Distinguishing between healthy and cancerous cells just might be the biggest hurdle in cancer care physicians have encountered. A new MRI technique developed by radiologists at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas have fixed that problem using zinc.

Remember the literature review claiming that most fMRI exams performed across two and a half decades were, unbeknownst to researchers relying on the findings, riddled with false positives due to deficient software systems?

Its interests sprawl well beyond healthcare, but the Institute for Imaging & Analytical Technologies at Mississippi State University is worth a look from those whose primary work with imaging is in the medical sphere. 

Researchers have used functional MRI (fMRI) to come up with a way to predict neural patterns produced by words within sentences. Building on previous studies that focused on single words lighting up parts of the brain, the team correctly anticipated brain-activity patterns at the sentence level to the tune of 70 percent accuracy, on average.

In order to get his brain scanned, musician Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner had to wait out a power outage. The delay forced him to take the stage for a concert without first doing a soundcheck. But now the entertainer, whom the world knows as Sting, is happy with the results of an fMRI study in which he was the sole subject.

Neuroscience isn’t needed to know that food commercials influence children’s choices of what to eat and how determinedly to demand it. If those ads for sugary, fatty, high-sodium, low-fiber and fun-to-eat products didn’t work, the food and beverage industry wouldn’t be spending $2 billion per year to create and place them.  

Researchers have found patients with high-risk prostate cancer who are treated with a high portion of radical local treatment (radiotherapy or prostatectomy) have half the mortality risk of those who were treated with the lowest proportion.

For the first time ever, researchers say they’ve uncovered the mechanism for short-term thirst and thirst quenching, according to a new article in the journal Nature.