Markers in iPSC quality control – a new approach to enhance standardization

“Machine learning is an attractive tool to streamline processes”

12-Nov-2024 - Human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have a great potential for scientific and medical applications. They are used in research laboratories to model human diseases, helping to uncover underlying mechanisms and developing new therapies. Additionally, they are being tested in clinical ...

Aignostics secures $34 million Series B to improve precision medicine with AI

Investments will support new product offerings, US expansion, and development of pathology foundation models

05-Nov-2024 - Aignostics, a global artificial intelligence (AI) company that turns complex multi-modal pathology data into transformative insights, announced that it has raised $34 million in Series B financing. This additional funding will be used to build new product offerings for biopharmaceutical clients, ...

Blood Testing for so-called MicroRNAs Can Detect Dementia

German-American research team highlights new diagnostic option for Alzheimer’s

23-Sep-2024 - Dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease and its preliminary stage can be detected by measuring so-called microRNAs in blood. Researchers from DZNE in Göttingen, together with US experts from Boston University and the Indiana University School of Medicine, report on this in the scientific journal ...

€1.3M pre-seed funding for Lucid Genomics

Startup will use funds to fine-tune their AI models for diagnostics and biomarker discovery

05-Sep-2024 - The Berlin-based startup Lucid Genomics, a spin-off from the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics and the Institute of Medical Genetics and Human Genetics at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, has raised €1.3 million in pre-seed funding in a funding round led by Caesar Ventures, ...

How much microplastic are you drinking?

New tool can tell you in minutes

29-Aug-2024 - Micro- and nanoplastics are in our food, water and the air we breathe. They are showing up in our bodies, from testicles to brain matter. Now, University of British Columbiaresearchers have developed a low-cost, portable tool to accurately measure plastic released from everyday sources like ...

A "molecular" compass shows the way to reducing animal testing

Scientists develop intelligent software tool for assessing chemical risks

22-Aug-2024 - In recent years, machine learning methods have become increasingly important for the risk assessment of chemical compounds. However, they are also a "black box" due to a lack of traceability and transparency, which leads to skepticism among experts and regulatory authorities. In order to increase ...

Information scientists develop method to detect doping cases using AI

13-Aug-2024 - Thousands of athletes were competing for medals at the Olympic Games in Paris. And in some cases, questions will be asked about whether medals were won fairly or whether doping was involved. Software developed by a team led by Wolfgang Maaß, professor of business informatics at Saarland ...

Simple diagnostics for common diseases

With the help of a single infrared light measurement and machine learning, metabolic disorders and high blood pressure, among other things, can be detected

12-Aug-2024 - Some common diseases could be easier and quicker to diagnose in the future than they have been to date. A team from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Helmholtz Zentrum München has demonstrated in a representative study that infrared ...

Rare genetic diseases can sometimes be recognized by the face

Large multicenter study identifies 34 new genetic diseases

23-Jul-2024 - The majority of rare diseases have a genetic cause. The underlying genetic alteration can be found more and more easily, for example by means of exome sequencing (ES), leading to a molecular genetic diagnosis. ES is an examination of all sections of our genetic material (DNA) that code for ...

Parkinson's disease - New test procedure enables early detection in patients at risk

Up to seven years before the onset of typical motor symptoms

21-Jun-2024 - In an international cooperation project, researchers from the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), the Paracelsus-Elena-Klinik Kassel and University College London (UCL) have developed a test procedure that makes it possible to predict the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease in at-risk ...