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New MRI signaling method could picture disease metabolism in action

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Duke University chemists are using modified magnetic resonance imaging to see molecular changes inside people's bodies that could signal health problems such as cancer.





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New 'control knobs' for stem cells identified

Biology /

created Dec 03, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Natural changes in voltage that occur across the membrane of adult human stem cells are a powerful controlling factor in the process by which these stem cells differentiate, according to research published by Tufts University ...


A new scan for lung diseases

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

People with chronic lung disease and asthma could soon be offered better treatment thanks to a new type of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scan being pioneered at The University of Nottingham.


Brain networks strengthened by closing ion channels

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 20, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Yale School of Medicine and University of Crete School of Medicine researchers report in Cell April 20 the first evidence of a molecular mechanism that dynamically alters the strength of higher brain network connections.


New mechanism underlying pain found

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 16, 2006 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Researchers at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development (J&JPRD) today announced that they have discovered a new molecular mechanism that may underlie neuropathic pain. The clearer understanding of the root-cause ...


Calcium is spark of life, kiss of death for nerve cells

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created Mar 01, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Oregon Health & Science University research shows how calcium regulates the recharging of high-frequency auditory nerve cells after they've fired a burst of signals, and it may have implications for neurological disorders.


MRI in Microreactors

Scientists bring MRI/NMR to microreactors

Chemistry /

created Jan 28, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 0

In a significant step towards improving the design of future catalysts and catalytic reactors, especially for microfluidic “lab-on-a-chip” devices, researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence ...


Warming up for Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Warming up for Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Chemistry /

created May 08, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (21) | comments 1

Standard magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, is a superb diagnostic tool but one that suffers from low sensitivity, requiring patients to remain motionless for long periods of time inside noisy, claustrophobic ...


NMR Technology Comes to the Lab on a Chip

NMR Technology Comes to the Lab on a Chip

Physics /

created Oct 10, 2005 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A breakthrough in the technology of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), one of the most powerful analytic tools known to science, is opening the door to new applications in microfluidic chips, devices for studying ...


HYPER-CEST MRI breaks new ground in molecular imaging

HYPER-CEST MRI breaks new ground in molecular imaging

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created Oct 19, 2006 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have developed a new technique for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) that allows ...



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