University of Chicago scientists pinpoint cellular cause of SIDS
University of Chicago researchers may have found a crucial clue to understanding and ultimately eliminating sudden infant death syndrome, the leading cause of post-neonatal mortality in the United States. Approximately 3,000 infants die each year from the disorder, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ... ...In the July 8, 2004, issue of the journal Neuron, the researchers...Field Museum maps 'social assets' of Chicago's industrialized Lake Calumet region
CHICAGO--Is the community half full or half empty? Is the Lake Calumet region the wasteland or jewel of the city? ...While many social scientists have studied the problems of the Lake Calumet region, a team of anthropologists from The Field Museum has identified and described the region's "social assets," or community strengths, and its strong potential for revitalization. ... Two years in the ma...U. Chicago study overturns conclusion of historic human genome data
Researchers at the University of Chicago have discovered there is extensive gene "traffic" on the mammalian X chromosome and overturn a conventional theory about how the genes evolved on the sex chromosome. ... ...The study, published in the Jan. 23, 2004, issue of Science, shows that an excess of genes on the X chromosome "jump" to a non-sex chromosome, or autosome, during germline cell divis...World's most alkaline life forms found near Chicago
Sometimes the most extreme environment for life isn't at the bottom of the ocean or inside a volcano. It's just south of Chicago. ... ...Illinois groundwater scientists have found microbial communities thriving in the slag dumps of the Lake Calumet region of southeast Chicago where the water can reach extraordinary alkalinity of pH 12.8. That's comparable to caustic soda and floor strippers -- fa...Sleep boosts ability to learn language, University of Chicago researchers find
Scientists at the University of Chicago have demonstrated that sleeping has an important and previously unrecognized impact on improving people's ability to learn language.... ... Researchers find that ability of students to retain knowledge about words is improved by sleep, even when the students seemed to forget some of what they learned during the day before the next night's sleep. This paper,...Mark your calendar for the American Anthropological Association meeting in Chicago Nov. 19-23
Some 5,000 anthropologists from around the world will gather at the Hilton Chicago November 1923rd. They will meet in 439 scholarly sessions to discuss a range of topics from immigration and migration, indigenous people, genetics and human variation, globalization and violence, African snakes and how they make you feel, Muslims's fears in the USA, death penalty as a violation of human rights and...University of Chicago scientist wins prestigious Balzan Prize
Wen-Hsiung Li, Ph.D., the George Wells Beadle Distinguished Service Professor in the department of ecology and evolution at the University of Chicago, has been awarded the prestigious Balzan Prize in genetics and evolution by the International Balzan Foundation.... ...The $709,000 award is often referred to as the "Italian Nobel." Li is one of four people worldwide to receive a Balzan Prize this...Chicago researchers find why uncircumcised men have more HIV
A new study conducted by Chicago researchers shows that internal mucosal layers of foreskin are more susceptible to HIV infection than cervical tissue or the external layers of foreskin, which explains why uncircumcised men seem to be at much higher risk for HIV acquisition than men who are circumcised. ... Previously, numerous studies reported that uncircumcised men have higher rates of HIV infe...CHICAGO - Calumet is better known for industry, dumps and abandoned steel mills than for biodiversity. Nevertheless, precious prairies, lakes, woodlands and wetlands are tucked away on Chicago's southeast side. ...From 2:00 p.m. Aug. 23 until 2:00 p.m. Aug. 24, some 130 scientists will descend on the Calumet region to survey the amazingly rich biodiversity of three natural areas: Wolf Lake, Egger...University of Chicago chosen as Sun Microsystems Center of Excellence
SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 16, 2002 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that it has selected the University of Chicago as a Sun Center of Excellence (COE) in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Medical Informatics. As a Sun COE, the University joins Sun's community of academic institutions developing advanced technology to do groundbreaking research in the rapidly expanding field of c...Chicago chemist wins national award for new research methods
Bipin V. Vora of Des Plaines, Ill., will be honored April 9 by the worlds largest scientific society for exploring new, more efficient ways to make chemicals from petroleum, such as laundry detergent that breaks down into harmless substances in the environment. He will receive the 2002 Award in Industrial Chemistry from the American Chemical Society at its national meeting in Orlando, Fla..........The bones of a 40-foot crocodile that dined on dinosaurs and 12-foot-long fish have been discovered by researchers at Yale and at the University of Chicago in the Cretaceous rocks in Niger, Africa. ......The crocodile weighed about 16,000 pounds and is called Sarcosuchus imperator. It was first described about 30 years ago by a French team, which found a partial skull. Since that initial discove...American Chemical Society meeting features cutting-edge research August 26-30 in Chicago
... ... ... ...CHICAGO More than 6,000 cutting-edge research findings will be presented at the 222nd national meeting of the American Chemical Society, August 26-30, in Chicago. Nearly 10,000 scientists are e...American Chemical Society meets August 26-30 in Chicago
The latest research involving the role diet may play in cancer prevention, the safety of herbal foods, advances in forensic techniques and contaminants of the Great Lakes region are among the topics scheduled for discussion at the 222nd national meeting of the American Chemical Society August 26-30 in Chicago.... ...The world's largest scientific society expects approximately 10,000 scientists to...University of Illinois at Chicago expert tinkers with evolution to create human 'Built-to-Last'
. . . . . . . If humans were designed to live beyond age 100 and remain free of many of the diseases and disorders associated with aging, we might have looked like short, stout elves. . . This conclusion may be drawn from illustrations that accompany the article, If Humans Were Built to Last, by UIC Professor S. Jay Olshansky and his colleagues in the March 2001 issue of the magazine S...University of Chicago researchers uncover first steps in cell-cell adhesion process
. . . For the first time, researchers at the University of Chicago describe in detail how neighboring skin cells adhere to one another to form sealed barriers. Without tight seals, the skin could not perform its primary function as a continuous barrier that keeps germs out and essential body fluids in.. . Their findings were published in the January 21 issue of the journal Cell.. ..... The University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division has been awarded $2.4 million from the.Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Resource Program to support and expand programs in immunology.and structural biology.. . "The Howard Hughes Medical Institute continues to play a criticial role in developing and.supporting research both at our institution and across the country," said Glenn D....Major grants support immunology, transplant and diabetes research at the University of Chicago
.At a campus press briefing on October 6, the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation (<A.HREF="http://www.jdf.org">JDF ) and the National Institute of Allergy and.Infectious Diseases ( ) announced.two major, closely related, multi-year grants to research teams headquartered at.the University of Chicago. .The JDF has awarded $7.5 million over a five-year period to establish the JDF.Center for Islet Transp...University Of Chicago To Host 'Evo-Devo' Symposium
.The University of Chicago's Biological Sciences Division will sponsor a.symposium bringing together some of the biggest names in evolutionary.developmental biology. The symposium, titled "The Developmental Basis of.Evolutionary Change" will be held Thursday May 13 through Saturday May 15.. . Evolutionary developmental biology, also known as "evo-devo" studies the.genes that control em....Bernard Roizman, Sc.D., the world's leading expert on herpes simplex virus.(HSV), and Joseph Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor in the departments.of molecular genetics & cell biology and biochemistry and molecular biology at.the , has been named.the winner of the eighth annual Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished.Achievement in Infectious Disease Research. Dr. Roizman mapped...University Of Chicago Researcher Receives Packard Fellowship
.Manyuan Long, Ph.D., assistant professor of ecology and evolution at the.University of Chicago, is one of the nation's 24 recipients of the David and.Lucile Packard Fellowship for Science & Engineering . The Fellowship, which.provides $650,000 over the course of five years, is awarded to young professors.in the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, astronomy and.computer science....The largest, most comprehensive genome-wide study of patients with inflammatory.bowel disease (IBD)--including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis--has.focused and narrowed the search for the genes that cause this common and.debilitating illness, a team of researchers from the University of Chicago.Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, and the Marshfield Medical.Research Founda...