Medical Diagnostics

Inspired by the surface of butterfly wings, researchers have developed a light-activated hydrogen sensor that produces ultra-precise results at room temperature. The technology can detect hydrogen leaks well before they pose safety risks and can measure tiny amounts of the gas on people's breath, fo more

When researchers examined the DNA of Ötzi, a man entombed in ice high in the Tyrolean Alps some 5,300 years ago, they made a startling discovery. Secreted within the tangles of the ice man's genetic code was evidence he'd been infected with a bacterial pathogen, Borrelia burgdorferi. Ötzi is the fir more

A technology that can obtain high-resolution, micrometer-sized images for mass spectrometric analysis without sample preparation has been developed. DGIST Research Fellow Jae Young Kim and Chair-professor Dae Won Moon's team succeeded in developing the precise analysis and micrometer-sized imaging o more

Medical Diagnostics Getting medical diagnostic tools to areas in developing countries with few resources has always been a considerable challenge. Bhamla et al. have created a centrifuge mostly made of paper, which they call the “paperfuge.” It is cheap to make, lightweight, and easy to operate more

Medical Diagnostics Many diseases can be diagnosed by detecting nucleic acid or protein biomarkers, but, with few exceptions, this detection requires complex and costly instruments. Du et al. adapted commercially available pregnancy kits for affordable and fast point-of-care diagnostics. In the more

Publication date: November 2016 Source:Acta Biomaterialia, Volume 45 Author(s): Agata Kowalczyk, Edyta Matysiak-Brynda, Michal Bystrzejewski, Duncan S. Sutherland, Zbigniew Stojek, Anna M. Nowicka The control of the interactions of proteins with the support matrix plays a key role more