Neuroimaging – News and Features

The paper describes a technique that involves tagging the human neural stem cells with Feridex®, an FDA approved magnetic resonance imaging agent for use in humans.

Interest in and use of molecular imaging technologies has exploded in recent years, thanks to advances in cell biology, biochemical agents, as well as advances in computer analysis.

Researchers at Penn State will use GenoLogics’ Geneus and Proteus lab and data-management informatics software at multiple labs and multiple science domains.

Researchers have used adult bone marrow stem cells to regenerate healthy human liver tissue, according to a study published in the April issue of the journal Radiology.

Biotage will provide funding and instruments to the University to develop molecular imaging agents for PET and SPECT and radiotherapy agents for treatment applications.

Siemens’ Molecular Imaging research facility is dedicated to the development of molecular imaging biomarkers for identifying debilitating diseases at their earliest stages.

An MIT professor and her colleagues have created nanoparticles that mimic blood platelets.

The UAB SeRMN to install a Bruker BIOSPEC 70/30 and a Bruker AvanceII 600 spectrometers for nuclear magnetic resonance.

The PDC allocates funds to a 7,000 square foot R&D facility in Portland for development and manufacturing of QuantRx lateral flow devices.

The compound developed by UCLA, called FDDNP, holds promise as a research tool to evaluate treatments for Alzheimer's.