'Mad cow' mechanism may be integral to storing memory
...mately 1 trillion neurons and their synapses. With experience and learning, new junctions form and others are strengthened. CPEB synthesizes proteins that strengthen such synapses as memories are formed, enabling the synapses to retain those memories over long periods. For the study, the team extracted th...New understanding of why brain cells die after stroke will lead to development of new treatments
...cells die from stroke. "We have significant experience in translating such basic discoveries into drugs that might help patients," says Dr. Tymianski. "With this new knowledge, we will now focus on developing medications that we can inject into stroke patients up to several hours after a stroke. These m...St. Jude ranked among top 500 supercomputer centers
...e to be working at St. Jude," Ford said. "The more experience we gain with our supercomputer, the more effectively we'll be able to use it, and the more rapidly we'll find cures for catastrophic diseases." ......e the sex-based underpinnings of why men and women experience many aspects of health in fundamentally different ...your biological sex vastly influences your medical experience from cradle to grave," said Sandberg. "We created this center to further explore the biological roo...Scripps Research receives $3 million anonymous donation
...search The center will benefit both from Mason's experience in conducting clinical trials and Koob's expertise...boration on a research grant. Mason has extensive experience conducting clinical trials related to alcohol addiction. In 1999, Mason and her colleagues at the Un......mepage.Is this"Shy patients on drug therapy didn't experience even a 10-fold drop in their viral load," said Naliboff, co-director of the UCLA Center for Neurovisceral Sciences and Women's Health. "Doctors classify that as a treatment failure. The drugs should shrink HIV replication by at least 100?fold." "Our...Alcoholics with antisocial personality disorder have blunted emotional reactivity
...nts, including punishment." Individuals who do not experience the appropriate amount of anxiety or negative emotion when threatened are unlikely to alter their behavior in response to the threat, said Peter R. Finn, professor of psychology at Indiana University, Bloomington. "Psychopaths, for example, are a su...Research grants available for faculty at minority serving institutions
...uests applicants for an eight-week summer research experience in tropical biology for 2004. Specifically, this project targets faculty members at minority-serving U.S. institutions who have limited opportunities to conduct research in a tropical field setting, especially those faculty who work primarily in teac...Avoid bad memories: Targeting genes and drugs
...order, for example, can never forget the traumatic experience they went through. Just hearing a bus horn may throw them back into the battle they wish to forget, and they will freeze in response and loose contact with their surroundings. It is clearly of much significance to unravel the genes and proteins that ...OXiGENE launches significant expansion of its R&D program in ophthalmology
...patients have few treatment options and ultimately experience debilitating vision loss," said Gerald Chader, Ph.D., chief scientific officer of the Foundation Fighting Blindness, which is funding the wet AMD trial. Dr. Chader also is a former scientific director of the National Eye Institute. "We applaud OXiG...Common airborne substance makes asthmatics more sensitive to house dust mites: study
...they normally would have. In other words, they may experience a worsening of their symptoms." Further UNC studies will examine if endotoxin, ozone and other airborne agents share common interactive mechanisms that may increase allergen sensitivity and disease severity in people with asthma. "There is also ...Novel approaches to current cellular therapies continue progress toward disease prevention
..."Many patients who undergo bone marrow transplants experience unnecessarily high rates of GVHD and frequently suffer from opportunistic infections as their bodies re-build immunity to pathogens," said Dr. Velardi. "This study shows great promise for preventing these complications in future transplants and sign...Hope available for patients with anemia and myelodysplastic syndrome
...they enter the bloodstream. As a result, patients experience a shortage of blood cells, which is reflected in their low blood counts. MDS may be a form of cancer, according to most hematologists, since it is considered a clonal disease with a single population of abnormal cells. "These blood ...Extreme 2003 takes students worldwide to the oceans depth
...ortunity to participate in this unique educational experience through an interactive web site, printed curriculum, video documentary and evaluation materials. One of the highlights will be conference telephone calls between selected classrooms and scientists working live aboard the submersible Alvin. Other stu...Newly identified genes may help predict outcome in childhood leukemia
... it is still difficult to know which patients will experience a relapse in the disease when they become resistant to the therapy. Hopefully the identification of new genes will help hematologists more accurately treat patients." Leukemia is a cancer of the white blood cells that starts in the b...Aspirin use safe and effective in patients with abnormal red cell counts (or with polycythemia)
...mia vera develops slowly, and most patients do not experience any problems related to the disease after being di...lt in strokes or heart attacks. Some patients may experience abnormal bleeding because their platelets are abnormal, but the major cause of death is thrombosis. ...New advances in thrombosis help further understanding of disease prevention
...atients on the higher doses of razaxaban seemed to experience a higher incidence of major bleeding over that of standard therapy (0.7 percent - 25 mg bid; 4.1 percent - 50 mg bid; 3.5 percent - 75 mg bid; and 5.8 percent - 100 mg bid versus 0.0 percent - enoxaparin 30 mg bid). The three highest doses of razaxa...Novel therapies show promise against myeloid leukemia
...response (CcyR=0 percent Ph+) were least likely to experience disease progression. Though achieving a c...h these phases, the prognosis worsens and patients experience increasing physical symptoms. Patients with poor cytogenetic assessments or with progression before...Gastrointestinal specialists comment on new study on 'Virtual' colonoscopy
...oscopy and in some others, they are more likely to experience significant discomfort with virtual colonoscopy than they are with conventional colonoscopy," stated Douglas K. Rex, M.D., FACG, President of the American College of Gastroenterology and Director of Endoscopy at Indiana University Hospital in Indiana...Leading U.S. gun manufacturer joins NJIT to develop personalized handgun
...utive officer. "We are excited to leverage Taurus' experience and reputation as a leading manufacturer of small handguns. Their participation is essential to our project with NJIT and reinforces our commitment to create a handgun that offers increased control and security."...