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Computer Tool Helps Pinpoint Risky Gene Mutations

... Johns Hopkins, have developed and validated a new computer tool. The system, described in the issue of Publ...on with breast and ovarian cancer was unknown, the computer tool demonstrated an accuracy rate exceeding 94 percent in identifying protein functions that are be...

Children’s Television Viewing Linked to Early Pubert

...y reveals that increase in time spent before TV or computer by children may have harmful physiological effects and metabolic disorders later in their life. Excessive viewing of television is said to decrease melatonin, the sleep hormone which could lead to an early onset of puberty. Besides this, obesity, s...

Doctors Still Deny Older Patients Tests and Treatment

...al patients with angina, using a specially devised computer programme, and face to face structured interviews. The fictional patients were all aged between 45 and 92, with varying degrees of severity of heart problems. Head and shoulders photographs of people who had agreed to be the fictional patients were...

Master Switches Found for Adult Blood Stem Cells

...rough thousands of RNA pieces with a custom-built, computer software program. Its algorithms let the software, fed data from samples of blood and bone marrow from healthy donors, match RNA pairs. The outcome was a core set of 33 microRNAs that match with more than 1,200 of the larger variety RNA already known...

Robotic Therapy Helps Restore Hand Use After Stroke

...ic device wraps around the hand and couples with a computer program that directs patients though a physical therapy program. HOWARD users initiate hand motion, with the robot monitoring and assisting the activity in order to meet therapeutic goals. “The HOWARD therapy isn’t passive; the patient has to jumps...

X-ray System to Show Moving Bones in 3-D

...nee and back injuries; · driving innovations in computer graphics and scientific visualization. Source-Bio-Bio Technology<BRSRM...

The Other Side of Transsexuals

...mya is working at a call centre after completing a computer course. Saranya is a beautician who does not hesitate to say: "I was not comfortable being a boy. I am an aravani. "During adolescence itself I realised I am different. I stopped going to school and went to work in a hospital, which fired me f...

Action Video Games Improves Vision

...eo gamer's dream: a new 360-degree virtual-reality computer lab now being completed at the University of Rochester. This research appears next week in the journal Psychological Science, and was funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health. Source-Eurekalert SI...

Rhode Island Biotechnology Company Develops Tularemia Vaccine

...hole genomes for candidate vaccine components with computer algorithms is at the core of this research effort,” said Anne De Groot, M.D., President and CEO of EpiVax. “These study results highlight the ability of our computer-aided vaccine design (VaccineCAD) approach to create effective and innovative vaccin...

Scientists Assess Risk of Flu Pandemic Spread Via Global Airlines

...n for his research in the statistical analysis and computer modeling of epidemic spread, "the cooperative strategy is shown to be more effective in delaying the pandemic evolution and mitigating its impact on the population of both donor and recipient countries." Predictions therefore are strongly in favor ...

New Computed Imaging Technique Uses Hazy Images to Improve View

...aid Stephen Boppart, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, of bioengineering, and of medicine at...n, research scientist Daniel Marks, electrical and computer engineering professor P. Scott Carney, and Boppart, the imaging technique utilizes a broad-spectrum ...

Activation of a Particular Brain Region Predicts Altruism: Study

...the brains of 45 people while they either played a computer game or watched the computer play the game on its own. In both cases, successful playing of the game earned money for a charity o...

Training Breathing Muscles Improves Swimmer's Performance

...esistance using specialized breathing valves and a computer tracking system developed in CRESE. Swimmers in the ERMT protocol, using the same equipment, increased their breathing rate and tidal volume (total ventilation) progressively each week, while a re-breathing bag insured that the amount of carbon di...

New Software to Help Patients

...from taking the wrong medication,' he says. The computer program interfaces with computer software at major pharmacies. 'The idea is that pharmacists won't have to do any extra work,' Dr....

Yes, Chicken Soup Can Help

...cold or by using shared objects such as doorknobs, computer keyboards or telephones. Once you touch your mouth, nose or eyes after such exposure, you can acquire a cold. The lesson: wash your hands often and thoroughly, especially if you have been around someone who has a cold. Chicken soup — and other flui...

New Scan to Spot Early Effects of Alcohol on Liver

...n image of the liver can be seen on a screen and a computer connected to the sensor works out the degree of any liver damage by assessing how quickly the sound waves travel through the liver. "This is an important addition to finding out what is happening with the liver and can be used to look at a number o...

Online Fitness Tracker to Get You on Track –Just Get Moving

...th most spending every waking hour in front of the computer screen, any surprise that resolution //to stay fit in the new year is out of the window and no sooner, we are back to our sedentary lives once again. While you recline and read this piece, the American Heart Association reiterates, the ‘inactive’ t...

YouTube’s Latest Use-Offering Medical Advic

...mes getting patients to watch a quick video on the computer screen is a lot easier.’ He added: ‘We are a practice in rural mid Wales, shops in Hereford and Aberystwyth are an hour away, Cardiff an hour-and-a-half, so although broadband access is not ideal, people tend to use the internet for all sorts of th...

Activity Added to Video Games can Fight Fat, Shows Mayo Clinic

...chers suggest requiring activity in more video and computer games is one potential approach for reversing the obesity trend. Despite the small sample in this study, the researchers consider the findings robust and say that they warrant further studies in randomized trials. Source-Eurekalert MS...

Filling a Niche -- Role of Rb in Mammalian Stem Cells

...combination of sophisticated mouse genetics and 3D computer modeling, OSU scientists have now determined why: Rb is required for the maintenance of the trophoblast stem cell population, which is essential for forming the placenta. Specific loss of Rb in trophoblast stem cells results in an overexpansion of tr...

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