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Study shows hope for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's

... research hospital for further evaluation. “Our ultimate goal is to increase the number of patients who are diagnosed earlier so they can start treatment sooner and slow the progress of Alzheimer’s and improve their quality of life,?Polikar said. ...

New study challenges 'critical period' in childhood vision development

...man brain learns to perceive objects is one of the ultimate challenges in neuroscience. In 2003, Pawan Sinha, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, launched an initiative with the hopes of shedding some light on the acquisition of visual skills. The goal of his "Project Prakash" is to fin...

When your brain talks, your muscles don't always listen

...sored by the National Institutes of Health. The ultimate goal of the research, Knight said, is to improve movement quality in older adults, as well as patients with disorders such as cerebral palsy or multiple sclerosis, or who are recovering from strokes. Every move you make is made possible through a ...

Discovery of new cave millipedes casts light on Arizona cave ecology

...elopment of cave resource management plans and the ultimate protection of numerous caves in northwestern Arizona and southwestern Utah. ...

Growing nerve cells in 3-D dramatically affects gene expression

...lat petri dishes, are more like cells grown in the ultimate 3-D environment ?the human body. "More and more, we're seeing evidence that cells cultured in three dimensions look and behave more like cells in your body," said Diane Hoffman-Kim, the Brown bioengineer who spearheaded the new study, "so culture ...

Simple home spit test to spot deadly pre-eclampsia

...nalysis. Results are expected early next year. The ultimate aim is to develop a "traffic light" detection kit for use in the home. Pre-eclampsia is thought to be the result of problems relating to the implantation of the placenta. The main diagnostic symptoms are raised blood pressure and the excretion of ...

'Virtual Patient' to simulate real-time organ motions for radiation therapy

...py, physics-based real-time performance offers the ultimate solution." The key challenge in this project is to develop the algorithms that will make the virtual lungs and adjacent tissues move in real time according to realistic tissue biomechanical properties, De said. Xu expects that the physics-based...

New designer lipid-like peptide with lipid nanostructures for drug delivery systems

...ument, a ski, or a pair of sunglasses, we have the ultimate control to the outcome of the structure and their properties” Zhang added. This study stemmed from a scientific visit by Peter Laggner to Shuguang Zhang at MIT in Cambridge, USA in May 2006. They shared some ideas and decided to collaborate sin...

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