A new lab at NIST is helping to bring these tiny but brilliant devices into your home, to help save both energy costs and the environment.
The use of device-assisted enteroscopy, a technique that allows complete examination of the small bowel, may be just as successful pediatrics as it has been in adult medicine, according to a study from Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
Women confused about when to have a mammogram have a new interactive source of information — MammographySavesLives.org — launching this week along with a series of public service announcements on television and radio stations across the country.
An ancestor of HIV that infects monkeys is thousands of years older than previously thought, suggesting that HIV, which causes AIDS, would take hundreds of lifetimes to naturally evolve into a non-lethal virus.
This image is a composite of Hubble Space Telescope observations, taken in 2005 and 2010, of the dark pillars of cool gas and dust in the Carina Nebula region. The immense nebula lies an estimated 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina. Three-dimensional movies of the imaged region are also available.
By constructing a microscope apparatus that achieves resolution never before possible in living cells, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have illuminated the molecular interactions that occur during one of the most important “trips” in all of biology: the journey of individual messenger Ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules from the nucleus into the cytoplasm (the area between the nucleus and cell membrane) so that proteins can be made.
In a research study presented at this year’s Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), a team led by Professor Markus Nagl, M.D. at the Medical University of Innsbruck and Dr. Mark Anderson, Chief Scientific Officer at NovaBay Pharmaceuticals evaluated the effect of three compounds on the blood coagulation pathways.
In a recent study presented at this year’s Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), a team led by Dr. Dmitri Debabov, head of Cell and Microbiology, and Meghan Zuck, a Research Associate, at NovaBay Pharmaceuticals, reported the development of infected tissue models for its Aganocide® compounds.
Fears over the influenza A virus (H1N1; sometimes referred to as swine flu) have motivated researchers to investigate the antimicrobial activity of the Aganocide® compounds against viruses.
In a recent research study that was presented at this year’s Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), a team led by Dr. Dmitri Debabov of NovaBay Pharmaceuticals investigated the potential use of a non-antibiotic anti-infective compound called NVC-422, created by NovaBay, to resolve the issue of catheter blockage by a P. mirabilis biofilm.
PowerCat Enhanced is a downloadable technology that turns a user's iPhone 3GS and above or Android-based smart phones into an interactive map and GPS, showing both information about and directions to locations on the K-State Manhattan, Salina and Olathe campuses.
Engineers at Center for Biophysical Sciences and Engineering earn a $70 million NASA contract renewal to continue to develop and maintain specialized freezers and cooling units that fly aboard the space shuttle and International Space Station. MERLIN and GLACIER are now mainstays of storing biosamples and research experiments, crucial to orbital science.
Experts at MD Anderson Cancer Center say PSA test is still an effective way to track trends in a man's prostate over time. Doing this increases the chances that prostate cancer will be found as early as possible.
Using eye-tracking methods, researchers at UCSD School of Medicine have shown that toddlers with autism spend significantly more time visually examining dynamic geometric patterns than they do looking at social images – a viewing pattern not found in either typical or developmentally delayed toddlers.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’ recently announced plan to cut nearly $100 billion from the defense budget over the next five years isn’t likely to be embraced by Congress as it looks ahead to the 2012 elections, according to a UAB study that examined U.S. data over a 44-year period.
When breast cancer surgeons regularly confer with plastic surgeons prior to surgery, their patients are more likely to have reconstruction, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.
A new program from Temple's office of Student Health Services is helping students figure out the best ways to shop and eat healthy, on a slim budget.
Buffalo Trace Distillery and the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky unveil an oral history of the award-winning distillery.
Four key studies now propose a new theory about how cancer cells grow and survive, allowing researchers to design better diagnostics and therapies to target high-risk cancer patients. These studies were conducted by a large team of researchers at Thomas Jefferson University’s Kimmel Cancer Center.
Bucking a national trend of declines, applications to Olin’s full-time MBA program hit an all-time high this year — up 26 percent over one year ago and 49 percent higher than in 2008. First year MBA students at Olin get a head start on the school year with a two week boot camp that involves serious academic work, team building exercises, career counseling and socializing.
Among disadvantaged people in the United States, the most needy and least helped are probably African-American men, who suffer in a variety of ways, including being stereotyped as reckless and having little regard for their children. They are also disadvantaged because changes in the economy have depleted the number of well-paying, manual labor jobs.
The University of Maryland Archives has recovered a rare film treasure - on the eve of the Maryland-Navy football game this Labor Day. The film shows portions of the first-ever game between the Terps and Middies at a brand-new Byrd Stadium on September 30, 1950. That opening game was a 35-21 Maryland victory.
A new study by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has provided concrete evidence that children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) process sensory information such as sound, touch and vision differently than typically developing children.
Many of the 45 million children participating in organized sports are engaging in serious sports training and specialization at younger ages, which makes them more susceptible to potentially serious injuries. These injuries, that would only cause a sprain to a ligament or muscular strain in an adult, could cause serious growth plate injuries that could affect physical development in a child. U-M's Laurie Donaldson, M.D., offers suggestions on how to protect children from sports injuries.
While the start of college is a positive, momentous event for many young people, it also can be an episode that pushes some into a dangerous battle with eating disorders, says University of Alabama at Birmingham Associate Professor of Psychology Mary Boggiano, Ph.D., who fought her own battle against bulimia as a college student. Hear her story.
At the University of Michigan, researchers and physicians are taking a new approach to diagnosing, preventing and researching concussion at a new clinic dedicated to a neurological strategy: the Michigan NeuroSport Concussion Program.
New evidence linking the use of acetaminophen to development of asthma and eczema suggests that even monthly use of the drug in adolescents may more than double risk of asthma in adolescents compared to those who used none at all; yearly use was associated with a 50 percent increase in the risk of asthma.
Inside a University of Alabama at Birmingham laboratory, 17-year-old Tiffany McDaniel, a senior at Carver High School, has been hard at work this summer on an experiment to determine the effects of nanoparticles on health.
This month physicists are taking their attempt to unmask the secret identity of dark matter into a Canadian mine more than a mile underground. They are deploying a 4-kilogram bubble chamber at SNOLab in Canada. A second 60-kilogram chamber will follow later this year.
New Hampshire, Vermont and western Maine got a facelift recently when geology professor Wally Bothner undertook a painstaking restoration of a 12-by-16-foot wooden relief map created by state geologist Charles Hitchcock in the late 1800s. The map is now an eye-catching centerpiece of the restored James Hall, home of UNH’s Earth sciences department.
Total knee and hip joint replacement devices that last a lifetime are closer to reality thanks to recent breakthroughs in Department of Physics laboratories at the University of Alabama at Birmingham involving specialized nanodiamonds a billionth of a meter in size.
Want your student to stay calm and focused as they begin the new school year this fall? Make sure they eat a quality breakfast including protein and quality carbohydrates, says a nutrition expert at Washington University in St. Louis.
Sub-millimeter accuracy and real-time patient imaging, positioning, beam shaping, including many other data points, help make TrueBeam a leading-edge radiation treatment system. UAB's Hazelrig-Salter Radiation Oncology Center is the third U.S. site to acquire the technology.
Davisite and grossmanite were two of the first solids to form when an interstellar gas cloud collapsed to form the sun. Found in the Allende meteorite, they now carry the names of Andrew Davis and Lawrence Grossman, professors in geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago.
Ryerson School of Interior Design students give tips on setting up your dorm room.
As a child, Nora Tramm, a graduate student in physics, imagined herself becoming a paleontologist and digging up dinosaurs. She is instead conducting neurological research on the nematode C. elegans, a type of worm, at an astonishingly fast pace.
As an elementary school student, Nicole Tuttle thought science was all about answering multiple-choice questions from a textbook, not working with the yeast colonies, RNA molecules and X-ray films of her daily routine. A middle-school chemistry class changed all that.
Polish-born sporting artist Andre Pater is the subject of an art exhibition corresponding with the World Equestrian Games.
Aspiring mathematician Robin Walters had one foot in the movie industry, the other in academia. Which way would he go? Toward Buzz Lightyear or toward quantum groups?
Some of the short-term health effects of the April accident are known – watery and irritated eyes, skin itching and redness, coughing and shortness or breath or wheezing – there also are many unknown health effects, says a UAB School of Public Health researcher. Nalini Sathiakumar, M.D., Dr.P.H., an associate professor of epidemiology and a pediatric nephrologist, is part of a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ad-hoc team formed in July. The team is working to anticipate, outline and minimize the disaster’s potential health risks.
For the past four years, NIST has been conducting detailed performance evaluations for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of two-way, real-time, voice-translation devices designed to improve communications between the U.S. military and non-English speakers in foreign countries.
Jennifer Dyer, MD, MPH, an endocrinologist at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, has developed and completed a pilot study that uses weekly, customized text messages to remind adolescent diabetes patients about their personal treatment activities. At the conclusion of the study, Dr. Dyer found an increase in overall treatment adherence and improved blood glucose levels.
Sanford-Burnham researchers uncover new clues about the cause of brain cell death in neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and Huntington’s diseases
Pancreas surgery specialist Charles J. Yeo, M.D., Samuel D. Gross Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, and Co-Director of the Pancreatic, Biliary Tract and Related Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, recently performed his 1,000th Whipple procedure (pancreaticoduodenectomy).
The UCLA Health System has launched the new UCLA Hand Transplantation Program, the first of its kind on the West Coast and only the fourth such center in the United States.
VIDEO: When getting your child ready for school, don't overlook his or her health.
Parents, pull up a chair: Dr. Diane Sekeres and Sr. Madeleine Gregg, faculty members in the College of Education at The University of Alabama, share tips for parents from teachers.
Biologists studying caterpillars reported a unique two-body locomotion system never previously reported in any animal. The Tufts-led team found the gut of the crawling caterpillar moved forward independently and in advance of the surrounding body wall and legs, not with them. Understanding this motion may impact robotics and human biomechanics.
In four weeks, 23 year-old cancer survivor Phil Bayliss will complete an improbable 4,300-mile bike tour across the U.S. which began in San Diego and will end August 21, in Sea Isle City, N.J. Bayliss, who is riding alongside his best friend, Jon Triantafyllou, is expected to raise $30,000 for cancer research.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has launched a new initiative to raise awareness about hunger and the availability of food in the community.
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