaria creating a...
by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Creative rendition of SARS-CoV-2 particles (not to scale). Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH In a large prospective study of just over 1,000 patients ages 17 and younger who were seen at the Baltimore Convention Center Field Hospital (BCCFH) testing site during a seven-month period...
by Queen Mary, University of London Credit: CC0 Public Domain Telomeropathies are caused by premature shortening of the tips of chromosomes, the DNA molecules which contain our genetic information. They can result in a range of symptoms, including bone marrow failure, pulmonary fibrosis, cancer and liver disease in adults and children. There are currently about 1,000...
by Universitaet Tübingen © 2021 American Chemical Society An international research team involving the universities of Paraná (Brazil) and Tübingen (Germany) has developed a rapid test that can reliably identify COVID-19 antibodies in the blood within minutes. As the researchers report in the journal ACS Sensors, the new process is based on a simple measuring principle making it easy to carry...
Led by Tony Hu, the Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Biotechnology Innovation at Tulane University School of Medicine, researchers at Tulane, Baylor College of Medicine and NanoPin Technologies, Inc. are now developing a rapid, reliable and highly specific test to allow rapid diagnosis of all forms of Tuberculosis (TB), the leading worldwide cause of death from...
When patients present with neurologic symptoms such as severe headaches or seizures, the symptoms could suggest anything from infection, cancer, or an autoimmune disease of the brain or spinal cord, leaving physicians scrambling to find the cause in a short amount of time. The differences in diagnosis can mean having mere hours to act or...
