Scientist gets award for sending people to sleep
...is award on behalf of all the exceptional mentors, collaborators and students with whom I have had the pleasure to work. It is particularly pleasing to know that our research has benefited so many patients and inspires me to continue the quest of bringing basic discoveries into the clinical arena." Professor Si...Hopkins' Peter Agre receives 2003 Nobel Prize in chemistry
...fast as it did without the wonderful resources and collaborators available at Johns Hopkins. This is an honor for the entire Hopkins family." "This is a great day for the school of medicine and the university at large," says Edward D. Miller, M.D., dean of the medical faculty and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine. "T...Researchers receive $4.9 million grant to continue study of children prenatally
... psychologist Lynn Singer, Ph.D., and her research collaborators will track one of the largest groups of cocaine-ex...rovost and university vice president at Case. Her collaborators include Barbara Lewis, Ph.D., associate professor of pediatrics, Betsy Short, Ph.D., associate profe...Stanford computer model shows bypass surgery more cost-effective than stents
... result in better outcomes'," said Yock. Stanford collaborators were Derek Boothroyd, PhD, staff statistician; Douglas Owens, MD, at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System and associate professor of medicine at the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research; and Alan Garber MD, PhD, also with the VA and professor...British scientists receive Lasker Prize for discovering new treatment for rheumatoid arthritis
...t put forward by Drs. Feldmann and Maini and their collaborators in the '80 s. Such doubts were silenced by their further studies, culminating in the clinical trials that proved the striking and significant benefits of anti-TNF therapy. Huge numbers of patients throughout the world have already been helped by thi...NIAID launches malaria vaccine trial in Africa
...ddition to NIAID and the University of Bamako, the collaborators include the University of Maryland at Baltimore; NIAID's Malaria Vaccine Development Unit; the Malian Ministries of Health and Education; the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR); GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals (GSK); the U.S. Agency for Inter...University of Pittsburgh receives two grants to try to increase organ donation/procurement
...of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health are collaborators as well. According to the United Network for Organ Sharing, there are more than 82,000 patients currently awaiting organ transplants in the United States. In 2002, 6,187 individuals died on the U.S. organ transplant waiting list because the organ the...UCSD researchers identify chromosome location for 2nd form of Joubert syndrome
...tween cousins is an accepted custom. Working with collaborators in Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Pakistan, the UCSD researchers obtained DNA samples from affected and unaffected individuals in 20 families. Using sophisticated genetic screening tools, the researchers identified a commo...Northwestern widens 'treatment window' for brain injury and stroke
...tifying candidate DAPK inhibitors, and later, with collaborators at Vanderbilt University, determined the three-dimensional structure of a region on the DAPK molecule that is essential to triggering programmed cell death. While initial results with the DAPK inhibitor provide a precedent for drug discovery resear......using traditional techniques. NIST scientists and collaborators used the 3D facility to study "smart gels," inexpensive materials that expand or contract in response to external stimuli. For example, a "smart" artificial pancreas might release insulin inside the body in response to high sugar levels. Other applic...First relapsing fever outbreak in Montana identified
...Laboratories (RML) in Hamilton, Montana, and their collaborators describe this outbreak and the results of laboratory and clinical investigations. "Given the 100-year history of research into ticks and tick-borne diseases in Montana, we are gratified to have helped solve the mystery of this outbreak and to have ...UI researchers use SIREN driving simulator to study driving risk factors
...imulator in the world. However, Rizzo and his many collaborators are extremely busy with projects using SIREN and are very excited about the results their studies are starting to produce. "We are not interested in studying vehicle dynamics in the way that NADS can," Rizzo said. "Rather, we use SIREN to study how d...Fred Hutchinson uses IBM technology to help find genetic links to immune-system diseases
...nformation and compare research results with other collaborators around the country." The project's initial phase has been completed and researchers from five different Fred Hutchinson laboratories are using the system. In the future, the system could be expanded to include a broad network of users, such as doct...Stress leads kids to unhealthy diets
...d towards the unhealthy," she says. Wardle and her collaborators hope to follow this group of children, observing them as they grow older, to track their diets and their health....New study shows green algae extract boosts flu vaccine
...ned through future study," he added. The Canadian collaborators gave two different doses of the extract, a patented carbohydrate fraction from the green microalgae Chlorella pyrenoidosa, to two groups of 41 healthy persons for 28 days. Another 42 subjects received a placebo. All subjects were at least 50 years of...Myosin molecule walks like a person, experiment shows
...sponsible for muscle contractions), Selvin and his collaborators studied myosin V. "This protein is also responsible for movement," Selvin said, "But not muscular movement. Myosin V is a little cargo transporter in our cells that moves things around by stepping along filaments of actin." Myosin V is particularly ...Russell Berrie Foundation gift to Columbia University propels diabetes treatment into new era
...pport and advance the work of a number of research collaborators outside the university. The first of these collaborators, Dr. Doug Melton of Harvard University, will focus his efforts on identifying the earliest characteristics of insulin-producing cells. The importance of this gift for me, says Angelica Berrie,...Improved molecular beacons show promise for cancer detection, rapid viral diagnosis
...f nucleic acids in homogeneous solutions. Bao and collaborators Andrew Tsourkas and Phil Santangelo have improved ...tive signal. To address that problem, Bao and his collaborators developed a system in which two beacons attach to the same target mRNA on adjacent binding sites. W...DHHS designates Brown as national site for Cochrane Collaboration
... Cochrane Collaboration is made up of thousands of collaborators within a network of 13 centers in countries around the world, including China, South Africa, France, Germany, Italy, Australia and Brazil. A complete list is posted at http://www.cochrane.org/ . The Cochrane Collaboration was formed to create a body...UIC awarded $4.5 million to create exercise technologies for people with disabilities
..." Rimmer said. In addition to Rimmer and Schiller, collaborators on the project include the University of Colorado, the Veterans Administration Palo Alto Health Care System and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. Rimmer is a nationally recognized authority on the health benefits of physical activity for peopl...