UTSA neurobiologist awarded $225,000 from Whitehall Foundation
... to joining UTSA in 2005, Gaufo was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco and the University of Utahs Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In Utah, he studied under the leadership of Mario Capecchi, one of the technological pioneers of genetic engineering. Gaufo earned his bache...3 proteins may play important role in nerve-cell repair
...study, first author Shigeru Tanaka, a postdoctoral fellow in Saeki's laboratory, and his colleagues used nerve cells obtained from the brain tissue of rats and mouse neuroblastoma cells growing in culture to learn more about the three proteins and their involvement in cAMP regulation. The researchers add...A new study of living cells could revolutionize the way we test drugs
... To detect a cells normal activity, Andre Geim and fellow researchers modified apparatus used originally to detect weak magnetic fields in superconductors*. Unfortunately, these modifications reduced the sensitivity of the technique, and the normal activity of the yeast cell could not be detected. This is t...Brain tumors coax important support from nearby immune system cells
... begin the new study, Gutmann and his postdoctoral fellow Girish C. Daginakatte, Ph.D., studied these brain tumors early in their development to see if any other cell types were consistently nearby. They found microglia, a cell type they had previously noted in human tumor samples. Microglia are similar to...Different approach needed to protect brains of premature infants
...ad author William J. McCarran, M.D., a neonatology fellow in the Department of Pediatrics, worked with a "slice-based" model of injury's effects on the developing brain. Goldberg says the model strikes a compromise between the confounding factors present in whole animal models and the limitations of studyin...Presidential Recognition Awards presented at the 2007 AIUM Annual Convention
...red the committee since 2004. Dr Frates is an AIUM fellow who has been a member since 1991 and has served the association in many capacities as well. AIUM President Lennard Greenbaum, MD, thanked Dr Frates for her service to the AIUM as well as her commitment to collaboration and production of our organizat......ant professor of pediatrics; Jeffrey D. Hancock, a fellow in pediatric hematology-oncology; and physician Cheryl Coffin, professor and head of pediatric pathology. Broken and Fused Genes Trigger Synovial Sarcoma Soft-tissue sarcomas are a group of cancers that develop in any part of the body in soft ...Mutation improves memory, may lead to memory-enhancing pill
..." said Mauro Costa-Mattioli, a senior postdoctoral fellow in Sonenbergs laboratory. "While a drug that worked in this way wouldn't cure the disease itself, it might rescue the symptoms of memory loss." Memories are formed when the repeated activation of brain cells leads to a strengthening of neural conne...Glucose triggers brain cell death in rats after hypoglycemic coma
...t SFVAMC. Furthermore, says Swanson, he and his fellow researchers have identified the cause of the damage: the sudden return of glucose to the brain activates the enzyme NADPH oxidase, which in turn initiates a process of oxidative stress that is fatal to neurons. Oxidative stress occurs when cells a...Nation's first veterinary student receives prestigious NIH Fogarty Fellowship
...ld. The selection of Elliott Garber as a Fogarty fellow is the latest example, albeit a momentous one, of ...lenge global health. Elliott is the first Fogarty fellow who is being trained as a veterinarian; many more will follow. ...Hopkins research professor talks at NJIT about hospital noise and black heritage in technology
... of the National Academy of Engineering, West is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Acoustical Society of America, which he has served as president. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineerings Committee on Diversity in the Engineering Workforce and chairs th...Gladstone scientists identify critical gene factor in heart development
...ge effects," said Yong Zhao, MD, PhD, postdoctoral fellow and lead author on the paper. "Although any therapies are a long way off, understanding the effects of miR-1-2 is very exciting," added Joshua Ransom, a graduate student who contributed equally to this work."...Gene test shown to measure heart function after transplant
...ns by Martin Cadeiras, M.D., postdoctoral research fellow in the lab of Mario Deng, M.D., director of cardiac transplantation research and associate professor of clinical medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and cardiologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University...New metal crystals, formed on a cotton assembly line
... of the American Chemical Society. PNNL laboratory fellow Gregory Exarhos led the research. Exarhos called Shins experimental work "the first report of the efficacy of nanocrystalline cellulose templates in driving the formation of ordered metal and metal oxide nanoparticles at surfaces." Exarhos has dub...Johns Hopkins researchers examine why people eat the foods they do
... Beydoun, coauthor of the study and a postdoctoral fellow in the Bloomberg School of Public Healths Department of International Health. The study authors recommend additional studies aimed at uncovering the complex relationships between socio-economic status, nutritional knowledge, attitudes and perceptio...Researchers figure out what makes a simple biological clock tick
...hysiology. Biomathematician Mark Byrne, a research fellow in pharmacology, rounded out the group. Although the biological clock consists of only three basic parts proteins that have been labeled KaiA, KaiB and KaiC when they began analyzing what was taking place in the test tube they discovered a lot more...Pioneering approach to wastewater treatment earns Stanford engineer the 2007 Stockholm Water Prize
...and the Water Environment Federation. He also is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Microbiology. After decades of research and teaching, McCarty said he is hopeful that despite climbing global populati...MIT biologists solve vitamin puzzle
...ic pathway, says Michiko Taga, an MIT postdoctoral fellow in Walker's lab and lead co-author of the Nature paper. "There are almost no other examples where the cofactor is used as a substrate," she said. One early clue to BluB's function was that a gene related to it is located near several other genes ...Cells use 'noise' to make cell-fate decisions
... the Science paper while a postdoctoral research fellow at the California Institute of Technology. He joined the UT Southwestern faculty in November and is an Endowed Scholar in Biomedical Research. Other co-authors on the Science paper are Rajan Kulkarni and senior author Michael Elowitz, both of Cal...Mitochondrial genes move to the nucleus -- but it's not for the sex
...t. But that's just not what we saw." Brandvain, fellow graduate student Michael Barker, and their advisor, IUB evolutionary biologist Michael J. Wade, examined papers that identified the sexual properties of plants that show evidence of mitochondrial-nuclear transfer. In all, the scientists collected dat...