As Americans anticipate their Thanksgiving dinners, the gnawing sensation of hunger prepares them to eat perhaps too much turkey or pumpkin pie. The same hormone that produces that sensation of hunger could be the secret to a new therapy protecting Parkinson’s patients from disease-related cell death, according to research presented Nov. 16 during the Society of Neuroscience’s annual meeting in Chicago.

A trifecta of cells has been revealed to be the crux of breast cancer metastases. The discovery provides cutting-edge details that could revolutionize the development of diagnostic testing and therapeutic agents for breast cancer, officials at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York announced yesterday.

CHICAGO—Despite concerns from radiologists about reading breast imaging exams due to medicolegal notoriety, most breast imaging exams in the country are still being read by radiologists who lack dedicated breast imaging training.

The recent death of the beloved comedian and actor Robin Williams by suicide took fans by complete surprise and left many in mourning for the master of improvisation. A recent report in Salon provides details from Williams' autopsy report that indicates the presence of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), which may explain some of his uncharacteristic behavior of late. In addition to DLB, Williams also suffered from Parkinson's.

MabVax Therapeutic Holdings, in collaboration with the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), is presenting an investigational agent for imaging pancreatic cancer and aiding pancreatic tumor resection, MabVax announced Nov. 19.

Over the past several years, theranostic nanoparticle studies have provided several shining examples of where molecular cancer imaging is going. In this review published ahead of print Nov. 20 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, researchers discuss the triumphs and tribulations of these tiny yet potent structures.

This year, Molecular Imaging Insight is not only providing some of the most stunning images from our pages, but also a few research exclusives and offerings from a handful of scientific meetings from around the world, including the Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI), the World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC) and the European Congress of Radiology (ECR).

The evolution of SPECT imaging has taken many twists and turns as both equipment technology and new radiopharmaceuticals have been developed over the past decade.