Tag: "automated" at medical news

Novel Approach Assists in Locating Leads for Drug Discovery

...ing 1,536 microwells. Over the next 30 hours in an automated format, the plated compounds were exposed to pyruvate kinase, and their biological activities were carefully recorded.When the NIH research team compared their quantitative high-throughput screening results with those generated by screening the same ...

Weight loss given a thrust with e-counselling

...ms. This study's goal was to determine if computer automated guidance could also be advantageous to individuals...ng no email counseling, a group receiving computer automated counseling, or a group receiving counseling via email from a human. Participants in all groups were ...

MitoChip v2.0 – the new Mitochondrial DNA sequencing too

...genome much faster than the traditional manual and automated strategies. Just as importantly, like an iPod to music lover, the chip served as the broad technological platform for laboratories to customize arrays more attuned to their research interests. In 2004, Dr. Anirban Maitra and his colleagues at Johns...

High -tech Mitochondrial DNA Sequencing Tool Updated

...genome much faster than the traditional manual and automated strategies. Just as importantly, like an iPod to music lover, the chip served as the broad technological platform for laboratories to customize arrays more attuned to their research interests. In 2004, Dr. Anirban Maitra and his colleagues at John...

Omega -3 Fatty Acids Better than Implanted Defibrillators

...the simulated population by 6.4 percent. However automated external defibrillators, or AEDs, reduced death rates by 0.8 percent, and implanted defibrillators, ICDs, reduced deaths by 3.3 percent. Omega-3 levels can be increased by eating fish or taking supplements. According to Kottle the research sugges...

Symptoms develop long before the 'Sudden' Cardiac Death

... how to recognize the emergency, CPR training, and automated external defibrillator (AED) use," says Muller. GY...

Automated Technique Accurately Measures Platelet Counts in "Platelet Gel" Products

...latelet concentrations in PRP using a conventional automated hematology analyzer. The analyzer was capable of m...mens were measured in two ways: using the authors' automated approach and a time-consuming manual count technique. Comparisons showed no significant difference...

Understanding Reasons for Tone deafness

...sed morphometry (VBM), which is a computerized and automated procedure that allows one to search throughout the whole brain for structural differences in terms of brain tissue concentration," explained Dr. Krista L. Hyde of the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University and the Department of Psycholo...

Researchers Developing Office-Based Cancer Screening Test

...h the use of technological discoveries that enable automated measurements of proteins in complex biological sam...le to collect, process, and analyze sample data in automated ways that are uncommon at most medical centers, owing to this cooperation between Departments,' Temp...

Cardiocerebral Resuscitation, A New Technique For Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

...nited States. Survival rates are better only if an automated external defibrillator (AED) is available and is u...ith a bystander until paramedics arrive. 3. If an automated external defibrillator (AED) is available, attach it to the patient and follow the machine's voice i...

Yeast Model Shows Promise as Alzheimer's Test

...ons are perfected, the screen will be ready for an automated process that will allow for fast testing of many compounds. Medicinal chemists would then study the structures of compounds that pass the screen and design compounds that enhance the activity without being toxic. Animal and human trials would follow....

Pros and Cons of Therapy for Lead Exposure

... Immediately thereafter, the researchers conducted automated tests over six months on the rats' attention, memory and abilities to learn and regulate emotions. The rats with moderate-lead exposure benefited greatly from the succimer: Their test results were indistinguishable from the control test results. Ra...

Osteoporosis Can Now Be Identified From Dental X Rays

...140 sufferers," explained Professor Horner. "Our automated X-ray test immediately flagged-up over half of the... he added. According to the researchers, the new automated machine for is very cheap and simple and every dentist can carry it out. "This cheap, simple and l...

$ 8.1 Million Grant to Tackle Bioterrorism

...e involved in devising a tool that would be small, automated and quick in detecting such agents of bio-terrorism. Dr. Kelly Henrickson will be responsible for this mission. He is a professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology at the medical college and is well versed in developing such devises which would identify...

Potential for Adult Stem Cells to Repair Hearts Damaged Investigated

...ators use a cell separation system, similar to the automated systems that are used with people who donate specific blood components such as platelets or red blood cells, to collect from the subject’s bloodstream, an enriched preparation of cells that contain CD34+ stem cells. When this process, known as aphere...

Fruit Flies May Pave Way to New Treatments for Age-related Heart Disease

...to develop a computer program that would allow the automated quantification of heart beat parameters and arrhythmias from the video images,” Bodmer said. In addition, collaborations with H.S. Vincent Chen at Burnham and Soichiro Yasuda and Joseph Metzger of the University of Michigan enabled measuring the fly’...

United States Department of Defense Selects Ichor Medical Systems to Develop Biodefense Vaccine

...m (TDS) is the first and only integrated and fully automated system for electroporation-mediated DNA administration. This system allows the site of DNA injection, placement of electrodes, rate of DNA administration, and timing of electrical pulse application to be consistent among different operators and patie...

Osteoporosis to Be Detected During Routine Dental X-rays

...nter for Dentistry Amsterdam developed the largely automated approach during a three-year, EU-funded collaborat... the BMD measurements. The image analysis can be automated and does not require extra time on the part of the dentist. The newly developed technique means that...

Phone Counseling Helps Patients Improve Eating and Exercise Habits

...urses, health educators or trained researchers, or automated phone systems. Researchers separated studies into three categories: those that assessed changes in physical activity levels, those that assessed changes in dietary behaviors and those that examined both physical activity and diet. The telephone pro...

Study Shows Hope for Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's

...” The researchers employed signal processing and automated neural network analysis of event related potentials (ERPs) of the EEG signals, monitoring how the patients’ brains reacted to a series of auditory stimuli. Clark’s team conducted neuropsychological tests, including memory tests, of research subject...

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