Ancient quakes leave mark from Kentucky to New York
.Cincinnati -- A team of geologists from the University of Cincinnati will present evidence that powerful Ordovician earthquakes caused similar damage across a wide range of what is now the eastern United States.. .Professor Carlton Brett, graduate students Patrick McLaughlin and Sean Cornell, and undergraduate Alan Turner will present their findings Tuesday, Nov. 14 during the annual meeting of....Dental implants that replace lost teeth brighten the smiles of thousands of.Americans. Joint replacements help thousands more people regain mobility. In.10 percent of cases, however, the replacement fails, often because of loosening..David Puleo, Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical engineering, University of.Kentucky College of Medicine, conducts research into improving the security of.i...University Of Kentucky Researcher Awarded MERIT Extension For Study Of Third World Killer
.LEXINGTON, KY (Sept. 21, 1998) - Salvatore Turco, Ph.D., professor of.biochemistry, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, has received a.five-year extension on a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Method to Extend.Research in Time (MERIT) award. The National Institute of Allergy and.Infectious Diseases at the NIH has awarded Turco $1,583,700 to continue his.study, "Glycoconjugates of Le.... A University of Kentucky College of Allied Health Professions professor.has started the first class of its kind in the United States..Doris J. Baker, Ph.D., associate professor, College of Allied Health.Professions, who is an expert in the reproductive laboratory field, first taught.the reproductive laboratory science class to clinical lab science students last.spring. . "Most la....LEXINGTON, KY (August 3, 1998) -- A team of University of Kentucky Chandler.Medical Center researchers has recently discovered that Par-4, a protein, may.lead to nerve cell death in Alzheimer's disease and related brain disorders..Announced in the August issue of Nature Medicine, the research results show an.increased level of the protein -- Par-4 -- in nerve cells in the brains of.Alzheimer's...University of Kentucky Neuroscientist Develops Unique Device For Treatment Of Brain Tumors
. LEXINGTON, Ky., Aug. 3, 1998 -- A device patented by a University of.Kentucky Chandler Medical Center neuroscientist has shown promising early.results in patient survival times in treatment of malignant gliomas, the most.common type of brain tumor in adults. . The device, called Serodur, delivers chemotherapy to a non-operable.brain tumor through a small plastic tube that runs di...