Ossur's Proprio Foot walks away with 2007 Medical Design Excellence Award
...tise in real-time motion analysis for the foot was provided by Canadian company, Dynastream. The Medical Design Excellence Awards competition is organized and presented by Canon Communications LLC (Los Angeles) and is the only awards program that exclusively recognizes contributions and advances in the ...Presidential Recognition Awards presented at the 2007 AIUM Annual Convention
... Ultrasound Team for the effort and expertise they provided towards the goal of ultrasound contrast agent approval in the US. This prestigious award honors outstanding contributions and service to the AIUM and to the broader ultrasound community. Its recipients are extremely active within the organization,...Study examines calorie restriction and glycemic load
...rted in the body to blood sugar. Examples of foods provided as part of the LG diet include bean and barley stew, low-fat cottage cheese, and pumpernickel bread. The HG diet included foods like bagels, candied sweet potatoes and shepherd's pie with mashed potatoes. Both diets were designed to restrict calori...India's biotech industry emerging as world innovator, collaborator, competitor
...e international technology and expertise. Services provided include R&D, clinical trials and manufacturing. Bh...bilities are there, but if these companies are not provided political and financial commitments to develop products for these diseases, they too will redirect t...MIT model helps researchers 'see' brain development
...collection of MR images from 11 developing brains, provided by Ellen Grant, chief of pediatric radiology at MGH and the Martinos Center. Of the subjects scanned, eight were newborn, mostly premature babies ranging from about 30 to 40 weeks of gestational age, and three were from children aged two, three and s...UAF researchers garner $6.5 million in NSF grants
...es of recent and projected changes in the services provided by local boreal forest ecosystems, such as subsistence resources, and global services, such as carbon sequestration. "IPY: Collaborative Research on Carbon, Water and Energy Balance of the Arctic Landscape at Flagship Observatories and in a Pan-...Dog DNA study yields clues to diverse size of breeds
... in the United Kingdom used 3,200 dog DNA samples provided by Mars Incorporated, which holds the most comprehensive canine genetic database in the world. This has been built up with the help of pet owners who consent to their pets providing saliva and blood samples for the database. Mars genetic data allow......y Michael Rosbash, explained that this property is provided by an adaptable brain circuit of oscillating neurons, capable of responding specifically to different environmental cues. Previous research by the same team in the lab of Michael Rosbash had already demonstrated that two groups of neurons, called mor...Slow but sure -- Burned forest lands regenerate naturally
... locally dominant conifer regeneration. Seed was provided by patches of surviving trees or nearby unburned forest, which were rarely more than a few hundred yards from fire-killed trees. The relationship of shrub competition with tree seedlings also was surprising. On low and middle elevation sites, there w...AACR establishes new lecture in honor of Princess Takamatsu
...ng to define the genetic lesions in retinoblastoma provided the first genetic evidence for the existence of tumor suppressor genes, one of the most influential breakthroughs in cancer research. This breakthrough confirmed the "two-hit hypothesis," fundamentally altering the way scientists think about the ons...A changing climate for protected areas
...venting the loss of species due to climate change provided that shifts in species ranges are factored into early analysis of whether to expand current protected areas or create new ones. It is the first research on the relevancy of protected areas a mainstay of conservation efforts in adapting to climate c...Donald Metcalf receives American Association for Cancer Research Lifetime Achievement Award
...er cells for therapeutic use. Dr. Metcalfs work provided the pivotal demonstration that CSFs, when injected into animals, stimulated the formation and regulated the activity of white blood cells. Exploiting this, his collaborators documented the effectiveness of GM-CSF and G-CSF (two primary white blood ce...St. Jude named a Center of Excellence in flu research
...iques, developed tests to detect these viruses and provided seed vaccines to NIAID. The aim of the surveillance in the new contract is to track outbreaks of influenza virus infections in animals that routinely come into close contact with people and that have the potential to cause a pandemic. The investig...Joslin study indicates insulin receptors play a critical role in promoting islet growth
...use the beta cells lacked insulin receptors. "This provided genetic evidence that insulin receptors are important for the islet cell growth response to insulin resistance," said Dr. Kulkarni. In the second part of the study, researchers examined the role of the two related receptors--insulin and IGF-1. They...Monitoring poisons in the environment -- a woolly matter
...esults. Furthermore, it is intended to use samples provided by the British Wool Marketing Board in order to provide regional and national focus to this work. In addition, it is hoped that sheep can be of future use in bio-remediation studies on brownfield sites. Experimental method: A handful of wool was t...Estrogen protects liver after traumatic injury
...n estrogens beneficial effects, Chaudrys group has provided new insights in resolving liver injury following tissue trauma and major blood loss. Specific activation of these protein pathways may provide novel therapeutics for treating trauma patients....Atlas of Science Literacy completes mapping of science-learning pathways
...d high school grades. A Weather and Climate map, provided with this news release, shows how ideas relevant to global climate change relate to each other, both within and across grade levels. (Like other maps in the Atlas volumes, the Weather and Climate illustration draws upon useful ideas from the Nation...MIT's ocean model captures diversity of underwater forests
...dation, and the MIT Global Habitat Longevity Award provided funding for the research. Chisholm, Follows and Dutkiewicz plan to use this new type of model to look in more detail at what shapes the habitats of the phytoplankton and to link this to other, larger scientific issues about oceans, the plants and ...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- March 28, 2007
...verts. She interviewed several scientists who have provided new insights into these fascinating proteins, which make up at least 30 percent of human proteins and play key roles in everything from cell division to gene transcription. Interest in the field of intrinsically disordered proteins is growing, wit......ers, who need pay only for support and maintenance provided by industrial contractors; the improved source code itself remains free. High-resolution radar images of planet Earth Circling the Earth in a polar orbit at an altitude of 514 km, TerraSAR-X will collect high-quality X-band radar data of the en...