Oncology
Oncology
Oncology
Breast Cancer Detection Using Ultrasound: Interview with Dr. Georgia Giakoumis Spear, NorthShore University Health System
Detecting breast cancer is of vital importance in terms of treating it early and effectively. Mammography is the gold standard in routinely screening women for breast cancer. However, in a subset of women with dense breast tissue, mammography...
Oncology
Portable Smartphone-Powered DNA Detector Developed at UCLA
At University of California Los Angeles, researchers have developed a portable device and accompanying technology that allows the investigators to amplify and detect DNA and RNA molecules. This development may herald cheap point-of-care genetic...
Oncology
Swarms of Nanoparticles Help Cancer Drug Kill Tumors
Researchers at MIT have discovered that attaching large numbers of polymeric nanoparticles to tumor cells makes those cells more susceptible to resveratrol, a drug that motivates cancer cells to kill themselves. While the nanoparticles don't...
Oncology
Robots Powered by Clinical MRI Machine to Work Inside Body
At the University of Houston researchers are working to develop diagnostic and therapeutic devices that can be steered and powered using the magnetic field of an MRI scanner. So far the researchers have been able to get blocks about two...
Oncology
New Chemo Drug Eluting Beads for Liver Tumors Cleared in Europe
BTG, a company based in London, UK, won European CE Mark clearance for its DC Bead LUMI radiopaque drug-eluting bead. This is the first such device available in Europe. The beads can be loaded with either doxorubicin or irinotecan, commonly...
Oncology
New Technique Spots Pheomelanin in Pale Patients at Risk of Dangerous Melanoma
People with light colored skin, and particularly orange tinted redheads, have high levels of pheomelanin, a type of melanin, in their skin. It is correlated with amelanotic melanoma, a nasty skin cancer that's difficult not only to treat, but...
Oncology
Lasers Measure Cells' Stiffness to Identify Neoplastic Ones
Unusual softness or stiffness is often an indicator of the presence of cancer in what otherwise may look like healthy tissue. There are already devices on the market that feel how elastic a given tissue is, but they come in contact and sample a...
Oncology
Vortex Unveils VTX-1 Liquid Biopsy System for Easy Capture of Circulating Tumor Cells
Vortex Biosciences of Menlo Park, California just launched its VTX-1 Liquid Biopsy System, a device that automates the extraction of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from whole blood. The filter-free technology is based on microfluidic chips...
Oncology
New Technique for Cheaper, More Efficient Single Cell Sequencing
Single-cell sequencing has shown a lot of promise in identifying genetic differences between cells in a given tissue sample. It is particularly useful for understanding heterogeneity and evolution in resected tumors, and is increasingly used for...
Oncology
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