Brain Protein "Rescues" Neurons From Atrophy
... and Associate Professor Lawrence Katz, all of the medical center's department of neurobiology. Their research was supported by the National Institutes of Health and the Klingenstein and McKnight foundations. In a separate paper in the October issue of Neuron, the scientists reported the first steps in decip......mple of the way in which basic research inacademic medical centers leads to practical benefit. This discovery maywell change our understanding of the nature of addiction and lead to newtreatments for psychiatric disorders and Parkinson's disease. It once againshows how our nation's commitment to research is ...Second Breast Cancer Gene Located
... and support services, Rimer said. As the medical community learns to deal with BRCA1 and BRCA2, Futreal,Stratton and a host of other researchers will be trying to answer the manyremaining questions about hereditary breast cancers. "Is there a BRCA3?" Futreal asked. "There is a group offam...Duke Researchers Discover Candidate Susceptibility Gene For Autoimmune Disease
...is a professor ofbiochemistry and medicine at Duke medical center. To date, doctors have not identified any specific genes for autoimmunediseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, although many researchers believethere may be several genes that, when defective, predispose people to developautoimmune disorders....Duke Researchers Find Second Gene Linked To Blood Vessel Disorder
...rst 98 years since the disease was describedin the medical literature, virtually nothing was known of its underlyingcause. Now in two years, Marchuk and his colleagues have linked HHT to twogenes and a potent growth factor, TGF-_. "We've learned a lot in a short space of time," said Marchuk,an advisory boa...... their beetles came from China and not Spain). The medical literature, while skirting the question of Spanish fly's efficacy as an aphrodisiac, does chronicle an unfortunate side effect for human males: "erections douloureuses et prolongues," in the words of a French Foreign Legion physician who observed so...Florida Researchers Discover Gene For Fatal Childhood Disease
...al ArthritisFoundation's senior vice president for medical affairs. "Hopefully in the nearfuture a medication may be available." Researchers identified the gene by first mapping its location in micewith Chediak-Higashi syndrome, sifting through piece after piece of DNA todetermine which gene was muta...Bee Sting Treatment Should Emphasize Speed, Not Method Of Removal
...n the Aug. 3 issue of The Lancet, an international medical journalpublished in Great Britain, the scientists ...ryof dangerous reactions to bee stings should seek medical attention, Visscheradded. The study was supported by funds from the National Science Foundation an......lications inbiotechnology, evolutionary biologyand medical research. The researchers, two in Russiaand one in the United States,describe the method in the Aug. 20issue of the Proceedings of theNational Academy of Science. "Hunting for human genes is amassive, painstaking undertakingthat typically takes years......a feat that opens the door to a wide area of basic medical exploration. The technique allows researchers to t...d be used for molecular investigations about human medical disorders at the cellular level. "We have three orders of magnitude better sensitivity than what was...Harvard, Duke Researchers Discover 'Off-switch' Inside Human Cells
...Otherco-authors of the paper are Duke graduate and medical student Timothy Fields,and Harvard graduate student Timothy Hunt. The research was supported bythe American Cancer Society and the National Science Foundation. RGS10, belongs to a family of "regulators of G protein signaling"(RGS) proteins. Similar ......y of the disease. Extensive data were gathered on medical and reproductive history and blood samples were collected for DNA analysis. Researchers were able to obtain genetic data from the blood samples of 398 postmenopausal women (185 cases and 213 controls), and 233 premenopausal women (119 cases and 213 ...Animal Studies Indicate Aging Brain Responsive To Estrogen
...eSociety for Neuroscience meeting. Henderson is a medical student at the Duke University Medical Center; Wil...Einstein is an assistant research professor in the medical center'sdepartment of neurobiology. Their research was sponsored by the AmericanFoundation for Aging...Duke's Russian Laser Making Ultraviolet Light And Gamma Rays
..., where investigatorsexpect to harness it soon for medical research such as improved laser surgicaltechniques...ion since January 1992, is presentlybeing used for medical research. Other scientists at Duke's Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL)also are excit...Two Long-sought Diabetes Gene Found
...Digestive and Kidney Diseases, the direct costs of medical care for people with diabetes exceed $45 billion, with an additional $47 billion lost to disability and premature mortality. Nearly 2,000 new cases are diagnosed every day in the U.S., for a total of 625,000 each year. Support for these projects was ...Robots, Virtual Reality & Other "Smart" Tools Soon Will Help Physicians Heal Patients
...shop convened 52 engineering, computer science and medical researchers from seven nations, nominated by their peers, to assess the status and research needs of this rapidly advancing field. "We are not talking about replacing physicians, but providing them with more precise tools that take advantage ...Researchers Find How Disease-resistant Plants Recognize Bacteria
...e mechanism to be. A piece to the puzzle came from medical science, where researchers found in the early 1990s that a bacterium, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis , infects cells not by invading the cell wall, but by introducing proteins directly into the host cell's cytoplasm. Scientists have given this method o...Laser Microscope At Cornell Images Serotonin In Live Cells
...smitter that is becoming increasingly important as medical science learns of its role in a host of human disorders. It has been implicated in central nervous system disorders such as anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, stroke, obesity, pain, hypertension, vascular disorders, m...Duke University Students Devise Devices For The Disabled
...iolek, of Hales Corner, Wisc.,are both applying to medical school while Geddes, of Potomac, Md., plansto study biomechanics in graduate school. The base of Daniel's hockey goalie slider was adapted from the heavytrack of a professional Olympic rowing machine that Feldman managed to securefor free from Conce......ication techniques, has recently expanded into the medical device market. "No company wants to build hospital infusion pumps any longer, since the whole health care system is striving to keep people out of hospitals," Huff said. "Drug delivery systems should be based on ambulatory delivery." Medica...