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Turkish doctor invents app to detect anemia in 2 seconds

Turkish doctor invents app to detect anemia in 2 seconds

Director of Emergency and Disaster Medicine at Brown University, Dr. Selim Suner has developed a medical app that can measure anemia intraocularly in just two seconds without taking a blood sample from the patient. Using Suner’s artificial intelligence-based eMoglobin app, a patient’s level of anemia can be instantly measured using a square photograph taken with …

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Exclusive: Sonde Health raises $19M Series B to detect disease in voice

Exclusive: Sonde Health raises $19M Series B to detect disease in voice

Sonde Health has raised $19.25M in Series B funding to globalize its voice-based disease screening technology with partners in Korea and India, CEO David Liu tells Axios exclusively. Why is this important: Noninvasive health tracking has grown in popularity during the pandemic, and voice tags have long since emerged as a lucrative potential arena for …

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New blood test can detect ‘toxic’ proteins years before Alzheimer’s symptoms appear

A new lab test has been developed to measure levels of beta-amyloid oligomers in blood samples, which can be used to predict future diagnoses of Alzheimer’s disease. Overall, patients today are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Alzheimer’s disease is a disease that attacks the brain, leading to a decline in mental abilities that worsens over time. It …

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A urine sample is added to a Petri dish with dozens of tiny worms, which have been genetically engineered to swim away from traces of pancreatic cancer

Scientists develop world’s first test for pancreatic cancer – using tiny worms that detect tumors

Scientists have developed the world’s first early detection test for pancreatic cancer, which uses worms to detect tumors. According to its creators, the test – rolled out this month in Japan – is 100% accurate at detecting cancer and can detect it in its early stages. Tokyo-based biotech company Hirotsu Bio Science hopes to bring …

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