News tagged with therapeutic radiology

Extremophile Yields a Key Cog in Life's Protein Factory

(PhysOrg.com) -- Peering at single molecules within an organism that makes its home near thermal vents, Yale University scientists have discovered the structure of a key player in the creation of protein-making ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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Pharmacists crucial in plan for terrorist chemical weapons

Terrorist attacks with chemical weapons are a real possibility, according to a study that appears in the online open access journal, Journal of Pharmacy Practice, published by SAGE. Thanks to their extensive knowledge of tox ...

Chemistry / Other

created Dec 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Novel technique uses RNA interference to block inflammation

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers – along with collaborators from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals – have found a way to block, in an animal model, the damaging ...

Biology / Biotechnology

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New discovery may eliminate potentially lethal side effect of stem cell therapy

Like fine chefs, scientists are seemingly approaching a day when they will be able to make nearly any type of tissue from human embryonic stem cells. You need nerves or pancreas, bone or skin? With the right combination of ...

Biology / Biotechnology

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Researchers develop and test new molecule as a delivery vehicle to image and kill brain tumors

A single compound with dual function – the ability to deliver a diagnostic and therapeutic agent – may one day be used to enhance the diagnosis, imaging and treatment of brain tumors, according to findings from ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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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

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New 3-D display gives researchers an unusual imaging tool

No, the group of people wearing 3-D glasses who are captivated by a moving image on the big screen are not watching a special showing of “Avatar.”

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Interventional radiologists advance MS research: Vein-opening treatment safe

Understanding that angioplasty -- a medical treatment used by interventional radiologists to widen the veins in the neck and chest to improve blood flow -- is safe may encourage additional studies for its use as a treatment ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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

Interventional radiology treatment takes blood pressure to new lows -- and results last

Interventional radiologists have completed the first human randomized controlled trial of therapeutic renal denervation or RDN—a procedure that uses a catheter-based probe inserted into the renal artery ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Oncogene AEG-1 strongly predicts response to erlotinib treatment in EGFR-mutant lung cancer

Spanish researchers have identified a gene whose expression level strongly predicts how well certain lung cancer patients will respond to treatment with the drug erlotinib.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists build world's first anti-laser

More than 50 years after the invention of the laser, scientists at Yale University have built the world's first anti-laser, in which incoming beams of light interfere with one another in such a way as to perfectly ...

Physics / General Physics

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