High blood pressure, low energy -- a recipe for heart failure
Aug. 10, 2007 -- Many people with long-standing high blood pressure develop heart failure. But some don't. Daniel P. Kelly, M.D., and colleagues at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and other institutions are trying to figure out what could explain that difference. ... Their latest research reveals that impaired energy production in heart muscle may underlie heart failure in...ESA announces 2007 award recipients
... ... ... The E. Lucy Braun Award for Excellence in Ecology is given to a student for the most outstanding poster presentation at the ESA Annual Meeting. The 2006 recipient is Daniel Laughlin (Northern Arizona University) for his poster Climate-induced temporal va...ACMG Foundation announces 2007-2008 Luminex/ACMGF award recipient
... Medical geneticists pay a crucial role in translat...Generalized reciprocity in rats
... Although many models have predic...AIUM announced EER grant recipients
LAUREL, MD--The American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) announced the winners of its 2006 Endowment for Education and Research (EER) grants at the 2006 AIUM Annual Convention in Washington, DC. The funding for the grants is made possible by generous donations from AIUM members. ...... Congratulations to the following investigators who received grants:...... ...University of Cincinnati...JDRF announces 2007 Scholar Award recipients
... Among the researchers selected are Dr. Michael German, associate director of the Diabetes Center at the University of California at San Francisco; Dr. Anjana Rao, professor of pathology...Data presented at ISHLT meeting confirm RNA analysis can identify rejection in lung transplant recip
SAN FRANCISCO, April 27, 2007 Recent data from the Lung Allograft Rejection Gene expression Observational (LARGO) study provides compelling evidence that profiling gene expression in peripheral blood can detect organ rejection in lung transplant patients. Refining the Identification of Discriminatory Genes for Rejection in Lung Transplantation: The LARGO Study will be presented today by Shaf Ke...Researchers associate calories from newspaper dessert recipes with community obesity rates
... ... "The average total calor...Researchers begin 'Project 3000,' a recipe for hope through genetic research
... ... ... ... ... Heat...PNAS announces 2006 Cozzarelli Prize recipients
WASHINGTON The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has awarded the Cozzarelli Prize to six outstanding PNAS papers published in 2006.... In 2005, PNAS established the annual Paper of the Year Prize to recognize recently published PNAS articles of scientific excellence and originality. The lab motto of Nick Cozzarelli, the late Editor-in-Chief, was "Blast ahead," as he encoura...Wiley Foundation announces recipients of 6th annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences
... Dr. Hartl and Dr. Horwich were chosen for their elucidation of the...Long-term cancer risk follows stem cell transplant recipients
), a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study reveals that within 10 years of an allogeneic HSCT, the relative risk of a second, solid cancer is almost twice that...Mixing exploitation and conservation: A recipe for disaster
... For decades, the Dutch government sanctioned mechanical cockl...NIH director announces 2006 Pioneer Award recipients
... ... "The 2006 Pioneer Award recipients are a diverse group of forward-thinking scientists whose work could transform medical research," said Zerhouni. "The awards will give them the intel...Biophysical Society names 2007 award recipients
... Klaus Gawrisch, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, will receive the Avanti Award in Lipids for his outstanding contributions to our understanding of lipid biophysics through groundbreaking work in the development of NMR techniques for...Biophysical Society names 2007 award recipients
... Klaus Gawrisch, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, will receive the Avanti Award in Lipids for his outstanding contributions to our understanding of lipid biophysics through groundbreaking work in the development of NMR techniques for charact...Schepens Eye Research Institute scientist is ARVO's 2007 Friedenwald Award recipient
... Gipson was selected to receive the Friedenwald Award in recognition for her seminal contributions to basic and clinical understanding of wound healing, epithelial anchorage, and mucin bio...2006 World Food Prize recipients to be recognized at soils congress
Ambassador Kenneth M. Quinn, President of the World Food Prize, will recognize two soil scientists and a Brazilian government official Monday, July 10 at the Opening Ceremony of the 18th World Congress of Soil Science in Philadelphia for what Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr. Norman E. Borlaug has called "one of the great achievements of agricultural science in the 20th century." Ambassador Quinn wi...SNM names Sanjiv Sam Gambhir as recipient of 2006 Paul C. Aebersold Award
SAN DIEGO, Calif.--Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, a professor of radiology and bioengineering, director of the Molecular Imaging Program and head of the nuclear medicine division at Stanford University, received SNM's 2006 Paul C. Aebersold Award for outstanding achievement in basic nuclear medicine science during the society's 53rd Annual Meeting in San Diego.... ..."I feel very honored to be selected for...UCI among recipients of $3.9 million grant advancing wound healing research
Irvine, Calif., May 30, 2006 -- UC Irvine will take part in a multi-institutional program to better understand how deep wounds can be healed following traumatic injury -- research that also could lead to significant advances in the field of limb regeneration. The program will be financed by a one-year, $3.9 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the research and develop...Keck Futures Initiative announces grant recipients
Washington -- The National Academies Keck FUTURES INITIATIVE announced today the recipients of its 2005 FUTURES grants, each in the amount of $50,000 or $75,000 to support interdisciplinary research on genomics and infectious disease. The 14 research projects that were awarded funding represent a wide range of approaches to the field, which was the subject of the third FUTURES conference, "The G...From Europa to the lab, a new recipe for oxygen on icy moons
ATLANTA-- Some may be surprised to learn that bleach-blondes and the enabler of life elsewhere in our solar system have something in common. And, no, it's not intelligence. It is, in fact, hydrogen peroxide....... But how that hydrogen peroxide emerges from ice to become life-sustaining oxygen has been unclear. Now, a new study at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory i...2005 NIH Director's Pioneer Award recipients announced
National Institutes of Health Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., today named 13 new recipients of the NIH Director's Pioneer Award.... ...A key component of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, the Pioneer Award supports exceptionally creative scientists who take innovative approaches to major challenges in biomedical research. The award gives recipients the intellectual freedom to pursue groundb...USC recipient of stem cell training grants from California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
SACRAMENTO, California--The Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California has received a 3-year, $3.16 million stem cell training grant as part of the first round of grants awarded by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM).... ...The Keck School's grant was called "very thoughtful" by CIRM's Research Funding Working Group and was one of many grants announced...'Cookbook recipes' would cure disease with nontoxic DNA delivery systems
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Scientists studying the structure and interaction of negatively charged lipids and DNA molecules have created a "cookbook" for a class of nontoxic DNA delivery systems that will assist doctors and clinicians in the safe and effective delivery of genetic medicine....... As reported in the Aug. 9 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers have now p...Soil fertility in the tropics can be influenced by landscape and precipitation, study finds
A new study conducted in the Hawaiian Islands has revealed that landscape and erosion play crucial roles in determining soil fertility in tropical ecosystems. ......"This study is the first to accurately predict the distribution of nutrients across a complex tropical forest landscape, and then to detect these shifts in nutrient status using airborne sensors," says Stanford University graduate stu...Michael R. Zalutsky named recipient of Society of Nuclear Medicine's 2005 Berson-Yalow Award
TORONTO, Canada--Michael R. Zalutsky, Ph.D., a professor of radiology and biomedical engineering at Duke University, Durham, N.C., is the recipient of the 2005 Society of Nuclear Medicine's Berson-Yalow Award. This honor is given to the investigator who has submitted the most original scientific abstracts and made the most significant contributions to basic or clinical radioassay. SNM President M...Steven M. Larson named recipient of SNM's 2005 Georg Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award
TORONTO, Canada--Steven M. Larson, M.D., chief of the nuclear medicine service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, N.Y., was awarded the 2005 Georg Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award for his distinguished contributions to nuclear medicine. The award was presented during the society's 52nd Annual Meeting June 1822 in Toronto. ...... Larson, one of the world's foremost experts in...UCLA engineering professor Jennifer Jay named recipient of Presidential Early Career Award
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science professor Jennifer Jay has been chosen as one of only 20 young National Science Foundation-supported scientists and engineers to receive the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers....... Bestowed by President George W. Bush, the award is the highest national honor for investigators in the early stages o...Society of Nuclear Medicine announces recipient of Mark Tetalman Award
RESTON, Va.--The Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) recently awarded the Mark Tetalman Award to Georges El Fakhri, Ph.D., M.Eng., MSEE, MSBME, at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass....... The $2,500 award, which honors the work of a young investigator who is pursuing a career in molecular imaging/nuclear medicine, is based in part on submitting a paper supporting cu...Improved recipe for magnetic brain stimulation
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), in which the brain is stimulated using a magnetic coil held outside the skull, has shown some promise in both studying the brain and in treating mental disorders such as depression, epilepsy, and Parkinson's disease. Such magnetic fields induce tiny electrical currents inside the skull that alter the activity of neural pathways.... ...While TMS offers the...Erkki Ruoslahti of The Burnham Institute named recipient of 2005 Japan Prize
(La Jolla, California) Dr. Erkki Ruoslahti, Distinguished Professor at The Burnham Institute, has been named as recipient of the 2005 Japan Prize in the category of cell biology. Dr. Ruoslahti will share the prize, 50 million yen (approximately $487,000 U.S.), with Dr. Masatoshi Takeichi, Director of RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan. The award will be presented to the scie...Study reveals developing countries with recipe for thriving health biotech industries
Study co-authors are available for advance interviews Friday Dec. 3. Please call to schedule a time. The study will be published as a special supplement Mon. Dec 6 in Nature Biotechnology. The embargoed study can be previewed by media online at ... ...Cuba, South Korea, and India make and export their own biotech vaccines, Egypt manufactures recombinant insulin, and South Africa is developing a...UF scientists have bionanotechnology recipe to find elusive bacteria
GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- A team of University of Florida researchers has created tiny hybrid particles that can speedily root out even one isolated E. coli bacterium lurking in ground beef or provide a crucial early warning alarm for bacteria used as agents of bioterrorism and for early disease diagnosis. ... The study will appear this week in the ... "Our focus is the development of a bionanotechn...