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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]