Case Studies

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Spotting inter-cell communications

Many diseases, including cancers, diabetes and heart disease increase the number of small cell particles, extracellular vesicles (EV) or microvesicles in the bloodstream. These have recently been discovered to both indicate disease and also play an important role in spreading cancer around the body. Being able to make earlier d...

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Faster TB diagnosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is a global problem made more serious by challenges associated with diagnosis and identification of drug resistance. A major challenge is quickly identifying the presence of TB causing bacteria in a patient’s sample. Conventionally, for the most accurate diagnoses, samples are cultured for six weeks before bei...

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High intensity ultrasound treatments

High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU), used with imaging techniques, is a promising new treatment of prostate cancer and brain disorders. It focuses multiple high energy soundwaves onto a single spot, generating enough heat to destroy a tumour. Unlike ionising radiation, these beams do not cause long term harm to DNA, and in...

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Traceability Boosts Cancer Therapy

For many years molecular radiotherapy, MRT, has been used for palliative cancer care, but it has great potential to become a potent first line cancer treatment. The therapy uses radioactive drugs to target specific tumours, for example radioactive yittrium-90 microspheres are used to treat liver cancers. However, accurate acti...

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Better infant hearing tests

Hearing defects in a child’s early years leads to language development problems, so national health authorities run programmes to identify affected babies and young children. Testing uses small headsets to provide a known sound stimulation, then measures the response in the infant’s ear or brain. The small headsets currently u...

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Improving radiotherapy success

Radiotherapy has been a mainstay of cancer treatment for over a century. It most commonly involves using a linear accelerator (linac) to deliver high-energy beams of X-ray radiation to patients, killing cancerous cells by damaging their DNA. Prior to treatment, patients are imaged in a CT scanner (using X-rays) to identify the ...

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