NIH awards Emory and Georgia Tech $10 million for partnerships in cancer nanotechnology
...Distinguished Scholars. The new exploratory center integrates the biomedical expertise of Emory University, the engineering strength of Georgia Tech, the organic chemistry capabilities of Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California; and the biophysical expertise of Harvard University. The research team...Study at Joslin shows ease of introducing technology to kids with diabetes
...n a game called DiaBetNetTM -- an application that integrates blood glucose, insulin dosing, and carbohydrate intake data and challenges users to predict their next blood glucose levels. DiaBetNet was created by Vikram Kumar, a medical student at the time in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and ...Next edition of textbook ushers cellular microbiology out of infancy
...crobiology" identifies an emerging discipline that integrates the fields of cell biology and microbiology, highlighting the interaction between microbes and host cells. The advent of genomics, proteomics and postgenomics has resulted in more widespread understanding of the field of cellular microbiology among ...Molecular probes for biology research and drug discovery
...or lead compounds for drug development, because it integrates chemistry and biology already in an early stage in the research process. In this way it permits a fast identification of compounds with high biological relevance. The Chemical Genomics Centre (CGC) in Dortmund The Max Planck Society endorses the new ......e in order. They offer a powerful new method that integrates experimental and computational analyses to ascribe function to genes that had been termed "hypothetical" -- sequences that appear in the genome but whose biological purposes were previously unknown. The method not only portends a way to fill in the b...Wiley announces publication of Databasing the Brain
... our time. The emerging field of neuroinformatics integrates neuroscience with informatics to create unique databases and analytical tools for the large variety of neuroscience data types, applying them to brain research and linking them with databases within neuroscience and other fields such as genomics and ...Hypertension in African Americans linked to two genomic regions
...ticipating in this project. The division pools and integrates data from across different study centers and makes the data available to all the participants. It will build a web-based system to open the data to the public. This particular project was led by Neil Risch at Stanford and the analysis was led by Xiof...New Georgia Tech micro-CT imaging technique to help tissue engineers improve bone regeneration
...ent of patients within a year. Live autograft bone integrates much better, but large amounts of bone are needed to repair a site. They are often too large to remove elsewhere in the patient's body and cause substantial additional pain. Georgia Tech's micro-CT imaging facility has been used to study tissue engin...JCI table of contents, April 1, 2005
...s of leptin. TITLE: Phosphatidylinositol 3kinase integrates the action of insulin and leptin on hypothalamic neurons AUTHOR CONTACT:Greg Barsh Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA Phone: (650) 723-5035; E-mail: gbarsh@cmgm.stanford.edu View the PDF of this article at: https:/...Understanding biological foundation of human behavior critical to improving laws
... can be more effective in pursuing its goals if it integrates life science and social science perspectives on behavior." In the article, Jones and Goldsmith explore how an understanding of current behavioral biology research could improve the effectiveness of laws by among other things identifying behavior pa...Earth's services in peril, report concludes
...al problems and ecological issues, but this report integrates all of the changes underway and shows explicitly how they relate to human well-being," Lubchenco said. The severity of the problems, Lubchenco said, does not mean the situation is hopeless. "Social change is not always steady and gradual," she sai...JCI table of contents April 1, 2005
...e PDF of this article at: IMMUNOLOGY Ikaros integrates stress and immunity The immune system and the st...of the stress and immune responses." TITLE: Ikaros integrates endocrine and immune system development AUTHOR CONTACT: Sylvia L. Asa University Health Network, To...Understanding how bacteria communicate may help scientists prevent disease
...l be crucial in understanding how it functions and integrates signals from multiple inputs," Kulkarni said. A third question is how the circuit regulates important biological processes, such as biofilm formation and virulence. "Biofilms make bacteria resistant to antibiotics, so preventing the formation of bio...Love's all in the brain: fMRI study shows strong, lateralized reward, not sex, drive
..."an important concept is that the caudate probably integrates huge amounts of information, everything from early personal memories to one's personal notions of beauty. Then, this brain region (and related regions of the basal ganglia) helps to direct one's actions toward attaining one's goals. For neuroscient...Space matters: Estimating species diversity in the fossil record
...ted archival database (which they also built) that integrates the geographic data with fossil datasets, called the Miocene Mammal Mapping Project (MIOMAP). MIOMAP includes all western North American mammals from 5-30 million years ago - 3,100 localities and 14,000 occurrences of species in all. The authors then...New method shows it is possible to grow bone for grafts within a patient's body
... at MIT, "and since the harvested bone is fresh it integrates really well at a recipient site." Long bones in the body are covered by a thin outer layer called the periosteum. The layer is a little like scotch tape: the outside is tough and fibrous but the inside is covered with a layer of special pluripotent c...Random gene expression may drive HIV into hiding
... then a little bit of Tat is made before the virus integrates into the host genome. At this point, Tat must be chemically modified before it can encourage transcription of more HIV, and random thermal fluctuations in the cell can influence if and when these chemical modifications take place. Because of Tat's p...Ecological specialization of mixotrophic plankton in a mixed water column
...a simple but common aquatic system. Their research integrates three separate threads of modern ecological theory: spatial dynamics, evolutionary branching, and mixotrophy and shows that the environmental heterogeneity caused by a light-intensity gradient can induce a population of generalists (mixotrophs) to sp...Weight control protein may yield antiobesity drugs
...s is a key area in the central nervous system that integrates neuronal, hormonal, and nutrient-related signals to maintain body weight, he explained. Leptin is a hormone produced by fat that normally decreases food intake and increases energy expenditure. In many species, including humans, the hormone acts to ...Navigating the brain for sense of direction as paradigm for higher cognitive functions
...paper reports an important aspect in how the brain integrates the various signal pathways, Sharp said, and "though we didn't find the origin of the place cells, we believe these medial mammillary body cells may be one piece of the puzzle."...