"The University of West Florida is very grateful for the support of Governor Scott, the Board of Governors, and the Legislature for this facility,” said UWF President Martha D. Saunders. “I am especially thankful to our local delegation for their hard work over the last four years to secure the funding. This annex would not have been possible without their diligence on o...
The accommodation of relocation of Chemistry and some Biology laboratories into the new building also allowed for the renovation of vacated space in the existing Neils Science Center for other programs such as Anatomy and Physics teaching laboratories and faculty/student research laboratories. The new facility is approximately 60,500 gsf and houses 21,800 nsf of lab...
The lab is located in the heart of the Georgia Tech campus on the second floor of the Van Leer Building. The Robotarium is a unique space in which researchers from around the world can run robotics experiments either in person or remotely. A 12-foot by 14-foot white rectangular solid surface serves as the arena, where all the experiments occur. Hidden along the perime...
In a recent episode of “The Future of Everything,” host Russ Altman, MD, PhD, sat down with Stanford bioengineer Michael Fischbach, PhD, to discuss the growing knowledge of the bacteria in our bodies, their role in our health, and how researchers like Fischbach are shaping the future of microbiome-mediated disease therapy. “When we hear the word bacteria we often thin...
Microscope historian Clara Sue Ball ties this delay to quality difficulties and scientists’ inability to fully comprehend the instrument’s potential. “Ball’s hypothesis reminds me of the current state of electronic health records (EHRs),” Minor wrote in Fortune. Today, EHRs digitally document nearly all patient care delivered in the United States. This achievement sho...
Devastating consequences of Zika virus infection are suffered in the womb, where the virus can cause brain damage and sometimes death. Studying pregnant mice, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have learned that the Zika virus infects the fetus by manipulating the body’s normal barrier to infection. Moreover, they showed that a malari...
And these devices, actually handheld computers, are starting to change how healthcare is delivered. Smartphones now can replace blood pressure cuffs, thermometers and stethoscopes. But even more dramatic applications are in the works. They will be able to perform clinical tests on patients, even in rural areas or resource-poor developing countries. Two US projects cur...
Right now, if you want to create a new gene — maybe to make a tomato plant more bug resistant or to add a modification to your army of supersoldier goats — the process is slow and expensive. Bases, the building blocks of genetic code, get added one at a time to a growing strand of DNA. The process sometimes fails, and it always runs out of juice once a sequence reaches j...
We wanted to see what the teensy beasties — they grow no larger than 1 millimeter, or about the thickness of a credit card — would look like through the lenses of these off-the-shelf microscopes. Along the way, we learned quite a bit about the microscopes themselves. And while this wasn't the most rigorous test to find the best scope for kids — our tester spent about 6 h...
Cell cannibalism in tumor samples has been observed for over a century, yet this unusual behavior is not well studied. New research led by scientists at the Babraham Institute, Cambridge reveals a new mechanism driving cell cannibalism that offers surprising insights into cancer biology. Cell cannibalism, also called entosis, occurs when one cell surrounds, kills and ...
Via email, Jonathan Hirsch, founder and president of San Francisco, California-based Syapse, discussed what stands in the way of making precision medicine standard across cancer care. Hirsch is a speaker at the upcoming MedCity CONVERGE conference in Philadelphia. This exchange has been lightly edited. Why is precision medicine the future of cancer care? Precisi...
Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) of A*STAR have engineered a three-dimensional heart tissue from human stem cells to test the safety and efficacy of new drugs on the heart. "Cardiotoxicity, which can lead to heart failure and even death, is a major cause of drug withdrawal from the market. Antibiotics, anticancer and antidiabetic...
EKF Diagnostics announces U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance and CLIA waiver for the Company’s hand-held, reagent-free hemoglobin analyzer, the DiaSpect Tm. The device is cleared for use in point of care (POC) and Certificate of Waiver settings, such as physicians’ offices, clinics and other non-traditional laboratory locations.
TOKYO, April 2, 2018 ― PHC Holdings Corporation (headquarters: Tokyo, Japan) announces its company name change from Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd. to PHC Holdings Corporation, effective April 1, 2018. ● New Company Name (Trade Name) PHC Holdings Corporation ● New Corporate Brand Name and Brand Tagline Together with the company name change, PHC Holdings Cor...
The study, published in Clinical Infectious Diseases and funded by Wellcome, shows that patients can have HIV in the brain even when the disease is kept under control by treatment. "Before we had effective treatments for HIV, AIDS often led to dementia and other problems in the brain," explains senior author Ravi Gupta (UCL Infection & Immunity), who is also an Honora...
A team of researchers, led by life science professor Yoon-Kyoung Cho of at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has recently developed a new technique that effectively identifies cancer-causing substances in the urine or blood. In the study, Cho, a group leader at IBS Research Center for Soft and Living Matter (CSLM) presented an integrated c...
The Science Knowing the extent of microbial diversity, especially gene editing, can help scientists solve energy and cleanup challenges. Using large amounts of genetic data, researchers analyzed 155 million protein-coding genes from uncultivated microbial communities. This work led to the discovery of the first CRISPR- (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromi...
The approach works for many different types of cancers, including those that arise spontaneously, the Stanford study found. The researchers believe the local application of very small amounts of the agents could serve as a rapid and relatively inexpensive cancer therapy that is unlikely to cause the adverse side effects often seen with bodywide immune stimulation. ...
There is good news from Spain about an upcoming opportunity for printing human skin to support burn victims and others who will be requiring skin replacement at reasonable costs. This follows the feat of Spanish biologists in making a 3D bioprinter prototype for creating a functional human skin. The research was conducted at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Hospital Gen...
Current MS instruments are bulky, expensive, and typically specialize in one class of chemicals, discouraging widespread use outside of a specialized lab setting. Better technology is needed to make more flexible instruments. Research being conducted at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY, USA) uses an atmospheric-pressure glow discharge plasma – a partially ioniz...
There presently are no known current biomarker-based diagnostics for preterm births, and doctors typically only pay attention to women who have other clear risk factors. However with the help from a palm-sized plastic rectangle doctors are hoping to minimize the problem of premature deliveries. The chip is designed to predict, with up to 90% accuracy, a woman's risk for ...
Just as Henry Ford applied automation to car manufacturing and the McDonald brothers introduced automation to fast food, laboratory science is currently undergoing its own automation revolution. And just as it did for the car and fast-food industries, this push toward automation is changing the way laboratories do business. Countless processes—from the highly complex ...
Strong odors are an indicator that food has gone bad, but there could soon be a new way to sniff foul smells earlier on. As reported in ACS Nano, researchers have developed a bioelectronic “nose” that can specifically detect a key decay compound at low levels, enabling people to potentially take action before the stink spreads. It can detect rotting food, as well as be u...
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have created a new lab-grown blood vessel replacement that is composed completely of biological materials, but surprisingly doesn't contain any living cells at implantation. The vessel, that could be used as an "off the shelf" graft for kidney dialysis patients, performed well in a recent study with nonhuman primates. It is t...
Engineered tissue containing human stem cells has allowed paraplegic rats to walk independently and regain sensory perception. The implanted rats also show some degree of healing in their spinal cords. The research, published in Frontiers in Neuroscience, demonstrates the great potential of stem cells -- undifferentiated cells that can develop into numerous different typ...
The latest findings of a rare genetic mutation called SERPINE1 found in the DNA of the small community of Old Order Amish in Berne, Indiana is reported in the journal Science Advances this week. The mutation was associated with longer lifespans, longer telomeres at the ends of chromosomes, better cardiovascular health, and the non-existence of diabetes, the researcher...
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts” is an adage that applies to many concepts in biology. For genetic screens, however, it is the individual parts, i.e. the individual cells, that are the focus of the next generation of CRISPR-Cas9 screens. Single mutants within a population reveal new findings that could revolutionize target discovery and offer fresh insigh...
Raritan, NJ and Cardiff, Wales — (October 11, 2017) — Ortho Clinical Diagnostics (Ortho), a global leader of in vitro diagnostics, and EKF Diagnostics (EKF) today announced an agreement that allows Ortho customers to access EKF’s Stanbio Chemistry Beta-Hydroxybutyrate (BHB) LiquiColor® assay. This is an important marker used in conjunction with clinical findings and othe...
HORIBA, Ltd. (Headquarter in Kyoto, Japan) and HORIBA ABX S.A.S. (Headquarter in Montpellier, France, referred to as HORIBA Medical) announced today that it has entered into a long term agreement with Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. (Headquarter in NY, USA, referred to as Siemens Healthineers). The agreement will combine the complementary innovative technology off...
Professor Nicholas Dale in the School of Life Sciences has identified for the first time that tanycytes – cells found in part of the brain that controls energy levels – detect nutrients in food and tell the brain directly about the food we have eaten. According to the new research, tanycytes in the brain respond to amino acids found in foods, via the same receptors th...
Their creation will marry EHR technologies and clinical decision support (CDS) techniques to screen patients for breast cancer and colorectal cancer. The tool will pinpoint those who are at high risk for these types of cancer. It will also offer individualized evidence so clinicians and patients can understand proper screening strategies. Researchers from the Salt ...
Immunotherapy is a rapidly growing field in which the immune system of patients is manipulated in order to fight disease, and in which considerable progress in the treatment of cancer, above all, has been reported in recent time. One of the best-established and most effective immunological therapies is allogeneic stem cell transplantation for leukaemia, in which the pati...
Scientists at the University of Oxford have developed a new method to 3D-print laboratory-grown cells to form living structures. The approach could revolutionize regenerative medicine, enabling the production of complex tissues and cartilage that would potentially support, repair, or augment diseased and damaged areas of the body. In research published in the journ...
The explosion of data storage capability and concomitant drop in cost makes all this possible. The multiple layers of abstraction compiled by deep learning is nudging the computerized interpretation of medical imagery forward. The goal is to recognize patterns better and faster than humans can. Today, radiologists still out-perform machines, but the computers are gaining...
A new analysis method that uses fetal DNA extracted from the mother's blood is designed to non-invasively reach a prenatal diagnosis of genetic disorders in a child. A task force of the Hahn Schickard Society for Applied Research is an active part of the "ANGELab" project and co-developed this diagnostic procedure. The project name "ANGELab" is an acronym for "A new g...
What is Anemia? Anemia, a disorder characterized by a lower-than-normal red blood cell count and insufficient hemoglobin levels, affects approximately 25% of the population or 1.6 billion people worldwide.[1] Iron-deficiency anemia represents the most common etiology; however, the causes are diverse and can be based on a patient’s health and/or geographic status,2 for...
