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Using arsenic to detect cancers?

An international team led by Texan researchers is using arsenic as a powerful tumor imaging agent. In fact, they are using a drug called bavituximab, 'an antibody that homes in on a specific molecular target on the blood vessels that feed tumors.' By linking this drug to very small doses...

Tags: Rat, Combination, Technique, Imaging, Blood Vessel, Document Management, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-03

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Blood Vessel Anatomy 1.0 (Mobile)

Blood Vessel Anatomy is a flash card app that helps you learn the names, locations, and functions of over 100 blood vessels in the circulatory system. Blood Vessel Anatomy included main deck, faves deck, ignore feature, shuffle ability, choice of primary side, search feature, and an index. Individual cards can...

Tags: Card, Mobile, Simpaddico

Software downloads 2009-05-28

Printing organs on demand?

Every year, pharmaceutical companies invest many millions of dollars to test drugs that will never reach market while the number of patients waiting for organ transplants continues to increase. Would it be possible to create human tissues to help to solve both problems? A research team from the University of...

Tags: Team, Organ, Cell, Printing, MU, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-23

Thoughts on Principled Technologies' Vista vs. XP reports

Thoughts on Principled Technologies' Vista vs. XP reportsIf Vista and XP are so close what is the uproar about?This confirms what I have experienced myself on a dual boot system - both OS are about the same, give or take. Yet so many out there claim Vista is a slow...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), MSFT, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Principled Technologies

Discussion threads 2008-02-29

Google phone won't pry open wireless business models

The speculation has begun about today's big Google Phone announcement. Larry Dignan says this will ding the business models of current wireless carriers. How exactly? What is being described is a Linux-based phone that may have WiFi and is tied to...

Tags: Google Inc., Phone, Speculation, AT&T Corp., Sprint Communications, Wireless, Telecom & Utilities, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-11-05

Apple to launch iTunes TV service in U.K.

Apple to launch iTunes TV service in U.K.Awaiting the anti-Apple gouging outrage[i]would be available for 1.89 pounds ($3.80) an episode[/i]I remember the frothing at the mouth, stomping of the feet, blood vessel bursting on the forehead reaction to Vista being more expensive in the UK than it was in the...

Tags: Digital music, TVs, TV & Home Theater, iTunes TV, Apple iTunes, TV, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-08-29

A robot that travels through the body

The reference to the 1966 movie "Fantastic Voyage" is maybe too obvious. But Israeli scientists have developed a 1-millimeter-diameter medical robot that will be able to crawl within our veins and arteries. It's too early to know when this medical robot is allowed to explore a real human being. But...

Tags: Robotics, Health &, Medicine, Engineering &, Innovation

Blog posts 2007-06-26

Portable device could save soldiers' lives

Portable device could save soldiers' livesYet another bit of Star Trek technology?[b]If, for example, an ultrasound detects a rupture to an internal blood vessel, medical professionals can use the technology to focus a beam of high-intensity sound waves on the rupture so that the blood coagulates. That prevents the patient...

Tags: portable device

Discussion threads 2006-07-20

NASA's 20-G centrifuge machine

Scientists from NASA and two U.S. universities are using a 20-G centrifuge machine that can simulate up to 20 times the terrestrial gravity to evaluate the effects of hypergravity on humans. This 58-foot diameter centrifuge has three cabins, one for humans -- limited to 12.5 G -- and two for...

Tags: cab, gravity

Blog posts 2006-04-29

Fantastic voyage into the heart

According to the Journal of Clinical Investigation JCI, researchers from the Harvard Medical School have written a sequel to "Fantastic voyage," the 1966 sci-fi movie. By injecting self-assembling peptide nanofibers loaded with pro-survival factors into rats, they've showed that the animals could be protected from heart failures. So far, the...

Tags: nanofiber, PDGF-BB

Blog posts 2005-12-18

A new biopaper for organ printing

Organ printing is an emerging branch of medicine which uses healthy cells to repair a damaged or diseased organ. But as its name implies, this new medical technology needs ink, paper and a printer. Now, a new hydrogel -- or biopaper -- developed at the University of Utah has been...

Tags: hydrogel, cell, organ

Blog posts 2005-11-07

Microsoft to update final Windows 2000 patch

Microsoft to update final Windows 2000 patchMicrosoft to update final Windows 2000 patchNo problems here. But every fix and update helps. I'll give them credit for that because at least they acknowledge there is a problem for a very small fraction of users. They could have said too bad,...

Tags: Patches, SECURITY, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., patch, final Windows 2000 patch, Windows 2000 Patch, Microsoft Windows 2000

Discussion threads 2005-08-08