Sentences with phrase «rapid tests with»

The innovative environment at Abaxis has resulted in state of the art, point - of - care diagnostics and single - use rapid tests with thousands of Human and Animal Health customers around the world.

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Consider Chan Zuckerberg's Biohub, which is embracing big hairy audacious projects like mapping every cell in the human body (with university partners Berkeley, Stanford, and UCSF) and developing a «universal diagnostic test» and rapid - response team for emerging pathogens.

After building the initial MVP last year, we used Twitter to test out the content suggestions combined with popular hashtags to see how they would perform, but we've been focus on working with early access users to refine parts about the product instead of focusing on rapid and early growth.

Tim has been with Neogen for 21 years, specializing in diagnostic applications such as rapid testing and allergens.

«The results of this study demonstrate that the K - D test is an accurate and reliable method for identifying athletes with head trauma, and is a strong candidate for a rapid sideline screening test for concussion, [with] particular relevance to contact sports including football, soccer, hockey, MMA and boxing,» wrote co-author, Dr. Laura J. Balcer of the Department of Neurology, Opthalmology, and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

When combined with rapid assessments of balance and cognition, the testing battery was able to detect 100 percent of concussions that occurred among athletes in the studies that measured this outcome.

For the rapid number naming test, athletes are given a baseline test before the season starts where they are asked to read numbers as quickly as they can off a series of three reading cards while being timed with a stopwatch.

Some hospitals offer rapid GBS tests that can be done during labor, with results available in an hour or so.

Today, because of concerns about drug resistance, the recommended protocol is to give ACTs only after malaria is confirmed with a finger prick of blood and a rapid diagnostic test (RDT).

Most of the 15,000 patients that visited drug shops with a fever chose to buy an rapid diagnostic test when offered one by the trained vendors taking part in the study.

Confounding matters, they harbor parasites at such low levels they can be detected only with the highly sensitive polymerase chain reaction (PCR); rapid diagnostic tests, and even microscopy, will miss them.

«Dentists are well placed to offer rapid HIV testing because they're located throughout the community, have ongoing relationships with their patients, and have the necessary training and expertise to recognize systemic diseases that have oral manifestations, such as HIV / AIDS,» says the study's lead author, Dr Anthony Santella of the University of Sydney.

Along with rapid validation techniques allowing in - house teams to test assumptions in hours or days, such insights enable internal innovators to drive change in health systems efficiently, instead of discovering months or years later that they invested in the wrong strategy.

The discovery should allow the rapid development of a simple blood test to identify people with the gene.

A novel strategy to screen pregnant women for malaria with rapid diagnostic tests and treat the test - positive women with effective antimalarials does not lower the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes compared with treating all pregnant women with the malaria preventive sulfadoxine - pyrimethamine (SP) in sub-Saharan Africa, according to an open label randomized trial published this week in PLOS Medicine by Feiko ter Kuile, of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and colleagues.

With a single drop of blood taken from a finger prick, rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) can diagnose malaria accurately and almost instantly, and the test is so easy to use that volunteers from local communities in remote villages across Africa and Asia now commonly deploy it.

A simple point - of - care testing device for anemia could provide more rapid diagnosis of the common blood disorder and allow inexpensive at - home self - monitoring of persons with chronic forms of the disease.

In the new study, the researchers compared this standard of care to a screening approach where pregnant women are tested approximately monthly for malaria using rapid diagnostic tests and treated with a different drug, dihydroartemisinin - piperaquine (DP) only if they test positive for the parasite.

Christian Happi at Redeemer's University in Ede, Nigeria, and the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital is developing a rapid diagnostic test with colleagues at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana; the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Zalgen, a company in Germantown, Maryland.

Newcastle researchers have developed a genetic test providing a rapid diagnosis of mitochondrial disorders to identify the first patients with inherited mutations in a new disease gene.

Technological advances such as rapid testing of patients and fast genetic analysis of viruses could help experts deal more effectively with emergency situations as they unfold, thereby saving lives.

The initial thought was to develop a 20 - foot wingspan (6.1 meters) aircraft powered by hybrid diesel / electric engines, but the team started with smaller versions for testing, built by rapid prototyping.

She emphasized that physicians should treat severely ill patients with antiviral flu medications even if they test negative for the virus on rapid tests.

They have developed a set of tools that can be used to make accurate, rapid assessments of proposed materials, using a series of relatively simple lab tests combined with computer modeling of the physical properties of the material itself, as well as additional modeling based on a statistical method known as Bayesian inference.

FXS has been one of the neurodevelopmental disorders with the most rapid research progress, particularly in terms of testing new treatments in animal models.

Screening included a rapid diagnostic test for those reporting compatible symptoms along with blood sampling for smear and molecular testing for malaria.

Now, a team at MIT and other institutions has come up with a way to bypass such expensive and time - consuming fabrication and testing, allowing for a rapid screening of far more variations than would be practical through the traditional approach.

National Institutes of Health scientists developing a rapid, practical test for the early diagnosis of prion diseases have modified the assay to offer the possibility of improving early diagnosis of Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies.

Existing rapid diagnostic tests can help with diagnoses, but these tests require multiple processing steps that still need to be performed with lab equipment in specialized facilities.

It involves processing swabs immediately on a portable device combined with a rapid molecular test and, as samples do not need to be sent to the laboratory, results can be delivered within an hour as opposed to a number of days.

The molecular techniques showed themselves to be superior, with a mean time of 1.1 days for both DNA testing methods; 14.3 days for the rapid culture method; and 24.7 days for the reference standard test.

Physicians should test patients with symptoms suggestive of group A streptococcal pharyngitis (for example, persistent fevers or other appropriate combination of symptoms) by rapid strep test and / or culture for group A Streptococcus.

«Our results show that prostate cancer mortality was 20 percent lower in counties with the highest incidence of prostate cancer, indicating an early and rapid uptake of PSA testing, compared with counties with a slow and late increase in PSA testing,» says Pär Stattin, lead investigator of the study.

With a new rapid - result blood test and a vaccine in the works, leprosy eradication may soon be a reality, says immunologist Malcolm Duthie, who created the test

However, the precise nature of that role is undergoing a visible change, not only because of the new synthetic methods and technologies now available to the synthetic and medicinal chemist, but also in several key areas, particularly in drug metabolism and chemical toxicology, as chemists deal with the ever more rapid turnaround of testing data that influences their day - to - day decisions.

«This would allow vaccine candidates to be tested very early and very quickly,» he told VOA, «with rapid turnaround and reporting of results to either advance a vaccine candidate or tell scientists they need to go back and look for other candidates.»

The test offers a rapid, comprehensive and cost - effective way to interrogate patient samples with achievement of sensitivities of 0.01 % -0.1 %.

The assays presented here demonstrate a rapid and simple system for testing individual and combinations of intrinsic and extrinsic factors for their ability to direct pluripotent cells to multipotent retinal cells, with the option of testing them functionally.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded more than $ 2 million to a team of scientists from Washington University in St. Louis and InvivoSciences, a biotechnology startup with WUSTL roots, to construct artificial tissue models that will allow the rapid testing of new drugs for heart failure.

(6) Following this initial test of abrogating the early, age - related rise in p16Ink4a - expressing cell burden, the investigators probed the effects of leaving BubR1H / H; INK - ATTAC to undergo 5 months of rapid «premature aging» (and thus, to the attendant accumulation of high levels of p16Ink4a - positive cells and onset of «early - aging» phenotypes), and only then inducing ablation of senescent cells with the INK - ATTAC drug - activated system (see Figure 2 (g) below).

Being able to carry out rapid testing will help researchers come up with more efficient materials in which to maximize the catalytic activity of the basal planes.

In Oct4, S229 is predicted to be phosphorylated by protein kinase A (PKA); therefore, we tested the effects of the PKA activator 8 - Br - cAMP and found that stimulation resulted in a rapid and transient increase in Oct4 protein levels in P19 cells (although sustained increases were observed in 3T3 cells, e.g. Figure 4E), with no effect on Oct4 mRNA levels.

With the speed of genomic sequencing increasing at the same time as a rapid drop in pricing, whole genome sequencing (WGS) is rapidly becoming a preferred clinical laboratory test.

Testing can be done either at LabPMM laboratories or entirely in an investigator's own facility, with the bioinformatics analysis done on customer's own computers, ensuring rapid turn around times as well as data protection.

I consent to urine tests when indicated my my midwife / doc because they are non-invasive and test for sugars or ketones in the urine which can both be signs of problems, especially when paired with other symptoms like blood pressure changes, rapid weight gain, headache, etc..

After two years of researching Hashimoto's and Hypothyroidism, she decided to combine emerging knowledge with her quality improvement expertise to run rapid tests of change on herself that led her to discover the root cause of her condition.

By working in tandem with the body's natural functions, this powerful spot treatment ensures rapid recovery and clear skin that stands the test of time.

It's subsequently not surprising to note that the inherently fascinating premise effectively compensates for the relentlessly unappealing visuals, with Berg's reliance on shaky camerawork and rapid - fire editing testing one's patience virtually from the minute go and ultimately lending certain sequences an all - but - unintelligible sort of vibe.

And wherever possible, we will conduct rapid - cycle research, where hypotheses are generated quickly, tested, and then refined in light of evidence — all with the goal of generating timely, usable knowledge.

While other tests (including the National Assessment of Educational Progress) show that U.S. student achievement is improving, TIMSS makes clear that these improvements are not rapid enough to keep pace with other nations in an increasingly global economy.