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Researchers find less invasive, highly accurate methods
02-05-2008 · EurekAlert!Using two different endoscopes together is better than using one to stage lung cancer, and is also much more precise and less invasive than the surgical method now most commonly used, researchers at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., report in the Feb. 6 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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- Microarray sequence capture speeds large-scale resequencing of targeted genomic regions
10-14-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Roche NimbleGen Inc. today have published details of a highly efficient and cost-effective method for capturing targeted regions of the genome via NimbleChip microarrays in preparation for high-throughput 454 Sequencing. The technology, called 'sequence capture,' enables fast and accurate enrichment of thousands of selected genomic regions, either contiguous or dispersed, such as segments of chromosomes or all genes or exons. The study appears online in the journal Nature Methods.
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- Researchers find best way to detect airborne pathogens
03-21-2007 · EurekAlert!
Current methods used to sniff out dangerous airborne pathogens may wrongly suggest that there is no threat to health when, in reality, there may be. But researchers have found a better method for collecting and analyzing these germs that could give a more accurate assessment of their actual threat. For example, the findings may make it easier to detect airborne pathogens in low concentrations.
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- An accurate method for preoperative diagnosis of pancreatic solid pseudopapillary tumor
10-23-2007 · EurekAlert!
Solid pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas is a very rare pancreatic tumor with a reported frequency of less than 1 percent of all pancreatic diseases. In most patients, the tumor follows an indolent clinical course and complete resection is often curative. Researchers confirmed that endoscopy ultrasound guided fine-needle aspiration cytology is an accurate method for preoperative diagnosis of SPTP.
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- Method Could Help Carbon Nanotubes Become Commercially Viable
10-06-2006 · ScienceDaily
Carbon nanotubes are intriguing new materials, but a fundamental problem relating to their synthesis has limited their widespread commercial use. Current methods for synthesizing the materials produce mixtures of tubes that differ in their diameter and twist. Now Northwestern University researchers have developed a new method for sorting single-walled carbon nanotubes. The method works by exploiting subtle differences in the buoyant densities of carbon nanotubes as a function of their size and electronic behavior.
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- Researchers map spread of pathogens in the human body
10-19-2006 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered a new, more accurate, method of mapping how bacteria spread within the body, a breakthrough that could lead to more effective treatments and prevention of certain bacterial infections.
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- Picture this: FSU professor's research could lead to vastly improved medical imaging
02-13-2007 · EurekAlert!
Magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, has revolutionized health care, providing doctors with a highly accurate, noninvasive tool for diagnosing cancer, injuries and other maladies within the human body. Now, a Florida State University researcher in Tallahassee, Fla., has collaborated in a research project that could lead to ways of producing even sharper medical images.
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- Study shows radiofrequency ablation highly effective in treating kidney tumors
08-01-2007 · EurekAlert!
Radiofrequency ablation, a relatively new, minimally invasive treatment, was 100 percent successful in eradicating small malignant kidney tumors in a study of more than 100 patients, report researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. Of 95 tumors that were smaller than 3.7 cm, all were completely eradicated by a single treatment, along with 14 of the larger tumors. Total success rate for all tumors was 93 percent.
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- Scientists create dual-modality microbeads to improve identification of disease biomarkers
02-14-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University have developed an easier and faster method to detect disease biomarkers in liquid samples using highly porous, micron-sized, silica beads that contain optical and magnetic nanoparticles.
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- Another step toward a liquid telescope on the moon
06-20-2007 · EurekAlert!
An international team including researcher Ermanno Borra, from Universitй Laval's Center for Optics, Photonics, and Laser, has taken another step toward building a liquid telescope on the moon. The researchers have found a combination of materials that allows the creation of a highly reflective liquid mirror capable of functioning even under harsh lunar conditions. The details of the discovery made by Borra and his colleagues will be published in the June 21 edition of Nature.
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- UBC researcher finds new way to treat devastating fungal infections
03-05-2007 · EurekAlert!
Devastating blood-borne fungal infections that can be lethal for HIV/AIDS, cancer and organ transplant patients may be treated more successfully, thanks to a new drug delivery method developed by researchers at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
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