The pandemic spurred the diagnostics industry to consider aspects like scale, affordability, speed and portability of tests.
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Lab testing provides doctors with essential information to help them diagnose and treat disease. Here’s what happens behind the scenes after you roll up your sleeve for a blood draw.
A technology that measures three-dimensional movement of the knee in real-time enables health professionals to make better assessments of the joint.
Scientists at Cambridge are developing a lab-in-a-briefcase for rapidly and cheaply identifying disease-causing bacteria.
An AI trained to look at heart scans was able to successfully predict risk of death. But one expert cautions we still need to be careful about designing – and using – AI for medical diagnosis.
Even though you don’t think of your mobile phone as being anything like a microscope, it’s got almost all the parts you need.
Has your doctor ever taken a photo of your medical condition? It’s really useful to aid diagnosis, but we still don’t have the right legislation to ensure legal and ethical protections.
QuRapID can find Ebola in a drop of blood in just over an hour.
Antibiotics are wrongly being prescribed for infections where they won’t work and cutting this down could help combat resistance. But change isn’t as easy as just providing the means.
The value of machine learning is not only that it is more accurate than humans. It is also cheaper and more consistent in its diagnoses.
Cognitive traps can steer doctors away from the right diagnosis.
Theranos has had medical laboratory experts scratching their heads for some time. What the company was promising just didn’t make a lot of sense.
Face blindness is believed to be a fairly common condition but, until now, diagnosis has been complicated and expensive
New tests and drugs have always impacted health care. But completely different kinds of emerging technologies will soon radically alter how health care is both accessed and delivered.
Complex algorithms and personalised medicine promise a new way of diagnosing disease.
Reagent pencils, the Caran d'Ache of the chemical world.
Every year, 300,000 children are born with sickle-cell disease, primarily in Africa and India. It is a genetic disorder that causes some blood cells to become abnormally shaped. The result is that those…
Remote diagnostics is an emerging field that allows healthcare workers to perform tests on patient samples in the field and to get results interpreted by medical experts remotely. This is a groundbreaking…
Average life expectancy has nearly doubled since 1800, thanks to progress in medicine. Most of that was made by developing drugs and improving public health services. The medical revolution of the 21st…
Rapid developments in tools to study complex interactions are transforming biology and biomedical research. A series of powerful analytical methods coined “omics” is driving us away from reductionist approaches…
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