‘Stunning’ mouse kidney diffusion tensor MRI wins photo competition

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Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DTI-MRI) of a mouse kidney at 10-micron isotropic resolution with high spatial and angular resolution. The color stands for different orientation of the tubules. Courtesy of BMC. 

The winning image, entitled “Kidney Rainbow”, was selected from 373 entries and acquired by Nian Wang, PhD, assistant professor of radiology at the Center for In Vivo Microcopy at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

AI, microscopic imaging mobile device detects parasitic infections in 20 minutes

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Courtesy of Yibo Zhang, PhD, et al. 

The new platform—which can automatically detect motile parasites in bodily fluids and analyze more than three milliliters of a bodily fluid sample in 20 minutes—provides images clearer than those from traditional optical microscopy, according to research published online Dec. 12 in the journal Light: Science & Applications.