AI algorithm used to measure breast density
17 October 2018 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
The algorithm has the potential to standardise and automate routine breast density assessment, with AI being central to breast cancer risk assessment...
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Electromagnetic imaging using portable microwave devices
3 October 2018 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
The EMERALD project is supporting 13 PhD students for the development of a portable imaging device that can allow real-time imaging...
Ultra-thin meta lens enables full colour imaging
3 October 2018 | By Iqra Farooq (European Pharmaceutical Review)
A meta lens developed by researchers at only one micron thick, has the ability to perform better than any compound lens currently available...
Sildenafil could be linked to irreversible colour vision damage
2 October 2018 | By Iqra Farooq (European Pharmaceutical Review)
Retinal damage and long term vision problems have been identified in a patient who took a dose of slidenafil citrate over the recommended limit...
NIAID plan for in-depth tuberculosis research
27 September 2018 | By Iqra Farooq (European Pharmaceutical Review)
NIAID has released a plan for research in the infectious disease TB in order to strengthen efforts and resolve to attack this disease...
Developing a new radioactive marker for cancer diagnosis and detection
12 July 2018 | By Dr Zara Kassam (European Pharmaceutical Review)
Scientists are conducting a joint study to develop a radioactive marker, based on nanoparticles, for the detection of cancer...
SLAM microscopy could enable real-time diagnostics, map cancer progression
21 June 2018 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
A new microscope system can image living tissue in real time and in molecular detail, without any chemicals or dyes...
JSM could lead to improved arthritis treatment
18 June 2018 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
An algorithm to monitor the joints of patients with arthritis, which could change the way that the severity of the condition is assessed...
New method helps make orthotopic brain-tumour imaging clearer and faster
11 June 2018 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
A research team have reported the first NIR-II fluorescent molecule with aggregation-induced-emission (AIE) characteristics for dual fluorescence and photoacoustic imaging...
ImmunoPET imaging noninvasively pinpoints colitis inflammation
6 June 2018 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
A novel PET imaging method shows promise for noninvasively pinpointing sites of inflammation in people with inflammatory bowel disease...
PROM microscopy analyses cellular focal adhesion dynamics
4 June 2018 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
Researchers have developed a new form of microscopy that allows them to observe the formation and evolution of cell membrane focal adhesions...
Innovative light-delivery technique improves biosensors
22 May 2018 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
An innovative way to inject light into tiny silicon microdisks could help meet the need for practical chip-based sensors to detect cancer and other diseases.
Artificial Intelligence improves stroke and dementia diagnosis in CT brain scan
21 May 2018 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
Machine learning has detected one of the commonest causes of dementia and stroke, in the most widely used form of brain scan (CT), more accurately than current methods.
TXA may benefit stroke patients
18 May 2018 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
Patients with stroke caused by bleeding on the brain may benefit from receiving a drug currently used to treat blood loss from major trauma and bleeding after childbirth...
NIH funds three national cryo-EM service centres and training for new microscopists
18 May 2018 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
The NIH is supporting efforts to broaden biomedical scientists’ access to cryo-electron microscopy, the imaging method that is revolutionising structural biology...
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