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Polarized Nuclear Imaging Combines MRI and Gamma Ray
Xenon Imaging
In medicine, xenon has largely been known as a general anesthetic, but two University of Virginia physicists are exploring [MORE]
Prospects for Diagnosing Neurodegenerative Diseases in Urine
Sporadic CJD
Protein misfolding is a common feature of Crutzfeldt-Jacob, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. But in each case, the proteins are [MORE]
Magnetoactic Bacteria Delivers Drugs to Tumors Hypoxic Locations
In 1993, researchers found an unusual micorganism in the waters of Rhode Island’s Petaquamscuff estuary. It was unusual in that [MORE]
“Off-the-Shelf” Implantable Artificial Blood Vessels
New Born Lamb
Eight years ago, Doris Taylor at the University of Minnesota grew a beating rat heart from a decellularized [MORE]
A Simulated Mouth
Oral Modeling Device
Last week’s Tagline had a piece about an electronic tongue; this week we have a microfluidics device that [MORE]
Looking Inside Arteries
Pantheris Full Flair
Interventional cardiologists at the University of California-San Diego’s cardiovascular center are the first in the nation to use [MORE]
PTSD Brain Repository
Transcription Factors
Post-traumatic stress disorder, which afflicts about eight million Americans, appears to be a proteomic disease. DNA from these suffererss [MORE]
Thermophotonic Lock-In Imaging for Earlier Detection of Dental Caries
Basic Panoramic Dental X-Ray
Conventional dental x-radiographs do not have the specificity and sensitivity to detect early dental cavities, when they [MORE]
Drug Delivery via MRI
MRI
By “hacking” a conventional MRI machine, researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital were able to steer ferrous nanoparticles through the blood [MORE]
An Electronic Tongue
Wine Tasting
For those who don’t remember Graham Chapman’s 1989 hilarious review of Australian table wines (Monty Python’s Flying Circus), here’s [MORE]
Glucose Sensing Contact Lens
Glucose Sensing Contact Lens
“Blood, Sweat and Tears” used to be a jazz-rock band, but now this trio refers to detecting [MORE]
Graphene-Stabilized Lipid Biosensor
Graphene
Quoting directly: “For the first time researchers succeeded to place a layer of graphene on top of a stable fatty [MORE]
A Bioabsorbable Heart Valve
Heart Valves
Children born with defective pulmonary heart valve disease had to rely on animal or human cadaver tissue for repairs, [MORE]
C.S. Draper Lab’s Artificial Lung
Lung Assist Draper Laboratories
Since 1953, when Dr. John Gibbon invented the first heart-lung machine, open heart surgeries of all kinds [MORE]