UCSF study offers insight into human circadian rhythms
...inding, published in the March 31 issue of Nature, builds on previous research led by Ptacek and co-author Christopher Jones, PhD, associate professor of neurology at University of Utah. In 1999, in a study of three families with the unusual sleep pattern, known as familial advanced sleep phase syndrome (FA...Mailman School of Public Health receives Manhattan Tobacco Cessation Center grant
...ues. The Manhattan Tobacco Cessation Center grant builds on existing partnerships and tobacco related programs such as CAPH's Legacy Tobacco Control Evaluation Research Network and the Center for Community Health Partnership Community Voices Anti-Tobacco Program. CAPH's ongoing tobacco initiatives include ...Houston meeting kicks off collaboration to advance cancer research
...discovery of novel cancer therapies. The agreement builds upon professional relationships between clinicians and researchers at both institutions and represents another step forward in the global fight to eradicate cancer. The collaboration agreement calls for the establishment of a research program focuse...Laughter helps blood vessels function better
...triction," says Dr. Miller. The current study builds on earlier research Dr. Miller conducted on the potential benefits of laughter, reported in 2000, which suggested that laughter may be good for the heart. In that study, answers to questionnaires helped determine whether people were prone to laughte...NASA awards $9.8 million NSCOR grant to UT Southwestern to study effects of space radiation exposure
...health risks caused by future space travel. "This builds on outstanding lung cancer and radiation biology research at UT Southwestern that will now focus on how to protect us from the dangerous effects of radiation exposure in space as well as here at home," said Dr. James Willson, director of the Harold C...Research guides medication choices for young Asthma patients
... to leukotriene receptor antagonists. The research builds on a trend to use scientific evidence, rather than trial-and-error, to customize medication choices for specific individuals. "We found that responses to these two medications varied considerably from child to child," said Stanley Szefler, M.D., lead...Two minutes of magnetic stimulation can change your brain for an hour
... They discovered that the excitatory effect of TMS builds up rapidly, within about a second, while the inhibitory effect builds up within several seconds. Thus, by adjusting the length of stimulation, they could choose between s...Brown and NIH create joint neuroscience graduate program
...m. "The new program is good for Brown, as well. It builds on our tradition of interdisciplinary research. And the increase in the number of students will add diversity to the neuroscience program."...Substance in urine predicts development of preeclampsia
...9th through the 36th week of pregnancy. This study builds upon earlier findings by the last author, S. Ananth Karumanchi, M.D., of the Renal Division at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School in Boston. Dr. Karumanchi and his coworkers had previously discovered that a substance...Acupuncture relieves pain and improves function in knee osteoarthritis
...ed to baseline assessments. "This trial, which builds upon our previous NCCAM-funded research, establishes that acupuncture is an effective complement to conventional arthritis treatment and can be successfully employed as part of a multidisciplinary approach to treating the symptoms of osteoarthritis,"...Surprise! Cells have second source of phosphate
...ain and in controlling the cellular machinery that builds proteins. While IP7's newly found role is likely t... student Susan Voglmaier to isolate an enzyme that builds IP7 (from IP6), an advance the team published in 1996. It took a few more years for postdoctoral fel...New data sets survival benchmark for Pfizer's ELLENCE
...) followed by docetaxel 100mg/m2 to FEC 100 alone, builds upon an existing body of survival and safety evidence for ELLENCE including previously reported 10-year disease free and overall survival data. In both arms of the study, patients achieved disease-free and overall survival outcomes which set a new s...Brain activity reflects complexity of responses to other-race faces
...ted by more conscious processing. The current work builds upon a tool for assessing bias developed in 1998 by Banaji and Anthony Greenwald of the University of Washington, which is now available online at http://implicit.harvard.edu . This self-administered test, which has been taken by close to 3 million ...Dairy Council of California program receives high marks from teachers & students
...ly among second graders with 71% knowing that milk builds strong bones two months after completing the curriculum compared with only 36% answering the question correctly beforehand. Students also could better identify a balanced meal and improved their self-reported eating habits by eating more food group ...Federal funds given for regenerative medicine center
...ve." The National Center for Regenerative Medicine builds on existing research at the three institutions that is supported by the National Institutes of Health and by the Ohio Wright Center of Innovation for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine involving Case, CCF and UHC. The Wright Center was established i...More muscle means better regulation of blood pressure, study finds
...response to lifting heavier weights, the body also builds more lean tissue to support more fat. "The argument was that you have to have greater lean mass to carry the greater fat mass, so it was really the greater fat mass that was the culprit," Dr. Harshfield says. "I am sure this is true, particularly in ...'Fatally flawed' legal analysis will not stand
..., where, in fact, there is none. The NIH proposal builds on current practice and it advances NIH's aim to use today's information technologies to fulfill its public mission. This is about special interests rising up to contravene NIH's efforts to serve and be accountable to the public." Johnson cited the ...USF neuroscientists awarded $1.1 million NIH grant to improve Alzheimer's vaccine
...t of Pharmacology and Therapeutics. The study builds on previous USF laboratory and animal model studies that tracked the role of the brain's immune system in Alzheimer's disease. Under certain circumstances, immune cells in the brain, known as microglia, promote the inflammatory and destructive proces...St. Jude scientist to lead NCI Pediatric Preclinical Testing Program
... of childhood cancer," Houghton said. "The program builds upon extensive work undertaken at St. Jude and els...e Australia (Richard Lock). The PPTP builds upon Houghton's research by demonstrating the ability of preclinical testing using rhabdomyosarcoma ......t demonstrate anti-malarial activity. The research builds on a previous study that demonstrated antiretroviral agents can reduce the adhesion of P. falciparum-infected erythrocytes to endothelial surfaces. The authors believe that the antiretroviral protease inhibitors attack the malaria parasite in ways th...