Innovative movies show real-time immune-cell activity within tumors
Using advanced new microscopy techniques in concert with sophisticated transgenic technologies, scientists at The Wistar Institute have for the first time created three-dimensional, time-lapse movies showing immune cells targeting cancer cells in live tumor tissues. In recorded experiments, immune cells called T cells can be seen actively migrating though tissues, making direct contact with tumor...Ultrasound upgrade produces images that work like 3-D movies
Parents-to-be might soon don 3-D glasses in the ultrasound lab to see their developing fetuses in the womb "in living 3-D, just like at the IMAX movies," according to researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. The same Duke team that first developed real-time, three-dimensional ultrasound imaging says it has now modified the commercial version of the scanner to produce a...Parental Behavior And Movies Can Alter Perceptions About Smoking
According to the latest issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, research reports say that the perception of children in the age group of two to six years old were different about cigarettes and alcohol if they are exposed to the same in movies or if parents smoked as well. // When pretending to shop for a social evening, children two to six years old were nearly four tim...Smoking Related Scenes in Movies Increase Teenage Susceptibility To Smoke
A review report submitted recently regarding the impact of media and mass communication on smoking has found that teenagers are vulnerable to smoke after visualization of smoking related scenes on movies// or televisions. It is also in favor of exclusion of smoking related scenes from movies rated for adolescent audience. It is appropriate to remember at this stage that most smokers would have in...Movies Influence Youngsters To Drink
Young adolescents are increasingly taking their example from movies, and starting to experiment with alcohol at a very early age. A research// study has measured the influence of alcohol use in movies and, using data from more than 600 films and 5,000 students, found that movies play a significant role in an adolescent's decision to drink at a young age. The regional study was publi...Movies Represent Coma In A Wrong Way
Movies often misrepresent coma, in a way that is powerful enough to change public perceptions about the same. If the trend were allowed to continue, it could have a dangerous impact// on real-life situations involving coma, highlights a new study published in the latest issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology. In a review of U.S. and foreign movie...Tobacco Advertising Through Movies Luring Kids
A study in the September issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals says that kids aged 12 to 17 in the US may have been exposed to tobacco advertising// in some form or the other despite a ban on tobacco advertising in 2001 to 2002. In 1971 tobacco advertising was banned, but it is still prevalent in movie trailers. "Trailers pair tobacco...