Scientists at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University and Boston Children’s Hospital have developed a cheap, sensitive, and highly accurate way of detecting protein biomarkers. The technology may very well revolutionize diagnostics, disease monitoring, and help stop the spread of infectious pathogens. The nanoswitch-linked immunosorbent (Read more...)
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Leica Wins FDA Clearance for Novel Neurosurgical Microscopy Filter for Detailed View of Blood Flow
Leica Microsystems has announced that it won FDA clearance for its FL560 fluorescence microscope filter to be used with the dye fluorescein to view cerebrovascular blood flow. The filter works with the M530 OH6 neurosurgical microscope, and after injection of fluorescein the surgical team can see blood fluorescing in greenish/yellow while the rest (Read more...)
Risk-On-a-Chip Device Mimics Environment That Causes Breast Cancer
For a long time scientists have been hoping to figure out exactly how and why cancer begins. Spotting the exact moment and location of cells turning cancerous within the body may well be impossible, so we end up studying mostly the progression and development of cancers. Breast cancer in particular has many risk factors, and […]
SETALUM surgical sealant receives CE mark for commercialization in Europe
SETALUM surgical sealant, a bio-inspired surgical glue, has received CE Mark approval, clearing the path to commercialization in Europe. The technology was originally developed at MIT, Harvard Medical School, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, but is now being commercialized by Gecko Biomedical, a biomedical start-up in France. The glue i (Read more...)
National Deaf Awareness Month Interview with Chris Soukup, CEO of Communication Service for the Deaf (CSD)
September is National Deaf Awareness Month. Today, in the United States, there are an estimated 11 million deaf and hard of hearing individuals who still face challenges associated with access to communication and employment. Despite legislation and entitlement programs, 73% of deaf people are not offered sign language interpreters, while 70% (Read more...)
Mauna Kea’s Cellvizio Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy Released Through Cook Medical
Cook Medical has announced that it’s making available the Cellvizio Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy (CLE) System from Mauna Kea Technologies, a company based in Paris, France. Using the system, urologists can microscopically analyze the cellular structure of tissues during ureteroscopic and cystoscopic procedures without taking any samples (Read more...)
Microfluidic Device Suspends Live Cancer Tissue for Weeks to Study How it Spreads Through Body
At the University of Michigan researchers have developed a special microfluidic device that can help to study how cancer spreads to different parts of the body. While microfluidic systems have been in existence for years now, they typically don’t allow cells to live inside them and be monitored for longer than a few days. The […]
Quantum Dots Light Up Tumors Brighter Than Ever Before
Scientists at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) in San Diego, California have devised a way to optically image tumors with unprecedented clarity using quantum dots. These nano structures are tiny particles, only a few nanometers wide, that generate light of a specific wavelength when they’re themselves stimulated by (Read more...)
ClaroNav’s NaviENT FDA Cleared to Guide Endoscopic Sinus Surgery and Skull Base Surgery
ClaroNav, a company headquartered in Toronto, Canada, won FDA clearance for its NaviENT system that gives otolaryngologists information about the location of the tip of an instrument introduced during functional endoscopic sinus and skull base surgeries. During such surgeries, which are performed through the nose, the NaviENT shows the instrument t (Read more...)
Smartphone App to Help Diagnose Concussions Anywhere and Without Expensive Equipment
Concussions are important to detect promptly. Much too often those that are affected go on doing what they were doing, blissfully unaware of being impaired and in serious danger for other injuries and oncoming symptoms of the brain trauma. Now a team at University of Washington has created a smartphone app that tracks the movement of [… (Read more...)
Surgical Pen Can Identify Cancer in Real-Time
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a hand-held surgical “pen” that can analyze tissue samples and tell a surgeon if they are cancerous in just a few seconds. During surgery to remove a tumor, surgeons need to know if they have removed the entire tumor margins, as leaving just a small […]
GE Clears First Mammography System That Lets Patients Control Breast Compression
GE Healthcare won FDA clearance for the first mammography system, the Senographe Pristina Dueta, that lets women undergoing an exam to control how much the device compresses the breasts. As the woman is prepared for the exam, she is handed a small remote control that has a plus and minus buttons on it. The breast […]
Athelas Device Provides Accurate CBC Testing – From Home
For high-risk patients or those with diseases that require constant blood monitoring, going to the doctor for blood tests may soon be a thing of the past. Athelas, a company based in Mountain View, California, announced the launch of a new blood test that has been clinically validated and can be used in the patient’s […]
Virtual Reality Used to Study Origin of Fear and Anxiety
Our irrational fears are both very real and are also figments of our imagination. By manipulating what we think of as reality, researchers at Stanford University are working to understand the source of our anxieties and how to alleviate them. In order to do so, they built a virtual reality chamber where one’s fears can […]
Smartphone Using Its Camera Can Assess Heart Health
A group of researchers in California has developed a smartphone app that can be used to evaluate some aspects of heart health, potentially replacing in some cases more complicated procedures like ultrasound or MRI. In patients with heart failure it is important for doctors to assess how effective the heart is at pumping blood around […]
Camera Sees Endoscope Tip Through Body by Eliminating Scattered Light
Safely tracking the location of the tip of an endoscope while it’s inside the body has posed a serious challenge for biomedical engineers. The benefit of tracking can help to guide an endoscope to its target quickly and accurately. X-rays can be used, but unnecessary radiation is not advised. Now researchers from University of Edinburgh [&hel (Read more...)
Algorithm Makes Smartwatches More Effective Movement Trackers
Researchers at the University of Sussex in the UK have devised an algorithm that helps smartwatches track activity more effectively by learning new movements as they happen, rather than just having a limited number of pre-programmed activities they can recognize. Wearable devices to track movement are currently very popular. At the moment, the (Read more...)
GlideScope Go, a New Portable Video Laryngoscope
Verathon, a company that’s part of Roper Technologies, has released a new portable video laryngoscope, the GlideScope Go. It can be taken to sporting events, disaster zones, or used inside the hospital for routine and “emergent” procedures wherever intubation and/or imaging of the airway is required. GlideScope is already a w (Read more...)
Hologic’s Brevera Breast Biopsy with Built-in Imaging Now Available in U.S.
Hologic is releasing in the U.S. its Brevera breast biopsy system that works to improve the accuracy of biopsies while reducing procedural time. It features so-called Cor-Lumina imaging technology that feeds slices taken by a slicer at the tip of the biopsy needle directly into a multi-section cartridge. After excising each slice, the phy (Read more...)
Nanocages Made of DNA Strands Release Small Molecules to Improve Challenging Studies Inside Body
Many of the activities happening within our bodies are incredibly difficult to study, as some happen in hard to reach places and their timespan is very short. The action of neurosteroids, chemicals that perform an important role in the lives of neurons, is one such topic. Neurosteroids take less than a second to act, and getting anywhere (Read more...)