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New Software Creates 3-D Map of the Brain

The animal brain is so complex, it would take a supercomputer and vast amounts of data to create a detailed 3-D model of the billions of neurons that power it.

26 Oct 2015

Berkeley Lab Part of Consortium to Build World's First Total-Body PET Scanner

Scientists from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have set out to help build the world's first total-body positron emission tomography (PET) scanner, a medical imaging device that could change the way cancers and other diseases are diagnosed and treated.

22 Oct 2015

Carestream Introduces New Lower-Priced Portable Mobile X-Ray Imaging System

Carestream unveiled a new lower-priced mobile X-ray imaging system that can be purchased as a CR system and easily upgraded to wireless DR technology to gain faster image access and automated features.

22 Oct 2015

Optogenetics Helps Control Excitation Waves in Heart Cells

We depend on electrical waves to regulate the rhythm of our heartbeat. When those signals go awry, the result is a potentially fatal arrhythmia. Now, a team of researchers from Oxford and Stony Brook universities has found a way to precisely control these waves - using light. Their results are published in the journal Nature Photonics on 19 October.

20 Oct 2015

MIT Spinout Develops Smartphone-Powered Eye-Test Device

After five years of development and about 40,000 tests worldwide, the smartphone-powered eye-test devices developed by MIT spinout EyeNetra is coming to hospitals, optometric clinics, optical stores, and even homes nationwide.

20 Oct 2015

EPFL Startup Creates UV Light-Based Sterilization Kit for Hospitals in Developing Countries

Between 5% and 10% of patients admitted to modern hospitals in the developed world acquire one or more infections. The risk of health care-associated infection in developing countries is 2 to 20 times higher than in developed countries. In some developing countries, the proportion of patients affected by a health care-acquired infection can exceed 25%.

20 Oct 2015

Liquid Crystal Eye Lens Could Restore Long-Sightedness in Older People

A University of Leeds researcher is developing a new eye lens, made from the same material found in smartphone and TV screens, which could restore long-sightedness in older people.

19 Oct 2015

Novel Optogenetics Application Identifies Compound that Inhibits Orphan Receptor Linked to Cancer

Light has been used for the first time to activate a receptor for which the compound binding and controlling it naturally is unknown, as reported in Nature Chemical Biology today.

19 Oct 2015

Noninvasive Neuroimaging Helps Recognize Culprit Behind Medication-Resistant Epilepsy

Epilepsy affects more than 65 million people worldwide. One-third of these patients have seizures that are not controlled by medications. In addition, one-third have brain lesions, the hallmark of the disease, which cannot be located by conventional imaging methods.

15 Oct 2015

Toshiba Acquires Olea Medical to Accelerate Growth of MRI Business

Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation announced today that Toshiba has completed the acquisition of the outstanding shares of Olea Medical SA (“Olea”), following approval from the French Ministry of Economy.

15 Oct 2015