Image Courtesy of Chris Wagner Image of Dr. Mohamud Daya
Courtesy of Division of Emergency Medicine
According to Mohamud Daya, M.D., the principal investigator and associate professor of emergency medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, "During cardiac arrest, the heart stops functioning, and unless restarted within minutes, the patient typically dies. Treatments applied by paramedics and first responders at the scene are based on what's been successful in non-human models of resuscitation, hospital-based therapies and expert opinion."http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/about/news_events/news/2012/06-04-ohsu-leads-nih-funded-st.cfm#
The study is a part of the National Institutes of Health-funded Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC), which is funded by:
http://www.ohsu.edu/emergency/research/roc/funding.htm
This study is being conducted in Oregon, as well as various states within the USA and Canada. http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01401647
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At OSU there has been a breakthrough in viewing molecules, this has become tremendously important for X-ray crystallographers.
According to Nick Houtman, OSU's director of research communications and editor of Terra, “As X-rays pass through atoms, they reflect distinctive patterns. But, like a photocopy the edges are not as great and that data is thrown out."
Dilemma: There are too many random errors in the middle of a lot of background noise.
http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2012/may/discarded-data-may-hold-key-sharper-view-molecules
However two scientists, Oregon State University biophysicist Andy Karplus and his colleague Kay Diederichs at the University of Konstanz in Germany, have figured out that there is useful information in this thrown out data.http://oregonstate.edu/terra/2012/05/x-ray-vision
This discovery has been published in both in Terra Magazine as well as Science journal.
Importance: This study will further biology, medical diagnostics, nanotechnology and other fields. This will allow for more studies to be conducted, therefore more funding for the university.
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