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A medical lab instrument could be used to save lives

Posted on July 27, 2021

Medical devices like CT scanners, mammography, and CT/MRI machines have come a long way in recent years, but many of them have not been used as safely and effectively as they could be.

One new tool could be a major breakthrough in that regard.

The International Federation of Medical Research (IFMR) is working on an instrument called a “collaborative bioanalytical” machine.

It would use genetic sequencing technology to perform DNA tests that can be compared with patients’ personal information to create a full list of possible causes of their health problems.

The results would then be shared with doctors and other healthcare providers.

The device would then determine which drugs and treatments might be effective and then use that information to prescribe those treatments.

Doctors could also use the information to make decisions on when to prescribe a particular medication.

This would allow them to make more informed medical decisions based on the data they have gathered, which is a critical step in improving care.

“Collaborative Bioanalytical Machines” are not new technology.

They were developed by a group of researchers in 2014.

They can also perform genetic tests on DNA extracted from human cells and then sent to a laboratory for analysis.

The data collected could then be compared to a patient’s personal genome to see if they have inherited a genetic disease.

This could be done by a genetic counselor who would review a patient and provide recommendations on the best course of action based on that information.

However, these devices have not yet been widely adopted.

So, IFMR has teamed up with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a new technology that will allow researchers to take the genetic information of patients and generate a personalized list of potential causes of disease.

The company says that the new tool will help in treating a growing number of diseases that currently are not treated with existing treatments.

For example, if a patient is diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and has high blood sugar levels, it may be possible to treat this by adding an insulin pump to their diet.

This might also help a patient with type 1 diabetes manage the diabetes.

In a separate study, researchers from the University of Toronto have shown that this type of collaborative bioanalytic machine could be especially helpful for treating certain types of cancers.

The researchers used a genetic test that can detect mutations in the DNA of a patient to see how effective these mutations are in controlling the growth of certain cancers.

Researchers then created an algorithm to determine whether a patient could be treated for a particular cancer using the data generated from their bioanalytics machine.

They found that they could treat patients with metastatic cancer using only about 10 percent of the drugs currently being used to treat these cancers.

With this technology, researchers can now use genomic data from patients with cancer to determine which types of drugs to prescribe based on their own genetic data.

The research was published in Nature Communications.

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