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Like eight-year-olds who can’t let go of a good joke, Larry Smarr’s nurses and doctors kept coming to him with the same question: “Have you passed gas yet?” Answering this question in the affirmative is, Smarr explains, deadpan, “the state of the art in 2017 in the medical community for deciding when your colon restarts.”... Read more
July/August 2017
A Data-Rich Longitudinal Wellness Study for the Digital Age
Fixing a broken medical system requires data about each patient.... Read more
Taking on the Obesity Epidemic
If obesity were tied only to too much food or too little physical activity, the cure would be a simple matter of counting calories or keeping track of steps with a pedometer. Unfortunately, obesity is much more complex.... Read more
The Virtual Human Project
Our special insert this month looks at how virtual models are being used to solve medicine’s thorniest problems.... Read more
Sniffing for Cancer
Nano noses hold promise for detecting lung cancer and other diseases.... Read more
Rise of the Nanorobots
Advances in control, molecular detection, and nanoscale actuation are bringing us closer to a new era of technology enhanced by nanorobots.... Read more
Discovering Ways to Mend Growing Bodies
Some babies are born with a rare condition known as esophageal atresia, in which part of the connection between the throat and stomach is missing or nonfunctional. While this was once untreatable and fatal, in recen... Read more
Animal Models
Dogs have bad breath. But when Montana sheep rancher Katy Harjes noticed her collie, Hoshi, had particularly bad breath and facial swelling, she was concerned that the symptoms might be a sign of something serious.... Read more
New Directions for Treating Bleeding Disorders
Most people don’t worry about small cuts or wounds, because their bodies form clots to stop the bleeding. This process, called coagulation or hemostasis, requires certain blood cells, platelets, and protein clotti... Read more
The Visible Human Project
Atlases of anatomy have long been a mainstay for visualizing and identifying features of the human body.... Read more
Optimizing Electric-Field Delivery for tDCS
Virtual humans help to design efficient, noninvasive brain and spinal cord electrical stimulation.... Read more
Of Fields and Phantoms
Cancer represents a compilation of diseases characterized by rapidly dividing, invasive cells. Worldwide data indicate that over 14 million new cancers were diagnosed in 2012, with a projected increase of more than ... Read more
Virtual Humans for Implantable Device Safety Assessment in MRI
Mitigating magnetic resonance imaging hazards for implanted medical devices.... Read more
ITK-SNAP
An interactive medical image segmentation tool to meet the need for expert-guided segmentation of complex medical images.... Read more
Researching Fiber Networks
Many types of human tissue—such as the brain and spinal cord of the central nervous system, the peripheral nervous system, and muscles, including the heart muscle—are fibrous in nature. Isotropic human models th... Read more
CAD-Based Virtual Humans
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a ubiquitous tool used in clinical settings around the world to provide detailed three-dimensional information on the internal anatomy and physiology of human patients without the... Read more
Human Breast Phantoms
Test beds for the development of microwave diagnostic and therapeutic technologies.... Read more
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Cardiac Pacemakers
The Gulf of Naples and its surrounding area have served as a beautiful, historic, and romantic attraction for centuries,...
2D:4D Finger Ratio as an Indication of Prenatal Testosterone Exposure
The ratio of the length of the second (index) finger to the length of the fourth (ring) finger on the right hand is termed the 2D:4D ratio (Figure 1). This ratio has been shown to be different for male and female humans [17] and animals ... Read more
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