At the beginning of 2020, we highlighted the story of Theranos, manufacturer of a “revolutionary” blood testing system that was supposedly able […]
Posts Tagged ‘Blood’
COVID-19 and Medical Imaging
The gold standard for diagnosing COVID-19 is reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), a technique for which its inventor, Kary […]
Closer to the Holy Grail
Seven years ago, we reviewed the progress in developing a blood test for the early detection of breast cancer. Thought to be […]
Is Breast Screening Ready for Retail?
It was almost a decade ago that a group of clinicians from Boston published a paper in Academic Radiology entitled “Retail venue-based […]
A Tutorial on Cancer
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), located just outside Washington, DC, in the leafy suburb of Bethesda, MD, is home to 27 […]
Failure of the Next Big Thing
When we think of technology companies like Apple or Google that have emerged from Silicon Valley, we normally associate them […]
Oncotripsy Demonstrates Potential
Many of us, as children, probably experimented with a magnifying glass in which the sun’s rays were focused on a […]
Amazon: The Ultimate Disruptor
When Jeff Bezos (seen right, © Bloomberg) established an online bookstore 25 years ago, nobody could have imagined the way the company […]
Opto-Acoustic Imaging Holds Promise
The problem with breast imaging modalities such as mammography and ultrasound, is that they are only able to show the […]
The Emergence of CRISPR
One of the most remarkable scientific breakthroughs since the mapping of the human genome has been CRISPR, an acronym that […]