2. Special glasses help surgeons ‘see’ cancer
High-tech glasses developed at the School of Medicine may help surgeons visualize cancer cells, which glow blue when viewed through the eyewear.
3. World’s fastest 2-D camera may enable new scientific discoveries
A team of biomedical engineers in the School of Engineering & Applied Science has developed the world’s fastest receive-only 2-D camera, a device that can capture events up to 100 billion frames per second.
4. Antidepressant may slow Alzheimer’s disease
Antidepressants can reduce production of the main ingredient of Alzheimer’s brain plaques, according to research from the School of Medicine and the University of Pennsylvania.
5. Finding quantum lines of desire
Physicist Kater Murch has used a superconducting quantum device to continuously and repeatedly record the paths quantum particles, such as atoms or photons, follow through quantum state space.
6. Odor receptors discovered in lungs
Washington University scientists have shown that your lungs have odor receptors that can sense cigarette smoke wafting through the air, perhaps triggering you to cough to rid your body of the offending substance.
Research from scientists at the Center for the Study of Itch reveals that scratching causes the brain to release serotonin, which intensifies the itch sensation.
8. The cat's meow: Genome reveals clues to domestication
An analysis of the cat genome by School of Medicine researchers reveals some surprising clues about domestication of cats, which have lived with humans for some 9,000 years.
9. Infants with leukemia inherit susceptibility
Babies who develop leukemia during the first year of life appear to have inherited an unfortunate combination of genetic variations that may make the infants highly susceptible to the disease, according to a new study led by the School of Medicine's Todd Druley, MD, PhD.
10. Optical brain scanner goes where other brain scanners can’t
School of Medicine scientists have advanced a brain-scanning technology that tracks what the brain is doing by shining dozens of tiny LED lights on the head. The technique compares favorably to other approaches but avoids the radiation exposure and bulky magnets the others require.