"Powerful New Tool" For AIDS Is Reported In Science
... the development of high-speed DNA/gene sequencing instrumentation for the acquisition, analysis and management of complex genetic information. Additional information is available at www.spectrumedix.com......truction. "Clearly, it's far better to practice on instrumentation than on a patient,"said Dr. R. James Valentine, associate professor of vascular surgery anddirector of the surgery residency program. "This technology has made usrethink the way we teach surgery. It's a way for future surgeons to obtainnecessary skil...Penn State Chemist Identifies New Lime Aroma Component
... While Chisholm uses the latest in chemical instrumentation andtechniques to study lime oil's components, she and her students use an old-fashioned device -- the human nose, to identify odorants and to detect changesin the aroma. "The human nose can detect odors at far lower levels than instruments,"......ld using MRI to study textile drying. Using the instrumentation in Georgia Tech's Nuclear MagneticResonance Center, Beckham and his collaborators have examined howmoisture flows into carpets, measured where it accumulates, andmonitored its removal as a function of time during conditionssimulating industrial dryin...Jefferson Lab/Hampton University partnership results in new medical instrumentation center
...ampton University partnering with JLab for medical instrumentation [projects]. The Detector Group pushes the state of the art and we leverage that expertise from one field to another. It's not just bouncing radiation off particles. It's understanding the interaction of radiation with matter, human or otherwise." Su...UI researchers use SIREN driving simulator to study driving risk factors
...ngine normally resides sits an array of electronic instrumentation that turns this ordinary vehicle into a high-fidelity driving simulator known as SIREN (Simulator for Interdisciplinary Research in Ergonomics and Neuroscience). These instruments allow Matthew Rizzo, M.D., UI professor of neurology, engineering and ...Imaging study reveals effect of smoking on peripheral organs
...damental sciences of radiochemistry and in imaging instrumentation development," said Dr. Raymond L. Orbach, Director of the DOE's Office of Science. "With the new radiotracers we are developing, for the first time we shall be able to understand the abnormal metabolism of the brain and other organs in a wide range o...Surgeons offer new treatment for degenerative eye disease
... is continuing to improve as we learn more and our instrumentation advances." The dry form of AMD is much more common than wet, occurring in more than 85 percent of all people with intermediate and advanced forms of the disease. Two-thirds of patients with advanced AMD have the wet form, which is the most severe and...Rensselaer to open new Terahertz Research Center
...new world-class lab will be equipped with advanced instrumentation including a three-phase terawatt system, which uses an amplified laser pulse to produce a high-powered terahertz wave. The lab also is outfitted with an infrared spectrometer, optical tables, and a vacuum deposition system. Rensselaer was re...At AAAS: Biocomplexity panel on human-nature interactions
...n environmental scienceand engineering, developing instrumentation and the use andimpacts of materials in engineering and society. According to NSF Director Rita Colwell, "Biocomplexityinvestigations will provide a more complete understanding ofnatural processes and cycles, of human behaviors and decisions inthe na...2004 Souder Award to David Eick
...search, he systematically applied surface analysis instrumentation to probe resin-bonded dentin interfaces. He has published approximately 150 papers and given over 275 presentations during his career. His work has contributed much to the area of polymers research and to dental materials as a discipline. Initiated...Nanotech imaging, molecular fingerprints and signatures hold promise for cancer
...he agent was tested using clinically dedicated MRI instrumentation to evaluate clinical setting performance. The performance of G6 was observed in mouse models for breast cancer. The researchers looked at the rate of flow of G6 through the lymphatics system from the tumor site to determine "ultimate" sentinel no...Study finds dramatic increase in thyroid cancer
...ten away by acid. In 2003 cracks were found in the instrumentation tubes which measure the operations of the South Texas Project nuclear reactors, 90 miles southwest of Houston, Texas, allowing the reactor to leak. Had these leaks not been identified by routine inspection, they could also have eventually resulted i...3D neutron-based medical imaging, 4D lung scans, and hitting a moving tumor
...rmore, medical physicists successfully refined MRI instrumentation and software, and integrated it into real-world medical environments such as hospitals. When commercial machines became available in the early 1980s, medical physicists educated thousands of physicians on how to use MRI through workshops and influen...Fred Hutchinson receives $9.7 million to lead early detection consortium
... National Institutes of Health to develop advanced instrumentation for studying large and complex protein sets, thus ... data-analysis tools and also will use their novel instrumentation to survey and identify a large number of blood proteins. Richard D. Smith, Ph.D., Batelle Fellow and...Mayo Clinic discovers a key to 'low metabolism' and major factor in obesity
...ing sensors was downloaded onto a computer. "This instrumentation appears slightly bizarre as it gives us a covert window into people's energetics and every activity in a completely unthreatening way," says Dr. Levine. "But because of it, we have a window into people's activity life that no one's ever had before."......tor Group Leader and principal investigator on the instrumentation part of the project, led the team that designed and built the PEM unit. He says PEM imaging works differently than mammography. It reveals breast tissue that is showing higher metabolism than other areas. "The imager we built is a functional imager. ...