When we read, information zips between language processing centers in different parts of the brain, traveling along neural highways in the white matter. This coordinated activity allows us to decipher words and comprehend ...
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Modeling the heart in 3D using combined imaging techniques can help predict heart rhythm abnormalities, or arrhythmias, in patients with a genetic heart disease, shows a study published today in eLife.
Jan 25, 2022
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Predicting when atherosclerotic changes in the arteries in a stable state will progress to acute cardiovascular disease has remained unresolved. The authors of the paper currently published in Nature Communications, led by ...
Oct 18, 2021
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Previous definitions of "well-being," limited to taking a brisk walk and eating a few more vegetables, feel in many ways like a distant past. Shiny watches and sleek rings now measure how we eat, sleep, and breathe, calling ...
Sep 23, 2021
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Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have identified visual changes in the bone marrow caused by acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The imaging technique used is now being tested in hospital to see if it could help predict ...
Aug 3, 2021
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With the help of a topical fluorescent imaging agent, cervical cancer can be identified by physicians with a hand-held microscope, according to research published in the July issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Targeting ...
Jul 27, 2021
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Organoids are tiny three-dimensional cellular assemblies that are grown in a laboratory from tissue-specific cells. They are particularly interesting to biologists because of their ability to mimic the characteristics of ...
Mar 22, 2021
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Ultrasound is not only used as an imaging technique but targeted pulses of ultrasound can be used as a highly accurate treatment for a range of brain diseases, for which there were previously only limited treatment options. ...
Feb 4, 2021
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A new imaging-based method could enable the early detection and differentiation of a wide variety of neurodegenerative disorders characterized by the buildup of tau protein in the brain, suggests a study published October ...
Oct 29, 2020
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A cutting-edge technique that allows scientists to zoom into tiny details in a 3-D image of a whole animal heart may lead to new insights on congenital heart disease.
Oct 20, 2020
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