inversion

Improved procedure to do laproscopic esophagectomy discovered

...nvention of the new research is called laproscopic inversion esophagectomy, or LIE. In this the surgeons try to roll up the esophagus, section by section, slowly into the neck, that gives the surgeons more space to cut out the damaged tissue safely. The procedure makes it easier to remove pre-cancerous tissues...

The Brain behind Facial Recognition

... that a shape-based model can account for the face inversion effect, can produce 'configural' effects without explicit configural coding, and can quantitatively account for the experimental data. The model thus constitutes a computational counterexample to theories that posit that human face discrimination nec...

Doctors Predict an Asthma Epidemic Triggered by Thunderstorms

...mics of asthma attacks.’ ‘It is believed that the inversion of temperatures, that occurs at the time of thunderstorms, brings down pollen granules which the moisture then breaks up to a size that is breathed in to the lungs of those with asthma in large quantities, inducing attacks even in those who have just...

Trachoma not Curable by Antibiotics Alone

...hey are-antibiotic therapy, surgery to prevent the inversion of eyelids, facial cleanliness and improvement of the environment. The study was conducted on over 3000 people in Vietnam on two groups-one receiving the WHO treatment and the other treated only surgically. The researchers found to their surprise t...

The Origin of the Brain Lies in a Worm

...e bellyside of Platynereis," Arendt says. "How the inversion occurred and how other invertebrates have modified the ancestral CNS throughout evolution are the next exciting questions for evolutionary biologists." Source-Eurekalert...