News tagged with memory centers

SDSC dashes forward with new flash memory computer system

Leveraging lightning-fast technology already familiar to many from the micro storage world of digital cameras, thumb drives and laptop computers, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Memory impairment common in people with a history of cancer

People with a history of cancer have a 40 percent greater likelihood of experiencing memory problems that interfere with daily functioning, compared with those who have not had cancer, according to results of a new, large ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A radar for ADAR: Altered gene tracks RNA editing in neurons

To track what they can't see, pilots look to the green glow of the radar screen. Now biologists monitoring gene expression, individual variation, and disease have a glowing green indicator of their own: Brown ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 25, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Measuring brain atrophy in patients with mild cognitive impairment

Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have shown that a fully automated procedure called Volumetric MRI - which measures the "memory centers" of the brain and compares them to expected size ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0