Sentences with phrase «molecular imaging techniques»

For years researchers have been developing molecular imaging techniques that visualize hormonally active breast cancer cells — specifically those testing positive for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2).

Another feature of the nanoparticles is that they are fluorescent and thus can be tracked in the body with molecular imaging techniques.

FDG - PET, one of the only molecular imaging techniques routinely used in oncology, employs a glucose - like probe, FDG, with a radioactive isotope of fluorine attached as a beacon.

A novel molecular imaging technique could be the key to understanding how best to treat these and other devastating diseases, according to a recent study presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI).

Researchers at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) are presenting a molecular imaging technique that allows oncologists to set patients» radiotherapy doses right at that critical limit of delivering the most powerful kill to neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) while protecting vulnerable vital organs.

An investigational molecular imaging technique could be the key to finding the elusive primary tumor, say presenters at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI).

Not exact matches

Franklin was also a brilliant chemist and a master of X-ray crystallography, an imaging technique that reveals the molecular structure of matter based on the pattern of scattered X-ray beams.

Such a high accuracy can be exploited in creating nanosized optical devices as well as molecular platforms and barcodes for various imaging techniques and analytics.

The breakthrough came with a new imaging technique, dual - resonance - frequency - enhanced electrostatic force microscopy (DREEM), which was developed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill chemist and co-author Dorothy Erie, former UNC and NC State postdoctoral researchers Dong Wu and Parminder Kaur, and was featured earlier this year in Molecular Cell.

Now, researchers are hoping to improve this imaging technique, known as molecular breast imaging or breast specific gamma imaging, with better image quality and precise location (depth information) within the breast, while reducing the amount of radiation dose to the patient for these procedures.

Researchers have developed a fast and practical molecular - scale imaging technique that could let scientists view never - before - seen dynamics of biological processes involved in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis.

«New imaging technique able to watch molecular dynamics of neurodegenerative diseases: Novel imaging approach could improve molecular - scale understanding of early disease stages.»

C.elegans has been used for decades as a model animal to study the genetic and molecular underpinnings of neurological disorders through a number of techniques including bio imaging, electrophysiology and behavior.

The study mostly makes use of cultured cortical neurons from rats, exploiting a wide array of molecular and imaging techniques to probe the mitochondrial function and well - being of neurons manipulated to model Wolfram syndrome.

This is where scientists come in with nondestructive analytical techniques such as X-ray fluorescence intensity mapping and spectral reflectance imaging, as well as elemental and molecular analysis of microscopic samples.

His lab combines molecular biological, anatomical, physiological, imaging, and behavioral techniques to learn about genes associated with neurodegenerative disease.

Andrew Huberman, PhD: Each of our labs uses a variety of techniques such as anatomy or imaging, or physiology, molecular biology and genetics but no two labs are exactly the same; so what's really great about the Catalyst for a Cure initiative is that each lab is very expert in one or a few of those different techniques.

By applying biophysical techniques to elucidate the overall shape of ALC1 and combining these approaches with cell - based and live - cell imaging experiments, the authors of the article in Molecular Cell dissect the molecular mechanisms how the remodeling activity of ALC1 is controlled by its macrMolecular Cell dissect the molecular mechanisms how the remodeling activity of ALC1 is controlled by its macrmolecular mechanisms how the remodeling activity of ALC1 is controlled by its macro domain.

Since his departure from the Lab, Chapman has continued with his interest in molecular imaging with FELs and in 2009 led an international collaboration to carry out the first experiments in this area at LCLS, where a global team introduced a new technique now called serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX).

This is a highly multidisciplinary endeavor in which we employ a broad range of techniques including electrophysiology, biochemistry, imaging, anatomy, molecular biology, and behavioral techniques.

This third edition of Electron Microscopy: Methods and Protocols expands upon the previous editions with current, detailed protocols on biological and molecular research techniques based on TEM and SEM as well as other closely related imaging and analytical methods.

The goal of this research is to employ a variety of techniques, including electroencephalography (EEG), event - related potentials, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET), molecular genetics, as well as stress and pharmacological manipulations, to advance the understanding of anhedonia.

By using a combination of genetics, fix and live imaging, cell biology and molecular biology techniques we are exploring the consequences of polyploidy in the brain and epithelial tissues of Drosophila.

The Innovator Award will enable Sipkins to continue to combine state - of - the - art imaging techniques, performed on living mice, with cell and molecular biology approaches to learn more about these stem cell niches.

The projects will provide training in: current molecular biology techniques (including RNA interference, genetic transformation, analyses of gene expression); cell biology techniques (cell culturing, cell transfections, imaging); protein biochemistry (2D electrophoresis, protein functional analyses); and bioinformatics (structure predictions, phylogenetic analyses; molecular interactions).

The technique has also the potential to be coupled with fluorescence molecular imaging.

Our research strategy combines molecular and cell biology techniques with live - cell imaging.

Berkeley Lab researchers, working at the Molecular Foundry, have invented a technique called «CLAIRE» that extends the incredible resolution of electron microscopy to the non-invasive nanoscale imaging of soft matter, including biomolecules, liquids, polymers, gels and foams.

My research made use of a range of cell culture, cell imaging, molecular and bioinformatic techniques, to investigate the evolution of hydrogenosomes (mitochondrial homologues that make hydrogen) in some anaerobic protists, found in a variety of naturally anoxic habitats.

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