Use of aspirin or other NSAIDs increases survival
...ack, M.D., Ph.D., all of Fox Chase Cancer Center's department of radiation oncology....New biosensor rapidly detects deadly foodborne pathogen
... illness, said Tao Geng, research associate in the department of food science and the sensor's co-developer. "The mortality rate for people with listeriosis is very high, and for this reason, the FDA has a zero-tolerance rule for Listeria. There should be none at all in any ready-to-eat products," he said. ...September/October 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...ecrease in alcohol use, 42 percent fewer emergency department visits (103 vs. 177), 55 percent fewer motor vehicle crashes (9 vs. 20), and 23 percent fewer total motor vehicle events (114 vs. 149). They also found significant differences in the number of arrests for controlled substance or liquor violations (0...The PSA bounce Does it have clinical significance?
... M.D., clinical director of the radiation oncology department at Fox Chase Cancer Center and lead author of the study. "Some physicians prescribe hormonal therapy in this situation, but hormones can have significant side effects for the patient, and may not be clinically necessary. For these reasons, it's imp...Taking the next step toward growing our own fuel
... of Harris A. Lewin, Gutgsell Endowed Chair in the department of animal sciences. Although the building housing the IGB will not be completed until 2006, the work that will go on inside already has begun. Lewin said that the new IGB research theme, led by Hans Blaschek, will address one of the most critica...Touching research: How white blood cells navigate
...medical Engineering has become the fastest-growing department at the University, with 12 faculty members, thanks largely to significant funding from the Whitaker Foundation. Nearly 150 undergraduate students have majored in biomedical engineering in the past five years. This weekend the University broke ground ...Northeastern University and Massachusetts Biotechnology Council to host drug discovery day
...Director in the Medicinal and Analytical Chemistry department at Genentech, Inc. WHERE: Monday, October 18, 20041 pm to 7 pm Northeastern University, Curry Student Center WHEN: 1:00 7:00 pm 1:00 Registration Opens 1:30 First Keynote - Alexandros Makriyannis 2:15 Poster Session Opens ...New Jersey Institute of Technology environmentalist receives Fulbright Chair award
...ate program in environmental policy studies in the department of chemistry and environmental science at NJIT. Her research focuses on coastal processes on beaches and dunes in estuarine and low wave energy environments. She is currently studying the relationship between beach processes and horseshoe crab repro...First-ever Texan/German symposium opens doors
... visit to UH from Knoll, who gave a lecture in the department of chemistry. In addition, they have had a joint postdoctoral fellow since 2000, and numerous individual exchange visits between the two groups have taken place to strengthen collaborations that have resulted in several papers each year since 1997. ...Peakadilly nv biopharmaceutical firm created
...dekerckhove (Scientific Director of a VIB research department at Ghent University) has led to a technology that,...mpany maintains its good relationship with the VIB department at Ghent University, where the technology was first developed and where it is being further develope...To save dolphin's dorsal fin experts combine medical technology and teamwork
...eveloped by Dr. Badylak, research professor in the department of surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and director of the Center for Pre-Clinical Tissue Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh's McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Once in place, the matrix, a 3-dimensional sca...DFG research training groups become increasingly international
...equired. Working groups from the institutes at the department of medicine, the biological sciences, pharmacy and psychology are working on neuroscience in the Research Training Group "Interdisciplinary Approaches in Cellular Neurosciences" at the University of Leipzig. Their research will focus on studies of th...New DNA repair enzyme makes mistakes to save lives of cells
...r for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and department of molecular genetics and biochemistry; Anthony Schuffert, of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute; and Chikahide Masutani, Ph.D., and Shigenori Iwai, Ph.D., from Osaka University, Japan....Brain differences in adolescents, psychopaths, lend to their impulsive, risk-taking behavior
... detriments," says Jonathan Cohen, MD, PhD, of the department of psychology at Princeton University. In one study, Gregory Berns, MD, PhD, and his colleagues at Emory University School of Medicine found that hyperactivity in the reward circuits of adolescent brains compared with adult brains may underlie ad...Emory study details dolphin brain evolution for the first time
...o holds adjunct appointments in Emory's psychology department and Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, and is a research associate at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and in the Living Links Center for the Advanced Study of Ape and Human Evolution at Yerkes National Primate Research Center....Immune system in a bottle could help prevent flu vaccine shortage
... Langmuir, Kotov's lab in the chemical engineering department and other collaborators introduced a way to build those cell-incubating honeycombs---called scaffolds---so that even though the cells occupy different compartments in the honeycomb, they share the same conditions, just as they would share the same co...Gene therapy approach reverses diabetic neuropathy in animal model, Pitt study finds
...h.D., and Joseph Glorioso III, Ph.D., all from the department of molecular genetics and biochemistry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; and Marina Mata, M.D., and David Fink, M.D., formerly of the University of Pittsburgh and now with the University of Michigan....Rice biologists elected AAAS Fellows
...eers. Strassmann, professor and chair of Rice's department of ecology and evolutionary biology, and Queller, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, were each selected for their pioneering efforts on the evolution of sociality. AAAS, the world's largest general scientific society, publishes the wee...Gene linked to enlargement of the factory where proteins are processed
...ng to Joseph W. Brewer, assistant professor in the department of Microbiology and Immunology at Loyola University Medical Center. The cells that make and secrete antibodies--the B cells--must synthesize, fold and release thousands of these proteins per minute, in response to an infection. Brewer is senior autho...Researchers tracking sources of arsenic contamination in water
...aig Altare of the earth and environmental sciences department at New Mexico Tech, will be presented at 4:55 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 9, in room 205 of the Colorado Convention Center. Three students are working on the research project now. Two students have graduated, so two undergraduates are being added, thanks to ...