Age-related memory loss tied to slip in filtering information quickly
Scientists have identified a way in which the brain's ability to process information diminishes with age, and shown that this break down contributes to the decreased ability to form memories that is associated with normal aging. The finding, reported in the current online early edition of Pro...Study Suggests Filtering Out Useless Information To Enhance Memory
Contradicting the age-old conception that memory capacity is solely dependent on how much information you can cram into the brain, a recent research demonstrates that //filtering out useless information can help people increase their capacity to remember what is really important. The study, wh...Low Birth Weight Might Raise Adult Kidney Disease Risk
...xperimental studies suggest that restricted growth of a fetus in the womb can interfere with normal kidney development and result in fewer and smaller filtering units, or nephrons, at birth," lead author Sarah L. White, of the George Institute and the University of Sydney in Australia, said in a news release f...Spleen May Help Heart Recover From Disease
...d shaped like a kidney, Swirski said. Scientists have known that the spleen recycles red blood cells and scans the blood for germs. "It serves as a filtering system," Swirski said. "It captures viruses or bacteria, and can elicit an inflammatory response." Inflammation -- think of the redness around a wo...NephCure Foundation Announces Research Grant Program Recipients
...of NephCure's growth and increasing role as the leading advocate for research into NS and FSGS. NS and FSGS are conditions that affect the tiny filtering units (glomeruli) in the kidney. The result is that protein needed by the body is discarded into the urine. Over time, these conditions can result i...DATATRAK(TM) Takes Clinical Trial Solutions to the Next Level With the Release of 5.0
...TRAK eClinical is more efficient than ever in displaying data, giving managers an improved interface with increased functionality for sorting, filtering and exporting data. This translates into performance enhancements and even faster turn-around times for day-to-day tasks. -- eTrain New onli...Early Results of the CellCept Spare the Nephron Study Examine Kidney Function
...ng that older therapies such as steroids and calcineurin inhibitors (CNIs) can cause impairment of kidney function and damage to the blood vessels and filtering capacity of the kidneys.(1)(2) The STN trials are being conducted at more than 35 transplant centers in the United States and Canada and use CellCept ...C3140 Apex 180 Watt Light Source
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Materials engineers have created a new type of membrane that separates oil from water and, if perfected, might be used for environmental cleanup, water purification and industrial applications. The new technology would last longer than conventional filters for separating ...High blood pressure takes big toll on small filtering units of the kidney
Take a kidney out of the body and it still knows how to filter toxins from the blood. But all bets are off in the face of high blood pressure. "How does the kidney know how to do it and why does it break in hypertension?" says Dr. Edward W. Inscho, physiologist in the Medical College of Geor...Increasing nitrogen pollution overwhelms filtering capability of streams
MBL, WOODS HOLE, MAIncreasing nitrogen runoff from urban and agriculture land-use is interfering with our streams and rivers natural processes for reducing this pollutant before it endangers delicate downstream ecosystems, reports a nationwide team of 31 ecologists, including two from the MBL (Mar...AGU journal highlights -- Aug. 6, 2009
...odels and tomographic images argues for mantle flow that is driven not by chemistry but predominantly by temperature variations. Title: Tomographic filtering of high-resolution mantle circulation models: Can seismic heterogeneity be explained by temperature alone? Authors: B. S. A. Schuberth and H.-P. Bu...MIT reels in RNA surprise with microbial ocean catch
...That same sensitivity makes some of these creatures exceedingly difficult to grow in lab cultures. To overcome the hurdle of quickly collecting and filtering microbial samples in seawater before the microbes change their protein expression, the research team collaboratively with CEE Professor Sallie (Penny...Breakthrough in the treatment of bacterial meningitis
...omolecular Sciences, recently discovered that all three pathogens target the same receptor on human cerebrovascular endothelial cells the specialised filtering system that protects our brain from disease enabling the organisms to cross the blood-brain barrier. Their findings, published today in The Jour...Green Bay entrepreneur launches new message filtering solution
David Troup, founder of Solinus. GREEN BAY, Wis. The war against computer viruses and spam has no end in sight, but help is on the way from a software products and services company based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Anti-spam company Solinus announced last week the availability of a new versio...Blackrock Microsystems Obtains Expanded 510(k) to Market NeuroPort System
... Automatic spike sorting with multiple sorting options; Open data file format that is compatible with third-party applications; and Synchronous filtering to remove non-biological signals. "Our 510(k) marketing approval significantly expands the potential medical applications of our NeuroPort S...ChemImage Works to Improve Existing Methods of Imaging Untreated Fingerprints on Paper Substrates
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...That same sensitivity makes some of these creatures exceedingly difficult to grow in lab cultures. To overcome the hurdle of quickly collecting and filtering microbial samples in seawater before the microbes change their protein expression, the research team collaboratively with CEE Professor Sallie (Penny...MIT: New material could lead to faster chips
...are widely used in radio communications and other applications. But existing systems require multiple components, produce "noisy" signals that require filtering and consume large power, whereas the new graphene system has just a single transistor and produces, in a highly efficient manner, a clean output that ...New Gas Clean Filter Technology From Varian, Inc. Reduces Contamination in GC, ICP and GC/MS
...n filters. The range of applications is expanded and includes the use with collision gas to prevent mass interferences in LC/MS, and for argon supply filtering in ICP-OES and ICP-MS. Improvements to the absorbent materials in both the GC/MS and moisture filters allow them to stabilize more quickly to r...Shimadzu Phoretix 2D from Shimadzu Biotech
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Description:...e patent-pending Formula Predictor software takes advantage of multiple levels of fragmentation, isotope pattern verification, and unique fragment-ion filtering techniques to accurately determine the correct formula for unknown components. Traditional approaches for deducing empirical formulae from mass spec...