Case Studies

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a diagnostic tool used to detect serious medical conditions, including cancers, heart disease and strokes. Thirty million MRI scans are performed in the EU each year providing doctors with valuable 3D images without the need for invasive investigations or patients being exposed to ionizing ra...

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a highly effective technique for peering into the body and looking for evidence of serious problems such as tumours and damaged blood vessels. Over 30 million patients already have MRI examinations annually across the EU, and now higher resolution 7T MRI scanners are able to offer even better...

The haemiglobincyanide (HiCN) reference method has been the gold standard for measuring haemoglobin concentrations in blood, indicative of anaemia, for more than 50 years. Used around the world to diagnose anaemia and monitor response to treatment, the HiCN method is both effective and benefits from readily-available stable cal...

Certain molecules within biological samples - known as biomarkers - can be indicative of serious diseases, such as cancers, HIV and Hepatitis. Detecting their presence and determining how these small molecules interact with each other and cells in the body holds considerable potential for developing new diagnostic tools which d...

Fragments of cells shed into the bloodstream can indicate the presence of diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease. These fragments – called extracellular vesicles (EV) – are generating excitement in the medical research community as their role in spreading diseases between cells is being discovered. New diagnostic m...

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...