NIH awards new $14.5 million, five-year grant to the Scripps Research Institute
...peed the movement of research discoveries from the bench to the bedside, the NIH Roadmap provides a framework of the priorities the NIH must address in order to optimize its entire research portfolio and lays out a vision for a more efficient and productive system of medical research. (For more information...Why do African-American women have more pregnancy problems?
...vement of research discoveries from the laboratory bench to the bedside. While compliance with traditional prenatal care among black women has improved in recent years, it still lags behind white women: 75 percent of black women seek prenatal care vs. 89 percent of white women. The discrepancy continues af...$43 million from Gates Foundation to produce inexpensive antimalarial drug for Third World
...cience, high technology, rapid transition from the bench to the bedside, and most important, critical need." To produce the artemisinin, Keasling and his team have genetically modified microbes. This approach, one of the first triumphs of a field called synthetic biology, also produces a reliably pure comp...Top experts and scientists at BioFinland 05 Congress
...will approach the entire drug discovery chain from bench to bedside. Identification of targets, validation, and clinical trials are dramatically changing as a consequence of powerful genomics tools being applied in all these areas. The congress speakers come both from the industry and academia, and they ar...Weizmann Institute scientists discover how substitutions are made for injured genes
If there were no bench for second-string players on a football team, who would substitute for tired or injured team members? A team of Weizmann Institute scientists has found that, if the team were made up of genes, they might pull athletes who can play a little football i...Researchers find three major beetle groups coming up one testis short
...Liebherr. "A lot of the ideas that come to the lab bench start in the field. We still have much to discover by looking at whole organisms." Other co-authors are David Maddison at the University of Arizona and Jos Galin at the Departamento de Biologa Animal Facultad de Veterinaria in Murcia, Spain....Gladstone building honored with San Francisco Business Times award
... own floor with approximately 100 workstations, or bench spaces, stretching in rows from one end of the bui...oratory floors are arranged in three long stripes: bench spaces on one side, administrative offices and cubes on the other, and specialized facilities down t...Newly discovered genetic disease sheds light on body's water balance
... example of how close the basic science laboratory bench has moved to the patient's bedside in modern medicine. These two areas now complement each other and bench-to-bedside progress leads to more rapid advances that benefit our patients." The authors note in the New England Journal article, "The V2 recep...SHRO signs agreement with Temple to continue biomedical research
...an diseases by taking advantage of the insights of bench top research and translating molecular genetic techniques to the patients' bedsides," Claudio said. The molecular therapeutics program is the second new program to be launched by the Sbarro Institute within the past six months. Eva Surmacz, Ph....Neurotransmitters signal aggressive cancer, offer potential for early diagnosis
...d then translate lessons learned at the laboratory bench to the patient's bedside as called for by the University's BioMed 21 initiative." BioMed 21 is a strategic research initiative that aims to rapidly translate genomic science into patient care. It includes faculty from the schools of Medicine, Engine...Genetics center to launch new genetic-testing initiative
...Director Kathy Hudson. "Science at the laboratory bench today could very easily be a genetic test kit for sale tomorrow, and as a nation we haven't really yet established appropriate ground rules for making sure this rapidly expanding technology is safe and reliable for everyone." Since its founding thre...$3.4 million directed to key UW-Madison MS study
...myelin-related diseases. "The goal is to translate bench research into clinical application." Multiple sclerosis -- which affects an estimated 2.5 million people worldwide, 400,000 people in the United States and 10,000 in Wisconsin -- involves a misdirected attack by the immune system on myelin, the nerve...Rockefeller University's Titia de Lange receives NIH Pioneer Award
...peed the movement of research discoveries from the bench to the bedside. "The scientists we recognize with Pioneer Awards have far-ranging ideas that hold the potential to make truly extraordinary contributions to many fields of medical research," says Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., Director of the NIH. "We look...First report of cancer drug Gleevec as new target therapy for pulmonary hypertension
...nal research approach, taking their research "from bench to bedside", Dr. Ralph Schermuly of the same German center only recently described the successful use of Gleevec (Imatinib) in two well established experimental models of progressive pulmonary arterial hypertension. His group found, that the treatmen...W.M. Keck Foundation grant advances study of biocompatible liquid crystals
...oolverton and Lavrentovich already have translated bench research into prototyped devices for real-time microbial detection. Their ongoing efforts also have produced applications where LCLCs are used for controlled drug delivery and reporting agents of certain biological activities. Serious scientific i...UCLA researchers identify how antibody blocks prostate cancer growth in animal models
...e translational research that will go from the lab bench to the patient bedside," Reiter said. Prostate cancer will strike more than 232,000 men in the United States this year alone, killing more than 30,350. Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in men, according to the American Can...ENFIN! Computational systems biology comes to a lab bench near you
...l make computational systems biology accessible to bench scientists throughout Europe and beyond. ENFIN, wh... information. Yet the average biologist at the lab bench uses only a tiny proportion of the information that is relevant to the questions s/he is trying to a...Joslin Diabetes Center launches $100 million fundraising campaign
... clinical research through the Center, linking the bench to the bedside and creating a spectrum of investigations focused on new strategies for prevention and treatment," Kahn says. Because education is the cornerstone of diabetes treatment, the campaign also supports the work of Joslin's educators who in...Molecular force field helps cancer cells defend against attack
...the patient with therapeutics, and that laboratory bench to bedside is what our research is all about." H. Shelton Earp III, M.D., director of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, said, "The Cance lab finding follows on their groundbreaking work showin......hich computational predictions are verified by the bench scientist, will be a trend for future cancer research," Huang says. Scientists have known for decades that estrogen plays a key role in the development of cancers of the breast, uterus and ovaries. Upon entering cells in these tissues, the molecules...