Articles related to 'health'
January 11, 2012 // Food Quality & Safety
Foodomics Video, Bologna University
As promised, a further contribution from Prof. Capozzi at the Cesena Food Campus at Bologna University. The informative video highlights their progress and research plans as they pioneer the field of Foodomics, studying food from a health perspective to prevent disease. ... Continue reading
December 19, 2011 // Food Quality & Safety
An Omics Approach to Food Science
For two years now the existence of a new science has been acknowledged - namely Food-omics, a science that is helping define particular foodstuff from a broader point of view. It is not enough anymore to know the composition of macro nutrients nor to go through the details of just a few components. In order to study the production of new foodstuffs, by focusing on its healthy properties or characterize existing foods from a similar perspective, ... Continue reading
December 19, 2011 // Metabolomics
A New Perspective for the Future of Medicine Thanks to NMR Metabolomics
NMR has a great role to play in structural biology and in turn in systems biology. Its targets are proteins and nucleic acids. Small molecules in living beings, called metabolites, are an important chapter in systems biology and have always been markers of phenotypes and of health and disease. Metabolomics is the youngest of the omic sciences. It looks to define all metabolites in a specimen, i.e. a biological fluid, a tissue, a ... Continue reading
October 25, 2011 // Metabolomics
Imperial College, Real-Time Metabolic Profiling of Surgical Patients
Medical breakthroughs normally take a long time to reach a level where they are in common use, in fact 10 to 15 years is the norm. However, at the world’s first Centre for Surgical Metabonomics, a unique enterprise between Imperial College London and the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, the focus is on translating new discoveries into new therapies as quickly as possible, namely the application of “molecular fingerprinting” technologies in a hospital setting to significantly improve surgical and therapeutic procedures. ... Continue reading
July 12, 2011 // Clinical Research
NMR-based urine screening delivers the most comprehensive overview of newborn health
An extremely promising project in NMR analysis is helping deliver efficient, reliable screening of inborn errors in newborn health. It has the potential to generate a push-button, high throughput screening solution offering simultaneous non-targeted and targeted analysis. Bruker’s participation in projects in Germany (Greifswald University Hospitals) and Turkey (12 hospitals coordinated by Infai GmbH) is helping to establish the screening method. Newborn health status in terms of growth, maturity, common disease recognition, and relativity to parameters not ... Continue reading
February 15, 2011 // Clinical Research
Optimizing Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment with Metabolic Profiling
To help realize the vision of enhancing patient diagnostics and treatment, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim (NTNU) has partnered with Bruker, the world's leading provider of NMR spectroscopy instrumentation. NTNU and Bruker have signed a research collaboration agreement to jointly develop, optimize and implement NMR cancer diagnostics and prognostic modelling. One of the goals for the NTNU-Bruker collaboration is to develop products that will progress MR high-throughput screening towards a routine clinical setting. ... Continue reading
