National Cancer Institute awards UNC-CH $5 million for unique prostate cancer studies
... Answering those questions should provide solid clues to the illness thatwill benefit both races, the scientists say. "Prostate cancer requires male hormones known as androgens both todevelop and to grow, and the same is true for benign prostate tissue," said Dr.James L. Mohler, associate profes......ound--ephemeral as it may seem--can provide unique clues about ancientcultures. In an emerging field calle...constructed ancient temples arefinding tantalizing clues about the cultures themselves. Steven Waller of theAmerican Rock Art Research Association argues th...... say scientists from New Jersey. The finding gives clues to what causes depression in people, how drugs like Prozac relieve it and why the effect takes so long to kick in. Just over a year ago, researchers showed that people grow new neurons all the time. This overturned a long-held belief that brain cell......eatment for diseases like Parkinson's, and provide clues to how learning occurs. "This new technique offers the hope of understanding and treating degenerative neurological diseases such as Parkinson's," said Leonard Kaczmarek, M.D., professor of pharmacology at the Yale School of Medicine and the study's...Protein predicts prognosis for breast cancer patients
... levels in early breast cancers, which can provide clues about whether the cancer is likely to have spread. The focal point for this search is a rare medical archive, a database of tissue samples and long-term follow-up information from 2,136 breast cancer patients treated with mastectomy, but not radiatio...Promising new research on schizophrenia causes
...a prominent neuroscientist at UIC is providing new clues to the molecular origins of schizophrenia, a devastating mental illness that afflicts nearly 2.5 million Americans. Erminio Costa, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and scientific director of UIC's Psychiatric Institute, is studying a chem...MCG researchers find clues in process that enables working memory
New clues about how the neurotransmitter, dopamine, stimulates brain cells, enabling a person to literally complete a thought, have been identified by researchers at the Medical College of Georgia. The process of working memory, controlled by the cerebral cor...Missing proteins in the uterus tied to infertility in women with endometriosis
...ournal Fertility and Sterility could add important clues to the link between infertility and endometriosis -- a link that has been controversial. The research suggests that the cellular proteins alphav-beta3 and leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) may serve as biomarkers for identifying women whose infertilit...Supplements that target fat loss … metals that protect themselves …
... Mercury made 'em mad as hatters - A chemist with clues to history will discuss how mercury literally drove hat makers mad and the implications of finding it in the hair of such scientists as Isaac Newton and Michael Faraday. (11 a.m.) Decoy cells act as molecular flypaper' for viruses - Fake cells dubb...Study: Ripped aortas kill often, but new knowledge may aid survival
...he phenomenon. But the data also seem to give some clues that could help cut the death toll. In several talks and posters being presented at the annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology, physicians are sharing new results from the largest-ever study of patients with torn aorta l...Hopkins researcher finds retroviral 'footprint' in brains of people with schizophrenia
...rus becomes active in the first place, it presents clues as to what may happen when it does become active," Yolken says. "Our ultimate hope is that we can interfere with the retrovirus by preventing it from become active. If we can do that, it may give doctors another method of treating schizophrenia." ...Hands-on cancer biology workshop for journalists
...ery own COX-2 inhibitors and to find computational clues in the war against cancer at a daylong workshop, "Cancer Biology: From Research to Recovery." The seventh annual Josephine L. Hopkins Foundation science workshop for journalists will be held June 21 at the Weill Education Center, Weill Cornell Med......d sustain this growth, could provide important new clues to help the brain recover following an injury. Meaney, 35, an associate professor of bioengineering, joined the Penn faculty in 1993. A member of Penns Institute for Medicine and Engineering and the Center for Human Modeling and Simulation, he holds...Study suggests mechanical forces drive early heart development
...dical engineers studying heart development provide clues into the cause-and- effect of the genes masterplan, as well as a different perspective. "You can knock out a gene and the heart might do something, but you dont really know the underlying mechanism," Taber says. "You only know you take this gene out...Air safety, election forecasting lead topics as operations researchers meet in Miami beach
...t J. Kauffman; University of Minnesota. Learn five clues to what you'll pay in an online auction. Tuesday, November 6, 8:15- 9:45 AM, Fontainebleau, Imperial IVKids and Vaccines Using Monte Carlo Simulation to Determine Combination Vaccines for Childhood Diseases Sheldon H. Jacobson, University of Illinoi...American Chemical Society meets April 7-11 in Orlando
...rs that detect explosives and nerve agents; New clues to the origins of our solar system; Recent pharmaceutical developments, including drugs to destroy brain tumors, fight osteoporosis, and inhibit coughing; The chemistry of movie production and film preservation; Energy for the future; and...Scleroderma research receives a boost from multiple NIH grants
...nts. "These research grants will provide new clues to understanding this disease, which is an important step towards prevention and cure," said Stephen I. Katz, M.D., Ph.D., director of the NIAMS. "The grants complement our already considerable investment in scleroderma research, which includes s...Gene linked to accelerated brain aging in healthy adults
...s at Duke University Medical Center have found new clues about why some people experience more rapid age-related brain changes than others. The researchers have found an association between nerve cell changes associated with aging and the presence of a variation of the apolipoprotein gene known as apolipo...Link found between kids sleep, behavior problems
...peractivity. While the study does not provide any clues as to whether and how sleep problems might contribute to behavior issues, or vice versa, the evidence of a link between the two is strong enough to warrant further and thorough investigation, says lead author Ronald Chervin, M.D., M.S., director of t...MGH study finds herceptin has additional antitumor qualities
... cancer cells' tactics. The MGH research includes clues that the host -- the body in which a tumor grows -- also plays a role in herceptin's effects. Following herceptin treatments, tumor cells cultured in the laboratory expressed more of certain angiogenic factors and less of others compared with tumors...