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One scan to detect clots could replace many

A blood clot in the body can set off life-threatening conditions such as a heart attack, a stroke, or deep vein thrombosis, to name a few. And current imaging techniques are not always equal to the task of pinning down the clot’s location fast enough...

Dr. Peter Chai, a medical toxicology fellow at UMass Medical School, helps conduct research on the use of Google Glass for remote toxicology consultations.

Google Glass and Poison Treatment

Credit: UMass Medical School/Bryan Goodchild With toxin coursing through their veins, patients, who come in for poison treatment, are often in an altered mental state. They are unable to tell the physician on duty, who typically is not an expert in poisons, what went wrong....

Retinal selfie

Taking a selfie is easy: just point your smartphone toward your face and shoot. But taking a selfie of the interior of an eye is impossible, imaging specialists might’ve told you, until now. Researchers at the Camera Culture Group, headed by Ramesh Raskar at the...

Mobile Stethoscope for Diagnosing Lung Disease

Take a deep breath before you read this: A team from MIT has built the world’s first USB-powered mobile stethoscope. Plugged into a smartphone, its companion app transforms the device into a low-cost diagnostic tool, which health workers and nonspecialist physicians can use to diagnose...

Startup Research

Many facets of entrepreneurship haven’t been fully explored yet – at least not by those outside the industry. But independent researchers are digging into some of the compelling questions surrounding startups, technology, and the current surge of interest in all things innovation. Here are some of the...

Probiotic-laced Parfait to Detect Liver Cancer

In a study published in this week’s issue of Science Translational Medicine, researchers present a rapid, non-invasive way to detect liver cancer that’s shown promise in tests in mice. Their approach: hijack the body’s digestive system and use bacteria as messengers. Cancers commonly recur in...