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December 2, 2009
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Micro-endoscope is under development
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A U.S. scientist says he is developing
a micro-endoscope that could replace traditional endoscopes
and can spot abnormalities, such as tumors, inside a body.
University of Florida Associate Professor Huikai Xie says
physicians currently insert camera-equipped endoscopes into
patients to look for abnormalities in the gastrointestinal
tract and other internal organs. Xie says he wants to replace
such cameras with scanners that reveal abnormal groups of
cells or growth patterns beneath the surface, before cancer-
ous growths are big enough to be visible. "Right now, endo-
scopes just take pictures of the surface tissue. So, if you
see some injury, or abnormality, on the surface, that's
good," Xie said. "But most of the time, particularly with
cancer, the early stages of disease are not so obvious. The
technology we are developing is basically to see under the
surface, under the epithelial layer." Experiments with Xie's
scanning "micro-endoscopes" on animal tissue have been prom-
ising. The pencil-sized or smaller endoscopes could one day
allow physicians to detect tumors at earlier stages and re-
move tumors more precisely, increasing patients' chances of
survival and improving patients' quality of life. Xie and
his graduate students have authored at least 40 papers on
various aspects of the research, which is supported with
more than $1 million in grants, primarily from the National
Science Foundation.
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Device enables early skin tumor detection
BEER-SHEVA, Israel - Israeli medical scientists say they are
developing a device that can detect skin tumors, including
melanomas, before they are visible to the naked eye. Resear-
chers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, led by Professor
Ibrahim Abdulhalim, said initial testing of their Optical
Spectro-Polarimetric Imaging device revealed new textures
of lesions that have never been seen -- including melanoma
in patients who were diagnosed with various skin lesions and
were awaiting surgery for their removal. The instrument diag-
nosed 73 types of lesions, some of them cancerous, the sci-
entists said. Dermatologists and plastic surgeons typically
diagnose skin tumors by their appearance with the naked eye
and only rarely use a dermatoscope -- a magnifying tool that
allows tumors to be examined in detail. The scientists said
their biosensor uses safe, infrared wavelengths to measure
tumor characteristics, including contours and spread. "This
is an exciting preliminary development since the initial
testing shows that we can now identify microscopic tumors in
the biological layers of the skin," said Abdulahim. "As we
continue to develop the OSPI, we also see an opportunity to
use this technology for detecting other types of cancerous
growths." Abdulhalim, in collaboration with Professor Lior
Rosenberg, is supervising the research with two students,
Ofir Aharon and Avner Safrani, and Dr. Ofer Arnon at Soroka
University Medical Center.
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Officials keep eye on New Mexico cavity
CARLSBAD, N.M. - A giant underground cavity beneath Carlsbad,
N.M., is a time bomb waiting to implode, taking homes and
businesses with it, geologists say. The cavity, left over
from decades of salt mining for use in the oil industry, is
directly beneath the city of 26,000's busiest intersection
and if it collapses would open a sinkhole swallowing a chunk
of highway, a church, several businesses and the El Dorado
Estates trailer park, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday.
The newspaper said local officials contend such a collapse
would hurt Carlsbad's economy and could do as much as $100
million in damage to nearby pecan and cotton fields dependent
on an irrigation channel that would be disrupted. The Times
said the state of New Mexico has set up sensors to measure
the tilt and pressure of the earth in the area, with any
major change triggering an alarm that is designed to give
emergency officials several hours to evacuate the 200 to 500
people in the area.
Protein might aid probiotics producers
NORWICH, England - British scientists say they've crystal-
lized a protein that may help gut bacteria bind to the gas-
trointestinal tract, thereby aiding producers of probiotics.
Researcher Nathalie Juge of the Institute of Food Research
in Norwich, England, said the protein could be used to iden-
tify probiotics likely to be of benefit to people. "Prob-
iotics need to interact with cells lining the gut to have a
beneficial effect, and if they attach to surfaces in the gut
they are more likely to stick around long enough to exert
their activity," Juge said, noting the gut is the largest
immune system organ in the body. Mucus adhesion has been
well studied for pathogenic bacteria, but exactly what en-
ables gut bacteria to stick is not known. The research by
Institute of Food Research and University of East Anglia
scientists has produced the first crystal structure of a
mucus-binding protein. The team of scientists said they
found the mucus-binding proteins recognize human immunoglob-
ulin proteins that are an integral part of the immune system
and might therefore play a wider role in gut health as a site
for attachment of bacteria. "The strain-specificity of these
proteins demonstrates the need for the careful molecular de-
sign and selection of probiotics," Juge said. "This also
opens new avenues of research to study the fundamental roles
bacteria play in the gastrointestinal tract." The research
appears in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
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