Penn receives grant for initiative to help understand genes' effects on medications
...The need for the project arises from the fact that individuals often respond differently to the same medication given for the same medical problem. While billions of prescriptions are written each year in the hopes of improving health and preventing disease in Americans, these medications do not work as hoped in...32 new grants made for innovative technology R&D
...al interface to enable effective communication for individuals affected by severe communication/motor disabilities. AureoGen Biosciences, Inc. (Kalamazoo, Mich.) A Genetic Engineering Technology Platform for Production of Novel Cyclic Peptide-Based DrugsDevelop methodologies and tools to enable simple, ef...College students recognized & rewarded for their innovative work
...egiate Inventors Competition has annually rewarded individuals or teams for their innovative work and scientific achievement. For more information on past winners and this year's finalists, visit www.invent.org/collegiate ....Columbia University scientist wins 2004 Nobel Prize
...he past 50 years, providing insights regarding how individuals perceive their external environment," said Gerald D. Fischbach, executive vice president, Columbia University Medical Center. "He has been an enormously important influence for all the sciences here at Columbia University, the medical center and the...Daphne Koller named MacArthur Fellow
...ertainty in complex information sets, is one of 23 individuals honored this year by the John D. and Catherine T. ...r winners. The MacArthur Foundation selects individuals from varied pursuits to receive this prestigious fellowship. In addition to Koller and other scienti...NIH funds first nationaL SNP genotyping center at Broad Institute
...lion SNPs in the human population, although no two individuals will vary at every such position. Scientists have found that certain SNP combinations are associated with predisposition to particular diseases or adverse drug reactions. The new center will offer tools to aid in the selection, discovery, and analys...New biosensor rapidly detects deadly foodborne pathogen
.... The elderly, pregnant women, newborn infants and individuals with compromised immune systems are most at risk of contracting the disease. The bacteria classified as Listeria include six different species, but only L. monocytogenes can infect humans. This makes it especially important to develop highly se...Biologists ID molecular block for social 'cheaters'
...ollective should lead to evolved traits that allow individuals to "cheat" the collective, win more resources and ...body in which about one-fifth of the single-celled individuals within the colony sacrifice themselves to form the stalk that holds up the spores. Before forming a ...New genetic tools provide clues to the effects of exercise and diet on obesity, diabetes
...he cardiovascular benefits of habitual exercise in individuals with impaired glucose tolerance." ...Researchers find chemosignal that encourages women's sexual desire
...s would have increased the evolutionary fitness of individuals who used this system of social communication during human evolution," McClintock explained. Other research suggests that women living in early societies produced children when food resources were plentiful. The chemosignal would have been a...Bugs in the gut could play key role in understanding human disease and drug toxicity
...uld have a huge impact on how we develop drugs, as individuals can have very different responses to drug metabolism and toxicity. The microbes can influence things such as the pH levels in the gut and the immune response, all of which can have effects on the effectiveness of drugs." The researchers believe it wi...Society for Psychophysiology Research
... wallets and made quick decisions to 'shoot' armed individuals and 'not shoot' unarmed ones. Behaviorally, participants were faster and more accurate to 'shoot' armed Blacks than armed Whites. By contrast, they were faster to 'not shoot' unarmed Whites. When participants made incorrect shooting decisions, brain ...Rice engineer wins prestigious Annunzio Award
...undation seeks to nurture and recognize pioneering individuals and programs that reflect the visionary spirit and pioneering heritage of Christopher Columbus. The foundation was created by Congress in 1992 and endowed with funding from the sale of three denominations of limited-edition coins created by the U.S. ...Technology award presented to Weizmann Institute scientist
...rly by the World Technology Network (WTN) to those individuals and organizations whose innovations are likely to ...inners and finalists, and today comprises over 800 individuals and organizations from 50 countries. Its stated goal is to bring together the people who are judged...Laboratory test of evolutionary theory confirms importance of links between populations
... the wild. The theory predicts how the movement of individuals between different populations of a species influences evolutionary change in those populations, particularly with respect to coevolutionary interactions between species. This is an important issue in understanding the long-term effects of the increa......ine is, the FGF system is less active in depressed individuals and presumably, correcting that would be part of h...s was all the more remarkable since both groups of individuals were severely depressed at the time of death," she says. "This is yet another indication that bipola...Hepatitis C virus linked to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
...ikely to develop non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) than individuals that are virus free, according to research presented today at the Third Annual Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research meeting. HCV infected patients have a seventeen fold higher risk for developing diffuse large B-Cell lymphoma, researchers from Br...Diabetes hikes risk for liver, pancreatic cancers
... Montral, Montreal, Canada. "When we looked at the individuals who reported taking medication for their diabetes,... cancer increased to almost four-fold, compared to individuals who were not diabetic." Rousseau noted that these findings were independent of the body mass index o...Consuming fruits and vegetables lowers risk of developing NHL
... Iowa, Seattle, Los Angeles and Detroit, show that individuals who consumed three or more servings of vegetables ...udy participants were matched to approximately 400 individuals without cancer who were similar in age, sex, race and lived in the same geographical region. ...Two UT Southwestern physicians elected to National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine
...es here at UT Southwestern and for the work of the individuals in my lab." Dr. McConnell, an internationally recognized authority in prostate disease, is responsible for the overall management of university outpatient clinics, Zale Lipshy and St. Paul University Hospitals, and the UT Southwestern integra...