Uncategorized - December 2, 2013
New technology to combat blood poisoning
Researchers at SciLifeLab has been granted money from Uppsala BIO-X to develop a new lab-on-a-chip diagnostic tool for early and rapid diagnosis of sepsis. The technique that the SciLifeLab researchers are working on is a lab-on-a-chip system for fast detection of bacteria in the blood. “Targeted antibiotic prescription is hampered by the lack of rapid diagnostic […]
Imaging - June 25, 2013
Seeing is believing
Previously scientists looked at everything at the same time, resulting in a blurry image. With the optical tricks and recent developments in microscopy, scientists can now obtain super-resolution images of objects and discover worlds which they have never seen before. The digital developments within imaging have resulted in dramatic changes over the past decades. From […]