Leo Tolstoy famously wrote that “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” According to the science historian Domenico Bertoloni Meli, the same can be said of ...

New Orleans, Nov. 12, 2003 -- Using recently developed techniques for imaging individual cells in living animals, a team led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has ...

Disease statistics buried within patient records or detailed in newspaper clippings can be sorted and organized to depict geographic patterns, allowing the discovery of trends that were previously ...

An exciting new tracer allows visualization of abnormal protein deposits -- called amyloid plaques -- in human diseases like Alzheimer's and Creutzfeldt-Jakob and in prion diseases in animals like ...

To solve a problem, we have to see it clearly. Whether it's an infection by a novel virus or memory-stealing plaques forming in the brains of Alzheimer's patients, visualizing disease processes in the ...

The committee organizing an upcoming educational seminar on Opioid Addiction and Exposure is pictured. From left are Angelica Peck and Joyce Bess, Baby Cafe officials, Kathleen Colby of the Chautauqua ...

Let me start by saying emphatically that visualization and imagery techniques are not medically recognized as first-line treatments for cancers or for most any serious diseases but as adjunctive ...

Tomoyo Ochiishi (Senior Researcher) and others, the Molecular Neurobiology Group, the Biomedical Research Institute (Director: Yoshihiro Ohmiya), the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science ...

PET imaging of reactive astrocyte-neuron interaction reveals new insights into Alzheimer's disease pathology, offering a potential breakthrough in diagnosis and treatment Recently, a team of South ...

How can we harness geographic information systems (GIS) to understand how the magnitude and spatial distribution of disease changes over time? At the end of this activity, students will demonstrate ...

Disease statistics buried within patient records or detailed in newspaper clippings can be sorted and organized to depict geographic patterns, allowing the discovery of trends that were previously ...