News tagged with beat induction

Newborn infants detect the beat in music

Researchers at the Institute for Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation of the University of Amsterdam demonstrated that two to three day old babies can detect ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Hair-cell-derived patient-specific heart cells for disease modeling and drug screening

Hair follicle keratinocytes offer a simple and accessible route to generate patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells, iPSCs, with minimum inconvenience for the patients, shows study presented at the ESC Congress 2011 ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Using radio signals to prevent heart failure

Increased pressure in the heart is a warning sign - it may indicate heart failure. In the future, a battery-less miniature sensor implanted in a patient’s heart could be used to transmit on-demand cardiac ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Test of implantable cardioverter defibrillator linked to cognitive problems

A standard test of the implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is linked to significant thought-processing problems that improve for most patients within a year after the device is inserted, according to research reported ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 02, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A major step in making better stem cells from adult tissue

A team led by scientists from The Scripps Research Institute has developed a method that dramatically improves the efficiency of creating stem cells from human adult tissue, without the use of embryonic cells. The research ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 18, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Review: Dazzling Palm software beats the iPhone

(AP) -- Move over, iPhone. You've had two years on top of the smart phone world. Now there's a touch-screen phone with better software: the Palm Pre.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (16) | comments 12

Coming soon: Cell therapies for diabetes, cancer?

Therapies using stem cell transplants are advancing promising treatments for such conditions as Alzheimer’s Disease, neurological diseases and spinal cord injury, and heart disease. Now, scientists think that stem cell transplants ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 19, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

From stem cells to organs: The bioengineering challenge

For more than a decade, Peter Zandstra has been working at the University of Toronto to rev up the production of stem cells and their descendants. The raw materials are adult blood stem cells and embryonic stem cells. The ...

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created Feb 16, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Popular arthritis drug may disrupt heart rhythm, UB research finds

Celebrex, a popular arthritis drug that blocks pain by inhibiting an enzyme known as COX-2, has been shown in laboratory studies to induce arrhythmia, or irregular beating of the heart, via a novel pathway unrelated to its ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jan 24, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1


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