Analysis of Microscopic Images: New Open-Source Software Makes AI Models Lighter & Greener

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26-Jan-2024 - Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an indispensable component in the analysis of microscopic data. However, while AI models are becoming better and more complex, the computing power and associated energy consumption are also increasing. Researchers at the Leibniz-Institut für Analytische ...

Tears instead of Blood

Sensor with separation capability: diagnosing jaundice using tear fluids

28-Jun-2022 - Human tear fluids contain many proteins, metabolites, and other molecules whose concentrations change significantly with certain diseases. A research team has now developed a handy test kit for tears that can identify patients with jaundice. Their success is based on a hybrid sensor that ...

Exposure to phthalates could be linked to pregnancy loss

04-Sep-2015 - A new study of more than 300 women suggests that exposure to certain phthalates could be associated with miscarriage, mostly between 5 and 13 weeks of pregnancy. The research is the first epidemiological study on non-work-related exposure to phthalates to provide evidence for the possible link ...

Gold nanoparticles show promise for early detection of heart attacks

20-Jan-2015 - NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering professors have been collaborating with researchers from Peking University on a new test strip that is demonstrating great potential for the early detection of certain heart attacks.Kurt H. Becker, a professor in the Department of Applied Physics and the ...

Discovery spotlights key role of mystery RNA modification in cells

08-Jan-2014 - Researchers had known for several decades that a certain chemical modification exists on messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA), which is essential to the flow of genetic information. But only recently did experiments at the University of Chicago show that one major function of this modification ...

Capturing live tumor cells in the blood

12-Aug-2013 - Tumor cells circulating within a patient's bloodstream can carry cancer from a primary tumor site to distant sites of the body, spreading the disease. Now a team of researchers in China has developed a new microfluidic chip that can quickly and efficiently segregate and capture live circulating ...

Chips make short work of RNA synthesis

26-Jan-2011 - Chinese scientists have developed a much easier way to make the short strands of RNA that are an essential tool in understanding what genes do. Short interfering ribonucleic acids (siRNAs) were first discovered in 1999, and found to interfere with the expression of specific genes – thus giving ...