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Diagnostics World | Researchers in Sweden who previously introduced a hydrogel wound dressing constructed of nanocellulose that requires no changing have further improved on their innovation with the integration of a pH sensor to passively monitor for early signs of infection. In parallel, they’re working on antimicrobial substances based on lipopeptides that are showing potency against multiple types of bacteria.
May 10, 2023
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Diagnostics World | Whereas some detection and diagnosis tools search for mutations in certain genes or analyze the genome, an international group of researchers spanning Canada, the UK, and Australia has created an atlas of pediatric cancer using a machine-learning algorithm that considers the whole transcriptome.
May 9, 2023
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Diagnostics World News | Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has revolutionized molecular biology and served as a universal tool for many research avenues across the spectrum of biology. With the NGS market expanding, three key barriers—time, cost, and expertise—are holding back the potential of NGS and the full impact it could have on society, diagnostics, and precision medicine.
May 5, 2023
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Diagnostics World News | The first-ever wearable sensor for monitoring muscle atrophy has been developed by researchers at The Ohio State University thanks to an interest in the muscle-shrinking condition by NASA, which has been funding most of the work to date.
May 4, 2023
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Diagnostics World News | Researchers at Pennsylvania State University are leading the development of a lateral flow assay for mpox (monkeypox), which in another few years could join pregnancy tests on retail pharmacy shelves. The more immediate plan is to produce a rapid, point-of-care (POC) test for low-resource settings that involves a smartphone or other small reader capable of differentiating mpox from smallpox based on the light bouncing back from gold nanoparticles underpinning the platform.
May 2, 2023