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This plaster really gets under your skin
27.08.2011
A research group headed by Prof. Norbert Gretz at the University Medical Centre Mannheim (UMM) has developed a method of measuring the efficiency of kidneys and other secreting organs via the skin. [more...]
Controlled lighting provide insights
27.08.2011
A high-precision 3D live insight into the cell is provided by a microscopy technique developed at TU Braunschweig. It works using „fluorescence super resolution“, as Prof. Philip Tinnefeld and his group of researchers call their technique. [more...]
Reading pain straight from the hand
27.08.2011
Pain in the hand is difficult to diagnose. It can derive from a wide range of causes such as arthrosis, arthritis, microfractures or post-operative complications a hand scanner which has now been developed at Hannover Medical School (MHH) fills a large number of the existing diagnostic gaps when it comes to hand pain syndromes. [more...]
Lumps on a tailor-made surface
27.08.2011
At the interdisciplinary „iNano“ nanoscience center at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, Adrian Keller is revealing something that was previously concealed in the human body: protein agglutination, forming what is known as amyloids. [more...]
Laser light as a quick-change artist
27.08.2011
They have long been at the top of the doctors‘ wish list: tissue implants which allow complete regeneration. This is because damaged or destroyed tissue often cannot be regenerated by the body itself and there is frequently a lack of suitable implant tissue. [more...]
New powerful tools for metallomics
27.08.2011
A better understanding of the role of metals and metalloproteins in organisms will pave the way for new applications in medicine and related areas. This is the credo of an international community of researchers who recently met in Münster for the “Metallomics 2011″ conference. meditec talked with Dr. Michael Sperling, Chief Managing Director of the European Virtual Institute for Speciation Analysis (EVISA), Technologiepark Münster, about the future of metallomics. [more...]
Molecular images from the brain
18.07.2011
An international team of researchers has developed a new computer tomography (CT) method which operates on the molecular level and which is reported to provide views of the brain which have never been known before. [more...]
A piece of replacement brain on the leg
18.07.2011
Stroke patients often suffer from severe mobility impairments as a result of a hemiplegia. The team at the University of Munich Hospital, headed by Prof. Riccardo Giunta has now developed a neural prosthesis which promises help for such stroke patients. [more...]
Cancer diagnosis drop by drop
18.07.2011
Methods are in demand which are able to detect the cells which have been affected by cancer on the basis of characteristic mutations. [more...]
A view of the beating heart
18.07.2011
A new technology enables a non-burden imaging of the beating heart to be carried out with a magnetic field strength of 7.0. This imaging method was developed at the Charitè University Medicine and the Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine in Berlin. [more...]
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