OxDX raises £2.6M pre-seed funding to develop AI powered rapid diagnostic technology

Identify diseases while you wait: Technology aims to improve speed, cost and accuracy of infectious disease diagnostics

18-Feb-2022 - OxDX, a University of Oxford spin out building instant pathogen tests using super-resolution microscopy and machine learning,has raised £2.6m in pre-seed funding for its AI powered diagnostic technology that can recognise and identify specific species and strains of viruses1,2, bacteria and other ...

Cell labelling method from microscopy adapted for use in whole-body imaging for the first time

Researchers develop imaging methods to examine bodily processes from the individual building blocks to the whole system

01-Oct-2021 - Processes and structures within the body that are normally hidden from the eye can be made visible through medical imaging. Scientists use imaging to investigate the complex functions of cells and organs and search for ways to better detect and treat diseases. In everyday medical practice, images ...

Clever biomolecular labelling enables identification of immune cells

New strategy for labelling peptides

09-Jun-2021 - Biomolecules regulate the biological functions inside every living cell. If scientists can understand the molecular mechanisms of such functions, then it is possible to detect severe dysfunction which can lead to illness. At a molecular level, this can be achieved with fluorescent markers that ...

New 3-D imaging reveals how human cell nucleus organizes DNA and chromatin of its genome

31-Jul-2017 - Sixty-four years ago, James Watson and Francis Crick described the now-iconic double helix structure of DNA. A team of researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies describe development and application of new electron ...

Supramolecular protein fishing with molecular baits

03-Mar-2017 - Scientists from the Center for Self-assembly and Complexity (CSC) successfully isolated a cancer-prone protein by fishing out the proteins using 'molecular bait'. Cancer, according to the American Cancer Society, affects 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women, with prostate and breast cancer the most common ...

Direct radiolabeling of nanomaterials

10-Feb-2017 - Positron emission tomography plays a pivotal role for monitoring the distribution and accumulation of radiolabeled nanomaterials in living subjects. The radioactive metals are usually connected to the nanomaterial through an anchor, a so-called chelator, but this chemical binding can be omitted ...