Image in Biological News

Scientists capture the first image of memories being made

This release is available in French . The ability to learn and to establish new memories is essential to our daily existence and identity; enabling us to navigate through the world. A new study by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (The Neuro), McGill Universi...

UCLA researchers locate and image prostate cancer as it spreads to lymph nodes

Using an engineered common cold virus, UCLA researchers delivered a genetic payload to prostate cancer cells that allowed them, using Positron Emission Tomography (PET), to locate the diseased cells as they spread to the lymph nodes, the first place prostate cancer goes before invading other organ...

Body image program reduces onset of obesity and eating disorders

In their research on eating disorders, Oregon Research Institute (ORI) scientists help young women reduce the influence of the thin ideal, which is described as associating success and happiness with being thin. ORI scientist Eric Stice, Ph.D. and his colleagues have found that their obesity p...

BIO-key(R) Granted Image Identification System Patent for Award Winning Biometric Technology

Patented BIO-key software delivers consistent quality images, resulting in higher accuracy and better user experience WALL, N.J., April 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BIO-key International, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BKYI), a leader in finger-based biometric identification and wirele...

First nanoscale image of soil reveals an 'incredible' variety, rich with patterns

A handful of soil is a lot like a banana, strawberry and apple smoothie: Blended all together, it is hard to tell what's in there, especially if you have never tasted the fruits before. But when you look at soil's organic carbon closely, it has an incredible variety of known compounds. And look...

Woods Hole Research Center debuts new image mosaic that will strengthen global forest monitoring

Much of the discussion at the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia, will focus on monitoring tropical deforestation and the critical role that remote sensing systems will play in the development of REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) mechanis...

BioMed Central launches Biology Image Library

LONDON, October 18, 2007 - BioMed Central today announced the launch of Biology Image Library, an online resource that provides access to over 11,000 carefully selected biology-related images. This is the latest service from BioMed Central, part of the Science Navigation Group of companies which ...

Envisat captures first image of Sargassum from space

Sargassum seaweed has been detected from space for the first time using optical radiance data from the Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) aboard Envisat. The ability to monitor Sargassum globally will allow researchers to understand better the primary productivity of the ocean and be...

Researchers wake up viruses inside tumors to image and then destroy cancers

Researchers have found a way to activate Epstein-Barr viruses inside tumors as a way to identify patients whose infection can then be manipulated to destroy their tumors. They say this strategy could offer a novel way of treating many cancers associated with Epstein-Barr, including at least four d...

Detailed 3-D image catches a key regulator of neural stem cell differentiation in action

Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in collaboration with scientists at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) took a high resolution "action shot" of a protein switch that plays a crucial role in the development of the nervous system. Their findings, published in the D...

Researchers image molecular motor structural changes

An international team of researchers has shed new light on how tiny molecular motors that transport materials within cells generate the energy that powers their movements. The knowledge could lead to better understanding of the underlying mechanisms of a range of human disorders such as Down synd...

A crystal ball for brain cancer?

...though, exposing them to unnecessary side effects and medication costing up to $10,000 per month. Now UCLA scientists have uncovered a new way to image tumors and forecast which patients, like McNabb, are most likely to benefit from Avastin before starting a single dose of treatment. The findings are...

Jet-propelled imaging for an ultrafast light source

...iffraction patterns have been converted into a 3-D image by computers how the electrons, and thus the atom...g views needed for the computer to construct a 3-D image of the structure. It's a great idea, but as Sp...om the sample; the second step is constructing the image by interpreting and combining the data from the di...

Nottinghamshire Police First Law Enforcement Agency to Deploy ForensicSoft in United Kingdom

...antages of the ForensicSoft product is the speed at which it captures digital evidence as compared to alternative hardware solutions. "Whilst we still image straightforward cases with hardware write blockers, we are seeing more and more devices with storage that is difficult or impossible to access. I can ...

Indonesia Now Using MegaMatcher Biometric Technology in Integrated Passport Issuance System

...luation (FpVTE) and the Fingerprint Verification Competitions (FVC). Drawing from years of academic research in the fields of neuroinformatics, image processing and pattern recognition, Neurotechnology was founded in 1990 in Vilnius, Lithuania under the name Neurotechnologija and released its first ...

DOE-funded research projects win 46 R&D 100 Awards for 2009

...use in the medical field, the mass spectrometer can be developed to rapidly image a tumor and define the boundaries so the tumor can be most effectively trea...ary algorithms to form a complete system for the extraction of quantitative image information. The Artificial Retina Project see Lawrence Livermore Nati...

New advance in revolutionary 'bullet fingerprinting' technique

...rface, a residue remains behind, this starts to react with the metal and an image of the fingerprint can be developed by use of elevated temperature and humidity, with the resultant image becoming a permanent feature on the surface of the metal." "Currently, f...

Parascript Signature Verification Technology Used by Moscow Law Firm to Detect Signature Fraud in $160,000 Debt Collection Case

...o., June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Parascript, LLC, the image analysis and pattern recognition technology provid... About Parascript, LLC The Parascript image analysis suite extracts meaningful information from images. Employing patented digital image analysis and pattern recognition technologies, the...

ACS Technologies(TM) Selects M2SYS for Innovative Biometric Software

...rt to understand the benefits, including improved attendance tracking, enhanced security, and the elimination of passwords and PIN numbers. Because no image of the fingerprint is stored, their security fears are also being diminished. The future is definitely bright for biometric technology at churches and...

French Authorities Give Sole Approval to GMAT Exam to Collect Biometric Data to Advance Security

...ttern, thus ensuring the test taker is that candidate. It offers a highly reliable form of authentication because it utilizes no trace technology, no image is ever stored, and the data cannot be read by other devices. The CNIL noted in its approval, "It is not likely to be captured without the knowledge o...

New technique can fast-track better ionic liquids for biomass pre-treatments

...tories. Auto-fluorescence is an intrinsic optical property of biological materials that has often been viewed as a nuisance by scientists trying to image specific biological objects. Living cells contain molecules which fluoresce when excited by the right light and this fluorescence can compete with the...

Forsyth scientists suggest linkages between obesity and oral bacterial infection

.... This led me to question potential unknown contributing causes of obesity. Could it be an epidemic involving an infectious agent?" "It is exciting to image the possibilities if oral bacteria are contributing to some types of obesity," added Goodson. Summary of Study In order to measure the saliva...

Springer launches SpringerImages

...Chicago. SpringerImages includes the high-quality image collection from Images.MD, as well as images from ...wing users to delve deeper into the context of the image and research surrounding it. Images obtained fr...documents. The platform enables the user to store image sets and saved searches. ...

All in sight

...olution of 7200 x 563 pixels of about 4 megapixels each. The stabilization compensates the ship's movements with the effect that the upper edge of the image is always aligned with the horizon and the surrounding water surface does not move out of the picture. The system produces about a terabyte of data ea...

The sound of light: Innovative technology shatters the barriers of modern light microscopy

...cles, bones and internal organs to generate a three-dimensional image. The result of this "multi-spectral opto-acoustic tomography", or MSOT, is an image with a striking spatial resolution better than 40 micrometers (four hundredths of a millimeter). And best of all, the sedated fish wakes up and recove...

New MRI technique could mean fewer breast biopsies in high-risk women

...heir unique MRI data-acquisition method. An MR image is made up of thousands of smaller pieces of infor...and generates a high-resolution, three-dimensional image that radiologists can turn, slice and view from ma...gy, Block and colleagues also are refining ways to image both breasts simultaneously a development that co...

CWRU receives $5 million from Ohio Third Frontier Commission

...o increase cell dosage and improve engraftment. Zhenghong Lee (UHCMC) and Jeremy Rich (CC) will collaborate to develop a method to non-invasively image cancer stem cells through the development of radiolabeled tracers. The CSCRM Administration, led by Debra Grega and Michael Gilkey, is responsibl...

Parascript Signature Verification Technology Used by Moscow Law Firm to Detect Signature Fraud in $160,000 Debt Collection Case

...o., June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Parascript, LLC, the image analysis and pattern recognition technology provid... About Parascript, LLC The Parascript image analysis suite extracts meaningful information from images. Employing patented digital image analysis and pattern recognition technologies, the...

Norway, Japan prop up whaling industry with taxpayer money

... 61st IWC meeting next week, researchers point out that killing more whales likely would hurt whale-watching and tourism, trade, and the international image of Norway and Japan impacts which would far outweigh any economic benefits of whaling. "It is clear that whaling is heavily subsidised at present,...

Size did matter

...ading to a sensitivity thousand times higher," explains Paul Tafforeau of ESRF. "It is since very recently that palaeontologists use this technique to image fossils, but the results achieved so far show that this technique will surely lead to many important discoveries on fossils", he adds. The X-ray ex...

Autonomous robot detects shrapnel

... generating detailed, 3-D moving images in real-time. The Duke team has a long track record of modifying traditional 2-D ultrasound like that used to image babies in utero into the more advanced 3-D scans. Since inventing the technique in 1991, the team has shown its utility by developing specialized cat...

Potential for non-invasive brain tumor treatment

...e journal Ultrasonic Imaging . "The catheter would use ultrasound to first image the tumor, and then direct a higher-power beam to generate heat at the site...ong track record of modifying traditional 2-D ultrasound like that used to image babies in utero into the more advanced 3-D scans. After inventing the tech...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 3, 2009

...in a box? Think "good" not "gauche" Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry In a surprise discovery that may help boxed wine shake off its image as a gauche alternative to bottles, scientists in Canada are reporting that multilayer aseptic cartons (a.k.a. 'boxes') may help reduce levels of subs...

SRI International announces findings from new upper atmospheric radar system for scientific research

... dedicated to early research results from the Poker Flat, Alaska deployment of AMISR (known as PFISR). The article, "Coordinated Optical and Radar image Measurements of Noctilucent Clouds and Polar Mesospheric Summer Echoes," by Michael Taylor, Ph.D., professor at Utah State University, describes the f...

The first hyperspectral scanner in Spain

...s a work station that integrates all the elements required for acquiring an image of a sample in a spectral range of 900 to 2500nm, known as SWIR (short-wavelength infrared). This station will complement the hyperspectral image analysis software developed by Tecnalia-Infotech that enables the evaluatio...

Healing wounds with lasers, vehicles that drive themselves, other cutting-edge optics

...U.S. President Barack Obama's inauguration was the image captured by GeoEye-1 of the National Mall in Washi...h 2009, the GeoEye-1 satellite captured a close-up image of a North Korean missile sitting on the launch pa...e-by-side (and on top of each other), the combined image projected would contain 33 megapixels. This is the...

ESA map reveals European shipping routes like never before

...detect harbours that are populated with vessels, as illustrated in the ASAR image of the North Sea to the left. The ports of Calais in France, Antwerp in...iest harbours on the planet, are all heavily populated with vessels in this image (denoted by dense, blue dots). ...

Public lecture at UC Riverside to discuss origin and fate of universe

...me and its eventual fate will include the Hubble Space Telescope's deepest image of the universe ever taken and how scientists use this image to pinpoint distant regions of the universe. Mobasher will describe dark ma...

Exhibition showcases the 'art of science'

...ublic to choose their favorite 2009 Art of Science image will go live at the same time. The juried show ...professor chemical engineering, for baby squid, an image of squid embryos taken using bright field microsco...Pennsylvania School of Medicine, for Worm Love, an image taken using immunofluorescence microscopy. The...

Focus on the formation of bones, teeth and shells

... the world's most modern electron microscope to capture a three-dimensional image of the nanoparticles that form the basis for this process. The results prov...ch. The researchers, led by Vidi laureate Dr Nico Sommerdijk, managed to image small clusters, with a diameter of 0.7 nanometers, in a solution of calcium...