DOE labs, universities and second sight partner to speed development of 'artificial retina'
...ina that could potentially help millions of people blinded by retinal diseases, Secretary of Energy Spencer A...borators. The artificial retina could help those blinded by age-related macular degeneration or retinitis pigmentosa where neural wiring from the eye to brai...Department of Energy announces new agreement with USC, national labs and private company
...ina that might potentially help millions of people blinded by degenerative retinal diseases, U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham has announced that five Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories, along with a California-based private company and three universities, have signed agreements to form ...New tool reveals molecular signature of cancer and HIV
...er analysis of LigAmp with larger sample sizes and blinded panels of clinical samples currently is under way. "Some initial studies show that we can simultaneously look for different mutations and quantify the number of mutated molecules present. This may help us build panels of cancer markers for scre...Fetal tissue restores lost sight
... has retinitis pigmentosa, an eye disease that has blinded four generations of her family. What has saved the sight in one of her eyes is a transplant of a sheet of retinal cells. The vision in this eye has improved from 20:800 to 20:84 in the two-and-a-half years since the transplant- a remarkable transform...Esophageal capsule technology proves as effective as endoscopy
...eting the videos from the esophageal capsules were blinded to the results of the traditional endscopy, and vice versa. Of the 82 patients, 55 had positive findings on upper GI endoscopy. The esophageal capsule identified esophageal abnormalities in 51 of the 55 patients. The sensitivity of the esophagea...Proposed addiction treatment successful, safe in second small trial
... efficacy can only be provided by an appropriately blinded randomized study, where some patients are given GVG and others a placebo, and neither the researchers nor the subjects know which is which until after the results are analyzed," said Brodie. With the lack of visual side effects observed for the doses...Proposed addiction treatment successful, safe in second small trial
... efficacy can only be provided by an appropriately blinded randomized study, where some patients are given GVG and others a placebo, and neither the researchers nor the subjects know which is which until after the results are analyzed," noted Dr. Brodie. With the lack of visual side effects obs...Breast MRI moderately useful for detecting breast cancer, but does not eliminate need for biopsy
...e interpreted at each site, with MRI investigators blinded to pathological results. The researchers found that MRI correctly detected cancer in 356 of 404 cancer cases (ductal carcinoma in situ [DCIS] or invasive cancer), resulting in a sensitivity of 88.1 percent, and correctly identified as negative for ca...Another look finds promising proteomics test is not biologically plausible
...a pattern of proteins in blood. In several sets of blinded samples, the test detected all patients who had ovarian cancer and only misdiagnosed three healthy individuals. But among others who subsequently tested the study's data for reproducibility were Baggerly and his colleagues (Kevin Coombes, Ph.D., and...Schepens scientists regenerate optic nerve for the first time
... School. In addition to the thousands of Americans blinded by glaucoma and injuries that destroy the optic nerve, and hundreds of thousands disabled by spinal cord injuries, "we were hearing stories of soldiers in the Middle East whose lives were saved by body armor, but who were returning with severe damage...