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Clearest image of Ebola virus protein gained by researchers
Researchers collaborated to identify the clearest image of the Ebola virus protein ever obtained using a cryo-electron microscope...
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Scientists create map of brain region linked to Alzheimer’s disease
Scientists have mapped areas of the brain that are linked to Alzheimer's disease to deliver genetically-targeted drugs to specific neurons...
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Efficacy of PET imaging in managing chronic liver diseases
PET imaging could be used as a non-invasive substitute to painful and complicated liver biopsies for chronic liver disease...
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Super-resolution microscopy builds multicolour 3D images from 2D
Researchers have developed a method of exploiting fluorescence in microscopy to generate 3D images of organelles and structures within cells from 2D images...
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Developments in EEG brain scans could detect mental disorders early
Researchers at the University of San Francisco have suggested how advances in EEG brain scanners could help to diagnose brain conditions earlier...
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Breast tissue simulations address enhanced MRI delays
Researchers address the delay of enhanced MRI cancer detection using simulations of women's breast tissue and higher MRI strengths...
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Mass spectrometry and drug development – how the two come together
Since the development of the so-called soft ionisation techniques: electrospray ionisation and matrix-assisted laser desorption and ionisation in the 1980s and early 1990s and the development of high-resolution mass spectrometers, mass spectrometry (MS) has come to the fore in studying complex biological systems...
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HD vein imaging aids intravenous injections
Near-infrared light can now be used to aid clinicians in identifying veins in patients, especially when this process becomes difficult...
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Transparent high-resolution EEG array allows brain imaging
Researchers have developed a see-through, dual-layered, mesh EEG device which is capable of measuring the electrical activity of individual neurons...
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Nuclear PET imaging method developed for tumour detection
Researchers have developed a PET imaging method suitable for many forms of cancer, with high contrast and less inconvenience to patients...
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Expert view: New developments in real‑time live‑cell analysis
Live-cell analysis is now a well-established method that is part of the everyday cell biologist’s armoury for understanding cell biology. For over a decade, the functionality, throughput, and ease of use offered by real-time live-cell analysis has provided a platform for accurate and reproducible cell biology analysis in multiple biomedical…
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Making an early link between cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s
Researchers in the U.S. have devised a novel strategy to effectively identify those individuals with mild cognitive impairment that will most likely go on to develop Alzheimer's disease.
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Drug Target Review – Issue 3 2018
In this issue: pharmacological targeting of mitochondrial dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease, the evolving role of three dimensional in-vitro cell culture techniques in drug discovery, and NGS: hunting mysterious ‘Dark Matter Genome’ towards rewriting the rules of genetic diseases.
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Scientists develop TSA-Seq technique for precise 3D mapping of human genome
Despite the human genome being first sequenced almost 20 years ago, researchers know comparatively little about how the genome is organised within cells. But a new TSA-Seq technique is changing that.
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Novel imaging biomarker to help predict coronary inflammation
Researchers have identified a novel imaging biomarker, which has been found to be able to predict all-cause and cardiac mortality...
