Robots, Virtual Reality & Other "Smart" Tools Soon Will Help Physicians Heal Patients
...stol, England, June 23-26, 1996. DiGioia directs the Center for Orthopaedic Research at Shadyside Hospital in Pittsburgh. He and Kanade co-direct the Center for Medical Robotics and Computer-Assisted Surgery at Carnegie Mellon University. Wells is a research director of radiologic services at Brist...Laser Microscope At Cornell Images Serotonin In Live Cells
...ensed to Bio-Rad Laboratories of California. Webb directs Cornell's Development Resource for Biophysical Imaging and Optoelectronics, funded by the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation. For 3-D image reconstruction, the researchers used the IBM SP2 supercomputer at the Theory Cent...Emory Researchers Advance Gene Therapy Studies For Metastatic Melanoma Treatment
...(granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor) directs the immune system to shift into overdrive and attack melanoma tumor cells. Cytokines are natural proteins made by all cells, both normal and malignant. A single cell produces many cytokines; some influence the cell itself (an autocine effect), whil...Fighting Wheat Scab In New York State
...ates and Brazil. Wilmar da Luz, Cornell Ph.D. '86, directs the project in Brazil and is working with Bergstrom. Brazilian scientists have isolated thousands of strains of bacteria and yeast growing naturally on plant leaves, roots and soil that exhibit anti-fungal activity. The researchers also are examini...Scientists Find New Trigger For Nerve Cell Death
...chool of Medicine in St. Louis. Choi, who directs the Center for the Study of Nervous System Injury, wasthe senior investigator in the study. The novel idea was the brainchild of leadauthor Shan Ping Yu, M.D., Ph.D., research assistant professor of neurology. In the hours or days after the b...Growth Factor Stimulation Leads To Increase In New Neurons In The Striatum And Cortex Of The Brain
...illaddress the mode of action of BDNF - whether it directs cells to become neuronsor whether it prevents the death of neurons, as well as whether the populationof new neurons is sustained if the infusion of BDNF is terminated....Life-Saving Dr. Mueller Selected To Get Top Sports Medicine Award
...ootballCoaches' Committee on Football Injuries and directs the UNC-CH based NationalCenter for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research. The United States Sports Academy was founded following the 1972 Olympicsin Munich in part because of a report Mueller co-wrote with Blyth about thecomparatively poor...Corn Rootworm Changing Behavior, Posing New Threat To Crops
...of natural resources and environmentalsciences who directs the research project, which is funded by the IllinoisCouncil on Food and Agricultural Research and the Illinois Soybean ProgramOperating Board. "Rootworm populations in 1997 were very high," Levine said. "Winter weather has been mild, so survival of...Conservation Biology Clearinghouse, Engineering Design Tutor
...Biology. CCBN, located at http://conbio.rice.edu , directs visitors to resources on nine websites, which link tohundreds of others. The CCBN's purpose is to protect, maintain and restore theenvironment, by using powerful technology to provide the highest professionalstandards of education, and by encouraging...Liquid Crystals Light Up Simple Chemical Test
...rface topography, not an applied electrical field, directs the orientation. The researchers set an experimental goal: to create a liquid crystalassay that would report whether an antibody -- a molecule like those producedby the human body in response to an infection -- was present in a test sample. First t......d by Senator Stevens,Chair of Appropriations, that directs the FDA to design a new review andregulatory approach that takes into account the special properties of PET, andthat while this takes place, the US Pharmacopoeia will be employed as the legalstandard of FDA approval, Phelps said. The USP has approved...Research Sheds Light On How Plants Regulate Distribution Of Nutrients
...radient -- in a vascular system that regulates and directs wherelife-giving resources go. At the heart of the findings, published in the April 14 issue of theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is improved understandingof how plants regulate the distribution of organic nutrients synthesizedduri...ASU Scientists Join NASA Astrobiology Institute
...this effort," Fink noted. Huss, who currently directs the ion probe facility at California Institute of Technology,also happens to be the grandson of Harvey Nininger, the original donor of ASU's NiningerMeteorite Collection, the largest university collection of meteorites in the world. ...New Gene Therapy Technique Results In Efficient Gene Delivery
...ple, by building into its envelope astructure that directs the virus to a specific cell type. But the tinkeringappears to interfere with the ability of the virus to enter the cells. "We wanted to find an approach where we could preserve as much aspossible the normal virus envelope -cell receptor int...Scientists Identify Key Protein Involved In Progressive Blindness
... Yan found large amounts of an RNA molecule, which directs productionof the Usher syndrome protein, in the retina of the eye. "Since the predictedUsher protein has a physical structure similar to other extracellular matrixproteins, it may serve as the glue that holds retinal cells together," Swaroopsaid. "......es of tissue. Thecompany has established that OP-1 directs primordial stem cells to differentiateinto tissue that matches the damaged tissue. When the company discovered that OP-1 triggers the growth oftendril-like projections on neurons, called dendrites, it decided to test theprotein's potential f...Scientists Identify New Gene That Controls Sleep/Wake Cycle
... Genetics at TheRockefeller University. Young also directs the National Science Foundation (NSF)Science and Technology Center for Biological Timing at Rockefeller. Earlier studies have indicated that the genes and proteins governing circadianrhythms in Drosophila play a similar role in humans. In humans, d...Structure Of Enzyme Involved In Gentamicin Resistance Revealed For First Time
...at Rockefeller. Burley, an HHMI investigator, also directs the university'sCenter for Biochemistry and Structural Biology. The enzyme belongs to a family of proteins called aminoglycosideN-acetyltransferases (AATs). AATs catalyze the addition of molecules calledacetyl groups to aminoglycoside antibiotics suc...International Conference Addresses Drug-Resistant TB Epidemic Ravaging Russia
...usso at x202. The Public Health Research Institute directs a $12.3 million program, funded byMr. George Soros, to combat emerging infectious diseases in Russia with aspecial emphasis on TB. The PHRI/Soros project has several pilot civilianprograms in the regions of Tomsk, Ivanovo and Marii El, as well as pri...Researchers Discover Tumor-Supressor Gene That May Indicate Susceptibility ToLung And Colon Cancer
...cerand probably many others," said Evans, who also directs the Genome Science andTechnology Center. "The mutations we found are both somatic and germline, inother words, found in both normal and tumor tissue. The significance of thisevidence means the defect may be inherited, making some people more suscepti...