Neurology

Improved PET Scans To Detect Early Alzheimer’s Disease

Friday, August 8th, 2008

Researchers at Avid Radiopharmaceuticals in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania presented reported their development of a novel 18F-labeled PET imaging agent that may make PET scans a routine diagnostic tool for early Alzheimer’s disease.
Michael J. Pontecorvo, PhD and colleagues reported their findings at last weeks ICAD 2008 meeting in Chicago, Illinois.
PET scans to date have not been widely […]

Johns Hopkins Researchers Develop “Lab on a chip” To Aid Study Of Neurons

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering and the NanoBio Technology Institute have developed a micro laboratory that allows researchers to individually control the chemical composition surrounding single neurons.
The direction of neuron growth is controlled by a complex interplay of the milieu surrounding the cell body. Research in this area has been […]