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Jan 13 | News
Comparing their discovery to the deciphering of hieroglyphics using the Rosetta Stone, Carnegie Mellon researchers have combine brain imaging and machine learning methods to understand how the brain codes nouns. The brain’s coding process for nouns, for example, depends on three basic factors.
12/16/2009 | News
Molecular kinetics is an emerging field of research that only now is bridging the gap between studying molecular reactions outside the cell and actually witnessing reactions inside the cell, where molecular concentrations are much higher and kinetics are thought to differ substantially. Optical innovations is permitting the new R&D to take place.
12/15/2009 | News
Synthetic blood cells made at UC Santa Barbara retain 90% of their oxygen-binding capacity after a week, all while closely mimicking the characteristics of red blood cells, including softness and flexibility. They are not designed to replace real cells. They instead will be carriers for therapeutic and diagnostic agents.
12/15/2009 | News
At $75,000 each, a treadmill with a waist-high enclosure that inflates to reduce the force of gravity on the legs to just a few percent is a little too pricey to be a novelty gift. Instead, the NASA-developed machine made by company Alter-G, once used to train astronauts, is intended for patients undergoing physical therapy.
12/11/2009 | News
A team of Princeton University scientists has produced a systematic listing of the ways a particular cancerous cell has "gone wrong”. Their computer-processed algorithm sorts through the behavior of each of 20,000 genes operating in a tumor cell, giving researchers a powerful new diagnostics tool.
10/26/2009 | News
Made famous in part by Carl Sagan’s book, the Broca’s region
of the cerebral cortex is thought to be the seat of language. It is also
extremely difficult to study, because there are no animal models for human
language. Through intracranial electrophysiology techniques, however,
researchers at Harvard Univ. and the Univ.
of California, San Diego, say they have finally found where
essential components of language are processed.
9/3/2009 | News
This week, European semiconductor company IMEC and its
research affiliate Holst Centre presented the clinical validation of a wireless
sleep staging system. The miniaturized wireless system is designed to help
alleviate sleep disorders by allowing patients to wear the device in the
comfort of their home, enabling early screening of abnormal sleep profiles
outside clinics.
9/2/2009 | News
Researchers at Purdue
Univ. are building
computer models to comb through thousands of injury reports in large
administrative medical datasets or insurance claims data to automatically organize
them based on specific words or phrases. If it works, the system will replace
an very labor-intensive review process typically handled by human coders at
hospitals and insurance companies.