UCSF-led team receives $15 million to study genetics of epilepsy
...SF scientists has received a grant of $15 million, provided over five years, to study the complex genetic factors that underlie some of the most common forms of epilepsy. The study, known as the "Epilepsy Phenome/Genome Project (EPGP), is funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stro...SNM 'capitalizes' opportunity to meet with policymakers, regulators at annual meeting in D.C.
...lear Regulatory Commission and specialty workshops provided by representatives from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and the National Cancer Institute," said Sandler. "We are certainly going to 'capitalize' on hosting our Annual Meeting in the Nation's Capital," said SNM Techn...Puzzling plankton yield secrets to role in evolution/global photosynthesis
...alysis of DNA sequences from tiny green algae have provided new insights into the mystery of how new species of plankton evolveand further highlights their critical role in managing the global cycling of carbon. These findings, by a group led by the DOE Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI); the Scripps Instituti...Oxford physiology professor earns APS' Walter B. Cannon Award
...insulin for its needs. Dr. Ashcroft's research has provided insights into how insulin is normally secreted by the pancreas and what goes wrong with this process in diabetes. Research on ion channels, which Dr. Ashcroft dubs "prize pores," is playing a major role in APS-sponsored sessions at Experimental Biol...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...while the vaccine with reduced antigen levels only provided up to 25 % protection. In the present study, we have shown for the first time that orally administered Salmonella expressing PA is able to protect mice against infection caused by airborne B. anthracis, say the researchers. (M.G.M. Stokes, R.W. T...Army research mission focused on autism
...As a result of advocacy efforts, the U.S. Congress provided $7.5 million in appropriations directed to the Department of Defense to initiate the Autism Spectrum Disorder Research Program in 2007. The U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command has been administrating research funding for several specific ...New edition of touchstone microbiology reference book now available
...chapter as they appear in the print manual and are provided as JPEG files that are optimized for onscreen viewing. "Although the field of clinical microbioology is undergoing dramatic changes with the confluence of traditional techniques and exciting advances in genomics and proteomics, I believe that the Ma...Highlighted sessions of ASBMB's 2007 Annual Meeting
...ry: Although the sequencing of entire genomes has provided significant information, current and future challenges will be to identify the functions of the proteins made by these genes. MICHAEL SNYDER, Associate Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University, New Haven, Conn., will desc...JCI table of contents -- April 19, 2007
...loping fetus? Several answers to this question are provided by a new study of mice from researchers at New York University School of Medicine. In the study, which appears online on April 19 in advance of publication in the May print issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Adrian Erlebacher and colle...Freeze! Scientists film proteins at work by freezing them at different states
...he technique of Raman spectroscopy. This technique provided them with strong evidence that the states were the appropriate ones by showing them the chemical bonds in each stage of the reaction. Once they had identified the right states, they studied the sample with synchrotron x-rays. We expect this new metho...Difficult births in obese women due to uterus failure
...egnancies and appropriate antenatal care should be provided so they receive the optimum care during maternity." ...IMS reaction to report on breast cancer incidence in 2003 in US
...en therapy is unlikely. The WHI study has already provided very good epidemiological data on the association between HT and breast cancer risk. In the conjugated equine estrogen plus medroxyprogesterone acetate arm (5.2 years' follow-up), no risk was recorded for women who did not use HT prior to the study o...AACR, FDA and NCI announce cancer biomarkers collaborative at the AACR 2007 annual meeting
... cancer biology over the last quarter century have provided us with a better fundamental understanding of cancer in all of its forms, yet the translation of this knowledge into medical practice remains painstakingly slow," said William N. Hait, M.D., Ph.D., President of the American Association for Cancer Res...... tremendous, up to ten times the quanity of nectar provided by typical bee flowers....Cetuximab increases survival in advanced colorectal cancer patients, study shows
...gression of the disease. Support for the study was provided by Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and ImClone Systems Incorporated. "Cetuximab improved survival in these patients when all other therapies had failed," said Derek Jonker, M.D., assistant professor at the University of Ottawa and Canadian co-chair of...Ebola outbreaks killing thousands of gorillas and chimpanzees
... at least once every seven days. The study also provided the first evidence that gorillas from one social group closely inspect the carcasses of gorillas from other groups. Contact with corpses at funerals is a major mechanism of Ebola transmission in humans. Together with other recent observations on patt...Massey researchers induce cell death in leukemia
...tudies conducted on two established CLL cell lines provided additional preclinical evidence that bortezomib interacts synergistically with both agents to induce cell death in human CLL cells. Romidepsin and belinostat are histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors. "To the best of our knowledge, this is the fir...Diffraction and scattering -- the solution to what's in solution
...ion and solid state environment." "We have been provided with additional structural and chemical insight into tetravalent actinide hydrolysis," said Lynda Soderholm, senior scientist at Argonne. "We discovered that the way atoms interact is transferable with a lot more detail than what was previously thoug...JCI table of contents: April 12, 2007
... of a new treatment for these cancers has now been provided by researchers from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston who suggest that inhibiting the protein ATM might kill these cancer cells. In the study, which appears online on April 12 in advance of publication in the May print issue of the Journal...2 heads are better than 1: 2 dysfunctional DNA repair pathways kill tumor cells
... of a new treatment for these cancers has now been provided by researchers from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston who suggest that inhibiting the protein ATM might kill these cancer cells. In the study, which appears online on April 12 in advance of publication in the May print issue of the Journal...