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The Equipment Review
June 2, 2009 4:49 pmToday I was browsing biomedical news and resources around the web and came across a website that I thought is worth letting you guys know about.
The website (ebme.co.uk) is a forum for medical and clinical biomedical equipment reviews. The reviews are made by members and users. It is a great website to bookmark.
GE Healthcare To Facilitate Cardiovascular Imaging
May 30, 2009 8:22 pmGE Healthcare and LightLab Imaging Inc.(Westford, MA), a market leader in optical imaging, have announced a collaboration that enables improved workflow between GE Healthcare’s Innova cardiovascular X-ray system and LightLab’s C7-XR optical coherence tomography (OCT) system. Both the C7-XR and Innova systems were featured last week at the annual meeting of EuroPCR, the official congress of the European Association for Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI) in Barcelona, Spain.
Read the entire story here.
Instant Immunity With New Vaccine
May 11, 2009 6:11 pm
A new method of vaccination has been developed by US researchers that provides instant immunity. Currently vaccines can take days or weeks to take effect. The new method can deliver protection against the disease almost instantly by targeting the active part of the virus.
Currently this method has only been tested on mice affected by melanoma or colon cancer.
You can read the full story here.
Transistors Used To Detect STDs
May 9, 2009 9:47 pmResearchers at Universidad Rovira i Virgili have created a biosensor, an electrical and biological device, which is able to selectively detect the Candida albicans yeast in very small quantities.
Candida albicans is a diploid fungus (a form of yeast), which is capable of sexual reproduction but not of meiosis, and a causal agent of opportunistic oral and genital infections in humans.
“The technique uses field-effect transistors (electronic devices that contain an electrode source and a draining electrode connected to a transducer) based on carbon nanotubes and with Candida albicans-specific antibodies”, Raquel A. Villamizar, lead author of the study says.
Read the entire story here.
Autonomous Breast Biopsy Robot
May 4, 2009 8:55 pmResearchers at Duke University biomedical engineering department have developed a laboratory robot that can locate the earliest traces of a mass in simulated breast tissue and reach that mass with a biopsy needle.
The robot can move in three axis right now. Their next goal is developing a robot that can move in 6 axis.
To read the entire story click here.
Breast biopsy is a surgical procedure which all or part of lump is removed and tested for maligancy.
