Neuroimaging – News and Features

Imaging technology used to advance the discovery and development of stem cell therapeutic products that will make delivery of the cells to specific organs much more specific and efficient.

Purdue and Indiana University researchers establish a technique that provides a new approach for detecting a number of genetic disorders found in infants and young children.

The National Center for Research Resources will provide $20.65 million for 14 High-End Instrumentation grants that will fund equipment required to advance biomedical research.

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.