dermatology

CellScope for Rural Microscopy On The Go

At the University of California Berkeley, a few handy researchers modified an off-the-shelf camera cellphone to produce a mobile microscope capable of 50x magnification. Coupled with the phone's...

New Lasers for Better Skin

At the UT Southwestern Medical Center, dermatologists are employing a new carbon dioxide-based fractional laser for procedures like skin tightening, tattoo removal, and evening out differences in...

Matrix RF from Syneron

Israel's Syneron Medical Ltd. are at the annual American Academy of Dermatology meeting in San Antonio this week to show off the firm's skin ablation devices that include the newly released Matrix RF...

Fraxel re:pair™ for Ablative Fractional Resurfacing™

Reliant Technologies, Inc will be showing off its new Fraxel re:pair™ laser for CO2 skin resurfacing at the American Academy of Dermotology meeting in San Antonio, which is starting today....

No More Needles with Virtual Biopsies

Researchers are exploring the possibility of using bioimpedance to quickly and accurately differentiate healthy tissue from pathological one. Jye Smith from QUT’s [Queensland University of...

Skin From Hair

German researchers have developed a method to artificially grow skin cells in a lab that are derived from a patient's own stem cells found within hair roots. This work has a potential for all kinds...

Needle Free Jet Injection Device for Skin Photodynamic Therapy

Pharmacy student Desmond Morrow at the Queen's University Belfast, together with Drs Paul McCarron and Ryan Donnelly, developed a novel device to assist in delivery of drugs for skin photodynamic...

The SolarScan® Sentry for Melanoma Monitoring

You are looking at the image of SolarScan® Sentry, a new model of melanoma diagnostic and monitoring system, from Australia's Polartechnics Ltd. We had a post about the original...

Clinical Accuracy Shown in Detecting Melanoma

Two blinded studies testing the effectiveness of using vivo confocal microscopy machines by Lucid, a Rochester, New York firm, have produced positive results for detecting melanoma. The study, lead...

Portable Digitizer for Wound Monitoring

ARANZ Medical, a Kiwi firm, applied the same technology that was used to animate the Gollum in the Lord of the Rings to assessing wound size and depth. A small PDA powered laser digitizer, dubbed the...