Common Drug-Capsule Coating Not As Inert As Previously Thought
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... commercially-available electronic nose with an artificial neural network that trained the device to scan the cheeses forthese key fatty acids. The electronic nose correctly discriminated among the cheeses. It noted...Morning Coffee Boosts Blood Pressure, Stress Hormones All Day
..."Ifyou combine the effects of real stress with the artificial boost in stresshormones that comes from caffeine, then you have compounded the effectsconsiderably." During the two-week study, the subjects experienced, on average, a 32percent increase in adrenalin and a 14 percent increase in noradrenaline...Trial Begins For First Artificial Liver Device Using Human Cells
...spitals are beginning clinical testingof the first artificial liver device that uses cells from humans rather th... days, at most afew weeks. The primary goal of the artificial liver is to support the patient through abrief period of liver failure, protecting the brain and oth...Updated Results On Heart Assist Device Presented At International Transplant Meeting
... associateprofessor of surgery and director of the artificial heart and adulttransplantation program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). About a third of the patients (29 percent) waited outside the hospital, six formore than a year and two for more than two years, allowing them the opportuni...New Type Of Artificial Surfactant Shows Promise In Treating Lung Disease
...kaInstitute in Sweden. The standard medication is artificial surfactant, a detergent-like liquid thatis adminis...line membranedisease--and who respond very well to artificial surfactant therapy. In these premature babies, the immature lungs do not produce natural surfactant...Advance reported in search for skin cancer treatment
... the ultimate goal of the research is toproduce an artificial enzyme for human use that could repair DNA damaged byultraviolet light in humans. Such damage leads to certain types of skincancer, which have reached almost endemic proportions. Skin cancer is now themost common form of cancer in the United......nces andflavors, and perhaps also in the design of artificial smell sensors. Prof. Lancet, incumbent of the Ralph and Lois Silver Chair of Neurogenomics,coordinates the research on olfactory genes within theinternational Human Genome Project and heads the Weizmann Institute's CrownHuman Genome Center. Lancet al...12-year-old Oregon girl is first child to receive new bone growth material in her skull
...y, banked bones from cadavers, medicalceramics and artificial materials are used to replace missing or disfiguredbones....Mitral valve repair at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center gets Los Angeles dentist on the road to recovery
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...e 9th ERS annual meeting will also be focussing on artificial ventilationmethods. These are techniques intended for patients who need help with theirbreathing, either because they have been placed in intensive care or becausethey are seriously affected by chronic respiratory deficiency.One of the symposia will ...Novel neural net recognizes spoken words better than human listeners
...rly pattern recognition), it has beendifficult for artificial neural networks even to approach the power ofbiological systems," said Liaw, director of the Laboratory for Neural Dynamicsand a research assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the USC Schoolof Engineering. "Even large nets with more than 1...To build a better artificial hip, UD prof says, mimic Mother Nature
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...ield Postgraduate Medical School have developed an artificial nose that electronically identifies odours. It uses the same process human noses except odours are classified electronically, thereby avoiding human bias. The technology will dramatically reduce the diagnosis time for Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs)....Noveau neurons are better than no neurons at all
An artificial neuron built by researchers at U.C. San Diego may be the first step toward restoring brain function in patients suffering from stroke, Alzheimer's and other neurological dysfunction. The interdisciplinary team, led by Alan Selverston and Henry Abarba...Cranfield pioneers back pain research
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