{"id":25055,"date":"2016-04-26T20:01:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T03:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/minimally-invasive-colitis-screening-using-infrared-technology-could-offer-fast-simple-test"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:11:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:11:28","slug":"minimally-invasive-colitis-screening-using-infrared-technology-could-offer-fast-simple-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/minimally-invasive-colitis-screening-using-infrared-technology-could-offer-fast-simple-test","title":{"rendered":"Minimally invasive colitis screening using infrared technology could offer fast, simple test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/minimally-invasive-colitis-screening-using-infrared-technology-could-offer-fast-simple-test.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could we use this for colon scopes? I know many who would like to stop drining the speciality milk shake from their local drug stores prior to the date with the GI.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A minimally invasive screening for ulcerative colitis, a debilitating gastrointestinal tract disorder, using emerging infrared technology could be a rapid and cost-effective method for detecting disease that eliminates the need for biopsies and intrusive testing of the human body, according to researchers at Georgia State University.<\/p>\n<p>The technique involves testing serum, the clear liquid that can be separated from clotted blood, for the increased presence of mannose, a sugar that is a marker for <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/colitis\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">colitis<\/a>, using Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy. This technology is sensitive to vibrations in the chemical bonds of the serum sample\u2019s molecules and requires minimal sample preparation, making it a rapid diagnostic alternative.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are published in the <i>Journal of Biophotonics<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2016-04-minimally-invasive-colitis-screening-infrared.html\">http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2016&#45;04-minimally-invasive...rared.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could we use this for colon scopes? I know many who would like to stop drining the speciality milk shake from their local drug stores prior to the date with the GI. A minimally invasive screening for ulcerative colitis, a debilitating gastrointestinal tract disorder, using emerging infrared technology could be a rapid and cost-effective method [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50708,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25055\/revisions\/50708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}