In multiple myeloma, abnormal plasma cells build up inside bone marrow -- the spongy tissue inside large bones where blood ...

A new study finds that fragments of tumor DNA in a patient's bloodstream could show that they are at high risk of a melanoma recurrence.

Typically, wild animals would need to be caught and anesthetized to take a tissue sample, such as a small skin biopsy, which is time-consuming, as well as stressful for the animal, says Williams.

Before taking the biopsy, your doctor cleans the skin. They then use a local anaesthetic to numb ... Your doctor removes the needle once the sample is taken. They put pressure on the area where you ...

Later when she consulted a dermatologist, they carried out a biopsy, and the results said she had melanoma'. “This is my melanoma scar. I never imagined in a million years I would be a skin ...

The spectral quality was partly influenced by the heterogeneity of the skin biopsies and by signals ... but the relative quantification enabled inter-sample comparisons.

Mass spectrometry (MS) is currently the only technology that can reliably measure and identify the immunopeptide profiles of biological samples at a large scale. However, quality of data in these ...

The skin biopsy samples from 12 Chinese patients with PD were obtained from the Department of Neurology, The First Affinitive Hospital, Guizhou Medical University. A number of one post-mortem brain ...

A transperineal biopsy is a needle biopsy to look for cancer cells in the prostate. This helps to diagnose prostate cancer. Your doctor puts a needle into the prostate through the skin behind the ...

Background: MR spectroscopy of intact biopsies can provide a metabolic snapshot of the investigated tissue. The aim of the present study was to explore the metabolic pattern of uninvolved skin ...