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NewsUS children’s hospital takes delivery of one of world’s most powerful NMR spectrometers
Instrument offers unprecedented opportunities to study disease development
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Research
Wood microfluidics carve out a niche
Teflon-coated wood devices perform as well as plastic equivalents but face some challenges before they can realise their clinical and sustainable potential
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Sponsored
Through the looking glass: a digital future for healthcare
As the digital revolution continues to disrupt even the world’s most established business sectors, the pharmaceutical industry will need to shift and adapt if it is to realise its vision for the future of healthcare
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Research
Poly(ionic liquid)s respond like taste buds in new saccharide detection system
System that exploits non-covalent interactions between ionic liquid moieties and carbohydrates could have multiple real-world applications
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Research
Saliva test uses surface imprinting to recognise Zika
Sensor matches surface roughness of its electrode with Zika’s dimensions and generates results within 20 minutes
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Business
Smartwound dressings spot infection early
Bacterial toxins burst dye-filled vesicles to give a visual warning
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News
Genome sequencing for healthy dismissed as waste of time for UK project
Personalised medicine plan unlikely to deliver any benefits for the wider population
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Personalised medicine has failed to live up to the hype, researchers claim
Predictions that Human Genome Project would usher in an era of tailored therapies have largely failed to come true
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Feature
Ready for a Raman shift
Raman spectroscopy has been seen as a tool for physicists and chemists but Hayley Bennett finds it has the potential to cause a major shift in the way we do medicine
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Research
Self-illuminating nanoparticles shine a light on cancer
Tumours trigger luminescence for imaging, then production of singlet oxygen to kill cancer cells
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Research
Pore-forming toxins detect long strands of DNA
Lithium electrolyte helps aerolysin overcome electrostatic obstacle to detect ssDNA longer than 100 nucleotides
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Self-powered cancer therapy triple whammy
Diagnosis, drug delivery and effectiveness monitoring combination could realise precision cancer therapy
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Wearable sensor checks blood alcohol content using sweat
Device shows how sweat could be used as a non-invasive source of biochemical information
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Business
Transforming PET imaging with silicon
Fuzionaire Diagnostics can add Si–18F radiolabels to a variety of molecules quickly, easily and cheaply
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Research
Deep tissue penetration allows fluorophore to guide tumour surgery
Bioimaging probe excited by longer wavelengths of light but doesn’t suffer from long-term retention in the immune system
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Nanopore sensors make breakthrough in monitoring health and disease
Biosensor simultaneously measures metabolite biomarkers in bodily fluids
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Simple test behind early cancer diagnosis breakthrough
Technique combines rolling circle amplification with time-gated Förster resonance energy transfer to detect cancer microRNA
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Feature
The nuclear option
Using radioisotopes to image inside patients’ bodies – nuclear medicine – is under threat from ageing reactors. James Mitchell Crow discovers the new science trying to fix the problem
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Research
Blood markers link firefighters' lung disease to WTC attacks
Firefighters who developed lung disease after responding to 11 September attacks in New York connected to specific metabolic profile
