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July 10, 2008 -- Later this month, thousands of scientists and health professionals from the field of medical physics will meet at the 50th meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) in Houston, Texas. There, from July 27 to July 31, they will present the latest technolog...Pollution Particles Impair Blood Vessel Function
Study finds pressure readings rise, urges broader public action to curb effects WEDNESDAY, May 14 (HealthDay News) -- Just a few hours of exposure to particulate matter air pollution can increase blood pressure and harm blood vessel function within 24 hours, a new study finds. The f...LightAir Cleans the Air From the Smallest and Most Dangerous Particles Without Generating Ozone
STOCKHOLM, March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- LightAir IonFlow 50 air purifier delivers cleaner and healthier air. It effectively cleans the air from the smallest and most harmful pollutants that affect us every day at work and at home. LightAir offers a strong added health value through the unbeatable ...Smallest Air Pollution Particles Hurt Heart Most
Cause plaque build-up in arteries, negate effects of "good" cholesterol SATURDAY, Jan. 19 (HealthDay News) -- The tiniest bits of air pollution from your vehicle's exhaust may be the most dangerous to your heart's health, suggests a new U.S. study. Particles that are about one-thous...Inhaled Particles Increases the Risk of Lung Cancer
Exposure to certain types of inhaled particles in occupational settings and in the environment has been linked to increases in lung cancer risk. The December// Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine...Nano-sized inhaled particles traverse quickly from nose to brain
To understand the health implication when tiny particles in the air is inhaled, University of Rochester Medical Center scientists demonstrated that when rats inhale// , nano-sized particles quickly traverse the pathway and make it to many regions in the brain. This study is published in the August ...Low-Density Cholesterol Subfractions: Not all LDL-C Particles are Created Equal
Kerri Penno Contributing Editor Medical conventions are challenged every day. Already in the new year, the effectiveness of cold medicine and the gold standard in breast cancer treatment have been challenged. Standards in cholesterol testing are the latest casualty of medical innovation....Aethlon Medical to Present at the 2009 RedChip Small-Cap Investor Conference on June 16, 2009
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...ing in Seattle, Washington. Results from pre-clinical studies conducted at MSKCC demonstrate the ability of AlphaVax's virus-like replicon vector particles (VRP) encoding melanoma-specific tumor antigens to reduce melanoma tumor burden in a state-of-the-art murine melanoma model. Jedd D. Wolchok, M.D...Prometheus and Rosetta Genomics Announce License and Collaboration Agreement
...ng out mesothelioma in patients diagnosed with adenocarcinoma in the lung who have been exposed to mesothelioma-related substances, primarily asbestos particles and heavy metals. About MicroRNA MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are recently discovered, naturally occurring, small RNAs that act as master regulator...MannKind Updates Status of NDA Submission for AFRESA
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A team of UC San Diego-led atmospheric chemistry researchers moved closer to what is considered the "holy grail" of climate change science when it made the first-ever direct detection of biological particles within ice clouds. The team, led by Kerri Pratt, a Ph.D. student of atmospheric chemist...Dangerous printer particles identified
The identity and origin of tiny, potentially hazardous particles emitted from common laser printers have been revealed by a new study at Queensland University of Technology. Professor Lidia Morawska from QUT's International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health lead the study to answer questio...When particles are so small that they seep right through skin
Scientists are finding that particles that are barely there tiny objects known as nanoparticles that have found a home in electronics, food containers, sunscreens, and a variety of applications can breech our most personal protective barrier: The skin. The particles under scrutiny by Lisa DeL...Mesothelin engineered on virus-like particles provides treatment clues for pancreatic cancer
New understanding of a protein that spurs the growth of pancreatic cancer could lead to a new vaccine against the deadly disease, said researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in a report appearing in the current edition of the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. The protein call...Tiny dust particles from Asian deserts common over western United States
It has been a decade since University of Washington scientists first pinpointed specific instances of air pollution, including Gobi Desert dust, traversing the Pacific Ocean and adding to the mix of atmospheric pollution already present along the West Coast of North America. Now a UW research...MIT sculpts 3-D particles with light
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--MIT engineers have used ultraviolet light to sculpt three-dimensional microparticles that could have many applications in medical diagnostics and tissue engineering. For example, they could be designed to act as probes to detect certain molecules, such as DNA, or to release drugs...Nanotech particles affect brain development in mice
Maternal exposure to nanoparticles of titanium dioxide (TiO2) affects the expression of genes related to the central nervous system in developing mice. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Particle and Fibre Toxicology found that mice whose mothers were injected with the n...Penn scientists carve functional nanoribbons using super-heated, nano-sized particles of iron
PHILADELPHIA - Due to its remarkable electronic properties, few layer graphene, or FLG, has emerged as a promising new material for use in post-silicon devices that incorporate the quantum effects that emerge at the nanoscale. Now, physicists at the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated a...Physicists discover how fundamental particles lose track of quantum mechanical properties
(New Orleans, La.) In todays Science Express, the advance online publication of the journal Science, researchers report a series of experiments that mark an important step toward understanding a longstanding fundamental physics problem of quantum mechanics. The scientists presented their finding...'Two-Faced' Particles Act Like Tiny Submarines
RALEIGH, N.C., Feb. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For the first time, researchers at North Carolina State University have demonstrated that microscopic "two-faced" spheres whose halves are physically or chemically different -- so-called Janus particles -- will move like stealthy submarines whe...'2-faced' particles act like tiny submarines
For the first time, researchers at North Carolina State University have demonstrated that microscopic "two-faced" spheres whose halves are physically or chemically different so-called Janus particles will move like stealthy submarines when an alternating electrical field is applied to liquid sur...Captivate magnetic separator for six microtubes from Molecular Probes (Invitrogen)
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