September 25, 2014

Eventually diagnose cancer can now be just one hour. In principle, this new technique were able to develop a diagnostic staff of the Russian-American Cancer Centre.

As told by the scientists, the method is to apply the blood sample of the patient on a special slide with peptides. Then the slide is scanned. As a consequence, those skilled possible to obtain so-called immunological signature That is information about the individual bundles in the blood amino acids   and antibodies . This is exclusive to each individual data scientists will determine the presence or absence of cancer disease. To date, work continues on the preclinical studies. In particular, experts are engaged in such analyzes comparing the sick and the healthy study participants. After examining about 100 blood samples, the researchers noted that the accuracy of this method is superior to their expectations.

But before the start of large-scale clinical trials of the new analysis is necessary to study more than 1000 samples, to determine the signature characteristic of the disease.

According to experts, in the future, perhaps the introduction of this method to test people across the country. However, initially it planned to test those who are at risk. It is likely that over time, this method will be effective in preventing cancer diseases.

But scientists from the United States were able to create a test that analyzes a person's breath and immediately identifies tuberculosis . Until now, to get such information, required several weeks. The new test is based on the fact that TB bacteria produce certain gaseous substance within 10 minutes after the action of the one antibiotic. This allows you to quickly detect such a disease. So far, the new technique tested only on animals. But in the future due to rapid diagnosis, doctors plan to achieve further success in the treatment of tuberculosis.