New technology shows axons are extremely sensitive to directional cues
... Goodhill conducted this research with Georgetown collaborators Will Rosoff, PhD in Neuroscience, Jeffery Urbach, PhD, Mark Esrick, PhD and Ryan McAllister, PhD in Physics, and Linda J. Richards, PhD, of the University of Maryland. Their research was supported by the National Institutes of Health, National Scien...Broken halide lamps could cause sunburn
...s them, cracking the protective outer shield. The collaborators contacted 119 of the approximately 600 people that attended the three-hour fund-raiser. Those contacted represented one or more people seated at each of the 62 tables at the event. Every person contacted responded to the questionnaire; 18 people met ...New compound may act to keep thyroid activity in check
...might influence drug-taking behavior." Other study collaborators included: Katherine Suchland, Paul Kruzich, Dane Crossley II and James Bunzow, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, OHSU; Matthew Hart, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, UCSF; Grazia Chiellini, Sabina...Iron-deficient infants score worse on cognitive and motor tests as teens
...nd were treated with iron supplements. She and her collaborators examined 191 children in working- to middle-class ... at the U.S. 50th percentile for growth." Lozoff's collaborators on the study were Julia Smith, Tal Liberzon, Rosa Angulo-Barroso, Agustin Calatroni and Elias Jimene...Sounds of New York, evidence for a preferred ear, ultrasound for the eye
...at the House Ear Institute (HEI) in California and collaborators at Cochlear Corp. and the Huntington Medical Research Institutes in Pasadena, PABI is a followup to an earlier "auditory brainstem implant," introduced in 1979, in which electrodes are implanted only on the surface of the brainstem. The older ABIs st...First biomarkers to diagnose Lou Gehrig's disease found in CNS
...University. In addition to these scientists, other collaborators in the ongoing ALS Association study include Dr. Cudkowicz from Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard and Dr. Kaddurah-Daouk at Metabalon, Inc....How cancer neutralizes T cell attack
...nstitute for Cancer Research (LICR), together with collaborators in Switzerland and Germany, analyzed the function of CD8 T cells that recognize a cancer-specific antigen. CD8 T cells are known as cytotoxic or 'killer' T cells because they cause the destruction of cells that display the antigen that the T cell rec...Carnegie Mellon interactive-video DVD helps teens avoid sexually transmitted diseases
...Department of Engineering and Public Policy. Other collaborators were Pamela Murray, director of adolescent medicine at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, and Joyce Penrose, professor of nursing at Slippery Rock University....High blood pressure in the lungs a major risk for death in adults with sickle cell disease
...ith an ominous outcome. The research team included collaborators from the Critical Care Medicine Department, Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, NIH; the Cardiovascular Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH; the Hematology Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases...Laws designed to prevent too-short hospital stays allow mothers more time, study shows
...he Journal of Health Economics. Besides Dow, study collaborators include Dr. Zhimei Liu, a former doctoral student at UNC now with Zynx Inc. in Los Angeles, a private health research group; and Dr. Edward C. Norton and Dean M. Morris, associate professor and clinical associate professor, respectively, of health po...Hormone found to protect bones
...Medicine researchers and an international group of collaborators in a report in today's issue of the Journal of Cell Biology . The finding may point the way toward treatments for osteoporosis, a disease of low bone mass that usually affects post-menopausal women but that is also observed in Type 1 diabetes patien...Computer resources help doctors answer patient care questions
...ulty Scholars Grant awarded to D'Alessandro. Other collaborators on both studies were Clarence Kreiter, Ph.D., assistant professor in the UI Office of Consultation and Research in Medicine and UI Department of Family Medicine, and Michael Peterson, M.D., a former UI faculty member now at the University of Californ...Antiviral drug, valacyclovir, reduces genital herpes transmission
...partners given a placebo. University of Washington collaborators included Dr. Anna Wald, associate professor of medicine and laboratory medicine, and Dr. R. Ashley Morrow, professor of laboratory medicine. The strategy potentially could be applied to combat the spread of other sexually transmitted diseases that ...Bullying in schools pervasive, UCLA study finds
... bully." As the study continues, Graham and her collaborators hope to learn whether the students who were bullies and victims in sixth grade remain so in high school, whether changes can be predicted and why changes occur. "The transitions that come with moving into high school and moving into full adolescen...Forensic radiology makes virtual autopsy a reality
... will be a new science in the future." Dr. Thali's collaborators and coauthors of this education exhibit are Richard Dirnhofer, M.D., and Peter Vock, M.D....Cocoa froths with cancer-preventing compounds
...ntioxidant Capacity than Teas and Red Wine." Lee's collaborators are his former graduate student, Ki Won Lee; Hyong Joo Lee, a professor at Seoul National University, South Korea; and Young Jun Kim, a post-doctoral researcher at Cornell. The research was funded in part by the BioGreen 21 Program, Rural Developme...New evidence links inflammation to venous disease
...ood Research at Harvard University, other research collaborators included Robert G. Schaub, Ph.D., assistant vice president of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, Wyeth Research; Anjali Kumar, Ph.D., director of pharmacology, Critical Therapeutics in Cambridge, Mass.; U-M research associates Angela Hawley, Dian...Rochester chosen to focus on rare neurological diseases
...for a new drug. In addition, researchers must find collaborators around the globe to create a pool of patients large enough to do a valid study. Griggs has pulled together a nationwide CINCH team Clinical Investigation of Neurologic Channelopathies to study such disorders. In addition to the University of Roche...New research links lung cancer screening to accelerated rates of smoking cessation
...or more a day for 20 plus years. Cox and her Mayo collaborators paid close attention to see if after screening, more current smokers decided to quit, and if those who had already quit remained tobacco free. The researchers found after one-year follow-ups, 14 percent of smokers in the study had stopped smoking. ...Study finds hispanic heart patients have best survival rates
...may not be better for your health." Froelichers's collaborators on the study included lead author ManishPrakash, MD, Sara Partington, Paul Heidenreich, MD, and Jonathan Myers, PhD,all of the Palo Alto VA Health Care System and Stanford University....