Real-Time Control of Wheelchairs with Brain Waves
A new signal processing technology for brain machine interface (BMI) application In a press conference in Tokyo today, The BSI-TOYOTA Collaboration Center announced their success in developing a system which utilizes one of the fastest technologies in the world, controlling a wheelchair using bra...Video: ADA 23rd New Dentist Conference: Making Waves in Miami
April 30-May 2, 2009 Hyatt Regency Miami MIAMI, April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Get Ready to Make Some Waves! The ADA 23rd New Dentist Conference: Making Waves in Miami will be held April 30-May 2, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency in Miami, FL. Join the ADA Committee on the New Dentist for ...Musicians' Brain Waves Are Also in Tune
Study shows guitarists' minds in sync as they perform together TUESDAY, March 17 (HealthDay News) -- When they play together, musicians' brain waves harmonize along with the music, according to new European research. They analyzed electrical activity in the brains of eight pairs of ...Ultrasound waves aid in rapid treatment of DVT
The use of ultrasound waves for deep vein thrombosis (DVT) may help dissolve blood clots in less time than using clot-busting drugs alone, according to researchers at Emory University. The study will be presented Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008 at the annual VEITHsymposium in New York City. "These clots ...Vancouver Coastal Health Authority Makes Waves With Patient Flow
First Health Authority to automate patient flow enterprise wide PITTSBURGH, May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) has implemented TeleTracking Technologies' world class patient flow solutions as part of their campaign to improve patient flow. As the proportion of the regi...Radio waves fire up nanotubes embedded in tumors, destroying liver cancer
HOUSTON - Cancer cells treated with carbon nanotubes can be destroyed by non-invasive radio waves that heat up the nanotubes while sparing untreated tissue, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and Rice University has shown in preclinical experi...Brain Waves Show Sound Processing Abnormalities in Autistic Children
CHICAGO, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Abnormalities in auditory and language processing may be evaluated in children with autism spectrum disorder by using magnetoencephalography (MEG), according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RS...NanoVibronix Receives Wound Healing Indications in Europe for its PainShield(TM) Device
...ived CE approval in Europe for additional claims of wound healing. PainShield is the first hands-free, patch-based device that uses surface ultrasound waves for therapeutic treatment of wounds. The innovative PainShield consists of a disposable patch connected to a portable driver. PainShield for wound the...New Report by BioTrends Research Group to Highlight the Launch of ULORIC(R) (febuxostat)
...nterviews. In total, 300 Rheumatologists and Primary Care Physicians will participate in the research. Following a baseline report, three additional waves will be published capturing launch effectiveness at one month, three months, and six months post launch. The reports are designed to assess trial and...MRI Emerges As Vital Resource in Treatment of Back Pain
...I scans are produced by stimulating the protons in tissues and liquids (such as fat, muscle, spinal cord, and fluid in the spine) using radiofrequency waves in the presence of a magnetic field. MRI detects the amount of energy emitted from these protons. This technology makes MRI well suited to evaluate sp...St. Jude Finds 'Dancing' Hair Cells Are Key to Humans' Acute Hearing
...ms into an electrical signal that travels to the brain's auditory center. Without such amplification, hearing would be far less sensitive, since sound waves entering the cochlea are severely diminished as they pass through the inner ear fluid. In their studies, Zuo and his colleagues have sought to est...OSCAR Ultrasonic Bone Cement Remover
Description:... OSCAR ulitizes ultrasonic waves to remove bone cement speedily and efficiently. The oscillating tip of the probe liquifies the cement at the point of contact, allowing it to be re...Marine microbes creating green waves in industry
New technology designed to analyse large numbers of novel marine microbes could lead to more efficient and greener ways to manufacture new drugs for conditions such as epilepsy, diabetes, flu and other viruses, as well as improving the manufacture of other products such as agrochemicals. Resear...MIT: Making waves in the brain
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Scientists have studied high-frequency brain waves, known as gamma oscillations, for more than 50 years, believing them crucial to consciousness, attention, learning and memory. Now, for the first time, MIT researchers and colleagues have found a way to induce these waves by shin...Case researcher in RNA biology makes waves by challenging current thinking
In the January 18th issue of Molecular Cell, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher Kristian E. Baker, Ph.D. challenges molecular biologys established body of evidence and widely-accepted model for nonsense-mediated messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) decay. With her collabora...Bursts of waves drive immune system 'soldiers' toward invaders
Scientists have discovered that torrents of microscopic waves propel white blood cells toward invading microbes. The discovery - recorded on videotape -- holds the potential for better understanding and treatment of cancer and heart disease. Visible only under a very high-resolution light micro...Queen's marine biologist investigates aliens beneath the waves
Queen's University Belfast is appealing for help from the public in looking at ways to detect and stop the spread of marine aliens. Activities such as aquaculture, shipping and recreational boating have led to an army of marine alien species hitchhiking around the globe. Now Queen's is attempt...Slow brain waves play key role in coordinating complex activity
While it is widely accepted that the output of nerve cells carries information between regions of the brain, it's a big mystery how widely separated regions of the cortex involving billions of cells are linked together to coordinate complex activity. A new study by neuroscientists at the Universi...Toward world's smallest radio: nano-sized detector turns radio waves into music
Researchers in California today (Oct. 17) report development of the worlds first working radio system that receives radio waves wirelessly and converts them to sound signals through a nano-sized detector made of carbon nanotubes. The carbon nanotube radio device is thousands of times smaller than ...Taming tiny, unruly waves for nano optics
ATLANTA (Oct. 8, 2007) -- Nanoscale devices present a unique challenge to any optical technology -- theres just not enough room for light to travel in a straight line. On the nanoscale, energy may be produced by radiating photons of light between two surfaces very close together (sometimes as c...Engineers tune a nanoscale grating structure to trap and release a variety of light waves
People debating politics are well-advised to shed more light than heat. Engineers working in optical technologies have the same aspiration. Light waves transmit data with much greater speed than do electrical signals, says Qiaoqiang Gan, a Ph.D. candidate at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. ...New MIT radio chip mimics human ear
...rics and neural signal processing to convert sound waves into electrical signals that are sent to the brain. As sound waves enter the cochlea, they create mechanical waves in the cochlear membrane and the fluid of the inne...Baseline Research Indicates High Interest in Centocor-Ortho Biotech's SIMPONI(R)
... and qualitative telephone interviews. In total, 300 Rheumatologists will participate in the research. Following a baseline report, three additional waves will be published capturing launch effectiveness at one month, three months, and six months post launch. The reports are designed to assess trial and...Cochlear Americas Provides Support for Cochlear Implant Recipients to Pursue Higher Education
... ear. Unlike hearing aids, cochlear implants do not amplify sound, but instead are designed to mirror natural hearing. Cochlear implants convert sound waves to electrical impulses and transmit them to the inner ear, providing people with severe-to-profound hearing loss the ability to identify sounds in the...