Cardiac patches stimulate regeneration, improve function after heart attack
...r stimulation, re-enter the cell cycle, says Kuhn, who was awarded the Young Investigators Award for this research by the American College of Cardiology in March. This finding supports the idea that differentiated cardiomyocytes can proliferate. Using a small patch fashioned from a sponge-like material...NY Stem Cell Foundation's 2nd Annual Translational Stem Cell Research Conference
...tem cell scientists, advocates and policy leaders, who will discuss the continuing challenges facing the ... said Dr. Nurse. Its a delight to work with people who are passionate about trying to find new cures, added Melton. And its a pleasure in life to work with...Immune system 'escape hatch' gives cancer cells traction
... cells. The Florida team then turned to Schneck, who in 1993 developed several novel proteins to test how various antigens, such as those on cancer cells, specifically latch on to T cells. Researchers then began experiments to determine if the MDSC T-cell interference was simply genetic or had some...Study identifies energy efficiency as reason for evolution of upright walking
...l Sockol from the University of California, Davis, who was the lead author of the paper, and Herman Pontz...ly used one-quarter of the energy that chimpanzees who knuckle-walked on four legs did. On average, the chimpanzees used the same amount of energy using tw...Metabolic syndrome -- don't blame the belly fat
... all young, lean, non-smoking, healthy individuals who were sedentary and matched for physical activity. ...st to the young, lean, insulin-sensitive subjects, who stored most of their ingested energy as liver and muscle glycogen, the young, lean, insulin-resistan...Accident-prone? Scientists link brain function to knee injuries
...nik, the UD assistant professor of health sciences who led the study, said. These awkward movements have ...s testing also provided baseline data for athletes who might sustain a concussion after the season started, Swanik said. Visual memory, verbal memory, pr...Stem cell specialists face questioning
...he world, said organiser Professor Tim Hardingham, who is based in Manchesters Faculty of Life Sciences. We have a packed programme of speakers lined up over the next few days culminating with the Question Time event on Wednesday where people outside the field can take part in a full and frank debate o...Philadelphia ecologist receives top Mongolia honor
...s, received Mongolias highest honor for foreigners who have made outstanding contributions to promoting the central Asian nations development. In a ceremony in June in his office in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar, President Nambariin Enkhbayar awarded Goulden the Friendship Medal for helping develo...Manchester University helps with pharaoh DNA analysis
...ggesting the identity of the queen. Dr Corthals, who is based at Manchesters KNH Centre for Biomedical ...st, having been moved by her stepson Thutmose III, who on succession tried to destroy every trace of her reign. However, in 1903, a British archaeologi...Throwing motion in young baseball players may actually protect shoulder
...tion Center (July 12-15). Young baseball players who throw a lot maintain external shoulder rotation as they mature, says principal investigator Scott D. Mair, M.D., associate professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Good external rotation of the shoulder helps athle...Tumor painting revolutionizes fight against cancer
...eattle Childrens Hospital and The Hutchison Center who is the senior author of the study. By allowing surgeons to see cancer that would be undetectable by other means, we can give our patients better outcomes. Olson led the team that included neurosurgeons, engineers and biologists. The bioconjugate, C...... to the first drug to treat the millions of adults who suffer each year from persistent, debilitating fears - including hundreds of soldiers returning from conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan. The team will report their results in the July 15 advance online publication of Nature Neuroscience. A study c...Co-operation between GSF and clinic improves outlook for sarcoma patients
...f the tumour and in the survival of those patients who were treated by means of a combination of chemotherapy and of local, deep hyperthermia, in addition to operative removal of the sarcoma. This combined therapy has been applied already to a large number of patients in advance of surgery. The well re...Geologists witness unique volcanic mudflow in action in New Zealand
...ent. It's particularly motivating for the students who were along to learn first-hand about lahar processes in such a dynamic environment." Fagents and colleagues returned to New Zealand a month later to conduct a more detailed analysis of the deposit. "Because the Crater Lake breakout had been long fo...Serica scientists win AOSSM Award for ACL (knee) tissue regeneration in preclinical study
...oration between engineers, scientists and surgeons who share a vision to advance medical science and improve patient care, said John C. Richmond, MD, Chair, Department of Orthopedics, New England Baptist Hospital, Boston, MA, and a co-author of the paper. We are excited by the potential of this device i...HWI researchers determine structure of protein from pathogen associated with CF and TB
... to work with Drs. Qu, Cao and Straubinger from UB who provided the expertise we needed to do some of the studies we were unable to do ourselves, Gulick said. They are in the process of setting up a lab across the street in UBs Center of Excellence and we're excited to continue this collaboration." St...Nodal status is best predictor of outcome after neoadjuvant therapy for esophageal cancer
...ents in whom this approach works well, identifying who these patients are is no easy task. To help find ways of pinpointing individuals who might respond best to neoadjuvant treatment, John Vincent Reynolds and colleagues followed the progr...Semiconductor membrane mimics biological behavior of ion channels
...t found in biological ion channels, said Leburton, who also is a researcher at the universitys Beckman Institute, the Coordinated Research Laboratory, and the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory. In addition to serving as a substitute for biological ion channels, the solid-state nanopore and membrane cou...High blood pressure medication strategy proves effective in Hispanic women
...s provide new data on a population of ethnic women who have been all but absent from such research. The... 5,017 Hispanic and 4,710 non-Hispanic white women who were randomly assigned to a drug strategy containing either a sustained release form of the calcium ...... the process of confirming the diagnosis in a baby who has a positive screening test result. We need expanded newborn screening in the United States. Newborn screening costs so little and yet can save so much, said R. Rodney Howell, MD, FACMG, president of the American College of Medical Genetics Fo...