NIH awards new $14.5 million, five-year grant to the Scripps Research Institute
...ein production, the grant will support a number of approaches to addressing the problem of protein stability. One approach will be to build on the work that has been done using other proteins to help stabilize the membrane proteins. While this technique has been used before, there has never been a generalized...Penn receives grant for initiative to help understand genes' effects on medications
...nt, to develop fresh, distinctive, and sustainable approaches to solving the complex biomedical problem of varia...research. Intellectual: by designing innovative approaches to improve the appreciation among the disciplines of each others' scientific context, opportunities ...New biomaterials improve medical devices
...that cause infection of implants. Some of the new approaches to these challenges employ nanotechnology methods for both diagnostic and imaging systems. Another strong theme will be the use of computer modeling to predict the interactions between cells and materials, thus reducing the amount of lab work necess...Plants provide model for new shape-changing materials
... are providing scientists and engineers with novel approaches to engineering problems. These solutions are producing a revolution in engineering design through the application of biological principles to the design of new autonomous engineering systems," Leo said. Virginia Tech began working in the smart materi...September/October 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...est a mismatch between family medicine and current approaches to quality assessment, guideline implementation, education, research, administration and funding. Future work in these areas, they assert, needs to address the primary care physician's task of prioritizing and integrating care for multiple problems c...Bugs in the gut could play key role in understanding human disease and drug toxicity
...ractions, this knowledge ultimately leading to new approaches to the treatment of disease. " Professor Ian Wilson, from Astra Zeneca, and one of the researchers adds: "This 'human super-organism' concept could have a huge impact on how we develop drugs, as individuals can have very different responses to drug m...Toward a better understanding of taste and smell impairments
...d from the studies will form the foundation of new approaches to avoid or overcome the sometimes debilitating effects of chemosensory dysfunction. Approximately six million Americans suffer from sensory loss or alteration related to the senses of taste, smell, or both. Although changes in taste and smell p...Society for Psychophysiology Research
...Laboratory will introduce participants to the main approaches in current molecular and behavioral genetic research with an emphasis on applications to psychophysiological research. To further illustrate the range of issues that will be discussed and the relevance of this research to everyday life, several of th...Mitochondria findings may help beat wide range of disease
...recombine may lay the groundwork for new treatment approaches to a wide range of diseases, including some cancers and neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. Researchers from The Johns Hopkins University's Integrated Imaging Center; the University of California, Davis; and the California...Highlights of American Anthropological Assoc. meeting
... working on both sides of the Atlantic discuss new approaches to replace notions of tribe, state, gender.( Noon3.45) Modern Magic in Melanesia and Beyond: Panelists will scrutinize the paradoxical proliferations of magical forms in a modernized world. (23.45 p.m.) Emergent Representations: Violenc...Experimental drug prevents vaginal simian HIV transmission in monkeys Science study says
...hat CCR5-inhibition -- alone or coupled with other approaches -- might prevent sexual HIV transmission between humans, according to the authors. The majority of HIV infections are acquired via transmission across mucosal surfaces, especially the vagina and rectum, and substances that prevent mucosal transmissi...NHGRI seeks next generation of sequencing technologies
...ns in sequencing costs will lead to very different approaches to biomedical research and, eventually, will revol... sequencing a human genome for $1,000 or less. The approaches pursued by both sets of grants have many complementary elements that integrate biochemistry, chemist...UCSD medical researchers use brain cell transplants to correct muscle spasms after aneurysm surgery
...inal drug treatments using implanted pumps. These approaches display limited efficacy with accompanying side effects and eventual drug tolerance. The ischemic spinal cord injury that occurs during surgery is usually due to clamping of the blood flow to the spinal cord, to permit repairs of the aorta, Marsala s...Manipulation of epigenome turns off as many genes as it turns on
...ch team probed the global effects of each of three approaches to unhooking methyl groups from genes' DNA. Cells normally use methyl groups to "mark" certain genes, indicating whether their instructions should or shouldn't be used for making proteins, but the marks are frequently disrupted in cancer cells. F...New insight into progression of colorectal cancer
...in colorectal cancer and suggest novel therapeutic approaches for colorectal cancer based on inhibition of TGF-b-dependent IL-6 trans-signaling," explains Dr. Neurath. Christoph Becker, Massimo C. Fantini, Christoph Schramm, Hans A. Lehr, Stefan Wirtz, Alexei Nikolaev, Jrgen Burg, Susanne Strand, Ralf Kiesslic...ENCODE consortium publishes scientific strategy
...high-throughput ways of efficiently applying known approaches to identify functional elements. Their collaborative efforts are centered on 44 DNA targets, which together cover about 1 percent of the human genome, or about 30 million base pairs. The target regions were strategically selected to provide a represe...Genetics play role in response to most common asthma drug
...r rapid evaluation of new and existing therapeutic approaches to asthma and to disseminate laboratory and clinical findings to the healthcare community. The ACRN clinical centers that participated in this study are Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School (Boston), Harlem Lung Center and Columbia...Three years of Proba, the 'smart' satellite that runs itself
...r of sophisticated technologies in addition to new approaches in spacecraft construction and operations. "It has 100% lived-up to its full name of 'Project for On-Board Autonomy' for every day of the last three years the spacecraft performed onboard such functions as steering, navigation, target fly-by estima...Early life stress harms mental function and immune system in later years
...uli. Together, these studies point to exciting new approaches for potentially lessening or preventing these long-term changes that can lead to disease or psychopathologies. Stresses such as neglect and abuse during infancy may result in memory loss and impaired cognitive abilities that manifest later in life...Study at Joslin shows ease of introducing technology to kids with diabetes
...proves diabetes control, so we've been looking for approaches that encourage patients and their families to monitor their blood glucose levels," Dr. Laffel said. Improving diabetes control helps to prevent complications, such as blindness, stroke, and kidney disease, which are associated with prolonged high blo...