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NPL launches Metrology for Medical Physics Centre, MEMPHYS
MEMPHYS will work closely with the NHS, academia and industry to enable the rapid and widespread implementation of a host of new diagnostic and therapeutic technologies.
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Flexible warped nano-graphene shows promise for fluorescent cell imaging
An international team of scientists has developed a water-soluble warped nanographene, that is biocompatible and shows promise for fluorescent cell imaging...
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Diffusion kurtosis imaging differentiates benign breast lesions from malignancies
An MRI technique that requires no contrast agent, combined with sophisticated data analysis, could reduce the number of unnecessary breast biopsies...
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Psoriasis drug found to reduce aortic vascular inflammation
An antibody used to treat the skin disease psoriasis is also effective at reducing aortic inflammation, a key marker of future risk of major cardiovascular events...
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NIR identifies breast cancer patients who will benefit from chemotherapy
Scientists have developed a new optical imaging system that uses red and near-infrared light to identify breast cancer patients who will respond to chemotherapy...
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Blood test detects early stages of Alzheimer’s disease
Scientists have developed and validated a blood test for Alzheimer’s disease, with the potential to massively ramp up the pace of Alzheimer’s disease drug trials...
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Microbubbles make breast cancer more susceptible to radiation therapy
Bursting oxygen-filled microbubbles in breast cancer makes tumours three times more sensitive to radiation therapy in preliminary tests with animal models of the disease...
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AI technology significantly improves human kidney analysis
The ability to quantify the extent of kidney damage and predict the life remaining in the kidney is now possible using a computer model based on artificial intelligence...
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3F4AP tracer can measure demyelination in multiple sclerosis
PET imaging may improve diagnosis and monitoring for MS patients...
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Scientists develop powerful technique to study the secrets of nanodomains
A team of UK scientists have harnessed an innovative new method to gain a greater understanding of signalling stations within living cells, called nanodomains.
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Advances in PET settle debate over spread of key protein in Alzheimer’s
Advances in brain imaging have enabled scientists to show for the first time that a key protein which causes nerve cell death spreads throughout the brain in Alzheimer's disease...
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Application Note: Raman imaging in medical diagnosis and treatment
Confocal Raman imaging is a non-destructive microscopy technique that can identify the molecules in a sample and visualise their distribution in three dimensions...
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Application note: Raman Hyperspectral Imaging: an essential tool in the pharmaceutical field
Resulting from the combination of Raman spectroscopy and optical microscopy, Raman hyperspectral imaging has proven to be an indispensable tool in the pharmaceutical field. This article will broach a number of Raman hyperspectral imaging applications that were developed in our laboratory, to demonstrate the significance of the technique...
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Cancer detection using light-emitting nanoparticles
Light-emitting nanoprobes can detect cancer early and track the spread of tiny tumours...
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Horiba Scientific introduces new clue series detectors for scanning electron microscopes
HORIBA CLUE Series offer a scalable platform for imaging and spectroscopic analysis of nano-objects with SEM and dual SEM/FIB (Focused Ion Beam) microscopes...
