News tagged with cancer imaging

Handheld probe shows promise for oral cancer detection

A team of American researchers have created a portable, miniature microscope in the hope of reducing the time taken to diagnose oral cancer.

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Computing the best high-resolution 3-D tissue images

Real-time, 3-D microscopic tissue imaging could be a revolution for medical fields such as cancer diagnosis, minimally invasive surgery and ophthalmology. University of Illinois researchers have developed ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Top New Zealand scientist Paul Callaghan dies

(AP) -- Sir Paul Callaghan, a top New Zealand scientist who gained international recognition for his work in molecular physics, has died after a long battle with bowel cancer. He was 64.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Proteins shine a brighter light on cellular processes

Scientists have designed a molecule which, in living cells, emits turquoise light three times brighter than possible until recently. This improves the sensitivity of cellular imaging, a technique where biological ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New technology allows scientists to watch cancer cells in action at unprecedented resolution

A photograph of a polar bear in captivity, no matter how sharp the resolution, can never reveal as much about behavior as footage of that polar bear in its natural habitat. The behavior of cells and molecules can prove even ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Bismuth nanoparticles provide high fidelity images of breast tumors

By combining a nanoparticle that is readily visible in X-ray computed tomography (CT) scans with a molecule that targets tumor lymph vessels and other tumor tissues, a research team from the University of California, San ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Overcoming cancer drug resistance with nanoparticles

One of the ways in which cancer cells evade anticancer therapy is by producing a protein that pumps drugs out of the cell before these compounds can exert their cell-killing effects. A research team at Northwestern University ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New cigarette health labels: 'Gross' or effective?

(AP) -- You may think an image of rotting teeth and a mouth lesion are gross. But the U.S. government says it's just what you need to kick the habit.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Glowing Cornell dots -- a potential cancer diagnostic tool set for human trials

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first clinical trial in humans of a new technology: Cornell Dots, brightly glowing nanoparticles that can light up cancer cells in PET-optical imaging.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

A better imaging agent for heart disease and breast cancer

Scientists are reporting development of a process for producing large quantities of a much-needed new imaging agent for computed tomography (CT) scans in heart disease, breast cancer and other diseases, and the first evidence ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 27, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New research moves nanomedicine one step closer to reality

A class of engineered nanoparticles -- gold-centered spheres smaller than viruses -- has been shown safe when administered by two alternative routes in a mouse study led by investigators at the Stanford University School ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 20, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers create organic nanoparticle that uses sound and heat to find, treat tumors

A team of scientists from Princess Margaret Hospital have created an organic nanoparticle that is completely non-toxic, biodegradable and nimble in the way it uses light and heat to treat cancer and deliver drugs. (A nanoparticle ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

World first -- Localized delivery of an anti-cancer drug by remote-controlled microcarriers

Known for being the world's first researcher to have guided a magnetic sphere through a living artery, Professor Martel is announcing a spectacular new breakthrough in the field of nanomedicine. Using a magnetic resonance ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Detection of early gastric cancer using hydro-stomach CT

A research team from South Korea evaluated the difference in diagnostic performance of hydro-stomach computed tomography (CT) to detect early gastric cancer (EGC) between blinded and nonblinded analysis and to assess independent ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

U-M develops a potential 'game changer' for pathologists

Ulysses Balis, M.D., clicks a mouse to identify a helicopter in a satellite photo of Baghdad, Iraq. With another click, an algorithm that he and his team designed picks out three more choppers without highlighting any of ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0