News tagged with abnormal tissue

Tissue structure delays cancer development

Cancer growth normally follows a lengthy period of development. Over the course of time, genetic mutations often accumulate in cells, leading first to pre-cancerous conditions and ultimately to tumour growth. Using a mathematical ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Light can detect pre-cancerous colon cells

After demonstrating that light accurately detected pre-cancerous cells in the lining of the esophagus, Duke University bioengineers turned their technology to the colon and have achieved similar results in a series of preliminary ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Epilepsy Patients Are Given New Hope With Brain Implant

(PhysOrg.com) -- A startup company, Neuropace in Mountain View Ca., has developed a device that offers new hope for epilepsy patients. The device is designed to neutralize the abnormal electrical activity ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2 weblog

Scientists discover new genetic immune disorder in children

Your immune system plays an important function in your health—it protects you against viruses, bacteria, and other toxins that can cause disease. In autoinflammatory diseases, however, the immune system goes awry, causing ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New brain imaging method shows promise for epilepsy

With 25 percent of his brain already gone, Clint Galster sat alone in a vaultlike room as doctors tried to figure out whether even more brain tissue could be taken out.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Surgeons Use Microwaves to Destroy Tumors

A new minimally-invasive option for treating liver tumors, called microwave ablation, is now available at UC San Diego Medical Center and Moores UCSD Cancer Center, the only hospitals in the region to offer ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Taking mathematics to heart

Did you know that heart attacks can give you mathematics? That statement appears on the web site of James Keener, who works in the mathematics of cardiology. This area has many problems that are ripe for unified ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Mar 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Can chaos theory help predict heart attacks?

Chaos models may someday help model cardiac arrhythmias -- abnormal electrical rhythms of the heart, say researchers in the journal CHAOS, which is published by the American Institute of Physics.

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research could treat infant tumours

Research by Victoria University PhD graduate Anasuya Vishvanath into infantile haemangioma, or strawberry birthmarks, suggests that stem cells play an important role in the growth of these common infant tumours.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Microcoils help locate small lung nodules

A new technique combining computed tomography (CT) with fiber-coated surgical microcoils allows physicians to successfully locate and remove small lung nodules without the need for a more invasive procedure, according to ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0