Siemens Shapes the Future of Integrated Diagnostic Imaging
Molecular CT adds metabolic information from PET to traditional CT and enables truly integrated diagnostic imaging for maximized workflow efficiency and quick return on investment MUNICH, Germany, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Siemens Healthcare (http://www.siemens.com/healthcare )...The N Shapes Up This Summer With the New One-Hour Teen Reality Series, The N's Student Body
Series Premiere to Simulcast On The N and Nick at Nite Friday, July 11, at 10:00 P.M. (ET/PT) Produced by Reveille and Hosted by Famed Athlete and Champion of Fitness Laila Ali; 12 High School Students Take On the Physical Challenge to Get Into Better Shape, Streng...Researchers Find How the Brain Hears Shapes
A new research by a Harvard Medical school researcher has shown how the brain hears shapes and how it can activate a particular area in the brain called LOtv that lights up when one identifies an objects shape. As part of their research, Amir Amedi and his team taught seven sighted volunte...Researchers Identify New Method to Selectively Kill Metastatic Melanoma Cells
...m. About the VCU Massey Cancer Center: The VCU Massey Cancer Center is one of 65 National Cancer Institute-designated institutions that leads and shapes America's cancer research efforts. Working with all kinds of cancers, the Center conducts basic, translational and clinical cancer research, provides ...Why anorexic patients cling to their eating disorder
... capacity for flexible behavior modification of recently learned behavior. In this test, the subjects were shown a rapid sequence of various geometric shapes and asked to match them. After one test run, the matching principle was changed. "In this study, we confirmed that anorexic patients cling to fami...Prototype, 7-foot-tall sanitizer automates disinfection of hard-to-clean hospital equipment
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...an for the study and Associate Professor at Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine. The study focused on atypical wounds with irregular shapes and causes. The wounds were treated with the powder dressing once a week for four to eight weeks. The study ultimately showed that the powder dressi...St. Jude Identifies the Specific Cell That Causes Eye Cancer, Disproving Long-Held Theory
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. The continuous fabrication of complex, three-dimensional nanoscale structures and the ability to grow individual nanowires of unlimited length are now possible with a process developed by researchers at the University of Illinois. Based on the rapid evaporation of solvent from s...Caltech and UCSD researchers shed light on how proteins find their shapes
PASADENA, Calif.--Researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) have brought together UCSD theoretical modeling and Caltech experimental data to show just how amino-acid chains might fold up into unique, three-dimensional fun...Gene linked with mental illness shapes brain region, researchers find
A gene variant associated with mental illness goes hand-in-hand with enlargement of a brain region that handles negative emotions, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center and the Central Texas Veterans Health Care System have found. The region of the brain called the pulvinar is larger a...Pleasing plant shapes explained by new computer model
Flowers are innately beautiful to the human eye, but how does a sunflower achieve its stunning disc of intersecting spirals or a daisy its delicate symmetry? That was the question tackled by University of Calgary computer scientists, who have answered one of biology's enduring questions with an a...Divergent life history shapes gene expression in brains of salmon
Scientists working with salmon have found that gene expression in the brain can differ significantly among members of a species with different life histories. Their study indicates that roughly 15 percent of Atlantic salmon genes show differential expression in males who migrate from their freshwat...Sol-gel inks produce complex shapes with nanoscale features
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. New sol-gel inks developed by researchers at the University of Illinois can be printed into patterns to produce three-dimensional structures of metal oxides with nanoscale features. The ability to directly pattern functional oxides at the nanoscale opens a new avenue to function...Superbugs, shapes and nanotechnology
A common hospital superbug called Clostridium has a protective coat of armour that can self assemble when put into a test tube on its own, which may have important commercial uses in nanotechnology, according to scientists speaking today (Thursday 6 September 2007) at the Society for General Micro...Foldable and stretchable, silicon circuits conform to many shapes
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Scientists have developed a new form of stretchable silicon integrated circuit that can wrap around complex shapes such as spheres, body parts and aircraft wings, and can operate during stretching, compressing, folding and other types of extreme mechanical deformations, without a ...Material world: Graphene's versatility promises new applications
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