NIAID seeks applicants to lead revamped HIV/AIDS clinical trials networks
...entific challenges, will enable NIAID and its many collaborators to effectively continue their research for safe, effective and affordable drugs, preventive strategies and HIV vaccines. The new network leadership that will be established through this process will direct, coordinate and conduct NIAID-funded HIV/AID...Stem cells' repair skills might be link to cancer
... their growth out of control. Beachy and long-time collaborators and co-authors Sunil Karhadkar, M.D., and David Berman, M.D., Ph.D., suggest that chronic irritation might facilitate trapping of stem cells in a state of perpetual activation, and subsequent genetic or other changes in the cells may send them over t...New protein 'stop sign' alters blood vessel growth
...ues from Hopkins, Yutaka Yoshida, Ph.D., and other collaborators from Columbia University and the Developmental Biology Institute of Marseille in France engineered mice to lack each of the three proteins. In mice without Sema3E or plexin-D1, blood vessels along a particular part of the back were disorganized. In c...Study finds HER2-positive breast cancer invades organs due to fatal chemical attraction
...dy: Yan Li, M.D., Ph.D., and Yong Pan, Ph.D. Other collaborators include Yongkun Wei, M.D., Ph.D.; Xiaoyun Cheng, M.D.; Binhua Zhou, M.D., Ph.D.; Ming Tan, M.D., Ph.D.; Xiaoyan Zhou, M.D.; Weiya Xia, M.D.; Gabriel Hortobagyi, M.D., and Dihua Yu, M.D. Ph.D. Dr. Li was a graduate student in the Graduate School of Bi...NIAID launches influenza genome sequencing project
... of the emergence of pandemic flu viruses. NIAID's collaborators include the National Center for Biotechnology Info...hem. Dr. Giovanni notes that NIAID is working with collaborators who have well-defined collections of human and avian influenza viruses. "Their expertise will help u...New study finds significant improvements in pelvic pain, depression after hysterectomy
...als across Maryland. Hartmann's collaborators and co-authors were, from the University of Maryland, Drs. Kristen Kjerulff, associate professor of epidemiology and preventive medicine, and Patricia Langenberg, professor of epidemiology and preventive medicine and vice chair of the department of e...University of Pittsburgh researcher gets CDC grant to study youth violence
...rimes was 47 percent below its peak in 1994. Other collaborators on this study include Frederick Rivara, M.D., M.P.H., director of the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center in Seattle; Steve Wisniewski, Ph.D., associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public ...Researchers discover potential skin cancer prevention target
...tment and prevention of skin cancer." DiGiovanni's collaborators included graduate student Keith Chan, Shigetoshi Sano, M.D., and Kaoru Kiguchi , M.D., of M. D. Anderson; Joanne Anders, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Md.; and Nobuyasu Komazawa, M.D. and Junji Takeda, M.D.; Osaka University Graduate School of...Nerve navigation findings prompt new direction for spinal cord research
...and how tumor cells spread. Now, Dr. Xiong and her collaborators have found the enzyme also plays an important role...w to make it go back." Drs. Xiong's MCG collaborators on the study include her husband, Dr. Lin Mei, also a developmental neurobiologist; research technic...Scripps atmospheric scientist appointed to Pontifical Academy of Sciences
...own cloud of air pollution that Ramanathan and his collaborators discovered. We now can see a direct relationship between pollution, climate change and human health. Climate change affects every human being on earth and all its living things. It is entirely fitting that the Pontifical Academy, with its global pers...p110 delta: A key player in the allergic response
...Vanhaesebroeck and his team at LICR, together with collaborators from Novartis Respiratory Disease Centre headed by Dr Peter Finan, found that inactivating p110delta in mast cells substantially reduces the allergic response seen in mice. In mice lacking the gene for p110delta, the allergic response was reduced sub...Long-sought key to hearing may be found in protein discovery
...ion ion channels. In the third set of experiments, collaborators at the University of Virginia School of Medicine genetically blocked the TRPA1 channel in hair cells of embryonic mice, using siRNAs carried in with adenoviruses, and measured the response. They recorded barely any electrical activity in the hair cel...Researchers examine recurrence of low back pain
...ts to be developed," Thomas said. Ohio University collaborators on the study also include Bruce Carlson, associate professor of psychology, and David Eland, an associate professor in the College of Osteopathic Medicine. Daniel Corcos of the University of Illinois at Chicago also will be involved in the project. I...New system would vastly improve heart defibrillation
...e are what stop the heart pumping. Efimov and his collaborators knew that these little tornadoes are naturally att...r and requires less use of energy." Efimov and his collaborators calculate the energy output from their mild shock would be half a joule. The shock dislodges and el...Optics meeting tips: Internal fingerprints, no cell left behind, 3-D reality
...e? Irving Bigio of Boston University, and clinical collaborators in London, may have an answer. His team has constructed a fiber-optic probe that is inserted through an endoscope that will measure via spectroscopy the structural properties of cells in tissue. For example, cancerous cells can be identified by chang...Climate-based model to predict West Nile virus activity
...y previous models have failed, the unique group of collaborators assembled for this project will gather the data needed to build realistic, validated and effective models for predicting vector activity and human health risk," she says....How brain gives special resonance to emotional memories
...motional memories." Thus, said Cabeza, he and his collaborators are now exploring the nature of emotional memory encoding in people with depression, before and after therapy....National study shows 82 percent of U.S. homes have mouse allergens
...ent in all types of homes. The NIEHS study, with collaborators at Constella Group, Inc. and the Harvard School of Public Health, characterized mouse allergen prevalence in a representative sample of U.S. homes and assessed risk factors for elevated concentrations. The odds of having elevated concentrations were ...Parkinson's caregivers at risk for deteriorating health
...ients from a family caregiving approach." Carter's collaborators at the OHSU School of Nursing were: Karen S. Lyons, Ph.D., assistant professor of population-based nursing; Barbara J. Stewart, professor of population-based nursing; and Patricia G. Archbold, R.N., D.N.Sc., FAAN, professor and director, John A. Hart...OHSU vaccine and gene therapy institute receives $3.5 million for AIDS vaccine research
...revious AIDS vaccine failures. Additional research collaborators for this project include Duke University and the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center....