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Turning space technology into a clinical tool took some ingenuity. Starting in the 1990s, Pillinger, Morgan and other researchers from the institute have worked to shrink a sophisticated piece of lab equipment used to identify and analyze matter: a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer (GCMS). Their challenge was to make the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to the Future: TB Detection | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

The GCMS researchers are confident that their device will diagnose the disease more effectively. It works by breaking apart a sample into ions, which it can then precisely identify based on their mass. Morgan and Pillinger's device is designed to search for particles from the distinctive waxy coating on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to the Future: TB Detection | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

Instead, Petersen said that the user might have been downloading articles for “text-mining,” a research method that uses complex natural language processing to extract information from, and identify patterns in, large aggregations of text.

Author: By Jeremy S. Singer-vine, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Banned User Abused Factiva | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

While detecting VCJD in the blood supply is of pressing importance, what tantalizes investors and clinicians is the prospect of a similar blood test to diagnose Alzheimer's disease. Doctors screen for the illness today using cognitive and memory exams, spinal taps or imaging tests--all pricey, none fail-safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGE ADAMS: Find the Bad Protein; Then, Fix It | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

About 90 venture capitalists turned down the opportunity to fund DeepStream before London-based Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures led a $19 million round. Crosier says the company is in preproduction mode with some electrical-equipment vendors (he declines to identify them) that could become full-blown production deals by early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARK CROSIER: The Shape Of Things To Come | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

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