Diagnosis

Zoetis to Acquire Abaxis, a Leading Global Provider of Veterinary Point-of-Care Diagnostic Instruments

July 13, 2018

–Zoetis Inc. (NYSE:ZTS) and Abaxis, Inc. (NASDAQ:ABAX) today announced a definitive merger agreement pursuant to which Zoetis will acquire Abaxis, a leader in the development, manufacture and marketing of diagnostic instruments for [more...]

Interview with Vortex Biosciences’ Microfluidic Technology

June 10, 2018

Personalized medicine is a term we’ve heard for years. The ability to tailor a patient’s treatment type and dosage to obtain the best response is a holy grail for cancer researchers and clinicians. To this end, new technologies are in [more...]

Handheld Spectral Analyzer Turns Smartphone Into Diagnostic Tool

August 16, 2017

The spectral transmission-reflectance-intensity (TRI)-Analyzer attaches to a smartphone and analyzes patient blood, urine, or saliva samples as reliably as clinic-based instruments that cost thousands of dollars. Researchers at the [more...]

‘Lab on a Chip’ Could Monitor Exposure to Dangerous Molecules

August 1, 2017

An artists’ rendition of microparticles flowing through a channel and passing through electric fields, where they are detected electronically and barcode-scanned (Photo: Ella Marushchenko and Alexander Tokarev/Ella Maru Studios) [more...]

UCLA Researchers Make DNA Detection Portable, Affordable Using Cell Phones

March 27, 2017

The combined dye/cellphone reader system achieved comparable results to equipment costing tens of thousands of dollars more (Image Credit: Dino Di Carlo/UCLA) Researchers at UCLA have developed an improved method to detect the presence [more...]

mFluiDx Uses Mobile and the Cloud to Enable Disease Diagnosis in the Field

September 18, 2016

The Zika outbreak continues to worry the world, yet diagnosing the virus, and any other viruses for that matter, requires a test that is complicated and expensive, not mention difficult to get in and out of the field. mFluiDx is a startup [more...]

Philips Launches Handheld Blood Test for Rapid Point-of-Care Heart Attack Diagnosis

May 28, 2016

Minicare I-20 troponin blood test for rapid diagnosis of heart attack near the patient (Image Credit: Philips) Royal Philips today (25 May) announced the launch of a new handheld blood test, the Minicare I-20 system, for rapid diagnosis [more...]

Infrared Sensor Aims for Earliest Alzheimer’s Detection

May 9, 2016

A simple, label-free diagnostic test that uses infrared (IR) light aims for Alzheimer’s disease detection more than 15 years before clinical symptoms appear. The work is promising for drug research because it may ease development of [more...]