Machine Keeps Human Livers Alive for One Week Outside of the Body

Breakthrough may increase the number of available organs for transplantation.

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Liquid Biopsy Test Detects More than 50 Cancer Types

Grail had a huge win in the liquid biopsy space this week. The Menlo Park, CA-based company said results of its Circulating Cell-Free Genome Atlas study show its technology can detect 50 cancer types across all stages with a very low false-positive rate .

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Early-Warning System for Detecting Infections Is Being Studied

In a new study, Profusa’s Lumee Oxygen Platform, which measures biochemical changes in real-time, is being used to detect changes in a patient’s body chemistry that can help identify if it has become infected with a virus or bacteria, potentially up to three weeks earlier than current methods.

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Color-Changing Bandages Sense and Treat Bacterial Infections

According to the World Health Organization, antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health.

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Researchers Hope to Make Needle Pricks for Diabetics a Thing of the Past

Study suggests noninvasive spectroscopy could be used to monitor blood glucose levels.

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3D-Printed Cell Traps Help Researchers Find Cancer Cells

Georgia Tech researchers use a 3D-printed device that enables rapid and low-cost separation of tumor cells circulating in the bloodstream.

Medical Devices and the Ransomware Menace

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Is it possible to ‘knit’ replacement blood vessels?

A new way to replace a patient’s damaged blood vessels may be on its way, as researchers in France are figuring out a way to “knit” new vessels with a collagen-based extracellular matrix.

Increasing Surgical Precision

OrthoGrid Systems’s new PhantomMSK Trauma aims to correct fluoroscopic imaging distortion.

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Laser System Can Remotely Capture Images Inside Your Body

MIT researchers say the technique may help remotely image and assess health of infants, burn victims, and accident survivors in hard-to-reach places.