Bone specialists' hi-tech answer to patient care
...s and genetic-testing facilities, doctors can make accurate diagnoses enabling patients to receive the best treatment for their particular condition. "The system is completely novel and the successful delivery of the complex IT project is thanks to the collaborative nature of ESDN itself." The technology behi...MSI releases 'moleculizer' - a new approach to simulation of intracellular biochemical networks
...a critical step forward in our quest to provide an accurate simulation of intracellular biochemical networks." "I've designed Moleculizer to be intuitive for biologists," said Dr. Larry Lok, a mathematician who conceived and programmed Moleculizer. "Its parallel simplifications in simulation setup and output ...Albatross study provides new information vital to their conservation
...rovides governments and fisheries commissions with accurate information to stop the killing of these charismatic birds. The right combination of measures will drastically reduce deaths."...NYU researchers simulate molecular biological clock
...ules in the cell does not necessarily lead to more accurate timekeeping. Removing all the CRY1 molecules (CRY...l other molecular species unchanged, leads to more accurate timekeeping. While simulating the PER2 mutation, they found that circadian oscillations could only ...Blood test shows promise as monitor for antiangiogenic cancer therapy
...ogenic drugs or treatment strategies and allow for accurate determination of the optimal drug doses to use for such therapies. Antiangiogenic cancer therapy targets the formation of new blood vessels used to support tumor growth. Although many of these agents are currently being tested in clinical trials, no ...AGI publishes 10th edition of GeoRef Thesaurus
...the GeoRef Thesaurus to obtain the most useful and accurate literature searches of the GeoRef database. It is a guide to the index terms used by GeoRef, which contains over 2.6 million bibliographic citations and abstracts covering all of the geoscience disciplines and allied environmental sciences. For each ...Communication during a terrorist attack; Workshop in Austin, Texas
...ipants on the challenges and importance of getting accurate and timely information to the public during a crisis. DETAILS: The workshop is on Jan. 27 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Doubletree Hotel, 6505 IH-35 North, Austin, Texas. REPORTERS WHO WISH TO ATTEND MUST REGISTER IN ADVANCE by contacting Randy Atki...How the brain creates false memories
... predicted if their memories of the theft would be accurate or false. Consistent with findings from numerous previous studies that have reported that areas such as the hippocampus are highly active during memory formation, Okado and Stark found activity in the left hippocampus tail as well as perirhinal corte...Experimental radar provides 3-D forest view
...ht information that can be used to generate highly accurate digital elevation models (DEMs). InSAR can also be applied to detecting millimetre-scale ground movement taking place between acquisitions, such as ground subsidence or tectonic motion. Extra information can also be gathered on a site based on the f...MRI 'excellent choice' for overcoming challenges of diagnosing pregnant women with abdominal pain
MRI is both safe and accurate for diagnosing pregnant women with acute pain in the abdomen and pelvis, surpassing the limits of both CT and ultrasound for this purpose, according to a new study by researchers from University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill, NC. For the...Flocking together: Study shows how animal groups find their way
...plexity is not necessary: Large groups easily make accurate decisions about where to go even when no individua...e member, demonstrating that groups can come to an accurate consensus decision even though individuals are not aware of the preferences of others or whether the...When cobras spit, there's not a dry eye in the house
... of venom on the photos and the visor revealed how accurate the aim of both species of snake was: the black-necked spitting cobras hit at least one eye eight out of ten times, with the red Mozambique spitting cobras even reaching the target in 100 per cent of cases. However, there was a clear difference in th...Communication during a Terrorist Attack; Workshop in Atlanta, Georgia
...ipants on the challenges and importance of getting accurate and timely information to the public during a crisis. DETAILS: The workshop is on March 24 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Omni Hotel, 100 CNN Center, Atlanta, Georgia REPORTERS WHO WISH TO ATTEND MUST REGISTER IN ADVANCE by contacting Randy Atkins,...Certain genetic test helps detect mutations that may be missed by conventional DNA test
...mutations may be both feasible and desirable. "The accurate identification and interpretation of mismatch repair mutation carriers is essential for clinical management of colorectal cancer patients and for scientific studies in which the mutation status of participants is an important variable. Currently, mos...Were bigger brains really smarter?
...ayoffs associated with protolanguage or sharing or accurate throwing," he said. "But for long periods in human evolution, general intelligence may not have improved very much." Yet when it finally did, the results were spectacular. Starting back about 75,000 to 50,000 years ago in Africa, there was a burst of...SARS surveillance via mass spectometry
...trate that an MS-based technique can quickly yield accurate information on clinical isolates (in this case from the 2003 SARS outbreak in Singapore)....Rapid, new test develped for inherited immune deficiency
...st effective. This new approach provides a rapid, accurate indication of a possible immune problem immediately after birth while the infant is protected by the mother's antibodies still circulating in the baby's blood." If SCID is diagnosed in time, there are effective treatments. One form of the disease c...Urgent measures needed to retain our lead in pharmaceuticals
... to develop epidemiological studies." Scotland has accurate and worrying statistics on the incidence of cancer, heart disease and mental illness, he says, which have a strong heritable component as do asthma, diabetes, obesity and osteoporosis, all of which look set to increase with changing environment, beha...New NIST reference material reinforces fragile-x screens
...chromosome. Proper diagnosis depends critically on accurate counts of the number of triplet repeats. Individuals with up to 44 repeats are normal; individuals with 55 to 200 repeats fall into the premutation category (unaffected, but the number of repeats can increase in their children, who can then be affect...Virginia Tech patents advance microprocessors, vaccines, vision, vibration control, more
...ering. The High Precision Dilatometer enables very accurate measurement of the volume and/or density of solid materials as a function of time or temperature. It offers increased precision and accuracy of measurement based on the interference of light waves, Marand said. "Such equipment is of great use in mate...