Treatment of cardiac lesions without anaesthesic
...lves inserting a device within a catheter into the interior of the heart and which spreads out like an umbrella inside the right and left auricle. Once the right location has been identified, the device is released and the connecting cable is extracted by unscrewing from the outside. In this way, the system i......rements provide a new way of 'x-raying' the hidden interior of planet. Earthquake waves and variations in the strength of gravity already provide a picture of the hot core, the rocky mantle that surrounds it, and the ever-active crust. But the picture is not yet clear enough for scientists to agree how the in...University of Manchester makes made-to-measure skin and bones a reality using inkjet printers
...been built. "The problem is getting cells into the interior of these constructions as they naturally stick to the sides of whatever they are being inserted into. If they stick to the sides then this limits the number of cells which can grow into tissues, and the lack of penetration also limits their size. By ...New network of gastrointestinal immune cells discovered
...epithelium. Dendritic cells without access to the interior of the intestine were not able to carry out one of their normal functions, taking up the harmless strains of E. coli that normally populate the intestine and transporting them to lymph nodes. Introduction of disease-causing salmonella bacteria into...Researcher funded to locate lung tumors
... is to non-invasively obtain information about the interior of the tissue from the optical signals," said Mitra. "We expect this method to yield physiological information with a safer, simpler and less expensive system than the other methods. The method also provides higher resolution, which is critical." ...Discovery sheds light on how cancer cells grow and divide
...ir partnership connects the cell's surface and its interior via signals that coordinate and organize cell division. This is compelling because cancer, in essence, is cell division out of control. Taking control of a cell's "switchboard" -- if that's what this partnership turns out to be -- would be a promisin...Study: Carbon dioxide may find new use in producing medical implants
...te, or PMMA -- was undamaged by the procedure, the interior of the disks foamed up into a Swiss cheese-like texture, with voids opening inside. The faster the engineers turned off the high-pressure CO2, the foamier the material became. Lowering the pressure slowly had the opposite effect. Tomasko envisions th...MGH study details brain changes in autism, language disorder
...er nerve cells the white matter is located in the interior of the brain, beneath the cerebral cortex which contains the bodies of brain cells. The same white matter abnormality is found in developmental language disorder, a condition in which language is abnormal but intelligence and behavior are norma...UCSF/Baylor team uses new method to measure bone loss in astronauts flying long mission
...ght to measure bone loss in the porous bone in the interior of the hip (the trabecular bone) and in the dense outer shell of the hip bone (the cortex). On average, the ISS crew lost trabecular bone at a rate of 2.2 to 2.7 percent for each month in space and cortical bone at a rate of 1.6 to 1.7 percent per mo...Mayo Clinic develops new technology to improve diagnosis of arm and hand injuries and disease
...such as arthroscopy, the visual examination of the interior of a joint with a special surgical instrument. "Accurate diagnosis is the critical forerunner to effective medical treatment, which is why Mayo focused on improving the diagnostic capabilities of magnetic imaging," says Kimberly Amrami, M.D., a radio...3-D virtual colonoscopy is more sensitive than conventional procedure
... from different angles, providing a "movie" of the interior of the colon without having to insert a scope. "I ...cture, creating precise and detailed images of the interior of the colon in a minimally invasive manner. With virtual colonoscopy, there is no risk of bleedin...MRI shows back trouble may begin before puberty
... the discs may also occur, allowing the gel-filled interior to bulge and extend into the spinal canal, occasionally irritating the nerve root. The 14 degenerated discs found by Dr. Smith and colleagues showed signs of early bulging or tearing. All were located in the lower, or lumbar, region of the spine. ...Binghamton University, RPI and Infotonics Center team up to form national packaging power
... ultra-high filtration of particles and control of interior climate and static to meet the requirements for handling highly sensitive silicon wafers. In addition to projects for the founding corporate members, the Center's interim packaging lab currently is providing services for Integrated Nano-Technologies,...UCSF vascular surgeons develop new technique to repair aortic arch aneurysm
...a stentgraft, expanded to reinforce and reline the interior walls of the arch. "While stentgrafts are now commonly used to treat aneurysms of the aorta within the abdomen, using stentgrafts to treat aneurysms of the aortic arch has presented special problems because of its large size, curved shape and its cr...... compression, such as occurs in meteor impact, the interior of large planets, or in large explosions....Penn State College of Medicine awarded $6.9 million to create clearer images of body's interior
Clearer images of the body's interior may allow physicians to get to the bottom of their... resonance imaging (MRI) and improve images of the interior of the body. "Ultimately, this research will lead to improved MRI scanners that will produce cl...Calcium-blocker drug slows artery clogging better than beta blocker
...y blood to the brain. IMT is a measurement of the interior lining of blood vessels. During the four-year study, researchers found that people taking atenolol showed an increase in IMT by 0.0145 millimeters per year (mm/yr), while IMT in people taking lacidipine increased by 0.0087 mm/yr. Alberto Zanchetti, ...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for September (second issue)
...urathe delicate membrane covering the lung and the interior wall of the chest. Analysis of lung fluid identified fly ash, degraded glass,and asbestos fibers. In an editorial in the same issue, an expert points out that acute eosinophilic pneumonia is a condition recognized only in the last 15 years, and is ...Gene therapy promising for preventing restenosis
...echnique shut down cell re-growth in the arteries' interior lining and reduced the inflammatory response two main causes of re-narrowing of newly opened blood vessels, researchers report in today's rapid access issue of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. The process that opens blocked bl...Chemists show proteins behave differently inside cells than they do in water solutions
...ns work, there are no dilute solutions because the interior is crowded with proteins, which take up about 40 percent of the volume." Working under Pielak's supervision, Matthew Dedmon of Gastonia, N.C., used nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to examine what effects the crowded environment had on ...