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Spinal Cord Patients Walk Again

...an do more, but it’s safe to say he’s mastered the technology enough to do daily activities, as well as some activities he thought he’d be forced to give up. "I ride my four wheeler standing up and stuff. That’s pretty neat." For the functional electrical stimulation to work, a person has to have spasticity in...

Test tube babies, 25 years later

...ccording to the reproductive society. And as the technology continues to grow, sperm donors, egg donors and surrogates have all become common. "You can't buy a baby in the United States," said Caplan. "... But you can buy the sperm, you can buy the egg and you can rent the uterus." Because multiple embryos a...

Meditation Works Medically

...e done using functional magnetic resonance imaging technology to look more closely at the effects of mindful meditation. They also suggest future research look into the biological consequences of this type of approach....

Rat joins list of cloned animals

...s they leave the ovary. This posed a problem for a technology that requires painstakingly removing an egg cell, taking out its nucleus, and replacing it with the nucleus from a skin or other kind of cell from the animal to be cloned. Genetic researchers described how they did it. They impregnated two rats wit...

How a man's mind really works

...le and female brain -- and scientists now have the technology to prove it. "What Could He Be Thinking? , this c...ian . The science part Such are the advances in technology and understanding that PET radioactive-imaging and MRI magnetic-imaging scans can now show whether a...

Common Cold Found to Fight Cancer

... virus responsible for the common cold. The latest technology is now patented, and researchers are collaborating to develop new therapies for cancer and other diseases that will be tested in a clinical setting. ...

PET Scans Found To Reveal Hidden Cancers

...cialists, unexpected cancers are identified by PET technology because it scans the entire body. Researchers however say that PET scans identify certain cancers but do not detect all cancers....

Risks Of An Enlarged Heart

...heart rhythm develops. At present with the latest technology identification of disease causing genes and the ability to identify at risk patients and prevent sudden death has greatly improved. Thus researchers say with a better understanding of the disease process, targeted treatments to treat symptoms and pr...

Imaging Modality That Might Help Diagnose Depression

...o diagnose melancholic depression using an imaging technology that allows them to observe // levels of certain substances in the brain. Melancholia is a relatively common form of depression marked by insomnia, loss of appetite, and loss of pleasure. Results of the study show low levels of the inhibitory trans...

Common Cold Found to Fight Cancer Cells

... virus responsible for the common cold. The latest technology is now patented, and researchers are collaborating to develop new therapies for cancer and other diseases that will be tested in a clinical setting....

Effective Diagnosis Of Spinal Cord Injuries

... study. According to neuroscientists in Canada MRI technology could determine //if performing surgery would benefit patients. They say they found that trauma-induced spinal cord compression on MRIs predict a poorer neurological recovery. Surgery can relieve spinal cord compression. However, unless surgeons are...

Shrinking Birthmark’s

...ful , thus researchers decided to see if using MRI technology during the procedure could help pinpoint all of the veins that require treatment. Researchers say their results were overwhelming as it was seen that under MR imaging the veins were as bright as light bulbs thereby making detecting and delineating of...

A Better Understanding Of The Brain Network

New technology may help people suffering from paralysis reprogram...omputer screen with 50 different targets. The fMRI technology identified signs that neurons in a specific area of the brain were processing and giving commands to...

The Bio-probe –“ Boon to women ?

...ty. Temple University will also look at using this technology to help prevent premature births by measuring cervical abnormalities....

Stanford Medical Center Implements The First Virtual Cardiac Ultrasound

...ned to show all angles of the patient’s heart. The technology uses an “intelligent” echocardiography system. The...he exact faults of cardiac functions. With such a technology available to cardiologists, it will become easier for them to assess and diagnose cardiac conditions...

New Technology In MRI Scan Help Test Brain Cancer Therapy

...gan, Comprehensive Cancer Center, say that the new technology will measure the water movement in the brain to as...d learn about the treatment effectiveness. The new technology hopes to elevate such tensions for the physicians and patients alike....

New technology to decipher neural connections dealing with heredity and environment

...ontrol. The researchers feel that the new use of technology in understanding developmental process will also help the scientists in understanding the role played by nature or heredity on nurture or environment. The computer model can also conduct a battery of tests to find out any injuries to the frontal lo...

Gold to be used for cancer detection

...er the microscope. The researchers hope that this technology may be used to perform low cost automatic detectio...the biopsies. The researchers also feel that their technology for scattering and absorption may be used with some modifications to test for cancer in human bodies...

Cancer diagnosis easier from microRNA

...vard. Researchers have also been able to develop a technology that will be able to test the microRNA profile thr...sion of microRNA and cancer. They have developed a technology that uses a bead-based miRNA capture method. In this process each individual bead will be marked wit...

It is possible to have stem cell based treatment for eye problems now

...lace any lost retinal cells by using the stem cell technology to create new retinal cells. Stem cells are undifferentiated cells that have the potential to regenerate self and develop into all types of specialized cells types that may form various types of cells of the tissue from which it was taken. Research...

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