ADInstruments Blog

As ADInstruments celebrates 20 years of innovation, our customers continue to find innovative applications for PowerLab data acquisition systems and LabChart software. This month, read about how a group of Canadian researchers are investigating how life on the International Space Station affects astronauts' cardiovascular and cerebrovascular physiology.

The University of Otago, School of Physical Education researchers put ten of New Zealand's top young rally car drivers through a series of high-performance tests, as part of what is believed to be the first dedicated motor sport programme of its type in the world from 28 June to 2 July, 2004.

PowerLab and LabChart were used to demonstrate diving-induced bradycardia to three hundred passengers aboard a Discovery cruise ship visiting the Antarctica.

Using ADInstruments equipment, the 2005 Canadian Everest Expedition obtained data at the Base Camp of the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest. Their results have helped physicians gain a better diagnostic understanding of sleep disturbances and cerebral complications encountered at high altitudes.

Sounds emitted by field crickets and insect-eating bats have been the focus of Austrian neuroscientists, based in the Panama rainforest. Prof. Heinrich Römer and Dr. Alexander Lang from the University of Graz, Department of Neurobiology, Austria have used PowerLab to record the acoustically...