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Engineer designs micro-endoscope to seek out early signs of cancer
Physicians currently insert camera-equipped endoscopes into patients to hunt visible abnormalities, such as tumors, in the gastrointestinal tract and internal organs. Huikai Xie, an associate professo...
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Read moreUCSB physicists move 1 step closer to quantum computing
The researchers have demonstrated the ability to electrically manipulate, at gigahertz rates, the quantum states of electrons trapped on individual defects in diamond crystals. This could aid in the d...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreAre Teenagers Wired Differently Than Adults?
With the advent of magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, we have begun to appreciate how the brain continues to develop structurally through adolescence and on into adulthood. High emotionality is a cha...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreVitamin B niacin offers no extra benefit to statin therapy in seniors already diagnosed with CAD
The routine prescription of extended-release niacin, a B vitamin (1,500 milligrams daily), in combination with traditional cholesterol-lowering therapy offers no extra benefit in correcting arterial n...
Health and Medicine | Read moreAnalyzing structural brain changes in Alzheimer's disease
By applying the techniques to the newly completed dataset of the multi-institution Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), the scientists demonstrated that such sub-regional brain vol...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreEKG can show false positive readings for diagnosing heart condition
The study of 500 patients found a false positive reading between 77 and 82 percent in patients screened by electrocardiogram, and a false negative reading between 6 percent to 7 percent in the same pa...
Medical Engineering | Read moreLight and color: Healthcare Lighting presented by Siemens
Practical experience to date shows that many patients feel more comfortable and are more relaxed when the examination roomor the diagnostic device is flooded with colored light and relaxing music is ...
Health and Medicine | Read moreNew UAB Study Sheds Light on Brain’s Response to Distress, Unexpected Events
In the study, UAB researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to see how activity in the parts of the brain associated with fear, learning and memory respond when research participan...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreWhen seconds count: Interventional radiology treatment for pulmonary embolism saves lives
Catheter-directed therapy or catheter-directed thrombolysis—an interventional radiology treatment that uses targeted image-guided drug delivery with specially designed catheters to dissolve dangerous ...
Health and Medicine | Read moreWords, gestures are translated by same brain regions, says new research
Your ability to make sense of Groucho's words and Harpo's pantomimes in an old Marx Brothers movie takes place in the same regions of your brain, says new research funded by the National Ins...
Life Sciences | Read moreSniffing Out Memories
From Proust's Madeleines to the overbearing food critic in the movie Ratatouille who's transported back to his childhood at the aroma of stew, artists have long been aware that some odors ca...
Interdisciplinary Research | Read moreNew Optical Tool Could Produce ‘Virtual Biopsies’ for Brain Cancer
More precisely, Kang is building a tool to help brain surgeons locate and get a clear look at cancerous tissue. In some cases, Kang says, this device could eliminate the need to cut into the brain for...
Medical Engineering | Read moreSeeing previously invisible molecules for the first time
A team of Harvard chemists led by X. Sunney Xie has developed a new microscopic technique for seeing, in color, molecules with undetectable fluorescence. The room-temperature technique allows research...
Life Sciences | Read moreThe White Stuff: Marine Lab Team Seeks to Understand Coral Bleaching
Coral bleaching is the whitening of living coral due to a disruption of the symbiosis (two organisms whose living together benefits both) with its zooxanthellae, tiny photosynthesizing algae. These un...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreColombian guerrillas help scientists locate literacy in the brain
Language is a uniquely human ability that evolved at some point in the six million years since humans and chimpanzees diverged. Even without being taught or having adults to copy, children develop sop...
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