Study Injects New Interest In How Vaccines Work
...tadium filled with sand," Hem says. Hem and Purdue physicist David Elmore assembled an interdisciplinary team and designed an experiment to see how quickly aluminum hydroxide was eliminated from the body and to track the amounts of the substance that remained in vaccinated tissue over a period of time. They de...Immunology experiment aboard historic shuttle mission
...might haveon health, said Montana State University physicist and one-time astronaut LorenActon. That's why Bargatze plus a group of scientists and students at MSUdesigned an experiment that will test the role gravity plays in the complicatedworkings of infection-fighting white blood cells. ...Mini-motor models nature, advances miniaturization technology
... Watt upwards oftwo centuries ago. Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman once posted a$1,000 prize for constructing an operating electric motor only 1/64 inch cube. The award was collected within the year." The quest for an atomic-level understanding of molecular motors has beendescribed as the most extens...Doctors use novel methods to more effectively treat lung cancer
...treatment outcome, says Yusuf Erdi, DSc, a nuclear physicist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering and lead author of the study. Researchers will also report on a new technique to reduce toxicity at the highest levels of radiation therapy. Because pulmonary tumors move when patients breathe, doctors have previously ...Preventing radiation damage in popular medical technique
...ous influx of x rays, says Louis Wagner, a medical physicist at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston and a member of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, which is organizing several meetings at RSNA. The x-ray dose from fluoroscopy is low, on a second-to-second basis. However, c...Science, engineering and technology newstips
...ists scrambling to understand the phenomenon, said physicist Warren Pickett of the University of California, Davis. Using a computer model, Pickett and graduate student Joonhee An have come up with an explanation of how this superconductivity occurs. Superconductors have essentially no resistance to electrica...Providing a bigger view: New imaging device offers better conditions for cancer treatment planning
...ces are actually much harder to make, says medical physicist Sasa Mutic, an assistant professor of radiology at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, who is co-author on the AAPM meeting paper describing the new CT scanner. In the larger-bore CT scanner, x-rays have to travel longer distances to the patien...Science, engineering and technology news tips -- August 2001
...develop, said Daniel Cox, who with fellow UC Davis physicist Rajiv Singh is one of the senior authors on the study. The model was intended to bridge the gap between these time scales, Cox said. Predictions from the model were a good fit with data from the BSE epidemic in cattle in England, he said. Prions can...Lasers light way to 3-D imaging in Purdue lab
...al sciences, all from Purdue, and P.M.W. French, a physicist from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London. Critical to optical coherence imaging is a semiconductor holographic film developed by the team. Many other imaging technologies require that specimens, such as tumors, be speci...Medical physicist treats spinal tumors faster with new procedure
...tumors in the U.S.," says Fang-Fang Yin, a medical physicist at Henry Ford Hospital Systems, "Most spinal tumors are located very close to the spinal cord, which is sensitive to radiation." Because the spinal cord is so vulnerable, current spinal tumor treatments such as conventional radiotherapy and decompres...Cancer revealed: New $10M grant establishes cancer imaging center
...n. Another luciferase project, led by U-M medical physicist Thomas Chenevert, Ph.D., will attach the glowing substance to a protein that will allow imaging of the blood vessels within tumors. Since cancer cells need a blood supply, the approach could enable PET or MRI images to reveal when tumors are growing ...UCI researchers leading the effort to understand the causes and effects of air pollution
...f the hottest topics in Earth science. Atmospheric physicist Charles Zender traced these dust storms with his global forecast model that predicts where airborne dust plumes will move and eventually where they will land. "Now we know that dust affects air, sea and land all over the world," he says. "There are f...Scientists develop technique that uses ultrafast lasers to obtain hi-quality images of brain tissue
...with a wide range of expertise. Jeffrey Squier, a physicist and laser expert in the chemistry department at UCSD and now at the Colorado School of Mines, played an essential role from the beginning. Other researchers involved in the study include Varda Lev-Ram of UCSD's department of pharmacology; Chris Scha......scientific technician Abohawariat Tesfaye, medical physicist Mohan Doss, nuclear medicine chief Lee P. Adler, M.D., and medical oncology chairman Louis M. Weiner, M.D., vice president for translational research, all of Fox Chase Cancer Center, plus postdoctoral associate Tara Heitner, Ph.D., and graduate stude...Physics and medicine in San Diego
...evelop. A new X-ray detector, developed by medical physicist Dr. Polad Shikhaliev at the Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, and his colleagues, lowers the radiation dose enough to prevent the test from hastening the disease. The device turns microchannel plate detectors on t...Couple carries research links to the limit
...n the fall, where Jeff will take a job as a health physicist for the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). He'll be working on plans to prepare for a "radiological event, whether it's a workplace accident or a scare involving a dirty bomb. We're coordinating with the Federal Emergency Mana...Chemical & Engineering News 80th anniversary issue highlights periodic table
... the most prized pieces of jewelry. Alan Lightman, physicist and novelist and adjunct professor of humanities at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Beryllium. This element has excellent electrical and thermal conductivities when combined with copper and nickel. But it is also considered one of the most t...Sandia nanolaser may help extend life-spans by rapidly analyzing possible neuroprotectant drugs
... Gehrig's," says Sandia researcher Paul Gourley, a physicist who grew up in a family of doctors. Work to date has shown the biolaser (which recently won first place in the DOE's annual Basic Energy Sciences' competition for using light to quantify characteristics of anthrax spores) is able to measure mitochond...Mayo Clinic develops new technology to improve diagnosis of arm and hand injuries and disease
...s by five Mayo Clinic radiologists and one medical physicist indicated a preference for the images created using Mayo Clinic Coil in the majority of the comparisons. The coils are being manufactured by IBM in Rochester, Minn., and will be available to other medical centers in early 2004. Revenue Mayo receives......old name in the film industry, but the 47-year-old physicist is a surprising British success story. As chief technical officer at Californian company Panavision, has helped his firm to scoop 11 of the company's 26 Academy Awards, mostly for the design of zoom lenses. Physics World talks to Neil, who reveals pl...