Researchers show that veins stiffen as we age
... rubber bands," William Farquhar, a cardiovascular physiologist in UD's College of Health Sciences, said. "But as you grow older, we've found that your veins become more like lead pipes." And that physiological change may be an important factor in the development of high blood pressure, or hypertension, which cu...Speak, memory: Research challenges theory of memory storage
...t Mayank Mehta, conducted with Nobel Prize-winning physiologist Bert Sakmann, shows the best evidence yet of the sleep dialogue between the old brain and the new. Their work, published in Nature Neuroscience, also shows that this interaction occurs in a startling way. Instead of the hippocampus uploading informa...Dragonfly's metabolic disease provides clues about human obesity
... James Marden, professor of biology and an insect physiologist at Penn State, and Ruud Schilder, who in August 2006 earned his doctorate in biology at Penn State and is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Nebraska, are the first to show a non-mammalian species suffering from metabolic dysfunction in w...APS names UC Davis professor 'Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen Distinguished Mentor and Scientist'
...woman president of the Society and a distinguished physiologist who has made significant contributions in her fiel...ornia, Davis. She was appointed assistant research physiologist at Davis and rose through the academic ranks to become professor of physiology in 1978. She was name...Wiley Foundation announces recipients of 6th annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences
...ze awards jury also includes Dr. Qais Al-Awqati, a physiologist at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, Dr. David J. Anderson, a developmental neurobiologist at the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Joan Steitz, a molecular biologist at Yale University, and Professor Kay E. Davies, a hu...Surprising airbag hazards among research findings at hearing safety conference
...l host dozens of presentations, including auditory physiologist Dr. G. Richard Prices "Intense Impulse Noise: Hearing Conservations Poison Gas," which has surprising new data on hearing loss as a result of automobile airbag deployment. He will present data predicting that 17 percent of people who are exposed to c...McGovern Institute Scolnick Prize awarded to David Julius
...search at MIT announced today that David Julius, a physiologist at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), will be the 2007 recipient of the Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience. The Scolnick prize is awarded each year by the McGovern Institute to recognize an individual who has made outstandin...Donald Metcalf receives American Association for Cancer Research Lifetime Achievement Award
PHILADELPHIA Donald Metcalf, M.D., the physiologist renowned as "the father of hematopoietic cytokines" for his pioneering work on the control of blood cell formation, will receive the American Association for Cancer Research Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research. The award will be prese...Leanest teens are biggest energy users and consumers
...n a daily basis," says Dr. Paule Barbeau, exercise physiologist at the Medical College of Georgia and corresponding author on the paper in the April issue of The International Journal of Obesity. "This allows your child to eat more calories, which encourages more healthy eating habits while remaining in energy ba...UCLA researchers discover link between Parkinson's and narcolepsy
...logist Thomas C. Thannickal and associate research physiologist Yuan-Yang Lai have determined that Parkinson's disease patients have a loss of up to 60 percent of brain cells containing the peptide hypocretin. In 2000, this same group of UCLA researchers first identified the cause of narcolepsy as a loss of hypoc......l. These and related studies are being led by physiologist J. Michael Wyss, Department of Cell Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, AL. Dr. Wyss will be discussing his work, entitled The Role of Estrogens and Polyphenols in Hypertension and Diabetes, at the upcoming conference, Sex...