Jefferson Researchers Use Gene Therapy To Treat Rare, Inherited Brain Disease
...D., Ph.D., associate professor of neurosurgery and director of neurosurgery research, Matthew During, M.D., professor of neurosurgery, Paola Leone, Ph.D., adjunct assistant professor of neurosurgery, and Giancarlo Barolat, M.D., professor of neurosurgery, as well as their colleagues there and at Yale Universi...Genetic Make-Up May Determine Response To Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs
...essresponsive," says Maren Scheuner, M.D., M.P.H., director of GenRISK, a clinicalgenetic risk assessment program atCedars-Sinai Medical Center and assistant professor of medicine at University ofCalifornia School of Medicine, Los Angeles. "This study may help us determine who may or may not benefit f...AAAS, State Of Arizona Co-Host Conference On Research And Development
...overnment and agency leaders. Neal Lane, currently director of the National ScienceFoundation and nominee for ...ynoteaddress, to be followed by Albert Teich, AAAS director of science and policy programs, whowill present a special AAAS report on federal investment in resea...Smithsonian Institution Convenes Experts To Discuss Cocoa's Future
... said Thomas Lovejoy, a noted environmentalist and director of the Institute for Conservation Biology at Smithsonian. "The success of traditional cocoa farms may be critical for maintaining biological diversity and providing sustainable incomes for small family farmers in the tropics." Three divisions at the...RNA-Dendritic Cell Combo Shows Promise As A Universal Cancer Vaccine
...e scientist who led the study, Eli Gilboa,research director of the Center for Genetic and Cellular Therapies at Duke."It's a pre-clinical study that shows the vaccine can work very effectively inhuman cells although it has yet to be proved effective in humans," added thestudy's senior investigator, Smita Nair...Yale Announces New Biotech Firm
...icaldiagnostics, according to Gregory E. Gardiner, director of Yale's Officeof Cooperative Research (OCR). MSI, which initially plans to hire 20-30 people and to occupy10,000 square feet of laboratory space, is the fourth biotechnologycompany based on Yale research discoveries to be launched this year...US-Cuban Scientific Collaborations Jeopardized By Travel Restrictions
...ence today knows no borders," said Audrey Chapman, director of the AAASScience and Human Rights Program, which published the report. "Scientificprogress is being undermined by regulations that are arbitrarily applied thatdeny researchers the opportunity to share knowledge and resources. The right ofscientist...One Year Follow-Up Of Non-Invasive Angina Treatment Suggests A Lasting Benefit
...ou, UCSF assistantprofessor of medicine and acting director of the adult cardiac catheterizationlaboratories. UCSF Stanford Health Care is the first Bay Area medical center tooffer EECP. "Among patients who complete EECP therapy, episodes of angina werehalved, and patients in the study also tended to...Researchers Discover Ways The Ulcer/Cancer Bug Can Trigger Disease
...acology at the School ofMedicine and now associate director of molecular biology at the Swedishpharmaceutical company ASTRA Hssle. Half of the world's people are colonized with Helicobacter pylori. Mosthave few symptoms -- some gastric inflammation, perhaps, before an apparentlyharmonious rel......inking or approaches," said Marvin Cassman, Ph.D., director of NIGMS. Four of the newly awarded grants are des...cording to James Anderson, Ph.D., theNIGMS program director who spearheaded the initiative. "We expect that as wordspreads about what we're looking for, more a...USGS To Study Young Forests And Streamsides In Western Oregon
...nimal life andhabitats," said Dr. Michael Collopy, director of the USGS Forest and RangelandEcosystem Science Center in Corvallis, Oregon. "Our studies of thesecommunities--especially in young forests and streamside areas--will help forestmanagers make wise, informed decisions regarding these valuable natural...Hard Hearts: New Discovery Of Bone In Heart Tissue May Explain Valve Disease
...and find bone," explains Emile R. Mohler, III, MD, director of vascularmedicine at Penn. Mohler and his colleagues will present their findings at theannual meeting of the American College of Cardiology in Atlanta. The team studied 228 valves removed from patients who underwentvalve-replacement surge...Tinkertoy Robot Shows How Humans Walk
...ol system whatsoever." With help from Andy Ruina, director of the Human Power, Biomechanics and Robotics Laboratory at Cornell, Coleman stumbled on the walker's design while preparing for his doctoral defense. "In fact, it is one of the few devices of any kind that is dynamically stable near a statically un...Report On Teaching About Evolution To Be Released At April 9 Public Briefing
...n of Washington; along with Rodger Bybee,executive director of the National Research Council's Center for Science,Mathematics, and Engineering Education. Advance copies will be available to reporters beginning at noon EDT onWednesday, April 8. The book is embargoed and not for public release beforenoon ED...Spinal Cord Injury Treatment May Improve With New Findings On Nervous System Damage
...ain spinal cord injury," says McDonald,who also is director of the Spinal Cord Injury Unit at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. In the early 1980s, Washington University in St. Louis researchers discoveredthat glutamate, a chemical messenger that neurons squirt onto other neurons,turns into a killer when it floods onto...Retinoic Acid Used In Cancer Treatment
...cer, says Andrew Yen, a professor of pathology and director of one of the Cancer Biology Laboratories in Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine. The finding, which to date has been restricted to the test-tube level, could lead to enhanced therapies for those cancers, including leukemia, ...Ameriflux Network Will Track CO2 Transfer In Forests
...dioxide into the atmosphere," said James A. Teeri, director ofthe Biological Station and U-M professor of biology. "No one can make validpredictions now, because we don't know enough about how carbon dioxide cyclesthrough the global ecosystem. AmeriFlux will begin to give us the informationwe need to answer...First Evidence That Localized Arthritis Gene Therapy Heals Distant Diseased Joints
...paedic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh and director of the UPMC's Ferguson Laboratory for Orthopaedic ...d biochemistry at the University of Pittsburgh and director of the UPMC's Viral Vector Laboratory. The protocol -- the first gene therapy for a chronic ......-yearextension. Led by Prof. Pallab Bhattacharya, director of the Solid State ElectronicsLaboratory, the researchers will combine lenses, tiny lasers and tunable lightdetectors to build the chip, which could help the military conduct the mostaccurate remote visual sensing yet. The device could also have num......ch is planned for nextyear. Kenneth Olden, Ph.D., director of the NTP and the NIEHS, said he has noargument with the recommendation to upgrade dioxin from "reasonably anticipated"to "known human carcinogen" but wanted to make sure the review crossed every "t"and dotted every "i" in this first set of actions ...