Penn receives grant for initiative to help understand genes' effects on medications
...ee from New York University School of Medicine. He completed a residency at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital and a fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds an MS in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he received training ......lian farm animal to have its genes mapped out--was completed in collaboration with the University of Alberta (U...pected to sequence the genome six times, should be completed sometime in 2005. The initiative also plans to sequence part of the genomes of additional cattle br...After flu exposure, mild exercise protects mature mice from dying
...d by the American Physiological Society.) "We had completed a lot of in vitro studies, but we wanted to study now how exercise affected animals against a real infectious challenge," Woods said. The question they addressed in their study, "Protective effect of exercise on mortality due to influenza in mice," w......d plan to have a 6-fold draft of the bovine genome completed sometime in the first half of 2005. They are also comparing the bovine genome sequence with those of the human and other organisms that have already been sequenced. Results of these analyses will begin to be published in the public databases in the n...Society for Psychophysiology Research
...rs recorded electrical brain waves as participants completed a police training video game. Participants viewed pictures of Black and White men holding either guns or innocuous objects like cell phones and wallets and made quick decisions to 'shoot' armed individuals and 'not shoot' unarmed ones. Behaviorally,...Taking the next step toward growing our own fuel
... 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 critical problems facing our nation. "With crude oil at $50 per barrel, we must exami...World's top theoretical physicists converge to consider 'future of physics'
...ate student at Princeton University, when the pair completed the calculation that resulted in the discovery for which they have received the Nobel Prize. (The other recipient, H. David Politzer, a physics professor at the California Institute of Technology, was working independently on a similar calculation.) ...Support groups aid women with 'breast cancer gene mutations'
...ssive group therapy." The researchers say 67 women completed all 12 sessions. Those who participated in psychosocial-focused group therapy showed improvements in several psychosocial factors, including general anxiety, cancer anxiety, and depression. They add the group therapy appears to have helped women deci...Research into the sense of touch in worms wins Eppendorf/Science Prize
...bany Medical College, New York. Her Ph.D. project, completed in 2001, focused on asymmetric cell division and the generation of cell diversity in the embryonic murine cerebral cortex. She is now a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Sally Temple's laboratory working on mechanisms regulating neural stem cell self-renewa...Delay in cutting the cord helps premature babies
...cent to 80 percent of preterm infants less than 32 completed weeks' gestation require transfusion, strategies that might reduce this without risk would be desirable, says Rabe. Decreasing the need for transfusion would be especially valuable in developing countries, where transfusion carries a high risk of tra...UCLA scientists discover new way to fix defective gene
...chinery that a protein has reached full length and completed copying. In the mutated genes of A-T patients, PTCs halt the copying of proteins too early, resulting in shortened and unstable ATM proteins. "Unstable proteins create abnormal cells that can't function properly, producing all of the neurological an...Medical geneticists elected to Institute of Medicine
...vard Medical School in 1981. From 1982 to 1985, he completed an internship and residency in pediatrics at Child...oint Program in Health Sciences and Technology. He completed a residency in internal medicine at St. Louis' Washington University and at Barnes Hospital, also in...Hormone therapy's effect on breast density is not the same for all women, Group Health study finds
...y 1996 and June 2002. At each mammogram, the women completed a questionnaire on breast cancer risk factors, hormone use, health history, and demographics. Aiello and her colleagues analyzed this information along with mammography data and automated pharmacy records that indicated the type of hormone therapy ea...Promising new preventative treatment option for population of men at high risk of prostate cancer
...of patients taking placebo. Among the patients who completed 12 months of treatment, the reduction in prostate cancer incidence was 48 percent for patients receiving 20 mg of toremifene compared to those in the placebo group. According to the National Cancer Institute, prostate cancer is the most c...OHSU study: Bacterial switching mechanism key to survival
..." said Professor Richard Brennan, Ph.D., whose lab completed the work in collaboration with Assistant Professor Maria Schumacher, Ph.D., also at OHSU, and Professor Wolfgang Hillen at the University of Erlangen, Germany. "The nice thing about crystallography is you have a very high-resolution picture that give...Study demonstrates Cenestin reduces sleep disturbances/night sweats in post-menopausal women
...ng a physical exam, medical and sleep history, and completed a two-week diary reporting sleep quality, sleepiness and hot flashes. After a baseline of three nights taking placebo, participants were randomized to either 0.625 mg of Cenestin (n=9) or placebo (n=10) once daily for a six-week period. Th...Brain differences in adolescents, psychopaths, lend to their impulsive, risk-taking behavior
...on emission tomography (PET) while the individuals completed two sets of trials from a computerized neurocognitive task--the Rogers Decision-Making Task (RDMT). Before being scanned, the participants scored in either the "primary psychopathy" or nonpsychopathy ranges on a questionnaire that measures psychopath...Research to explore revolutionary gene sequencing: Threading the molecular needle
... The first sequencing of the human genome, completed in 2002, took two teams 11 years to do and cost $1 billion. Lindsay's method could make the same genome sequencing feat possible at less that $1,000. "The other advantage is that this method can be used for a single molecule," Lindsa...Safety and immunogenicity data available for new pertussis booster vaccine candidate for adolescents
...x or a U.S.-licensed Td vaccine. Each subject had completed his or her routine childhood vaccinations against ...sons who have either never been vaccinated, or who completed a primary series, but have not had a booster in the preceding 10 years. Infants of unvaccinated mot...Economics and ecology combine at UGA in NSF-funded study of evolutionary game theory
...ss-campus partnership was aided by Matt Bonds, who completed his Ph.D. in economics from UGA's Terry College of Business last year and is now pursuing an additional graduate degree in ecology. "The collaboration between Pejman, Matt and I began because of Matt finishing up his Ph.D. in economics and beginning ...