Patients undergoing PET/CT may want to pass on that cup of coffee, according to SNMTS study
...ost commonly FDG (fluorodeoxyglucose)--that can be tracked by a PET scanner. Where FDG goes in the heart--its uptake into an organ, a tissue, a cell or body fluids--provides a picture of the heart's function. If a person exercises before having a PET/CT scan, more FDG uptake is noted. The researchers found t...Ultra-fast camera captures how hummingbirds hover
...ividual particles seeded in a liquid or gas can be tracked through successive images. Hence, DPIV allows the researchers to follow the particles' movement image by image, like looking through the pages of a high-tech flipbook. To observe the hummingbird in flight, the air in a wind tunnel was seeded with mic...Multiple genetic 'flavors' may explain autism
...he expression of the gene. "These coding mutations tracked with an increased severity of rigid-compulsive behaviors," Sutcliffe explained. These types of behaviors are a common characteristic of autism and related disorders like obsessive-compulsive disorders. The findings underscore the relationship betwee...Ships bring alien jellyfish invaders to our shores
...in damage and preventive control," says Dawson who tracked the invading jellyfish in Japan, California, western Europe and the east and west Australian coastlines. Introduced species are believed to cost the United States $122 billion per year. About 3,000 species of marine organisms are believed to travel t...Research suggests fitness of Florida panthers improved by limited breeding with Texas animals
... purebred and hybrid panthers that researchers had tracked by radio. In 1995, separate pairs of Texas female panthers fitted with radio collars were released in each of the four sections of South Florida where Florida panthers were known to be living, the authors wrote. Five of these eight cats are known to...Scientists get look at genes' defensive playbook
...jury. No other study of injury or inflammation has tracked changes to the entire human genome over time." The glue grant team includes scientists from the UF College of Medicine; Stanford; Washington University; the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New ...Study reveals genomics of inflammation from severe injury
...aid. "No other study of injury or inflammation has tracked changes to the entire human genome over time." The research team found that, of the 5,000 or so genes that fluctuated in response to endotoxin, more than half were turned down, causing the blood cells to be less metabolically active. This seems surpr...The 'been there, done that' memory response
...that the decrease in medial temporal lobe activity tracked the level of perceived memory strength for the faces. What's more, the MEG studies revealed that this reduction began very rapidly during the recognition process. Previous studies of the phenomenon have been done in monkeys and have measured only the...First big influenza genome study reveals flu evolution
... seasons. Comparing these genomes, the researchers tracked the changing virus as it moved across the region. "This study demonstrates that genomics can help us better track the flu virus and develop more effective vaccines," remarks first author Elodie Ghedin, who heads TIGR's viral genomics lab. "This is pe...FSU biologists describe key role of signal-transcribing gene during cell cycle
...ly) genetic model. Over the course of a year, they tracked the cell-to-cell communication in Drosophila egg chambers that control cell proliferation. "We believe the specific cell-to-cell signaling and dysfunction observed in fruit flies is applicable to mammals, which also possess genes Notch and Cut," said...USC neuroscientist to receive Prince of Asturias prize
...roup of "most cited researchers" inneuroscience as tracked by the Institute of ScientificResearch. Joseph Aoun, dean of the USC College of Letters, Arts andSciences, said: "The Prince of Asturias Award is extremelyprestigious and acknowledges scientific, technical, cultural,social and humanitarian work of i...Molecule crucial for processing non-coding RNA identified
...and active entities, many of which have since been tracked down by other scientists. Some, however, have resisted intensive inquiry. Now, researchers at The Wistar Institute and colleagues have resolved one of the important biological questions to which this earlier research pointed. A report on their findin...UW study shows deer in CWD zone stick to home
...ew report. Deer were fitted with radio collars and tracked intensively with each animal's range on the landscape being determined a minimum of 37 times a season or 148 times a year. Deer were located at all times of the day with the exception of midnight to 3 a.m....Housecat-sized Siberian tiger cubs get collared
...io-collars, marking the youngest wild tigers to be tracked by scientists. The elastic collars, which eventually fall off as the tigers grow, weigh just over five ounces and would fit on a large house cat. They give researchers crucial insights into the needs of tiger cubs and may help improve the survival...Highlights from October ESA journals
...h Center and the Natural History Museum of France, tracked the foraging behavior of the birds in "Prey Distribution and Patchiness: Factors in Foraging Success and Efficiency of Wandering Albatrosses," which appears in the October issue of Ecology. The study indicates this species has a unique foraging stra...'Perception' gene tracked humanity's evolution, scientists say
...ardly be news. But the list of genes known to have tracked or guided humanity's separation from the other apes is a short one. Genes controlling the development of the brain almost always turn out to be identical or nearly so in chimpanzees and human beings. And as it turns out, the protein prodynorphin is i...Envisat radar surveillance protects endangered prehistoric fish
...Kerguelen Island, the operations centre on Reunion tracked the vessel for three days. The patrol boat fired a warning shot across its bow then boarded it to seize an illegal catch of 60 tonnes of Patagonian toothfish. "Usually the system is more dissuasive than repressive," Schwab concluded. "Today, illegal...Joslin Diabetes Center study shows benefits of online discussion boards
...rebiec, who runs several of the discussion boards, tracked more than 330,000 visits to the discussion boards over a period of six years. In 1999 and again in 2004, computer-based customer satisfaction surveys were e-mailed directly to some of the board's registered users. Nearly 75 percent of respondents to ...Book released on Hurricane Isabel's effect on Chesapeake Bay
...torms and prepare for future ones." Because Isabel tracked along the western side of the Chesapeake Bay, its counterclockwise winds drove water up the Bay and its tributaries causing a damaging storm surge. Even with the media providing advanced warning and predictions of the storm-surge height, the public ...How do boxers differ from poodles? Researchers collar genomes
...pare Shadow's and Tasha's genomes, the researchers tracked short interspersed elements (SINEs)--stretches of DNA that occur randomly in the genomes of many organisms. SINEs are inserted near or within genes, often turning the expression of those genes up, down or even off. The scientists found that the poodl...