New Evidence Points To Role For Free Radicals In Alzheimer's Disease
...tional Institutes of Health, the primary funder of biomedical research andtraining in the nation -- $175 million in federal fiscal year 1997. In addition,for the third consecutive year, the institution posted the highest annual growthin these areas -- 17.6 percent -- of the top ten U.S. academic medical centers...International Genome Team Deciphers Genetic Instructions For A Complete Animal
...titutes ofHealth, the federal government's primary biomedical research institution. Theworm group at Sanger Centre is funded by the Medical Research Council of GreatBritain....Scientists Show That Normal-looking Cells In Cervical Cancer May Be Abnormal
...ller Institute for Medical Research, thefirst U.S. biomedical research center. Rockefeller faculty members have madesignificant achievements, including the discovery that DNA is the carrier ofgenetic information and the launching of the scientific field of modern cellbiology. The university has ties to 19 Nobel...BNL Scientists Report On A Natural Cleanup Solution For Polluted Soil & Incinerator Ash
...el for basic and applied research in the physical, biomedical andenvironmental sciences, and in selected energy technologies. The Laboratory isoperated by Brookhaven Science Associates, a not-for-profit research managementcompany, under contract with the U.S. Department of Energy....Major Clinical Findings By California AIDS Team: HIV Does More Than Kill Off T Cells
...ake up the J.David Gladstone Institutes, a private biomedical research institute affiliatedwith UCSF and named for a prominent real estate developer who died in 1971. Hiswill created a testamentary trust that reflects his long-standing interest inmedical education and research....Pioneering Research Could Lead To Treatment
...nn's work and thoughtit might have applications in biomedical engineering. Renn explains. "In a spinal cord injury, scar tissue blocks the nerveimpulses coming from the brain," he said. "Maybe this technique could be used tobuild a bridge of nerve cells that could be placed over the injured area." Theti...Gap Widening Between Genetic And Behavioral Research
...t sometimes the same wordsmean different things to biomedical and behavioral researchers. He cites"prevention,"...okingto forestall poor health outcomes but to many biomedical scientists might meanchemical agents used to accomplish the same thing. Similarly, "environmentalin...Scientist Fancies Frogs For Pain Research
...la--) The northern grass frog has jumped onto the biomedical researchfield as a leading model for pain investig...is director of the Analgesia ResearchLaboratory, a biomedical group dedicated to pain research using non-mammalianmodels. Although it is not scientifically prove...Old Bone Collection Reveals Basis For Some Dizziness
... professor of otolaryngology-head and necksurgery, biomedical engineering and neuroscience at Hopkins. His team examined989 specimens and found four with holes and 18 with thin sections in the bone. One of Minor's first SCDS patients described seeing stationary objectsmove back and forth when he sang in...Protestors Are Up In Arms Over Experiments That Give Chimps AIDS
...nzees to death? That's the stark question dividing biomedical researchersin the US, now that virologists know that some strains of HIV cause the samefatal illness in chimps as they do in people. Already, several chimps have been deliberately infected with HIV strainsthat can kill them. And the researche...Researchers Report Emergence Of Antibiotic Resistance During Vancomycin Therapy
...ller Institute for Medical Research, thefirst U.S. biomedical research center. Rockefeller faculty members have madesignificant achievements, including the discovery that DNA is the carrier ofgenetic information and the launching of the scientific field of modern cellbiology. The university has ties to 19 Nobel...Scientists Study Protein's Role In Tumor Development In Fish
... at Cornell who now is a postdoctoralresearcher in biomedical sciences at Ohio University, was studying walleyeretroviruses when she discovered that these viruses contained the cyclin gene. Holzschu and LaPierre began working on the project while at CornellUniversity in the lab of James Casey, professo...Heart Disease Symptoms Worsen When Body Tries To Adapt
...r author of the study and professor ofmedicine and biomedical engineering at Hopkins. "The data support thehypothesis that although genetic mutations can have primary effects, chronicresponses to these mutations may be equally important in the progression ofdisease. "Continuing studies will need to det......tional Institutes of Health, the primary funder of biomedical research andtraining in the nation -- $175 million in federal fiscal year 1997. In addition,for the third consecutive year, the institution posted the highest annual growthin these areas -- 17.6 percent -- of the top ten U.S. academic medical centers...Whitehead Receives $35 Million Grant From National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
...uman genomesequence will be the foundation for all biomedical research in the 21st century.Just a decade from now, our students will be unable to conceive of a time whenresearchers lacked this critical tool for advancing knowledge of human healthand disease."...New Protein-Like Polymer Shows Promise For Blood Vessel Replacement
...n Urry with much of the earlygroundbreakingwork on biomedical uses of elastin. The polymer would be implanted in place of the diseased portion of the arteryor vein, says Tirrell, and serve as a matrix within which the body could formits ownlayer of endothelial cells, which normally line a blood vessel. The cel...Story Tips: Engineering Students Pursue Cutting-Edge Research
...ation of thisdrug on cell cultures in the lab. The biomedical engineering major found thatthe alternative formof...vity that takes place indiseased heart tissue, the biomedical engineering major hopes to help pinpointthe cause of spontaneous and fatal cardiac conditions called...Melatonin Shapes Brain Structure In Songbirds
...stions that are of morefundamental significance to biomedical research in general," Bentley said. "Wenever would have discovered this if we had started out trying to see whatmelatonin is doing in humans. Now, with this discovery, we can feed back theinformation to other scientists and, perhaps, help them unders...Vitamin D Deficiency May Increase Risk Of Hip Fracture In Older Women
... National Institutes of Health, the leadingFederal biomedical research agency....