Mountaineering doctors hike medicine to new heights with Xtreme Everest
...ibrosis sufferers. The summiteers will also test a prototype closed-circuit breathing system. This type of circuit has only once previously - and unsuccessfully - been used by climbers attempting the summit. The equipment, adapted from firefighters' apparatus, will be redesigned to cope with icy conditions. Ov...Columbia researchers receive $3 million to combat genetic killer of infants & toddlers
...nd Stroke (NINDS) has selected SMA to serve as the prototype for a translational research project that is expected to yield drug candidates for investigational new drug application filings by 2007. The SMA Foundation has been instrumental in raising awareness and supporting ground breaking SMA projects in bio...Miniaturized lab permits saliva screening on the go
...ton, Malamud will present their work on creating a prototype oral swab kit that detects HIV and Bacillus cereus, a bacterium closely related to B. anthracis. "Nearly everything that is going on in your body reveals itself in some way in the fluids in your mouth whether it is from saliva, mucous or the plaque ...Rutgers College of Nursing faculty member is funded to develop an interactive computer system
...ed. This is a preventable disease and the computer prototype to deliver video vignettes is an innovative approa...red to their relationship pattern." Jones said the prototype should be ready for testing by the end of this year. From its headquarters at Rutgers Newark, Rutger...Rebuilding wounded veterans: Annual review of limb loss & prosthetics research
...of individuals with lower-limb amputations using a prototype knee to prosthetic knees currently used. Volunteers had increased stability and ease of swing with the knee prototype. Pg. 683 Most residual limb changes occur within minutes of removing prosthesis Investigators determine how much a residual lim...Entrepreneurism Center at UC San Diego funds commercialization of lung, shock, other devices
...The purpose of this new project is to build a full prototype with both O2 and CO2 analyzers and the appropriate...ch Laboratory (NRL), Professor Todd demonstrated a prototype for a novel sensor concept based on fiber optics and a thin flexible beam transducer mounted on a la...Senators Lautenberg and Corzine secure $1 million to accelerate smart gun development at NJIT
...nt will take place during a testing of a smart gun prototype by NJIT security officers. NJIT researchers will be available to answer questions. (NOTE: To attend the 1 p.m. event at the Sgt. James J. Shea Memorial Pistol Range, 16th St, Bayonne, http://www.range.bayonne.net/ , contact Sheryl Weinstein, 973-...Exercise for special populations, sensory research, factors impacting rehabilitation top issues
...teers. Investigators examined the performance of a prototype knee compared with prosthetic knees currently used...different knees. Although prosthetic gait with the prototype showed no significant variation in individuals at different speeds, volunteers had increased stabili...Department of Energy announces new agreement with USC, national labs and private company
... and the implant; Second Sight, which created the prototype design currently in testing and will integrate DOE technology into product designs that will eventually move on to clinical trials. "For the Doheny Eye Institute to be the lead institution in organizing and directing research as it relates to the ...DOE labs, universities and second sight partner to speed development of 'artificial retina'
...ncement in Chicago, the first patient to receive a prototype implant in 2002 described what it was like being a... which then carry a signal to the brain. The first prototype implants contain 16 electrodes. The next prototype, with 50-100 electrodes, is in preclinical trial...Livermore scientists join DOE consortium
...is device. The first patient to receive a prototype implant in 2002 was able to see large letters and to differentiate between a cup, a plate and a knife after being blind for more than 50 years. To date, six volunteers have received implants of a micro-electronic device that rests on the surface of t...3D neutron-based medical imaging, 4D lung scans, and hitting a moving tumor
...wards this goal, the group next plans to develop a prototype system that can image the distribution of iron in the liver in order to diagnose hemochromatosis (iron overload in the liver) without the need for a biopsy. (Paper WE-D-315-6, Wednesday, July 28, 2:45 PM.) II. COMBATING TUMORS BY UNDERSTANDING THEIR...Future blood tests may use tiny bar-codes to speed disease diagnosis
... are bulky, stationary instruments, but a handheld prototype is in development. If all goes well in future studies, bar-code scanning of blood could be developed for home use, allowing consumers to make their own initial medical diagnoses quickly and easily, says Mirkin. Nanosphere, a company that develops nan...SSX, a new family of cancer vaccine targets
...nt of a therapeutic melanoma vaccine. SSX-2 is the prototype of the SSX family, and is part of a larger group of proteins known as cancer/testis (CT) antigens. CT proteins are expressed in cancer cells and on normal testes, but the immune system recognizes CT antigens only when they are present on cancer cell...Human studies show feasibility of brain-machine interfaces
...vices. The research team is now working to develop prototype devices that may enable paralyzed people to operat... research team is currently developing the initial prototype of a neuroprosthetic device that will include a wireless interface between the patient and the devic...Prototype system developed by Wright State computer engineer allows blind to 'see'
...rchers at Wright State University have developed a prototype device to help blind individuals "see." Nikolaos Bourbakis, Ph.D., Ohio Board of Regents Distinguished Professor of Information Technology at Wright State's College of Engineering and Computer Science is the principal investigator. The project is a c...Antibiotic provides promise in treatment of spinal cord injuries
...of a safe, FDA-approved drug that could serve as a prototype drug for developing better therapeutic strategies to improve quality of life for people suffering from spinal cord injuries," said Teng, also an assistant professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School (HMS). The steroid methylprednisolone is current...NIH funds project to help senior citizens access health care
...unhealthy choices." The researchers will develop a prototype of the middleware that will be posted on both the Virginia Tech and VDA web sites. The prototype will be evaluated and tested by a focus group of senior citizens selected by VDA and the university....A hot time for cold superconductors
...ing properties. Los Alamos scientists fabricated a prototype MgB2 coil that generated magnetic fields in the range useful for MRI applications (above 1 tesla) operating at a temperature of 25 degrees above absolute zero. This temperature can be reached using commercially available refrigeration units at much ......ed at the end of 2002 with a demonstration of some prototype products and recommendations to ESA. On the basis of these results, another project, Kyoto Inventory, started at the end of last year with the aim of developing and demonstrating at a large scale full or partial national coverage information servic...