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Better Viewing Through Fluorescent Nanotubes When Peering Into Innards of a Mouse
May 27, 2011 Researchers have developed a way to see deeper -- and more clearly -- into bodily organs of laboratory mice used in studies of medications. Fluorescent carbon nanotubes, injected into the mice, ... > full story -
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Five New Hot Spots Where Medicine and Technology Will Converge
May 26, 2011 Medicine and technology are converging in patient care at a faster pace than most people realize. Space age advancements from point-of-care health technologies like telemedicine to medical robots ... > full story -
PET Scans Predict Effectiveness of Treatment for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in HIV Patients
May 24, 2011 New research shows that the use of 18F-FDG positron emission tomography scans can help to determine earlier if treatment for tuberculosis is working or if the disease is ... > full story -
'Critical Baby Step' Taken for Spying Life on a Molecular Scale
May 18, 2011 The ability to image single biological molecules in a living cell is something that has long eluded researchers. However, a novel technique -- using the structure of diamond -- may well be able to do ... > full story -
Imaging Technology Reveals Intricate Details of 49-Million-Year-Old Spider
May 18, 2011 Scientists have used the latest computer-imaging technology to produce stunning three-dimensional pictures of a 49-million-year-old spider trapped inside an opaque piece of fossilized amber ... > full story -
Important Step Towards Early Detection of Breast Cancer
May 18, 2011 European researchers have developed a clinical PET system with the highest resolution and sensitivity in the market, specifically dedicated to breast cancer detection in early stages. The MAMMI ... > full story -
Halving the Radiation Dose in Cardiac Perfusion Imaging Is Now 'Feasible'
May 17, 2011 A reduction by half in the radiation dose to which cardiac patients are exposed during diagnostic perfusion imaging is now "feasible," according to a new ... > full story -
Blood Test for Lung Cancer? Characteristic Patterns in microRNA Reveal Disease
May 12, 2011 Researchers have identified characteristic patterns of molecules called microRNA in the blood of people with lung cancer that might reveal both the presence and aggressiveness of the disease, and ... > full story -
New Technology Fuses MRI, Ultrasound to Achieve Targeted Biopsy of Prostate Cancer
May 11, 2011 A new prostate-imaging technology that fuses MRI with real-time, three-dimensional ultrasound may offer a more exacting method to obtain biopsy specimens from suspicious areas within the ... > full story -
Lessening the Dangers of Radiation: Ultrasound as Effective as CT Scans for Most Diagnoses, Research Finds
May 11, 2011 A new study exploring the efficacy of expensive and invasive CT scans has found that, in many cases, they don't offer a clinical advantage over a simple, inexpensive ultrasound ... > full story
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