Researchers fly away from gravity on the 35th ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign
...niki and Thessaly in Greece to find out. "We use a tiny quarter-millimetre heater to produce the bubbles in the liquid," explains Professor Thodoris Karapantsios of the University of Thessaloniki. "It's the same thing when bubbles form in the blood of divers experiencing the 'bends', or a spacewalking ast...Study overcomes stroke care's biggest travesty
ANN ARBOR, MI Only a tiny percentage of stroke victims who could be saved from death or lifelong disability by the quick delivery of emergency therapy actually get the right treatment in time. But a new study shows there might be a way to fight what stroke experts call one of...Are UK consent rules too restrictive?
... from living patients, including resected tumours, tiny biopsies, even blood and urine. Although this takes due account of the autonomy of the few who object, it is now inhibiting work done for the good of everyone and has other ethically undesirable consequences, says Professor Peter Furness, in this wee...Stanford computer model shows bypass surgery more cost-effective than stents
...pass surgery or angioplasty, a procedure that uses tiny balloons to open blocked arteries. In patients tracked over more than a 10-year period, the study found no significant differences between the two groups other than angioplasty patients requiring repeat procedures more often than surgery patients. St...Delays in heart attack care erode the difference between two emergency therapies
...et sent for an emergency angioplasty, which uses a tiny balloon to clear blood clots that are clogging arteries. Study after study has shown that quick access to this life-saving treatment, also called percutaneous coronary intervention, surpasses fibrinolytic (clot-busting) drugs in emergency heart attac...Trojan Horse technique may slow growth of tumours
... the growth of large tumours three-fold and caused tiny tumours to regress when injected into mice. "Like the legend of the Trojan Horse in which invading soldiers hid inside a hollow wooden horse to fool the enemy, this drug enables deadly radioisotopes to hide within the EGF as it passes naturally into...Uninsured face higher death risk from aorta problems
...ills nearly 16,000 people each year. Starting as a tiny bulge in the wall of the body's largest blood vessel an AAA can stay intact or grow slowly for years, often without symptoms, before suddenly bursting open unpredictably. Or, a tear within the multi-layered wall of the aorta, called an aortic dissect...Sandia nanolaser may help extend life-spans by rapidly analyzing possible neuroprotectant drugs
...ach automobile. But scientists have found that the tiny power plants have another function. When cells are...ce and to see very weak signals emanating from the tiny organelles. Had this been true, signal-averaging techniques would have been necessary to generate a ...Symptom improvement seen in schizophrenia patients switched to Risperdal Consta
...mes, Inc., in which risperidone is encapsulated in tiny spheres of biodegradable polymer ("microspheres") that gradually degrade at a controlled rate following intramuscular injection....Florida study shows surgical mishaps more likely in physician offices than surgery centers
... -- though the relative risk of death or injury is tiny in both types of facilities, a new Florida study indicates. The comparative outcomes study by physicians at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute and the University of South Florida College of Medicine is reported in the September issu...New clinical research study evaluates novel cell therapy
...retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells attached to tiny gelatin bead microcarriers implanted in the brain can improve the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. The investigational cellular product (Spheramine), which is being evaluated in a new clinical study called STEPS1, consists of RPE cells attached to mi...On the horizon of glucose monitoring: A review
...rol." Micropore systems use a laser porator to put tiny holes in the uppermost layer of the skin, through which interstitial glucose is measured using a patch. Fingerstick calibration is required once a day. A sensor makes calibration adjustments for changes in temperature and glucose values appear to be ...Cranberry component linked to reduced stroke damage
... research institutions have demonstrated that this tiny berry packs some tremendous health benefits. Cranberries definitely belong on the 'A' list of healthy foods we should eat every day, and the variety of forms including juice, sauce, sweet dried, fresh and frozen make that a practical option."...Sensory cells for hearing and balance are fast-developing, UVA researchers find
...er tension to open the trap door channel; finally, tiny adaptation motors are formed that regulate sensitivity and allow sounds that range from a faint whisper to a booming cannon to be heard. The authors of the study said their work may mean a better understanding of congenital hearing and balance defici...New Mayo Clinic approach to kidney transplants means more patients can be successfully transplanted
...ainst the donor may really in fact be just a tiny, tiny amount. But it's enough to turn the test to positi...ies that have a shallow effect -- amounts that are tiny but still sufficient to turn the cross-match test positive -- the Mayo Clinic team found that throu...UI researchers use SIREN driving simulator to study driving risk factors
...ics. If you look very closely, you can see several tiny video cameras inside the car, and a glance under the hood gives a whole new meaning to the term "souped-up." In the space where the engine normally resides sits an array of electronic instrumentation that turns this ordinary vehicle into a high-fidel...The trojan clot-buster: Drug-coated red blood cells destroy blood clots from within
... Streptavidin forms an incredibly tight bond to a tiny molecule called biotin, so the researchers 'biotinylated' tPA and RBCs and used streptavidin to link them together. According to the researchers, the technique may provide a safe way of extending the longevity and safety of drugs within the circulat...INEEL researchers develop medical imagery breakthrough
...ical scans do little good if doctors can't see the tiny changes that signal early stages of disease. But such warning signs are often too subtle to spot by eye, and too complex for computers to interpret.Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory ...Gel put springiness back into old lenses
...small incision in the cornea, a doctor would cut a tiny hole in the lens capsule and suck out the contents. The gel, which has the consistency of thick oil, is pumped in and a burst of UV or visible light transforms it into a jelly. "This could be a quick, 15-minute procedure," says Ho. The gel-injection......es of tissue makes it possible for doctors to spot tiny changes in breast tissue that might go undetected ... microchannnel plate detector contains an array of tiny holes that organize X-rays into a coherent image and includes fewer shadows on its high-resolution i...