Articles By Joel Lindsey

11. Heat-Seeking Missile Tech Used For Malaria Diagnosis 7/22/2014

    Researchers at Monash University and the University of Melbourne have devised a way to use hardware from heat-seeking missiles to produce a test for early and reliable malaria diagnosis. In the project, researchers used a special infrared sensor called a focal plane array (FPA), which was originally created for use in Javelin anti-tank missiles, to seek out the presence of malaria in a blood sample. When the FPA was used in conjunction with an infrared imaging microscope to test a blood smear, it successfully detected the infrared signature from fatty acids in the malaria parasites, enabling researchers to consistently identify malaria-infested blood at early stages of infection.

12. New Software Could Improve Consistency Of Cancer Diagnosis 7/22/2014

    Researchers at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna have developed software that they say could accurately and consistently diagnose cancer by identifying cell structures and proteins specific to cancer cells.

13. Can Squid Skin Help Power Future Biomedical Devices? 7/22/2014

    A team of researchers at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) has discovered that a protein called reflectin, which is naturally present in squid skin, is a conductor of positive electrical charges — a quality that could be relevant for future medical device applications.

14. Researchers Turn Stem Cells Into Blood 7/21/2014

    Using two newly discovered genetic programs, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) have successfully turned human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) into a variety of blood cells — including red blood cells, white blood cells, and megakaryocytes.

15. Self-Assembling Nanoparticles Could Improve Cancer Diagnosis 7/21/2014

    Researchers at Imperial College London have created a new nanoparticle that they say could effectively target cancer tumors and make it significantly easier for these tumors to appear in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans.

16. Can Retinal Imaging Predict Early-Stage Alzheimer's? 7/21/2014

    A group of researchers may have discovered a way to use a noninvasive retinal imaging device to reliably predict Alzheimer’s disease years before its actual onset.

17. Plasmonic, Microchip-Based Test Could Improve Diabetes Diagnosis 7/17/2014

    Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have created a new microchip that uses nanotechnology to diagnose type-1 diabetes.

18. Google And Novartis Team Up To Develop “Smart Lens” Technology 7/16/2014

    Medical company Novartis recently announced an agreement between its eye care division Alcon and Google’s innovative tech lab Google[x] to in-license Google’s “smart lens” technology in order to develop and commercialize a range of ocular medical products.

19. St. Jude Medical To Acquire NeuroTherm For $200 Million, Enter RFA Market 7/16/2014

    St. Jude Medical recently announced a definite agreement to purchase NeuroTherm, a medical device company that manufactures interventional pain management technologies.

20. Foam Injector Could Stanch Blood Loss For Wounded Soldiers 7/15/2014

    A team of undergraduate researchers at Johns Hopkins University has developed an injectable medical foam system for use by soldiers that could help reduce blood loss in serious wounds at junctional body sites — areas of the body that are difficult to treat effectively with a tourniquet or gauze.