NIH gives $8M to University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine for myositis research
... Chester V. Oddis, M.D., professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, is principal investigator for the effort, which involves 36 other scientis...University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers develop 'off-the-shelf' vascular grafts
TORONTO, June 15 University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine investigators have engineered artificial blood vessels from muscle-derived stem cells (MDSCs) and a biodegradable polymer that exhibit extensive remodeling and remain free of blockages when grafted into rats. The results of their study, which is being presented at the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society...University of Pittsburgh researchers culture blood-forming stem cells from human fat tissue
TORONTO, June 14 Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have successfully isolated and cultured human hematopoietic stem cells from fat, or adipose, tissue, suggesting that they have found another important source of cells for reconstituting the bone marrow of patients undergoing intensive radiation therapy for blood cancers. They are presenting this ground-breaking rese...Pitt professor contends biological underpinnings
... In an examination that further challenges the Darwinian model, Schwartz and cowriter Bruno Mares...University of Pittsburgh scientists find new contributor to aggressive cancers
... Integrin 7 belongs to a major class of cell membrane proteins that play a role in...University of Pittsburgh discovers genetic 'shut down' trigger in healthy immune cells
... "This kind of loss-of-function mutation can be very dangerous, and it is the first such mutation that has been identified in normal immune...What's in the water? Estrogenic activity documented in fish caught in Pittsburgh's rivers
... The study, abstract number 3458, being presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, April...The sturdier sex? -- Study by Pittsburgh scientists finds female stem cells work better
... ... This finding could have a major impact on the successful development of stem cells as viable therapies for a variety of diseases and conditions, according to the studys sen...Pitt study notes decline in male births in the US and Japan
PITTSBURGH, April 9 A study published in this weeks online edition of Environmental Health Perspectives reports that during the past thirty years, the number of male births has decreased each year in the U.S. and Japan. In a review of all births in both countries, the University of Pittsburgh-led study found significantly fewer boys being born relative to girls in the U.S. and Japan, and that a...Harvard and U. Pittsburgh researchers explain carbon monoxide's anti-inflammatory effects
... According to t...NIH gives PITT $13 million grant for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease research
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 18 -- The University of Pittsburgh has been awarded an estimated ...$13 million research grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop novel approaches that seek to increase our understanding of and improve outcomes for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a degenerative breathing disord...Pittsburgh-based team engineers muscle, bone cell differentiation with aid of ink-jet printer
PITTSBURGH -- A Pittsburgh-based research team has created and used an innovative ink-jet system to print "bio-ink" patterns that direct muscle-derived stem cells from adult mice to differentiate into both muscle cells and bone cells. The results, which could revolutionize the design of replacement body tissues, will be presented Sunday, Dec. 10 at the 46th annual meeting of the American Society...Two Pitt researchers make 'Scientific American 50' of leaders in science and technology
... William R. Wagner, Ph.D., and Michael Sacks, Ph.D., of the University of Pittsburgh's McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine and department of bioengineering, were recognized for their research that has enabled the development of a novel biod...Pitt receives $2.75 million to prevent spread of flu in public schools
... The Pittsburgh Influenza Prevention Project (PIPP) will work to develop a school-based early warning system to identify early cases and outbreaks of influenza. In addition, it will test the effectiveness of simple ways to help reduce the spread of influenza in sc...Roger Kornberg to present Dickson Prize lecture at U of Pittsburgh's SCIENCE2006: Feel the Power
... Dr. Kornberg is one of four prominent scientists who will prese...Top jaundice experts present latest treatment information during live Web cast from Pittsburgh
... ... Two of the world's leading experts on this condition will present the latest informati...University of Pittsburgh to host Global Health Conference
... Overcoming such barriers in order to make effective health and human rights interventions more accessible to people her...University of Pittsburgh receives $1.3 million from NIH to develop promising avian flu vaccine
... In January of this year, Pitt researchers reported in the journal Virology that their vaccine, which contains critical components of the deadly H5N1 virus but does not cause disease, completely protected mice and chickens from infection after...Genetic research at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh reinforces theory of evolution
... There are approximately 20,000 pseudogenes in the human and other mammalian genomes. In recent years, there has been growing discussion about the nature of these pseudogenes. The issue centers on whether pseudogenes are functional or merely evolutionary relics with no function. It was long believed by geneticists that they were relics, unti...High school students, teachers join Pitt's 'Gene Team'
... It probably helps that during the school year, McKelvey would never have teacher Veronica Mattson for a class. McKelvey is a junior at Hampton High School, while Mattson teaches honors biology to ninth-graders at West Mifflin Area High School, both in Pittsburgh, Pa. But for eight weeks this summer, they are partners in the University of Pittsburgh's "Gene Team," which pairs students a...Carnegie Mellon, Pitt receive $15 million from NSF to found center to improve quality of life
Pittsburgh -- Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) have been awarded a five-year, $15 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish an engineering research center that will develop technologies to help older adults and people with disabilities live independently and productively. ... Researchers at the new Quality of Life Technology Enginee...HIV infection requires B cells with special protein, University of Pittsburgh researchers report
Pittsburgh, July 13 HIV infection of T cells requires activation of a molecule on the surface of B cells, a finding that reveals yet another pathway the virus uses in its insidious attack on the immune system, report University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH) and School of Medicine researchers in PLoS Pathogens, an open-access journal published by the Public Library of Sci...Pitt phage hunter takes on tuberculosis
... More effective treatments could be on the way, however, with a new five-year, $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to Graham Hatfull, Eberly Family Professor of Biotechnology and Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences in th...NIH selects Pittsburgh institute as leader for HIV/AIDS prevention efforts
... ... Sharon L. Hillier, Ph.D., professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences and of molecu...Pitt trains budding engineers to 'think green'
Dwindling natural resources mean that engineers of the 21st century, more than ever before, must be conscious of environmental constraints. To help train the next generation of engineers to think green, the Mascaro Sustainability Initiative (MSI) in the University of Pittsburgh's School of Engineering has created a Sustainable Engineering Fellowship Program, which will begin in fall 2006. .........Founding member of Pitt's Biology Department to be honored in Harrisburg, Pa., ceremony
The year was 1949. The structure of penicillin was determined; the lysosome, a cell structure that breaks down proteins, discovered; and the "strong force," which holds protons and neutrons together in the nucleus of an atom, first described. ...... Amid these firsts in the fields of biology and physics, Max A. Lauffer became the chair of the newly created Department of Biophysics at the Universi...PITT's McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine presenting new research at World Congress
PITTSBURGH This week, the University of Pittsburgh McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine plays unofficial host to nearly 1,000 scientists, clinicians, business leaders, entrepreneurs and military and government officials from around the world attending the 2006 Regenerate World Congress on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, the first ever meeting of the Tissue Engineering and Reg...UCI professors Barbara Finlayson-Pitts and Anthony James elected to National Academy of Sciences
Irvine, Calif., April 25, 2006 -- UC Irvine professors Barbara Finlayson-Pitts and Anthony James have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. ......Finlayson-Pitts and James are two of 72 new members and 18 foreign associates elected into the academy in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. ...... Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, professor of che...NIH awards $13.3 million to Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH--A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh has received a five-year, $13.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish a National Technology Center for Networks and Pathways.... ...The center, headquartered at Carnegie Mellon, will focus on developing fluorescent probe and imaging technologies to investigate regul...Pitt researchers find 'switch' for brain's pleasure pathway
Amid reports that a drug used to treat Parkinson's disease has caused some patients to become addicted to gambling and sex, University of Pittsburgh researchers have published a study that sheds light on what may have gone wrong....... In the current issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Pitt professor of neuroscience, psychiatry, and psychology Anthony Grace and Pitt neurosci...Pittsburgh researchers discover that certain chemicals in the blood may indicate brain injury
Researchers at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh have found that increased levels of certain proteins in the blood or spinal fluid may signal brain injury in infants with vomiting, fussiness and several other common symptoms. ... ...Infants with shaken baby syndrome (SBS) the most common cause of severe traumatic brain injuries in young children are often misdiagnosed because doctors rarely rec...PITT research integrity panel finds that Dr. Gerald Schatten committed no scientific misconduct
The University of Pittsburgh Research Integrity Panel charged on December 12 to investigate the involvement of Gerald Schatten, Ph.D., with two published articles from Dr. Woo-Suk Hwang's group at Seoul National University (SNU), has completed its work and submitted its report to Arthur S. Levine, M.D., senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and dean, University of Pittsburgh School of Me...Pitt professor's article considers nature as a service provider
A study published Feb. 1 in the journal Bioscience finds that giving economic value to environmental systems may actually help preserve those systems in the long run. The study, led by University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) Professor Stephen Farber and titled "Linking Ecology and Economics for Ecosystem Management," uses several case studies to illust...Pitt professor's theory of evolution gets boost from cell research
This release was previously embargoed for January 31, 2006 at 10 am EST. ......An article by University of Pittsburgh Professor of Anthropology Jeffrey H. Schwartz and University of Salerno Professor of Biochemistry Bruno Maresca, published Jan. 30 in the New Anatomist journal, shows that the emerging understanding of cell structure lends strong support to Schwartz's theory of evolution, original...Carbon nanotubes that detect disease-causing mutations developed by Pitt researcher
University of Pittsburgh researcher Alexander Star and colleagues at California-based company Nanomix, Inc., have developed devices made of carbon nanotubes that can find mutations in genes causing hereditary diseases, they report in the Jan. 16 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. This method is less expensive and takes less time than conventional techniques.... ....Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh receive educational grant from HHMI
PITTSBURGH--Carnegie Mellon University, in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh, has received a prestigious grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to support the development of an interdisciplinary joint doctoral program in computational biology. ......The $1 million grant, one of only 10 awarded from a competition of 132 applicants nationwide, will support the new Ph.D....Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh to lead international study of acute liver failure in children
A renowned liver expert from Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh is leading an international study examining the causes and potential treatments of acute liver failure in children.... ...Robert H. Squires Jr., MD, director of hepatology and clinical director of the Division of Gastroenterology at Children's, is the principal investigator of a five-year, $5.8 million study that was recently funded b...Roundup(r) kills frogs as well as tadpoles, Pitt biologist finds
PITTSBURGH-As amphibians continue to mysteriously disappear worldwide, a University of Pittsburgh researcher may have found more pieces of the puzzle. Elaborating on his previous research, Pitt assistant professor of biological sciences Rick Relyea has discovered that Roundup(r), the most commonly used herbicide in the world, is deadly to tadpoles at lower concentrations than previously tested; t...Pitt to teach green building in the tropics
PITTSBURGH--The world's rapidly increasing population is straining natural resources, necessitating a sustainable approach to development. Starting this fall, University of Pittsburgh students will be able to travel to the University at Campinas (UNICAMP) in So Paulo, Brazil, to conduct research in green construction and sustainable water use technology under a new Pitt program funded by a $3.2 m...'Wet' electrons provide easiest way to transport charge, Pitt researchers find
PITTSBURGH--The task of transporting electrical charges between metal-oxide and water phases is critical in such technologies as catalysis, sensors, and electrochemistry. In a paper published in this week's issue of the journal Science, University of Pittsburgh researchers report that "wet" electrons afford the lowest energy pathway for transporting electrons between solid and liquid states.........