NC woman is now insulin-free after series of three islet cell transplants
...sulin. The patient is alert during the process but receives local anesthesia to numb the skin where the catheter is inserted. Most patients stay in the recovery area for a few hours, and are able to go home within a day or two. As in Annie's case, more than one transfusion of islet cells may be needed. "Isle...Walk slowly for weight loss, according to University of Colorado study
...ithin CU-Boulder's Wardenburg Health Center, which receives more than $1 million in funding annually from the National Institutes of Health....NWO/Spinoza prize to cancer research, cognitive sciences, physics and mathematics
...he biggest Dutch award in science. Each researcher receives one-and-a-half million euros to freely devote to his or her research. The researchers receive the prestigious prize for their outstanding, pioneering and inspiring scientific work. The winners of the NWO/Spinoza prize 2005 are: Prof. R. (Ren) Berna...Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Many of 2 billion dryland dwellers at risk as land degrades
...m makes desertification a global concern one that receives too little attention," says co-author Zafar Adeel, Assistant Director of the United Nations University water academy in Canada, the UNU International Network on Water, Environment and Health. Population growth, globalization and desertification Des...Positive effects of nuclear medicine, 'smart drugs' provide hope for non-hodgkin's lymphoma patients
...ir lives." With the therapeutic regimen, a patient receives an injected test dose of the antitumor monoclonal ...patient's own handling of the drug, so the patient receives a "personalized dose" of the treatment. Therapy is considered complete after the patient receives th...Carbon monoxide: Poison gas or anti-inflammatory drug?
...no effective treatments for OB. Unless the patient receives a new lung transplant, the outcome is generally fatal." Results of the U-M study were published July 18 in the most recent issue of the Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM). Pinsky's research team focuses on the relationship between carbon monoxide...W. M. Keck Foundation announces 2005 class of Distinguished Young Scholars in Medical Research
...ram, each grant recipient's sponsoring institution receives an award of as much as $1 million to support the scientist's research activities for a period of five years. It is hoped that the investment in the Keck Scholars will greatly benefit society for generations to come with continued advances in underst...The brain may interpret the information it receives from sensory neurons using a code more complicated than scientists previously thought, according to new research from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. By studying how monkeys perceive a vibrating object ...Breakthrough: Structure of membrane protein described by Hebrew University, German researchers
...rates as a kind of pump, utilizing energy which it receives from processes taking place within the cell. The protein structure thus acts as a kind of molecular motor. This "motor" is connected to the area found at the mouth of the funnel that apparently conveys signals to "modulate" the motor according to the...Carnegie Mellon rover heads to Atacama Desert for final mission in 3-year search for life
...no, and an area in the desert's arid interior that receives no precipitation for decades at a time. At these sites, the rover's activities will be guided remotely from an operations center in Pittsburgh where the researchers will characterize the environment, seek clear proof of life and map the distribution ...Making plant cells work like miniature factories
...expected in 2007 and could continue if the program receives good marks during a peer review scheduled for 2008. Before they can study the chemical makeup within plant cells, the team must construct new analytical instruments capable of identifying molecules in such minute quantities. "Developing the instrumen...Marine researcher wins prestigious chemistry prize
...September in Seville (Spain). Jaap Sinninghe Damst receives the Treibs medal for his years of successful research into the biogeochemistry of fossilised carbon-based molecules in sediments. The Treibs medal is a gold medal, which is presented with a certificate. Sinninghe Damst is the second NIOZ researcher t...Computers close in on protein structure prediction
...irmations of a folded protein. Baker's lab already receives help from supercomputing centers in San Diego and Illinois. More help will soon be on its way from many of the 5,000 freshman entering University of Washington this fall. Using software developed to assist the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligenc...Sugar helps control cell division
... Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Hart receives a percentage of royalties received by the university on sales of this antibody (CTD 110.6). The terms of this arrangement are being managed in accordance with the university's conflict of interest policy....UQ researchers honoured for research excellence
...Dr Steve Johnston of the School of Animal Studies, receives $50,000 to establish the world's largest echidna r...r Rodney Rietze of the Queensland Brain Institute, receives $80,000 to identify neural stem cells which may soon unlock the secrets to healing the brain. Dr Ri...Cell signaling discovery yields heart disease clues
...iversity researchers insight into how it sends and receives signals, and that's providing clues into how heart disease and other disorders develop. In a study appearing in today's edition of Nature, John Scott, Ph.D., a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and senior scientist at OHSU's Vollum Institu...EMBO honours leading Italian and Russian science communicators
...for Communication in the Life Sciences. Boncinelli receives the award in recognition of his outstanding efforts in science communication. Since 1994, the professor of biology and genetics, a founding figure in developmental biology, has published 18 popular science books on topics such as genetics, aging, neu...The brain needs the middle ear to track depth
...nd distance takes place, suspecting that the brain receives information not just from the eye but also from the motion-detecting vestibular system in the middle ear. In studies with monkeys reported in the October 6, 2005, issue of Neuron, Nuo Li and Dora Angelaki of Washington University School of Medicine i...'EMBO Gold' goes to leading diabetes and cancer researcher
... is the 2005 winner of the EMBO Gold Medal. Alessi receives the award in recognition of his landmark work in cell signalling. The young scientist's pioneering research on enzymes called "kinases" and their role in inherited disease has provided exciting new insights into conditions such as diabetes, cancer an......ntravenous feeding, because the gall bladder never receives the signal from the small intestine to release bile acids. Dr. Kliewer said perhaps giving cholestatis patients FGF19 the human equivalent of FGF15 may turn off the overproduction of harmful bile acids in these cases. "So now we have a hormone tha...