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...X-Ray Crystallography: Determining the three-dimensional structure of a molecule, such as a protein target, by measuring how a crystal of the protein scatters x-rays. Source: Millennium Pharmaceuticals Annual Report Crimson Interviews...
...rose at 6:30 a.m. to make it in time for my 7:30 a.m. MRI (magnetic resonance imaging). Most people probably don't know exactly what MRI is, and that's good, for such ignorance indicates good health. To explain the MRI, though: it is an ultra-sensitive x-ray used to check for brain and nervous system disorders, musculoskeletal problems and cancer. I had the opportunity to encounter the MRI because of an ongoing problem with my arms that seems to be connected to the nervous system. But enough background...
...Unfortunately, it's hardly a surprise," says TIME correspondent Jeffrey Kluger. The cash-strapped Russians still haven't built the life-support module. NASA is behind on an X-ray telescope. Prime station contractor Boeing is over budget by $800 million. "An international, collaborative effort like this, with each engineer answering to his own country or his own contractor -- these delays won't be the last...
CANCER CARE Researchers now say it's best to follow a lumpectomy for noninvasive breast cancer with radiation therapy. An eight-year study shows that women who've had the X-ray treatments cut their odds of a relapse in half...
While his work focused primarily on SPECT, some of Dr. Holman's most ground-breaking research came in 1987 when he used X-ray and CAT-scan imaging to analyze the bodies of several Egyptian mummies...