News tagged with deep muscle layer

New staging technique might save bladders in some bladder cancer patients

Pathologists today reported encouraging results from a new technique to increase the accuracy of staging bladder cancer tumors that could reduce the need to remove bladders from some patients.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1




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New imaging tech promising for diagnosing cardiovascular disease, diabetes

Researchers have developed a new type of imaging technology to diagnose cardiovascular disease and other disorders by measuring ultrasound signals from molecules exposed to a fast-pulsing laser.

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ancient wind held secret of life and death

(PhysOrg.com) -- The mystery of how an abundance of fossils have been marvellously preserved for nearly half a billion years in a remote region of Africa has been solved by a team of geologists from the University ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 29, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

A brain-recording device that melts into place

Scientists have developed a brain implant that essentially melts into place, snugly fitting to the brain's surface. The technology could pave the way for better devices to monitor and control seizures, and ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 18, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Nanoscale 'stealth' probe slides into cell walls seamlessly

A nanometer-scale probe designed to slip into a cell wall and fuse with it could offer researchers a portal for extended eavesdropping on the inner electrical activity of individual cells.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 01, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (31) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Targeted heat therapy offers new standard treatment option for soft tissue sarcoma

Patients with soft-tissue sarcomas at high risk of spreading were 30% more likely to be alive and cancer free almost three years after starting treatment if their tumours were heated at the time they received chemotherapy, ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The 'S' stands for surprise: Anticoagulant plays unexpected role in maintaining circulatory integrity

Protein S, a well-known anticoagulant protein, keeps the blood flowing in more than one way, discovered researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. The protein contributes to the formation and ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The sound of light: Innovative technology shatters the barriers of modern light microscopy

In the past, even modern technologies have failed to produce high-resolution fluorescence images from this depth because of the strong scattering of light. In the Nature Photonics journal, the Munich researchers describe how th ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 2

Lab-grown nerves promote nerve regeneration after injury

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have engineered transplantable living nerve tissue that encourages and guides regeneration in an animal model. Results were published this month in Tissue En ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researcher reveals humpback whales' dining habits -- and costs

As most American families sit down to Thanksgiving dinner, a University of British Columbia researcher is revealing how one of the largest animals on earth feasts on the smallest of prey – and at what cost.

Biology /

created Nov 27, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Researchers Use Nanowires to Develop Neural Probe That Will Limit Damage to Cells and Biological Tissue

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have developed a neural probe that demonstrates significantly greater electrical charge storage capacity than all other neural prosthetic ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 14, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0


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