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NEW YORK, May 14, 2020 — The olfactory system that lets mammals detect and identify odors starts with a wide array of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), which are located on olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) that comprise the olfactory epithelium, a thin layer of tissue...
Kinetic River Cytometer Installed at National Cancer Institute
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 1, 2017 — Custom flow cytometry instrumentation developer Kinetic River Corp. has delivered its flagship Potomac modular flow cytometer to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, Maryland. The cytometer was installed in the laboratory of Dr. William...
Fluorescence Sensor Diagnoses Diabetes
STANFORD, Calif., July 17, 2014 — A microchip that detects fluorescent signatures of antibodies associated with Type 1 diabetes could aid in prevention and early intervention. Created by a team from the Stanford University School of Medicine, the portable gold plasmonic microchip...
Penn Researchers Get $8M to Study Effects of PDT on Lung Cancer
PHILADELPHIA, July 10, 2014 — An $8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute will fund a four-year study of the effects of photodynamic therapy (PDT) on a rare lung cancer associated with asbestos. The study, involving 102 patients diagnosed with malignant pleural...
Combined Imaging, Treatment Regime Targets Tumors
CINCINNATI, May 15, 2014 — Certain types of brain tumors are difficult to image and detect, making them even more difficult to treat. A team from the Cincinnati Cancer Center and the University of Cincinnati Cancer Institute has discovered a new approach to in vivo imaging of...
High-Tech Glasses Show Cancer Cells
ST. LOUIS, March 14, 2014 — Distinguishing between cancer cells and healthy cells could become easier for surgeons. And all they'll need to do is put on glasses.
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Updated PDT Targets, Destroys Cancer Cells
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Diagnostic Nanoparticle Tools Target Cancer
ATLANTA, Nov. 3, 2010 — Using two grants from the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Nanotechnology Platform Partnerships (CNPP) program totaling $4.7 million, researchers are targeting head, neck and pancreatic cancer with diagnostic and therapeutic nanoparticle...
Multispectral Endoscopes on Horizon
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Omega Optical, Spectral Molecular Win SBIR Award
BRATTLEBORO, Vt., Aug. 18, 2010 — Omega Optical Inc. announced it has won a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research award from the National Cancer Institute to develop a high-speed fiber optic-based optical spectrum analyzer (OSA) that will be interfaced to confocal scanning...
ID’ing Molecules from the Briny Deep
ABERDEEN, UK, and ZURICH, Switzerland, Aug. 11, 2010 — In a pioneering research project, scientists at IBM and the University of Aberdeen have collaborated to “see” the structure of a marine compound from the deepest place on the Earth using an atomic force microscope (AFM). The results of...
Zecotek Green Fiber Laser Scores High
SINGAPORE, July 20, 2010 — Zecotek Photonics Inc. announced that the National Cancer Institute, a division of the US National Institute of Health (NIH), has released positive test results conducted on Zecotek’s proprietary tunable green fiber laser. Dr. William Telford,...
Safe Luminescent Nanoflakes
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Tumor-targeting Nanodevices
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Sept. 12, 2008 – Dubbed nano-sized cargo ships, scientists from UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and MIT are boasting a nanodevice that sails through the bloodstream and attacks cancerous tumors, while avoiding rapid removal by the body’s natural immune system. “The...
Cutting Cancer by Color
BOSTON, Aug. 21, 2008 — The key to a successful cancer surgery is the removal of all of the diseased tissue, but sometimes tumor boundaries can be difficult to track. However, researchers in Massachusetts have developed a new imaging system that highlights cancerous tissue...
Cancer Probe Trials Funded
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 19, 2008 -- A new grant will allow a researcher to continue developing and testing a device that uses light to detect skin cancer without the need for an invasive biopsy. University of Texas at Austin biomedical engineer James Tunnell has been awarded a...
NIH Tests Zecotek Green Fiber Laser
Jun 9, 2008 — The National Cancer Institute (a division of the US National Institutes of Health) recently conducted tests on Zecotek Photonics Inc.'s green fiber laser (GFL-550) in flow cytometry. William Telford, head of the Flow Cytometry Core Laboratory at the...
CNTs Nontoxic in Mice
STANFORD, Calif., Jan. 31, 2008 -- Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) tracked inside mice for months were found to be nontoxic, research that may give a boost to using the tiny cylinders in biomedical applications. CNT cylinders are so small that it takes 50,000 lying side by side to equal...
Einstein, UAlbany to Make Smallest Cancer Detector
BRONX, N.Y., Nov. 20, 2006 -- A $2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) will enable the study of tumor "microenvironments," where tumors interact with surrounding tissues, cells and chemicals in ways that all too often encourage cancer cells to invade other...
Digital Mammogram Benefits Revealed
Sep 16, 2005 — WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 -- Preliminary results from a large, clinical trial of digital vs. film mammography show no difference in detecting breast cancer for the general population of women in the trial. However, women with dense breasts, who are pre-...
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May 21, 2004 — Jasjit Suri, PhD, has been named director of applied research and development at Fischer Imaging Corp., a Denver, Colo., maker of medical imaging systems focusing on women's health, particularly digital imaging for breast cancer screening. In...
Fischer Imaging Receives NCI Grant
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Researchers to Test Molecular Imaging for Cancer Detection
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