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...arrival time. In recent years, improvements in PET detectors have provided the capability to achieve good localization of position and arrival time of the photons simultaneously. Using this information in image reconstruction translates into improved image quality, which leads to reduced variability in the pat...Researchers show how brain decodes complex smells
...the functional units of the olfactory bulb, act as detectors for individual compounds," Lin said. "There are no single detectors for complete smells." Thus, to distinguish different scents, the brain must integrate the signals of...New paradigm will help identify leads for drug discovery
...ofluidics, low-volume dispensing, high-sensitivity detectors and robotic plate handling. In an experiment designed to test the feasibility, accuracy and efficiency of the new approach, the NIH researchers used sophisticated robotic systems to prepare 60,793 chemical compounds at seven or more concentrations ac...Germans do well in the third round of EURYI Awards
...ess technology will be used for the development of detectors and integrated circuits, which could potentially be used in new imaging technologies. German award winners in Europe: Dr. Pascal Fries (33), a biomedical scientist, will use his EUYRI Award in the Netherlands. There he will examine the human br...Computational analysis shows that plant hormones often go it alone
...about 22,000 genes, each detected by on average 15 detectors after treatment with the seven hormones, was crunched--not once--but twice, resulting in roughly 14 million data points. "Since we didn't generate any of the data ourselves, we had to perform extensive quality controls to extract meaningful informati...University of California, San Diego-led team discovers how we detect sour taste
... detectors. "There have been many claims for pH detectors that monitor the health of different body fluids, but the nature of the circuit and the receptors has been unknown," said Zuker. "Therefore it is significant to discover that the same protein that detects sour tastes also functions as a sentinel of p...Identifying the 'nuclear' in nuclear medicine as high benefit
...ened concerns about terrorism, sensitive radiation detectors are used in major cities and public transportation facilities. Individuals who receive nuclear medicine procedures may trigger detector alarms and be stopped by security personnel. Common radioisotopes that are used in many nuclear medicine studies t...NHGRI aims to make DNA sequencing faster, more cost effective
...d compositional approach. Quadrature dipole moment detectors will be constructed that yield a signal independent of the rotation of the DNA molecule relative to the electrodes. Jens Gundlach, Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle,$605,000 (2 years),"Engineering MspA for Nanopore Sequencing" The passage...Predicting PET imaging's future: Diagnosing and treating diseases ASAP
...ster the technological complexity of combining PET detectors with relatively high magnetic fields and overcome economic considerations (this technique will initially be expensive in a financially restricted health care setting)....News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
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...ld be used to create a new class of fast, accurate detectors for applications ranging from food safety to homeland security, said R. Graham Cooks, the Henry Bohn Hass Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in Purdue's College of Science. Using a mass spectrometer to analyze bacteria and other microorganisms or...... might lead to cancer. In these systems, molecular detectors scan the DNA for injury. A sort of local operation is then performed to cut out and dispose of the damaged segment and replace it with a new one. In their study, which appeared in Cancer Research, the scientists asked whether a reduced individual a...Breakthrough in nanodevice synthesis revolutionizes biological sensors
...eir ability to act as highly sensitive biomolecule detectors that could revolutionize biological diagnostic applications, according to a report in Nature. "We electronically plugged into the biochemical system of cells," said senior author Mark Reed , Harold Hodgkinson Professor of Engineering & Applied Sc...Researchers find link between food odors and lifespan in fruit flies
...abolic measurements for the study, using sensitive detectors in his laboratory at NMSU to analyze the aerobic r...abolic measurements for the study, using sensitive detectors in his laboratory at NMSU to analyze the aerobic respiration of the tiny flies. Carefully controllin...Largest physics meeting of the year, in Denver
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... people carrying concealed weapons with the use of detectors derived from instrumentation that has long been a mainstay in astronomical observations. Unlike backscatter x-ray scanners, which expose people to low doses of radiation, the system that Panu Helisto (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland) will de...New way to catch cancer's spread, rapid 3-D retinal imaging, more at CLEO/QELS 2007
...ds an image. Increasing the sensitivity of the detectors and the power of the laser (which currently must be chilled to low temperatures to radiate sufficiently high levels of THz waves) can potentially enable imaging of thicker objects or even imaging of the reflected THz light, which would be more practi...Terahertz imaging goes the distance
...ing the power of the lasers and sensitivity of the detectors can potentially enable imaging of thicker objects or imaging of the reflected light, which would be more practical for security applications. In addition, the development of high-operating-temperature quantum cascade lasers, which operate without the...Novel sugar-to-hydrogen technology promises transportation fuel independence
... They tested the theory using Oak Ridge's hydrogen detectors and documented that hydrogen is produced as they predicted. Mielenz, who heads the Bioconversion Group in ORNL's Biosciences Division, attributed the successful research to a unique collaborative working relationship between scientists, lab divisio...