Satellite survey enhances knowledge of Tuscan landslides
...f areas susceptible to landslides, by highlighting tiny millimetre-scale slope motion that occurs ahead of...ERS or Envisat are specially combined to identify tiny changes in the landscape occurring between acquisitions. More than a decade of archived satellite im...Giant iceberg B-15A edges past floating ice pier
... technique used to combine radar images to measure tiny millimetre-scale shifts between acquisitions - should answer the question of whether the kind of ice-shelf calving that gave rise to B-15 and its descendants are a consequence of ice sheet dynamics or other factors. Together they will provide insigh...Chemical decoy shows promise for slowing Alzheimer's by acting as decoy
... toxic. It is the diffusible beta amyloid species tiny proteins that can easily reach the brain that are thought to be toxic in Alzheimer's and associated with brain cell death and neurodegeneration. In the current study, Good and her associates found evidence that beta amyloid preferentially binds to s...Brain imaging study may hold clues to onset of schizophrenia in people at high risk
...ass" at determining feasibility of the tool to map tiny differences between patients and controls, Belger said. "We need to show that the tool is reliable and that, indeed, it's detecting something in the population that it's not detecting in healthy individuals," she added. "This is also a cross-section...In solution, tiny magnetic wires scatter light
...on of magnetic nickel nanowires within complex and tiny electronic systems. Without such control, says Bentley, working with nano-scale circuit parts could be like "trying to put Legos together with oven mitts on."...Cigarette smoke worsens respiratory infections in infants
...crease in risk on lung and airway development. The tiny windpipes of small children can become clogged with mucous and other secretions more easily than the bigger, more developed airways of older children. Surprisingly, the RBEL study also found that African-American children tended to have less serious ...Study finds drug eluting stents as effective as vascular brachytherapy in preventing restenosis
...o widen clogged arteries, surgeons frequently use tiny wire-mesh tubes called stents to keep blood vessels open. But despite stenting, scar tissue can form to create new blockages -- a process called in-stent restenosis (ISR). At present, vascular brachytherapy (catheter-based delivery of intracoronary ...Study says rare allergic reactions to drug-eluting stents may raise risk for heart attack
ORLANDO -- Stents, tiny wire mesh tubes, are routinely used to prop arteries open after angioplasty clears them of potentially heart attack causing plaque. In the past, stented arteries often eventually closed up again with fatty deposits, a process called restenosis. Howe...New laparoscopic hysterectomy offers quicker recovery time than traditional surgery
...e uterus and sometimes one or both ovaries through tiny incisions. Unlike in traditional hysterectomies, t...gery sooner," Ms. Williams said, adding that three tiny incision scars are her only souvenir from the surgery. "The pain I had been experiencing is gone, an...CK2 protein sustains colon cancer cells by sabotaging ability to commit suicide
... short hairpin RNA (sh RNA). This technique uses a tiny bit of genetic material specifically designed to shut down a particular gene--in this case, the gene for the alpha proteins that make up part of CK2. Again, CK2 activity was lost, the cancer cells were sensitized to TRAIL, and the cells committed sui...High-intensity ultrasound creates hollow nanospheres and nanocrystals
... or molybdenum oxide, which bind to the surface of tiny silica spheres that are much smaller than red blood cells," said Ken Suslick, the Marvin T. Schmidt Professor of Chemistry at Illinois and a researcher at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. "After heating the spheres to produc...Lack of specific collagen type leads to osteoarthritis
...ield damaged chondrons, Alexopoulos said. "Using a tiny syringe, I was able to go across the surface of the cartilage and vacuum up the chondrons without damaging them," Alexopoulos said. "The chondrons literally popped out of the cartilage and into the syringe. From that point, it was easy to analyze the...Clot-busting drugs may help detect potentially deadly leg clots
...imer tests: one without tPA and the second after a tiny dose. "Then, we may have a gold standard technique for looking at clots in people which will work for nearly everyone." Co-authors on the study include Dr. Guillermo E. Pineda, former MCG cardiology fellow who is now on the faculty at the University ...Transport system smuggles medicines into brain
...n the cells of the BBB. Finally, Visser attached a tiny fat bubble (liposome) containing small molecules, such as medicines, to the transferrin. She discovered that the transferrin with the liposome attached was also taken up by the cell. However, the cell subsequently broke down the liposomal content, be...New surgical procedure could save millions
...ntire system is delivered to the patient through a tiny tube that is placed in the nose.It was the world's first use of both lasers in an office-based procedure. The surgery was performed by Jamie Koufman, M.D., professor of surgery-otolaryngology at Wake Forest Baptist and director of the Center for Voic...COX-2 inhibitor increases the risk of heart attack in elderly adults with no history of heart attack
... increase the 'stickiness' of blood platelets--the tiny bodies that assist in blood clot formation. "It is possible that stickier platelets increase the chance of a blockage forming in a blood vessel of the heart," explains Lvesque. "This study contributes to the growing body of evidence concerning the ca...Yale researcher studying acupuncture to reduce back pain in pregnancy
...tudy is completed. The treatment consists of three tiny needles inserted on one side of the ear. The women will be asked to remove the needles after one week and the results will be measured two weeks after the treatment was initiated. "They can sleep, and shower, and forget about the needles, other than ...New test is first step in early detection of Alzheimer's disease
...otein between the two particles. Attached to each tiny gold nanoparticle (just 30 nanometers in diameter) are hundreds to thousands of identical strands of DNA. Mirkin calls this "bar-code DNA" because they have designed it as a unique label specific to the target. After the "particle-ADDL-particle" sand...Animal study shows link between nicotine and atrial flutter
...at absorbed by heavy smokers. An osmotic pump is a tiny implantable device that functions somewhat like an intravenous tube, delivering agents (in this case, nicotine) through a semi-permeable membrane. The study included four groups. Those with only an MI and surgery experienced no flutter. Similarly, th...Stem cells given in minimally invasive procedure improve heart function
...re deployed directly into the heart by way of four tiny incisions in the chest, according to results of a trial presented today at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Society for Thoracic Surgery. The study, led by Amit N. Patel, M.D., M.S., of the University of Pittsburgh McGowan Institute for Regenerative Me...