Advocates ask fashion industry to support braille clothing tags; talking Web site
...heir closets to read the Braille-embossed aluminum tags sewn into their clothes or the coding system of sa...b site and standardized, Braille-embossed clothing tags made of cloth, not aluminum, to be sewn onto all garments. The user-friendly Web site will include...Endoscopic procedures advance physician knowledge and patient care
...rained within a plastic catheter loaded with metal tags down the working channel of a conventional endoscope. Two tags are placed into the wall of the stomach, one on each side of the defect. The threads are then locke...NIST's stretching exercises shed new light on nanotubes
...r aligned? Or can they be designed to be nanoscale tags for medical diagnostics? Semiconducting SWNTs can fluoresce in the near infrared region, an ideal characteristic for medical applications because body fluids and tissues are nearly transparent in that range. Recent research on the optics of SWNTs h...Stem cell activity deciphered in the aging brain
... the researchers attached easy-to-spot fluorescent tags to the neuronal stem cells in the hippocampus in young, middle-aged and old rats. They found that in young rats, the hippocampus contained 50,000 stem cells -- and, significantly, this number did not diminish with aging. This finding, the researcher...Key event in cell death occurs as single, quick event
...t of the proteins visible by attaching fluorescent tags to make them glow when observed under a special microscope equipped with a laser that scanned the cells....Medical device test center expands capabilities to help reduce potential interference
...ng medical devices against RFID readers and active tags in all frequency ranges will be an essential growth area of the EAS/Medical Device E3 Test Center," said Gisele Bennett, director of GTRI's Electro-Optical Systems Lab (EOSL), which oversees the Center. ...Outcomes of patients in trials; Better blood pressure treatment; Snake bites, and more
...s in West Africa. They isolated expressed sequence tags (ESTs) produced by the venom glands. Each EST is a small part of the active part of a gene. They then focused on one group of genes that make proteins called snake venom metalloproteinases (SVMPs), which destroy other proteins, and which cause many o...Powerful new tool for studying brain development
...stages. Gene expression is visible because special tags called probes bind to messenger RNA (mRNA)--the decoded form of the gene--and release a signal that can be seen using a special microscope. Gene expression refers to the production of mRNA, which becomes the blueprint the cell uses to make the protei...Keeping patients from falling through the medical-imaging cracks
...hers also collected data on patients with "Code 4" tags on their medical images, meaning that the radiologist had spotted something on the scan that wasn't cancer but might indicate another problem. They are now analyzing data from those patients. Importantly, Marn says, the new paper also shows that no ...Flow technique could simplify targeting cancer therapy
.... Molecular markers can be labeled with florescent tags and then detected as they pass through the beam. "Targeted cancer therapies, therapies that exploit the particular weaknesses of different types of cancer, show enormous promise for the next generation of cancer treatment," said Dr. Rafael Nunez, UI...Magnetic probe successfully tracks implanted cells in cancer patients
...earch team switched from the experimental magnetic tags to formulations of iron oxide already approved for clinical use in Europe (as Endorem) and the United States (as Feridex). Because immature dendritic cells naturally take up materials around them, they simply absorbed, or ingested, the iron oxide par...UCSD study clarifies insulin's role in blocking release of energy in patients with type II diabetes
...a marker protein, created with special fluorescent tags so that scientists can physically view the protein under a microscope and watch how the live cell activates PKA in real time. The PKA is normally activated inside the adipocyte cell, the major site of energy storage in the body where many aspects of...Genomics researchers discover protein deficit that causes drug toxicity
...ess in the cell detects the misfolded proteins and tags them for immediate destruction or quarantines them in a "cellular trash can" known as an aggresome (last syllable rhymes with "foam"). Whether destroyed or aggregated into the aggresome, the effect is the same: the patient's body suffers a protein de......-M scientists injected dendrimers with fluorescent tags into the bloodstream of laboratory mice to determine where they would be retained in the body. The results showed that the kidneys quickly filtered free nanoparticles from blood and eliminated them in urine. The researchers found no evidence that nan...