Friday, 31 May 2013

Faster Disease Diagnosis Possible Via New Single Virus Detection Techniques

Clinicians try to gauge how many viruses are packed into a certain volume of blood or other bodily fluid in order to test the severity of viral infections. This measurement, called viral load, helps doctors diagnose or monitor chronic viral diseases such as HIV/AIDS and hepatitis. However, the standard methods used for these tests are only able to estimate the number of viruses in a given volume of fluid. Now two independent teams have developed new ...

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