$10 million gift funds innovative predictive health study
...f Medicine. "The institute will put Indiana on the map as a national leader of studies to predict health outcomes and to design personal, health system and community interventions to prevent the common diseases that result in excess disability with aging. To achieve this goal, we are designing a collabor...World Water Day: Space tool aids fight for clean drinking water
...ions over a 120 kilometre wide swath and therefore map the world's water bodies repeatedly in less than a week. "WatER is designed to meet high priority targets for all nations and will provide essential data for the EU Water Framework Directive. WatER will meet the United Nations' call for a 'greater f...Powerful new tool for studying brain development
...ccording to the St. Jude researchers. They say the map will likely help scientists discover the genetic o... similarity of the mouse and human brain make this map useful to researchers who study the development of the human brain and the origin of brain tumors fr...Researchers probe enzyme that may lead to new SARS drugs
...e-protease (PLpro) -- we now have a molecular road map to design new drugs that could potentially treat SARS-infected patients, or perhaps patients suffering from other SARS-related illnesses such as the common cold, bronchitis or pneumonia," said Andrew Mesecar, associate professor of pharmaceutical bio...News conference outlines American perceptions on food safety
...t F Street near the Metro Center Metro stop. For a map and directions see http://npc.press.org/abouttheclub/maps.cfm Why: To provide guidance to government, industry and educators all of whom have stake and responsibility in the safety of the nation's food. While there is a shortage of recent data on...Bold three-stage brain operation for intractable seizures appears promising
...or seizure activity over several days, providing a map for the surgeon to the location where the seizures arise. In the second operation, the surgeon removes the seizure-causing tissue in the brain. Dr. Weiner takes the operation one step further. He places another set of electrodes in the brain af...Mayo Clinic finds physical proof of mild cognitive impairment
...r's, I'd be wrong in a number of cases. It doesn't map exactly that if you're normal you have no plaques and tangles, and if you have Alzheimer's you have a large amount of plaques and tangles. But generally, the more plaques and tangles you have in the brain, the more cognitively impaired you will be." ...Mapping 'self' and 'other' in the brain
... The work revealed the existence of a new kind of map in the brain a "social agency map" that keeps tra...ween two interacting partners. The group found the map in an area of the brain called the cingulate cortex, which is known to be involved in bonding and so...New techniques ease colon cancer procedures for patients
... the colon. The system builds a three dimensional map of the colon as the scope is inserted and then directs multiple bendable sections to follow the path taken by the tip. Randomized Controlled Trial of Sedation for Colonoscopy: Entonox versus Intravenous Sedation [Abstract 645] Most patients reque...New MRI technique shows emphysema in asymptomatic smokers
...Because emphysema increases airspace size, the ADC map shows the location and severity of the disease. "The ADC maps are very sensitive to changes in the lung structure," Dr. Fain said. "With this tool, it was shown that even smokers that appear healthy have enlarged lung airspaces that suggest emphysema...News Tips from The Journal of Neuroscience
...erent elements such as the somatotopic body map, a map of the hand in space, and regional partitioning ba...t-neighbor relationships. The authors designed the map based on somatotopy, and then allowed the map to reconfigure according to the other two requirements...Womens skin tone influences perception of beauty, health, age, sociobiologists find
... collagen and hemoglobin, researchers can begin to map out these substances all which change with age to determine the optimal distribution that the human eye tends to find most pleasing. "Because skin has optical depth, our eyes perceive discolorations on the surface and in underlying layers. This di...Choose your beach with Medspiration
...e water's temperature with ESA's Medspiration heat map of all 2 965 500 square kilometres of the Mediterranean. An updated map of the sea surface temperature (SST) of the world's largest inland sea is generated every day as par...Rutgers/EOHSI builds model to assess World Trade Center fallout
...edictions. The satellite data provided a regional map of plume height and extent, used to better initialize the model and to constrain the simulations. The scientists built their model to fill the gaps in observations and crack a puzzle of missing pieces. To reconstruct the dispersion of contaminants,...W.M. Keck Foundation announces 2006 class of Distinguished Young Scholars in Medical Research
... Amaral uses computational methods to identify and map patterns of molecular interactions within cells, which are part of a growing sea of complex biological information. These maps hold promise for future drug development to cure diseases while avoiding unwanted side effects. His research has the potent...Navigation guides robotic future
... might be using this part of the brain not just to map physical space, which we do very effectively, but also to map thespace of ideas," Team Leader and UQ cognitive scientist Professor Wiles said. Professor Wiles s...University of Leicester produces the first-ever 'world map of happiness'
...er psychologist has produced the first ever 'world map of happiness.' Adrian White, an analytic social ...ojection of subjective well-being: the first world map of happiness. The projection, which is to be published in a psychology journal this September, wi...Researcher studies sleep deprivation's effect on decisions
...ic resonance imaging in the morning and evening to map the brain's reaction. The imaging technique looks at oxygen use in the brain, so whatever part of the brain is being used, it needs more oxygen. "The brain is a system, a network of areas, all of which work together to get a task done," he said. ...Making heart surgery intervention safer
...e with the biochemical activity of the tissue, and map its local heat pattern." These three parameters together reveal early and small changes in the functional state of the heart tissue, and their exact location. This gives vital information to the surgeon on the extent of tissue damage and the time he ......ach used in this study will be used to construct a map that shows key areas in Alberta at risk of experiencing high health costs resulting from forest fires, so that fire-fighting strategies can be adjusted accordingly. ...