Over dinner on R.V. Calypso while anchored on the lee side of Glover's Reef in Belize, Jacques Cousteau told Phil Dustan that he suspected humans were having a negative impact on coral reefs. Dustana young ocean ecologist who had worked in the lush coral reefs of the Caribbean and Sinai ...

Specialty canines were on a mission to sniff out trouble and display their explosive-detecting abilities as part of an Office of Naval Research (ONR)-hosted "Top Dog Demo 2012." "These dogs have kept Marines alive by helping them move through the battle space," said Lisa Albuquerque, program manager for ONR's Naval ...

ARLINGTON, Va.Specialty canines were on a mission to sniff out trouble and display their explosive-detecting abilities Jan. 18 as part of an Office of Naval Research (ONR)-hosted "Top Dog Demo 2012." "These dogs have kept Marines alive by helping them move through the battle space," said Lisa ...

Researchers have designed a new laboratory test that can quickly identify the bacterium that causes Staphylococcus aureus infections. The findings have been published in the January issue of the journal Molecular and Cellular Proteomics. The researchers, from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Scientists are reporting development and initial laboratory tests of an imaging agent that shows promise for detecting the tell-tale signs of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the brain - signs that now can't confirm a diagnosis until after patients have died.

The cardiologist Aitor Jimenez has managed to gather and characterise in detail 110 cases of cardiac rupture (CR), after spending 22 years (1978-2000) gathering data at the Hospital de Cruces, near Bilbao. It is one of the broadest anatomical series described in this respect. CR is the most serious complication ...

Aria Diagnostics, a molecular diagnostics company, today announced publication of data supporting a directed, non-invasive approach to cell-free DNA (cfDNA) analysis in maternal blood for evaluation of two common fetal trisomies linked to genetic disorders.

This release is available in Spanish . The cardiologist Aitor Jimnez has managed to gather and characterise in detail 110 cases of cardiac rupture (CR), after spending 22 years (1978-2000) gathering data at the Hospital de Cruces, near Bilbao. It is one ...

The combination of transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroencephalography constitutes a new method allowing the traces of conscious activity to be revealed in brain injured patients.

(Elhuyar Fundazioa) The cardiologist Aitor Jimenez has managed to gather and characterize in detail 110 cases of cardiac rupture (CR), after spending 22 years (1978-2000) gathering data at the Hospital de Cruces, near Bilbao. It is one of the broadest anatomical series described in this respect. CR is the most ...

Tecnalia, through the Interreg project Medisen, is contributing to develop biosensors capable of detecting the presence of tumour markers of lung cancer in exhaled breath.

Final results of the POBASCAM trial reveal that for women aged 30+, the human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA test is the optimum cervical cancer screening option. The HPV DNA test prevents more cervical cancers than cytology alone, and detects lesions which cause cervical cancer earlier. Study results provide the strongest evidence ...