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Diagnostics World | A team of researchers from Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan, are using nanowires with machine learning analysis to detect cancer-associated miRNAs in urine. Their research findings were published last month online in Analytical Chemistry.
Nov 19, 2024
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Diagnostics World | Placental pathology has potential to reveal critical insights into pregnancy complications, yet it remains underutilized in clinical trials. By incorporating placental evaluations into clinical research, doctors could better understand and treat conditions like preeclampsia and preterm birth, which are currently diagnosed based only on clinical signs.
Nov 15, 2024
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Diagnostics World | Researchers in Israel recently showcased a novel platform that can be used in the future for the early diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease (PD) by quantifying the distribution of alpha-synuclein (α-syn) in skin biopsies. A proof-of-concept study in humans, supported in part by the Michael J. Fox Foundation, suggests the single-molecule-level detection method might enable the disease to be detected up to 20 years before the first motor symptoms appear.
Nov 13, 2024
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Diagnostics World | Recent years have seen progress toward developing tools that are designed to analyze a human breath sample to detect, diagnose, or monitor various health issues. Some of these efforts have focused on combating deadly infectious diseases, with intentions of creating cost-effective, easy-to-use breathalyzers capable of being deployed in rural, remote, and low-resource settings.
Nov 12, 2024
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Diagnostics World | A next-generation liquid biopsy approach combining cell-free DNA (cfDNA) “fragmentome” and protein biomarker analyses could aid in the early detection of ovarian cancer, suggests a recent study by researchers in the U.S., The Netherlands, and Denmark. The DELFI-Pro classifier was found to have a high positive predictive value, a key accuracy metric.
Nov 7, 2024