Billionaire VC Tim Draper (via Draper Associates) has led a $6 million Series A in wellness tracking startup, Vivoo. Also participating in the funding round is ONCE Ventures, Revo Capital, 500 ...

Traditional approaches to prostate cancer screening involve blood tests, MRI, and biopsies. However, in addition to being uncomfortable, some of these procedures result in overdiagnosis of low-grade ...

The test uses a copper complex dye called RB221, embedded in hydrogel nanocages, to trap LAM from urine samples. When Alessandra Luchini of George Mason University and colleagues trialed the ...

Urine might seem like just something your body gets rid of, but it’s actually super important. Think of it as a little window into what’s happening inside your body. Your kidneys filter out waste, ...

A simple urine test could detect pancreatic and prostate cancer with up to a 99% rate of accuracy, says a team of researchers from the Surface & Nano Materials Division of the Korea Institute of ...

A simple urine test for genetic mutations in urine-derived DNA can predict urothelial cancer up to 12 years before patients develop symptoms, an international team of researchers claims. The test, if ...

A team of researchers at Purdue University have developed a new way to test for early signs of Parkinson’s disease, using a simple urine test. This new approach is described in a recent article ...

This was a pilot-controlled trial carried out among 72 patients (34 cases and 38 controls) in southwestern Nigeria. The cases were those with histopathological diagnosis of CRC while controls were ...