To investigate the layers and composition of clouds and tiny airborne particles like dust, smoke and other atmospheric aerosols, , scientists at NASA’s Goddard…
“We calculate that the arthropods on medians down the Broadway/West St. corridor alone could consume more than 2,100 pounds of discarded junk food, the…
By comparing patterns of genetic code from the brain tissue of alcoholics and nonalcoholics, the researchers discovered a particular set of genes co-expressed…
The HS3 mission pilots flew a remotely piloted Global Hawk aircraft over Cristobal, Dolly, and Edouard and flew a manned WB-57 aircraft over Gonzalo. During…
Most people with Gorlin syndrome have a change in a gene called PTCH1, but the new research has revealed that changes in a gene called SUFU also cause Gorlin…
Thus the MeerKAT observatory in South Africa, has been chosen as a host for this receiver system. MeerKAT will be the most sensitive observatory of the…
The laws of quantum physics apply in general at very small scales, governing the behaviour of elementary particles or atoms. Tobias Kippenberg, professor at…
As part of an IGF research project (AiF No. 17150N), scientists at the Hohenstein Institute in Bönnigheim and the Leibnitz Institute for Interactive Materials…
Treatment with high energy radiation is a generally recognized method in cancer therapy. Instead of high energy radiation, particle therapy uses accelerated charged particles, such as protons or heavy ions (e.g. carbon). The difference between particle therapies in comparison to conventional radiotherapy is the deviant penetration behavior of the particles.The novel system provides the unique possibility of combined diagnosis and therapy by means of ion beams.
The ozone-based innovation allows to arrest progression of the tumor and to induce tumor regression up to a complete remission. The innovation comprises the utilization of a novel device for the application of an ozone- or ozonized oxygen-containing fluid in a human or animal torso or, more precisely, for intraperitoneal application, whereby application does not need to take place in immediate contact with the tumor in order to be effective.
For the medical treatment of lung diseases pharmaceuticals are often applied by inhalation. The release of the active agent occurs within a very short time-period. If the release of the active agent is to be delayed in order to achieve a most uniform release during a longer period of time, aqueous dispersions of encapsulated active substances are used.
The basic idea of the innovation is the application of polymer solutions containing active substances and forming particles only after nebulisation at the intended site of deposition.
In the analysis of biological samples, specimens are often investigated with methods in sequential order. In order to make this possible, the adequate preservation of samples is an essential prerequisite. A commonly used procedure is in this case the cooling of samples to -20° C to -80° C by freezing.
Disadvantageous is however so far that, due to insufficient thermal insulation sample temperatures gradually approximate the ambient temperature within the respective device. The sample to be investigated consequently thaws, which negatively influences the quality of downstream investigation procedures or even causes a destruction of the structural integrity of the specimen.
The invention solves this problem by the use of a hollow cylinder which consists of thermally insulating, X-ray translucent material as insulating body.
MRIs are used predominantly in lung diagnostics. The innovation can be used as contrast agent. 3He is harmless when used as contrast agent and is already used in research for this purpose. Though modern MRIs can generate images from all body areas without any contrast agent, the use of 3He, in particular in examinations of the lungs, significantly increases the contrast and therefore the resolution, enabling cancer tumors or infections to be detected more efficiently.
Furthermore, the 3He magnetometer can be used in all forms of therapy that work using magnetic fields, such as thermotherapy with magnetic nanoparticles (nano-cancer therapy) that selectively impair tumor cells through heat. The magnetic fields used have to be adjusted individually before each therapy session.
Four or five million years ago, the extent of sea ice cover in Arctic was much smaller than it is today. The maximum winter extent did not reach its current…
As a way of demonstrating the complicated shapes that ring-shaped polymers can adopt, the researchers have created a brand new type of ring-shaped pasta,…
The transit of the exoplanet 55 Cancri e is the shallowest detected from the ground yet, and the success bodes well for characterizing the many small planets…
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