News From The Annals Of Internal Medicine: March 6, 2012
3/06/2012
1. ACP Releases Guidance Statement for Colorectal Cancer Screening* ACP urges adults to get screened starting at age 50 Even though the effectiveness of colorectal cancer screening in reducing deaths is supported by the available evidence, only about 60 percent of American adults aged 50 and older get screened...
Increased Risk Of Infertility Following Childhood Cancer
3/06/2012
Survivors of cancer in childhood have a higher risk of infertility in later life. This is the conclusion reached by Magdalena Balcerek and her co-authors in a study published in Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2012; 109[7] 126-31)...
The Importance Of 'REST' In The Timing Of Brain Development
3/06/2012
Upon fertilisation, a single cell is formed when egg and sperm fuse. Our entire body, with more than 200 specialised cell types and billions of cells are formed from this single cell. It is a scientific mystery how the early stem cells know what cell type to become, but a precise timing of the process is crucial for correct development and function of our body...
New Ultrasonic Screening Technique Could Provide More Reliable Breast Cancer Detection
3/06/2012
Scientists have successfully completed an initial trial of a new, potentially more reliable, technique for screening breast cancer using ultrasound. The team at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK's National Measurement Institute, working with the University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, are now looking to develop the technique into a clinical device...
Single-Cell Sequencing Leading To A New Era Of Cancer Research
3/06/2012
BGI, the world's largest genomics organization, developed single-cell genome sequencing technology and published two research papers for cancer single-cell sequencing in the research journal Cell...
Tomorrow's Laboratory Technology
3/06/2012
Biomedical laboratories have to be safe, ergonomic and flexible. At the same time, labs need to be able to deal with a high throughput of samples while reliably documenting each step in the testing process. Fraunhofer researchers are working to fully automate the processing of samples in tomorrow's laboratories...
News From The Annals Of Internal Medicine: March 6, 2012
3/06/2012
1. ACP Releases Guidance Statement for Colorectal Cancer Screening* ACP urges adults to get screened starting at age 50 Even though the effectiveness of colorectal cancer screening in reducing deaths is supported by the available evidence, only about 60 percent of American adults aged 50 and older get screened...
New Ultrasonic Screening Technique Could Provide More Reliable Breast Cancer Detection
3/06/2012
Scientists have successfully completed an initial trial of a new, potentially more reliable, technique for screening breast cancer using ultrasound. The team at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK's National Measurement Institute, working with the University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, are now looking to develop the technique into a clinical device...
Single-Cell Sequencing Leading To A New Era Of Cancer Research
3/06/2012
BGI, the world's largest genomics organization, developed single-cell genome sequencing technology and published two research papers for cancer single-cell sequencing in the research journal Cell...
Tomorrow's Laboratory Technology
3/06/2012
Biomedical laboratories have to be safe, ergonomic and flexible. At the same time, labs need to be able to deal with a high throughput of samples while reliably documenting each step in the testing process. Fraunhofer researchers are working to fully automate the processing of samples in tomorrow's laboratories...