Lung cancer: Liquid biopsies could speed up treatment
Liquid biopsies could replace the need for invasive procedures under general anaesthetic. Source link
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Better Biopsies? High-Speed 3D Cameras Could Be the Future
May 24, 2022 – Biopsies haven’t changed much in the more than 100 years they’ve been in medical use: Tissue (a cluster of cells) is cut from the body, embedded into a block, thinly sliced, mounted on a slide, and stained with dye. A pathologist then analyzes the sample with a microscope. Results come back … Read more
How Do Patients Feel About AI in Health Care? It Depends
May 12, 2022 – Artificial intelligence has moved from science fiction to everyday reality in a matter of years, being used for everything from online activity to driving cars. Even, yes, to make medical diagnoses. But that doesn’t mean people are ready to let AI drive all their medical decisions. The technology is quickly evolving … Read more
Are Ants the Future of Cancer Detection?
Cancer diagnosis is frightening, invasive, time-consuming, and expensive. And more than 1.6 million people get that cancer diagnosis every year in the United States. That’s a lot of biopsies and a lot of looking at cells under highly sensitive microscopes. . But what if detecting cancer in those samples was as simple as taking a … Read more