Next-era targeted therapy overcoming Gleevec's shortcomings
... study leader, Francis Giles, M.D., a professor of medicine in the Department of Leukemia at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. The study, which includes researchers and patients at the University of Frankfurt in Germany, is still ongoing. The researchers note that the response rate in over 100 patients enrolled i...Human cells filmed instantly messaging for first time
...ip of Shu Chien, a professor of bioengineering and medicine and director of the Whitaker Institute of Biomedical Engineering at UCSD, and Roger Y. Tsien, professor of pharmacology, chemistry, and biochemistry and investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at UCSD. Src is one of a large group of en...Gene associated with breast cancer may play major role in prostate cancer recurrence
..., Dr. Young Whang. He is an assistant professor of medicine and medical oncologist at UNC and a member of UNC Lineberger. "We believe that the driving force for recurrence of prostate cancer is the reactivation of the androgen receptor, which normally requires the presence of androgen, and this reactivation o...Standardized microarrays may bring us one step closer
...s, data can be compared across the entire field of medicine and scientific advances will come more quickly." The study, conducted by the Toxicogenomics Research Consortium, which is funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health, was initiated in ...A healthy internal clock keeps weight off
...ponding author Joseph Bass, assistant professor of medicine and neurobiology at Northwestern University and he...ponding author Joseph Bass, assistant professor of medicine and neurobiology at Northwestern University and head of the endocrinology and metabolism division at...Faulty body clock leads to obesity and diabetes
...ss, M.D., senior author and assistant professor of medicine and neurobiology and physiology at Northwestern an...., an author on the Science paper and professor of medicine at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center and president-elect of the Americ...Buying time through 'hibernation on demand'
...ll be clinical benefits and it will change the way medicine is practiced, because we will, in short, be able to buy patients time." In the Science paper, Roth and colleagues report inducing a state of clinical torpor in mice for up to six hours before restoring their normal metabolic function and activity. T...The Molecular Profiling Institute, Inc. launches MammaPrint for breast cancer patients
...effective therapy to their patients. Personalized medicine is here," said Dr. Robert Penny, the President and CEO of MPI. According to the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)(1) and the American Cancer Society(2), 216,000 new cases of breast cancer are found annually in the...UW-Madison gains two new stem cell programs
... announced the establishment of a new regenerative medicine program and an interdisciplinary postdoctoral trai... research across the university. The regenerative medicine program, which draws on faculty from the Medical School as well as the Wisconsin National Primate Re...Romond heads up study and reduces breast cancer recurrence
...ficant. Dr. Edward Romond, associate professor of medicine at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and UK Markey Cancer Center, acts as principal investigator on the study and the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) study chair. "For women with this type of aggressive breas...Use of PET can reduce, may eliminate more strenuous drug development trials with animals
...ritten by Songji Zhao, M.D., department of nuclear medicine and the department of tracer kinetics, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan; SNM member Yuji Kuge, Ph.D., department of tracer kinetics, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan; Takafumi Mochizuki,...How the environment could be damaging men's reproductive health
...hursday 28 April) in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction, suggest that environmental pollutants could be changing the ratio of sperm carrying the X or Y (sex determining) chromosomes and that they could be contributing towards male reproductive disorders. A study by Swedish resea...Respiratory syncytial virus poses a significant threat to elderly
...isk adults, says Falsey, an associate professor of medicine and the study's principal investigator. "This in no way diminishes the impact of RSV in children," Falsey says. "For the elderly, RSV can be serious, similar to the flu. Overall, RSV causes a substantial burden of disease in adults. Development of a ...OHSU research shows vitamin C counteracts some negative impacts of smoking on unborn babies
...ned Michael Gravett, M.D., chief of maternal-fetal medicine in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, OHSU School of Medicine, and a researcher at ONPRC. "While we strongly encourage all women to quit smoking, this is not always possible. These data suggest that vitamin C may be an important tool in p...Metal stents are safe and effective for treatment of obstructions from pancreatic cancer
...roenterologist and assistant professor of internal medicine at UVa's Digestive Health Center of Excellence. "We can provide resolution of jaundice and alleviate the symptoms for a long period of time, at least long enough until patients are able to have their cancer treated with surgery." Between March 2...NIH awards Georgia Tech/Emory $11.5 M for nano cardiology research
... between Emory and Georgia Tech in engineering and medicine demonstrates the power of discovery that becomes possible when two institutions join their unique yet complementary strengths in an entirely new scientific approach to solving complex problems of medicine," said Dr. James W. Wagner, president of Emor...National Academies news: 72 new members chosen by academy
... Cancer Society Research Professor, departments of medicine and genome sciences, University of Washington, Seattle KLAINERMAN, SERGIU ; professor, department of mathematics, Princeton University KOLLR, JNOS ; professor of mathematics, department of mathematics, Princeton University LAMPSON, BUTLER W. ; di...Aeras and UCLA announce license deal for new TB vaccine
...ized nations," said Dr. Horwitz, UCLA professor of medicine and microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics. "I am pleased that through this agreement, efforts will be made to continue the development of a vaccine that has the potential to reduce substantially the enormous burden of tuberculosis in the d...Columbia dedicates new 300,000 sq. ft. Irving Cancer Research Center
...ischbach, M.D., who is also dean of the faculty of medicine at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons. Andrew von Eschenbach, M.D., director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and a cancer survivor, gave the keynote address. "This combination of the greatest scientific minds and world class resear...Society of Nuclear Medicine to offer $10,000 William L. Ashburn, M.D., Pilot Research Grant for 2006
...cian who contributed to the advancement of nuclear medicine throughout his career," said SNM President Mathew ... Ashburn, who nurtured the talents of many nuclear medicine professionals who have become prominent researchers today," said Thakur. "Dr. Ashburn was a passiona...