University of Pittsburgh Medical Center performs first in vivo gene therapy for hemophilia A
...Treatment Center of WesternPennsylvania and recent member of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Committeeof the National Hemophilia Foundation. "This therapy has the potential to reducethe costs and complications associated with this debilitating condition." This small-scale, phase I trial is desig...Stakeholders improve global change assessment
...Environmental Resources Research Instituteand team member of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Assessment of Climate ChangeImpacts. "One way was to ask specific constituents to fill out surveys onperceived risk from potential global change." The team also put together an advisory board of about 95...Stanford launches interdisciplinary initiative in the biological sciences
...lliam K. Bowes Professor of ChemicalEngineering, a member of the four-person Bio-X executive committee, like...ean-ClaudeLatombe, chair of computer science and a member of the Bio-X planning committee. Right now, he says, the biosciences are raising challenging computa...UCSF team identifies gene crucial to blood pressure regulation
... Aldosterone is the most important member of a group of hormonescalled mineralocorticoids, whose functions include transport of sodium. "Where sodium goes, so goes water, so aldosterone is key to the maintenance ofnormal blood pressure," said Pearce. The researchers used the technique calle......CBs are a 'family' of chemical compounds with each member possessing its ownproperties and toxic profile. While certain PCBs appear to be fairly harmless,others have been found to interfere with thyroid hormone metabolism, forexample. In this initial study, which was performed to test the hypothesis that fo......ompetitive cost poses the next challenge, saidteam member Dr. CharlesLiotta, professor in the SchoolofChemistry and Biochemistry and Georgia Tech's Vice-Provost forResearch. "The fundamental science, the construction of the cyclic oligomers, their physical and chemical properties, and the pol......dation award as apostdoctoral fellow. As a faculty member at the medical school, she also hasreceived a Scholar award from the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience, aSearle Scholar Award from the Chicago Community Trust, and a fellowship from theAlfred P. Sloan Foundation....Study: calcium channels regulate cell movement
...iate movement. In 1993, Lee, Jacobson -- a member of the UNC Lineberger ComprehensiveCancer Center -- and others published another paper in Nature describing howthey employed video microscopy, a technology that marries microscopes totelevision cameras, to study movement of the keratocyte cells. ...Plant pathologists to discuss anti-crop bioterrorism and food security, August 1999
...-ARS Foreign Disease-Weed Science Research Unitand member of the American Phytopathological Society, "Our current agricultureinfrastructure is susceptible to disease outbreaks resulting from bioterrorism.As members of the plant science community we are aware of the risk and feel it'simportant to interact wi...Plakin proteins brace nerve axons and allow for the transport of neurotransmitter vesicles
...ly tomicrotubules in the axon. Yanmin Yang, PhD, a member of Fuchs' research team, showed that by adding thenew BPAG1 plakin to cells with very sensitive microtubules, the cells becamemore resistant to cold and colchicine. Exposure to cold temperatures or thechemical colchicine normally cause microtubules ...Genes play a bigger role in women's depression than in men's, twin study finds
...ears old at that time. Between 1992 and 1993, each member of 2,685twin pairs was interviewed over the telephone. The highly trained layinterviewers used a list of questions designed to assess whether the subjectshad ever experienced symptoms of various psychiatric disorders, includingdepression. Each twin ...Congress briefs: International congress on ecosystem health
... an example. Mazet, a wildlife veterinarian, is a member of theCalifornia Sea Otter Research Group, a team of scientists from many disciplinesand various public and private groups. The team's goal is to provide theresearch necessary to guide management aimed at restoring the otter's fragilepopulations. ...Astrobiologist to hunt small game in Siberia
...es and other microbial life-forms." Gilichinsky, a member of the Institute of Soil Science and Photosynthesis of theRussian Academy of Sciences, is one of Hoover's partners in the JointU.S./Russian Research in Space Science (JURRISS) Program. Their proposal wasselected by NASA in May. In collaboration with ...W.M. Keck Foundation gives USC $110 million
... a pioneer in the neurosciences, and an invaluable member of ourcommunity," said Robert A. Day, chairman and...nal and scientific organizations, and is afounding member of the National Academy of Engineering and is a member of theNational Academy of Sciences and the Am...Heatstroke killed four football players during 1998, expert urges precautions
... of heatstroke. A Yale University faculty member began the yearly football death andinjury survey in 1931. It was moved to Purdue University in 1942 and has been atUNC-CH since 1965. The American Football Coaches Association, the NationalCollegiate Athletic Association and the National Federation o...Scientists discover second gene for disorder described by Darwin
...re therapies. Dr. Jonathan Zonana from OHSU was a member of the international research teamthat tracked down the X-chromosome gene, and he is also an integral part of thegroup that identified the gene on chromosome 2. Zonana, along with Dr. AlexMonreal and colleagues, report their latest discovery in the ...Blocking the binge: UF researchers explore for uncontrolled eating
... to five years." Goldsmith, also a former faculty member at the University of Cincinnati, saidthat prior to the study, most of the patients had binged at least once a day.After long-term treatment, ranging from seven months to two years, four patientshad complete remission of binge eating, and five had mor...Even in the Amazon jungles, treatment for heat exhaustion is the same as it is right here at home
...her sowe wouldn't have to carry her out." One team member contributed a powdered sport drink and Dr. Hardy a...eplacement and mineral replacement. Dr. Hardy is a member of the American Botanical Society and the AmericanHolistic Medical Association. She serves on the ad......sentations of theirmore lethal counterparts, group member Jun Liu of PNNL has done transmissionelectron microscope (TEM) work comparing the atomic structure of a small numberof actual radioactive sludges with the group's synthetic version. (The TEM usessuch a small sample that the radioactivity constitutes ......is one of the most biologicallypotent chemicals, a member of the family of compounds known as halogenatedaro...the immune cells. The molecule, CD-95 ligand, is a member of a family of proteins that occursnaturally in the body, and its function is to kill cells that are...