Data-efficient foundation model for biomarker detection

Artificial intelligence for clinical pathology: A new multi-task approach

04-Sep-2024 - The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems shows promise in medicine, where they can be used to detect diseases earlier, improve treatments, and ease staff workloads. But their performance depends on how well the AI is trained. A new multi-task approach to training AI makes it possible to ...

AI model finds the cancer clues at lightning speed

Say goodbye to hours, even days, of detective work

08-Jul-2024 - Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have developed an AI model that increases the potential for detecting cancer through sugar analyses. The AI model is faster and better at finding abnormalities than the current semi-manual method. Glycans, or structures of sugar molecules in our cells, ...

Live long, stay healthy: Study reveals important health markers

5 tips for healthy ageing

05-Jun-2024 - In a recent study, the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS has made significant progress in identifying health markers that are crucial for a long and healthy life. Led by Prof. Dr. Krasimira Aleksandrova and in close collaboration with the German Institute of Human ...

New disease discovered: How the immune system destroys the cerebellum

Study identifies new autoantibodies in cerebrospinal fluid as a possible biomarker for rapidly progressing cerebellitis

03-Jun-2024 - Cerebellar ataxia is a neurological disorder of the cerebellum. This important area at the back of the brain acts as a conductor, so to speak, coordinating our movements and keeping us in balance. This ability is impaired in cerebellar ataxia. Affected people can have difficulties walking, ...

Tiny wireless light bulbs for biomedical applications

The combination of OLEDs and acoustic antennas creates light source that can be used for minimally invasive treatment methods

11-Mar-2024 - A research team from the University of St. Andrews and the University of Cologne has developed a new wireless light source that might one day make it possible to 'illuminate' the human body from the inside. Such light sources could enable novel, minimally invasive means to treat and better ...

New biomarker proposed for coffee consumption studies

05-Mar-2024 - In order to record coffee consumption in nutrition and health studies, researchers usually rely on self-reporting by participants. However, this is not always reliable. It would therefore be desirable to conduct additional studies to objectively verify individual consumption using biomarkers. A ...

PharmaKure announces collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University to understand mechanisms of Alzheimer’s Diseases

New collaboration will enhance ability to identify those more at risk of developing brain diseases to enable earlier interventions

04-Mar-2024 - PharmaKure announces a new epigenetics collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University. This partnership will focus on ‘gene-based environmental biomarkers’, known as epigenetic markers, for calculating risk scores for Alzheimer’s diseases. Together withALZmetrixTM, PharmaKure’s blood-based ...

Study Proposes Framework to Standardize Biomarkers of Aging and Accelerate Clinical Use

Improving the life expectancy and health of the population

21-Feb-2024 - A new study proposes a framework to standardize biomarkers of aging and accelerate clinical use. Co-author Chiara Herzog from the European Translational Oncology Prevention and Screening Institute at the University of Innsbruck explains how this could improve the life expectancy and health of the ...

Medically relevant nanoparticles move faster in cells than expected

Finding has large implications for applications in nanomedicine such as targeted drug delivery and intracellular studies

10-Jan-2024 - An experiment led by a team of DESY and Universität Hamburg scientists has discovered that gold nanoparticles can move through liquid biological matter faster than expected when coated by the polymer polyethylene glycol (PEG). The team’s data, which were acquired using X-ray photon correlation ...

DiaMonTech Closes Financing Round To Finalize Development Of Portable Non-Invasive Glucose Monitor

A completely new way of measuring blood glucose

12-Dec-2023 - Berlin-based health tech company DiaMonTech has successfully closed a financing round, raising further millions with the Berlin based Moll Family GmbH in the lead. This investment will be instrumental in advancing their pioneering non-invasive glucose monitoring technology. DiaMonTech is at the ...