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Robotic Surgery May Improve Survival Rate For Prostate Cancer Patients

...s of the technique. Therefore, any intervention or technique to lower positive surgical margins, we think, will translate into a better long-term cure rate. The study demonstrates that even in a high volume center with an established laparoscopic radical prostatectomy program, which has been in place at Jef...

NHS Oversupplied With Cataract Surgery, Say Doctors

...ion, made worse by an ageing population. But the technique of phacoemulsification, whereby the clouded lens is broken up by ultrasound, together with shorter hospital stays after surgery, has significantly speeded up throughput of cases. The fact that cataract surgery has increased so much in recent years ...

Researchers Discover Starch Cocktail Fuel for green Car

...prototype toy car within three years, has said his technique could produce hydrogen for as little as eight doll...years, he said. Vincent however, said though the technique might not be an ideal end-solution for the hydrogen economy, as like all biofuels, it relies on biom...

UK Scientists Identify Gene Mutations That Trigger Breast Cancer

...'s Cambridge research institute, said that the new technique has greatly accelerated the rate at which cancer genes can be found. "We have been able to search two thirds of the genome in one go. Rather than fish for new genes one at time with a rod and line, we have trawled the pool," Professor Ponder said. ...

Scientist Found New Mechanism for Brain Learning

...an enzyme called Cdk5 in their brains by using the technique called conditional knockout, which made the animal more adept at learning and quicker at figuring out the changes in their environment, as compared to other normal rats. "Its pretty rare that you make mice smarter, so there are a lot of cognitive ...

Scientists Identify Four Genes That Raise the Risk of Breast Cancer

...art from its application to breast cancer, the new technique can be used for other types of the disease too, an...ad researcher Professor Bruce Ponder said that the technique should speed up the rate of gene identification enormously for a range of cancers. "Previously sc...

Revolutionary Breakthrough in Breast Cancer Detection

...reast lesions. Elasticity imaging is an ultrasound technique recently cleared by the FDA that allows doctors t...of tissue, relative to surrounding areas. This new technique may significantly reduce the need for biopsies. In fact, the American Cancer Society confirms only 2...

FASgen Announces New Diagnostic Research Test for Steatohepatitis

...c Steatohepatitis (NASH). The current diagnostic technique for this disease is a liver needle biopsy. While only for research use presently, FASgen anticipates the opportunity for use of the non-invasive FAS-Detect(TM) ELISA NASH test in the future will be substantial. FAS-Detect(TM) ELISA is a proprietary p...

Pregnant Mom's Exposure to Flu Vaccine Benefits Fetal Immune System

...T cells in cord blood. Recently, a newly developed technique known as MHC tetramer staining has facilitated the...y Rachel Miller from Columbia University used this technique to study cord blood B and T cell immune responses following maternal vaccination against influenza w...

Blood Test may Help Signal Tumor's Remission, Return in Throat Cancer Patients

...ovarian, and other cancers, they suggest that this technique may have broader application in the monitoring of other forms of cancer. Further studies would need to be performed on patients with these types of cancer as well....

Gene Responsible for Blindness in Infants and Children Identified

...and his team, including Dr. Irma Lopez, used a new technique called SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) technology to identify homozygous regions in the genome, which led to the discovery of the new gene called LCA5. In the past, large families were necessary to find genes, but in this study only samples fr...

Neural Basis of Anxiety: Newer Insights

...d the processing of ambiguous cues." Using a new technique to switch off neural activity in selective brain cells in living mice, Gross and his colleagues discovered that a specific part of the hippocampus is required for correct processing of ambiguous stimuli. "Shutting down a specific circuit in the hip...

Brain Tumor Patients Survival Depends on Predicting Treatment Responses Earlier

...is a safe, highly specialized, noninvasive imaging technique that uses short-lived radioactive substances to produce three-dimensional images of those substances functioning within the body. A special type of camera works with computers to provide precise pictures of the areas of the body being imaged and mole...

PET/CT: The Best Test for Women With Ovarian Cancer

WASHINGTON, An advanced molecular imaging technique influenced the management of women with ovarian cancer, detected more sites of disease and identified women whose disease was likely to progress, according to an Australian study released during the 54th Annual Meeting of SNM, the world's largest so...

Stress Protein Inactivation Cuts Alzheimer's Peptide in Mice

...ls. In the present study, the scientists used a technique known as micro dialysis to monitor amyloid beta levels in the brains of mice exposed to the same stressorsisolation and smaller cages. "Stress remarkably elevated soluble amyloid beta levels in the spaces between brain cells," says senior author D...

Laser-based System for Non-invasive Diagnosis of Skin Cancers on the Anvil

...highly controlled laser pulses. The non-invasive technique uses a delicate interplay between two laser beams,...reate cellular-scale images. He feels that the new technique may enable doctors to see as much as a millimeter below the skin's surface. "What this is leading...

New Insights into Antimalarial Drug Resistance

... synthetic gene. They previously used this same technique to create and express a synthetic version of the much smaller PfCRT gene. PfMDR1 is made up of about 4,000 base pairs and its protein is particularly large, Roepe said, making the recent work much more challenging. Already, analysis of these three ...

Stay Young by Practicing Zen Meditation

... employing voxel-based morphometry (VBM), a recent technique to measure gray matter changes from MRI brain scans, and a computerized task of sustained attention. Researchers found that while both total gray matter volume and attentional performance displayed the expected decrease with age in control subjects...

Super Fruit Fly may Harbor Hope for Human Longevity

...ectacularly slowed aging in fruit flies with a new technique that shows general promise in pharmaceutical development . In a triumph for pests, scientists have found out how to make the fruit fly live longer. But the development may still have something for humans. As reported online in Nature Chemical Bio...

Standards for Measuring Narrowing of Carotid Arteries too Aggressive

...based on the use of angiography, a medical imaging technique in which an X-ray picture is taken to visualize the inner opening of blood filled structures. The limitation with angiography is that you had to guess how far the outer wall of the artery was beyond the arterys channel to determine the precise degre...

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