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• Open Access Memberships: Are Libraries Paying Too Much?

  
  The Scholarly Kitchen — Authority: 584
  Columbia University drops BioMed Central membership after it discovers it was paying way too much.
  2 days ago

• Inappropriate clothing prevents children from playing outside (Re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Washington, Nov 8 (ANI): A new study has revealed that inadequate or inappropriate clothing might restrict kids’ physical activity in child care centres.A research team, led by Dr Kristen Copeland from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre, undertook a qualitative study of 53 child-care providers from 34 ...
  3 days ago

• Inappropriate clothing prevents children from playing outside

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Washington, Nov 6 (ANI): A new study has revealed that inadequate or inappropriate clothing might restrict kids’ physical activity in child care centres.A research team, led by Dr Kristen Copeland from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre, undertook a qualitative study of 53 child-care providers from 34 ...
  5 days ago

• Additional journals tracked for Impact Factors: Biotechnology for Biofuels, Cell Communication and Signaling, Journal of Hematology & Oncology

  
  BioMed Central — Authority: 422
  Hot on the heels of our recent announcement we have just heard that three more journals have been accepted by Thomson Reuters and are now on course to receive their first Impact Factors. The journals are: Biotechnology for Biofuels - Impact Factor due June 2010 Cell Communication and Signaling - Impact ...
  6 days ago

• New therapy eradicates cancer cells without targeting healthy ones

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Washington, Nov 5 (ANI): Researchers are close to developing a cancer treatment that kills malignant cells whilst leaving healthy cells untouched.Led by Professor Cohen-Armon of Tel-Aviv University, the researchers found that potent phenanthridine derived polyADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitors efficiently ...
  1 week ago

• Virtual Image Library of the Cell

  
  VizWorld.com — Authority: 490
  The American Society of Cell Biology (ASCB) has launched a new project called “The Cell: An Image Library” to build a multi-dimensional image library of the cell for use in research, clinical, and educational communities.  They’ve been awarded a $2.5M stimulus grant from the National Institutes of Health and ...
  1 week ago

• FiatLux’s Free 2D/3D Medical Imaging Visualization Software

  
  VizWorld.com — Authority: 490
  FiatLux Imaging, a Redmond, WA company that creates medical software, has taken the surprising step of releasing their 2D/3D Medical Scan Visualization software free to the world. “CT and MRI scanners generate huge amounts of data every day, yet the vast majority of that data is never seen outside of the radiology ...
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• Kitware releases VolView 3.2, Free Trial Available

  
  VizWorld.com — Authority: 490
  Kitware has just announced the availability of VolView 3.2, the fantastic volume visualization suite designed for medical and scientific datasets. VolView 3.2 is a major upgrade that provides many new features including support for loading of multiple datasets simultaneously, support for creating and applying 2D and ...
  1 week ago

• Contested categories — life sciences in society

  
  Biomedicine on Display — Authority: 423
  Two years ago, in January 2007, our own Susanne Bauer co-organised a meeting titled ‘Contested Categories’ here at Medical Museion. Now, a proceedings volume with the same title, co-edited by Susanne and Ayo Wahlberg (formerly BIOS, LSE), has been published by Ashgate . From the back cover: Contested ...
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• Interactive Cell Size and Scale Graphic

  
  VizWorld.com — Authority: 490
  The University of Utah’s Genetic Science Learning Center has a fun interactive toy on their website which gives you a continuous zoom slider to go from grains of rice and coffee beans, down to individual carbon atoms.  Along the way you can see bacteria, cells, virii, and DNA strands. Cell Size and Scale . Reach ...
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• GOOD Transparency on World Health

  
  VizWorld.com — Authority: 490
  GOOD magazine has a great new infographic (”Transparency”) online visualizing various statistics about Health in various nations. Every country in the world approaches health care differently, but the end goal is the same: Keep citizens as healthy as possible at the lowest cost . . . This is a look at 12 ...
  1 week ago

• Swine Flu Mortality Visualization on Flickr

  
  VizWorld.com — Authority: 490
  Worried about dying from the Swine Flu? Well, you probably shouldn’t be.  Michael Paukner compares it against other, more common, killers and finds the statistics rather disappointing. This info graphic shows the immense threat of the Swine Flu compared to other manners of death. Today’s the 300th day of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Epilepsy drugs may help treat Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Washington, Oct 28 (ANI): A potential new function for anti-epileptic drugs in treating neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s has been discovered by US researchers.The study, published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Molecular Neurodegeneration, found that neurons in the brain ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pill camera live show

  
  Biomedicine on Display — Authority: 423
  Here are some images from last month’s show with Phillip Warnell swallowing a pill camera in Medical Museion’s anatomical theatre: See more images here  (the event was originally  announced here ). (thanks to Bente who published the images on our Danish blog the other day)
  2 weeks ago

• Lab toys on display, please!

  
  Biomedicine on Display — Authority: 423
  Laboratory equipment for rats or mice have begun to fascinate me more and more. Not in the way the rat guillotine was fascinating, but more in the way of how lab equipment can show so many things about biomedical practices, contexts and knowledge production. The picture above is from an article in the October issue ...
  2 weeks ago

• World’s First “4k” Laparoscopy Performed

  
  VizWorld.com — Authority: 490
  Steven F. Palter, MD proudly demonstrated their use of RED Camera’s to report and broadcast a laporascopic procedure in 4K. I am so excited to report that I have performed the world’s first laparoscopy in 4K – using cameras with a resolution 4 times that of HD. I presented the details and shared the images ...
  2 weeks ago

• A 3D Video of the Embryonic Heartbeat

  
  VizWorld.com — Authority: 490
  Researchers at the University of Houston Texas have built a new imaging technology they call optical-coherence tomography which has captured the highest-resolution ever live-video of a 3D beating heart in an embryo. The video was made using an imaging technology called optical-coherence tomography. Though it looks ...
  2 weeks ago

• Axis Three Introduces Portrait 3D Face Simulation Module

  
  VizWorld.com — Authority: 490
  Axis Three, makers of the Portrait3D system for imaging/module breasts for breast augmentation visualization, have just announced a new system to adapt their technology to facial modeling as well. Axis Three’s surgical simulation offerings are intuitive, straightforward, and easy to navigate. They also leverage ...
  2 weeks ago

• The menstrual cycle on display

  
  Biomedicine on Display — Authority: 423
  Here’s an innovative way of putting biomedicine on display:   As Vanessa (Street Anatomy) says , the menstrual cycle has never looked so exciting! [...] Perfect for explaining the menstrual cycle for the first time to a young girl … or to a 26-year-old.  I had no idea I went through a luteal lunacy! ...
  2 weeks ago

• High protein diet ’shrinks the brain’, finds Alzheimer’s study

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Washington, Oct 21 (ANI): Scientists studying Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in mice found that a high protein diet led them to develop smaller brains.The research team from the US, Canada and the UK were focusing on triggers for brain plaque formation and monitored the effects of four different food regimes on rodents ...
  3 weeks ago

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