NIH gives $8M to University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine for myositis research
...called myositis, thanks to a five-year, $8 million contract from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Chester V. Oddis, M.D., professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, is principal investig...High blood pressure, low energy -- a recipe for heart failure
...ort on energy, say because it's being called on to contract harder or faster, its ERR is activated by an induc...heart failure: the mouse hearts dilated and didn't contract effectively, the heart walls thinned, fibrous connective tissue accumulated and some heart cells die...Unlocking proteins from their cellular shell
...er forces are generated by cells as they crawl and contract in tissue. Penn researchers used force to induce changes in the structures of cytoskeletal proteins and, employing fluorescent dyes, labeled proteins sequentially, visualized them, and molecularly pinpointed the newly exposed parts of proteins. By f...St. Jude study solves mystery of mammalian ears
...of prestin that does not make the outer hair cells contract in response to incoming sound waves as normal prestin does. Instead, the mutated form of prestin makes the cell extend itself when it vibrates. The St. Jude researchers reasoned that if altering the position of the cilia in the fluid changes the ...20 Kentucky firms share $1.9 million from state to match federal SBIR-STTR awards
...ing the program, which is being administered under contract to DCI by the Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation. This innovative program is a perfect example of the type of outside-the-box thinking that will enhance and grow Kentuckys new economy, said Economic Development Cabinet Secretary John Hind...Restless legs genetics on the move
... very different forms. Children can, however, also contract the disease. The cause of RLS has so far been completely unknown. More than half of all RLS patients report about other family members who are also affected, so that a genetic component was assumed to be involved in the development of the disease at ...UT and Atom Sciences Collaborate on NIH grant to develop test for major african disease
...essee better understand how people in rural Africa contract a deadly disease known as Buruli ulcer. The grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) to Atom Sciences will enable the company, in partnership with UT, to test a new diagnostic technique to determine how a person m...Vaccine trials inject hope into koala's future
...e is no danger that a koala without chlamydia will contract the disease from the vaccine." Professor Timms said the vaccine trial was a significant step in the right direction in fighting the threat of chlamydia in koalas. QUT's koala vaccine team also includes Professor Ken Beagely and PhD student Asad S...UF scientists work to develop simple bladder cancer test
... the United States. Four times more men than women contract the disease, and smoking as well as exposure to industrial toxins increases the risk. Although the five-year survival rate is about 94 percent when it is detected early, bladder cancer is extremely difficult to cure because it tends to recur. Imag...Coaching computer canines in clambering
...chaal has just won renewal of a $1.5 million DARPA contract to train them to do so. Schaal, an associate professor in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering department of computer science, began working on the problem more than a year ago. Four- and six-legged robots have been walking around for years, he no...Engineered blood vessels function like native tissue
...n muscles that is responsible for their ability to contract and relax. Although not yet strong enough ...ins, the ability to proliferate and the ability to contract in response to vasoconstrictors, one of the most important properties of blood vessels. The ...Tough tubes -- Carbon nanotubes endure heavy wear and tear
... shoulder muscle or stomach wall, which expand and contract millions of times over a human lifetime. Pushparaj and his team created a free-standing, macroscopic, two-millimeter square block of carbon nanotubes, made up of millions of individual, vertically aligned, multiwalled nanotubes. The researchers the...Tick-related disease thrives on cholesterol, study suggests
... where anywhere from 400 to more than 1,000 people contract the disease each year. It is transmitted by the bite of Ixodes scapularis, or deer tick. Deer ticks also spread Lyme disease, and are found primarily in the upper Midwest, New England, parts of the mid-Atlantic States and northern California. The d...Energy department selects 3 Bioenergy Research Centers for $375 million in federal funding
..., California. Subject to the finalization of contract terms and congressional appropriations, the Centers are expected to begin work in 2008, consistent with President Bushs Fiscal Year 2008 Budget Request, and would be fully operational by 2009. DOEs Office of Science issued a competitive Funding Oppo...University of Colorado invention may allow thirsty crops to signal farmers
...said Seelig. When the leaves lose enough water to contract to a critical width, the sensor can wirelessly signal computers. The computers, for example, could instruct individual pivot irrigation systems used widely on Colorado's eastern plains to dispense set amounts of water to particular crops, automati...University of Pittsburgh researchers culture blood-forming stem cells from human fat tissue
...dipose tissue has the ability to rapidly expand or contract in accordance with nutritional constraints. In so doing, it requires rapid adjustment in its blood supply and supporting connective tissue, or stroma. Based on previous reports that the stromal vascular fraction of adipose tissue contains stem cells ...Agonized death throes probable cause of open-mouthed, head-back pose of many dino fossils
... The idea that drying causes muscles or tendons to contract asymmetrically also didn't make sense, she said, based on her veterinary experience and an experiment she conducted with two euthanized red-tailed hawks, which she dried for two months set them in Styrofoam peanuts to dr. Most joints have counterbala...When the villain becomes your friend: The strange tale of muscle lactate
... physiologists stimulated isolated frog muscles to contract until exhaustion, they found that the tissues had ... So, why do muscles contract" Usually, muscles contract because the central and peripheral nervous system signals them to do so. Why do the muscles make lac...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- May 16, 2007
...ical companies long have turned to Indias numerous contract research firms to work on specific, well-defined projects. "But for the past two years, the countrys research service providers have begun to undertake far more significant drug discovery work for foreign clients," the article notes. Driving the ne......fected with HIV each year, an estimated 40 percent contract the virus from prolonged breastfeeding. WHO recomm... the mother stops nursing. Roughly 300,000 infants contract HIV from breastfeeding each year. Even if only a small proportion of HIV-positive mothers in resourc...