$3.4 million directed to key UW-Madison MS study
..., state-of-the-art imaging technologies, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET), to image lesions and how they respond to treatment. The work to be funded by the new grant, part of a five-year, $30 million initiative by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, is exp...Nose odors and mouth odors: The brain distinguishes
...they scanned the subject's brains using functional magnetic resonance imaging, a technique in which harmless magnetic fields and radio waves detect increased blood flow to brain areas, which reflects increased activity...New imaging technology shown to detect pancreatic inflammation in type 1 diabetes
...that this leakage can be detected with the help of magnetic nanoparticles (MNP) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). After being injected intravenously, these MNPs, which are minute particles ...JCI table of contents September 1, 2005
...agues from Joslin diabetes Center describe a novel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) strategy to non-invasively monitor autoimmune inflammation in the pancreas of a living animal. The researchers were able to track the pancreatic islet infiltrate that accompanies autoimmune diabetes in mice, and follow the r...Looking at autoimmune diabetes, literally
...agues from Joslin diabetes Center describe a novel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) strategy to non-invasively monitor autoimmune inflammation in the pancreas of a living animal. The researchers were able to track the pancreatic islet infiltrate that accompanies autoimmune diabetes in mice, and follow the r...Public collections of DNA and RNA sequence reach 100 gigabases
...on floppy disc and distributed to users on 9-track magnetic tapes, but the purpose of the databases to make every nucleotide sequence in the public domain freely available to the scientific community as rapidly as possible remains as strong now as it was in the beginning....Chickens orient using a magnetic compass
...me time that many species of birds use the Earth's magnetic field to select a direction of movement--for examp... task, providing new insight into the evolution of magnetic sensing and opening new opportunities for further study of magnetoreception. In the new work, resea...Overbearing colored light may reveal a second mechanism by which birds interpret magnetic signals
...ght on the ability of migratory birds to orient to magnetic signals, researchers have found clues to suggest t...ly thought and that birds may be able to interpret magnetic signals by more than one mechanism. The work is reported in Current Biology by a team including Thor...Brain activity in youth may presage Alzheimer's pathology
...ies such as positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), scientists, including Buckner's HHMI team, have begun to map the activity of the brain in its different states, including the default state. Among the observations they are making is that when a person who has clinical Alzhei...Yerkes to develop first transgenic nonhuman primate model for inherited neurodegenerative diseases
... new imaging technology to monitor high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging scans of the nonhuman primate's active brain while simultaneously conducting behavioral and cognitive studies. This novel approach will provide the researchers a broader, more comprehensive view of the disease than has ever been est...VCU research: Magnetic nanoparticles for potential cancer treatment
...synthesis and characterization of these functional magnetic nanoparticles for use in biomedical applications a...applications," said Carpenter. "By engineering the magnetic properties of enhanced ferrites it is possible to develop materials for the treatment of various can...Study shows humans have ability to track odors, much like bloodhounds
...ern where the odor was coming from, and functional magnetic resonance images of their brains showed that the brain is set up to pay attention to the difference between what the left and right nostrils sense, much the way it can localize sounds by contrasting input from the ears. "It has been very controversia...The 'been there, done that' memory response
...using either of two techniques. One was functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which gives information ...ain responses. The technique of fMRI uses harmless magnetic fields and radio waves to map blood flow in the brain, which reflects brain activity, and MEG detect...Where bonehead investments come from
...then scanned the subjects' brains using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) as they proceeded through... commonly used technique of fMRI utilizes harmless magnetic fields and radio signals to map detailed blood flow in brain regions, which reflects activity. The r...Displaced songbirds navigate in the high Arctic
...Northwest Territories to regions at and around the magnetic North Pole, researchers have gained new insight in... route to nine sites on the tundra, among them the magnetic North Pole (located on Ellef Ringnes Island). The researchers then recorded the birds' directional o...Israeli scientists successfully transplant frozen-thawed ovaries in sheep
... after transplantation the researchers carried out magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) on one sheep with a transplanted ovary and one untreated control sheep. It showed that the transplanted ovary contained small oocyte follicles, and although a little smaller than the ovary in the control sheep it was within th...Adolescents and young adults with alcohol-use disorders have a smaller prefrontal cortex
...the brain of these young people." Researchers used magnetic resonance imaging to measure prefrontal cortex, thalamic, and cerebellar volumes in 14 subjects (8 males, 6 females) with AUDs, and in 28 (16 males, 12 females) sociodemographically similar individuals without AUDs, known as "controls." Adolescents ...Materials scientists get the whole picture with new e-Science technique
...19 ISIS instruments, MAPS, to study the motions of magnetic moments and atoms within materials. MAPS detectors take 30 minutes to two days to generate 10 million bits of data from one sample. This data needs to be visualised and compared, or fitted, with theoretical models if it is to be understood and interp...Ossur captures Frost & Sullivan Technology of the Year Award for breakthrough RHEO KNEE
...er chip creates and regulates the intensity of the magnetic field, causing changes in MR fluid viscosity about the joint that facilitates optimal motion control. A dynamic learning matrix algorithm (DLMA) enables the RHEO KNEE in rapidly adjusting the swing and stance resistance as it effectively learns the m...Researchers: Deep sleep short-circuits brain's grid of connectivity
...ues capitalized on a new technology - transcranial magnetic stimulation - that permits precise, non-invasive a... placed over the head of a subject and generates a magnetic field. The magnetic field, in turn, produces pulses of electricity lasting less than a millisecond a...