Microscopy
The bacterial cell wall that is the target of potent antibiotics such as penicillin is actually made up of a thin single layer of carbohydrate chains, linked together by peptides, which wrap around the bacterium like a belt around a person,...
For the third year in a row, Cleveland Clinic doctors and consultants have picked the medical innovations they think will rise to the top next year. The Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2009 were announced on the closing day of the...
Check out this interesting story out of Israel using spectral imaging for improved diagnostics: "You won't find many professionals in the field admitting it, but the awful truth is that pathology is not an exact science, and mistakes are...
The Device Guru has an interesting post on a "microscopic microscope" from Cal Tech. Here is the introduction: Caltech claims its researchers have “turned science fiction into reality” with their development of a...
07/02/2008 23:38:41 TOKYO, Jul 03, 2008 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX News Network) -- Olympus Corp. (TSE:7733) said Wednesday that it will release this coming Monday a new digital camera that connects to microscopes used at medical sites and for...
The AFP (4/1) reports that researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine "have perfected a new technique to magnify by more than 1,000 times molecules deep inside the human body, which may help detect minuscule tumors,"...
