Northwestern receives $5 million to study polycystic ovary syndrome
...r projects comprising the SCOR, other Northwestern collaborators include Jon Levine, professor of neurobiology and physiology at the Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg School of Arts and Sciences, who is the SCOR co-director and a principal investigator on another of the projects, as well as Feinberg School researchers...Scripps Research Institute group designs DNA vaccine that inhibits growth of cancerous tumors
...eventually dies]." Niethammer, Reisfeld, and their collaborators describe their successful pre-clinical studies with the vaccine in an article to be published next month in the journal Nature Medicine. Though not yet tested in humans, their vaccine has the potential to treat many types of cancer, and it may provid...Fortified orange drink eases 'hidden hunger' in 3rd world
...commonly are deficient in many nutrients. Latham's collaborators on the study included Cornell postdoctoral associate Deborah Ash, Cornell Ph.D. 2000; Diklar Makola, M.D.; and scientists from Tanzania, including Simon Tatala, M.D., and Godwin Ndossi, Cornell Ph.D. '92. The experimental batch of the powder was manu...Protein patterns may aid prostate cancer detection
...ary biopsies." In the new study, Ornstein and collaborators from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration- National Cancer Institute Clinical Proteomics Program and Correlogic Systems Inc. in Bethesda, Md., used similar artificial intelligence bioinformatics technology to that employed in a recently reported ova...New Parkinson's surgical procedure shows lasting benefits, according to Emory researchers
... "The Cuban doctors have given their international collaborators unfettered access to their patients, to imaging studies and all other clinical material. The data have been the subject of open scrutiny and authors outside of Cuba who have helped analyze much of it. We, at Emory, feel very fortunate to have been ...Fred Hutchinson oversees two grants of nearly $8 million to develop blood test for breast cancer
...shington and Virginia Mason Research Center. Other collaborators include M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.Collaborators from many of these institutions already have identified potentially useful breast-cancer biomarkers, but their efforts have not yet produced a...Stanford researcher to find cure for widespread Celiac disease
... Latest Research on Celiac Sprue Together with collaborators from the University of Oslo in Norway, Stanford researchers Chaitan Khosla and Lu Shan, a graduate student in Dr. Khosla's laboratory, recently released their latest findings about Celiac Sprue, have discovered that a relatively short fragment of the...Fogarty International Center announces first awards for international tobacco and health program
...k of Mount Sinai School of Medicine will work with collaborators from the Medical Research Council of South Africa ...University School of Public Health, will work with collaborators from the National Center for Health Promotion, Cambodia; Centre of Information and Education for Hea...NIH supports ice slurry at Argonne
...s the research at Argonne, and Poeppel worked with collaborators Lance Becker and Terry Vanden Hoek from the University of Chicago Hospitals to develop the Emergency Resuscitation Center -- a center dedicated to studying health problems like cardiac arrests. Becker and Vanden Hoek lead the center. When the team b...Combined kidney and bone marrow transplantation allows patients to discontinue anti-rejection drugs
...ears Sykes and her colleagues at MGH -- along with collaborators at BioTransplant Incorporated of Charlestown, Mass. -- have been studying mixed chimerism and its application for both treatment of blood-cell cancers and for inducing tolerance, a state in which an organ recipient's immune system no longer recognize...DARPA to support development of human brain-machine interfaces
... Biomedical Engineering Patrick Wolf. Other center collaborators include John Chapin of the State University of New York, Brooklyn, Jose Principe of the University of Florida, Mandayam Srinivasan of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvey Wiggins of Plexon Inc. in Dallas. The DARPA support will help launc...High mental stress linked with increased risk of cardiovascular death
...ths among the men and 643 among the women. Iso and collaborators excluded data on participants for whom there was not a valid lifestyle questionnaire and subjects who had a previous history of stroke, coronary heart disease, or cancer. The researchers report that 8,656 women and 6,891 men reported high mental stre...Women with PCOS and their siblings with hormone problems have same gene defect
...f medicine at The Feinberg School of Medicine, and collaborators at Pennsylvania State University and the University of Pennsylvania. Dunaif and co-investigators believe the location of the PCOS gene mutation is on chromosome 19, near the insulin receptor gene, which plays a key role in allowing insulin to enter ...Brain tumor therapy needs longer treatment time
... up the drug in adequate levels. Chandra's Cornell collaborators on the studies included researchers Duane R. Smith and Daniel R. Lorey. Remarkably, the results of the two studies were almost identical, even though one was performed on rats and one on human brain cancer cells cultured and grown in the laboratory o......ashington University in St. Louis, is working with collaborators on the West Coat to create a system that will make...constructive surgery. For example, Krantz and his collaborators have taken a group of adults and a child, scanned in the faces, and matched the child to his parents...Hypertension is study focus of $10 million NIH grant to MCG
...siologist and project leader on the NIH grant, are collaborators on the studies. One of the exercise studies under way at GPI will be expanded under the grant. The study, which is looking at the impact of exercise on the cardiovascular fitness of black girls in the third, fourth and fifth grades, will be expande...Buszaki neuroscience research published in current journals 'Science' & 'Nature'
...rain cells) communicate with each other. Buzsaki's collaborators include Kenneth D. Harris, Darrell A. Henze, Hajime Hirase, Xavier Leinekugel, George Dragoi, and Andras Czurko. Buzsaki compares the way brain neurons communicate to a talking drum. "Perhaps the most fundamental problem of neuroscience is to deciphe...Hairy treatments for winter ills
... research. Food Science Australia's scientists and collaborators in the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Bioproducts are researching hairy root cultures as a source of large quantities of the plant extracts that are otherwise expensive or difficult to source. Hairy roots are named after the shape of the very ...Gene linked to testicular cancer
...hromosome 12, which was previously linked by Lin's collaborators in the Netherlands to the development of seminomas...third of the genome," Lin said. In 1997, Lin and collaborators at Duke identified the first member of the family of genes called piwi, in Drosophila. The piwi gene...NHLBI study shows weight concerns increase girls' risk of becoming smokers
...ow at the time of the study, led the analysis with collaborators at the University of California at Berkeley, CA, Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, OH, Westat, Inc, in Rockville, MD, and the Maryland Medical Research Institute in Baltimore, MD. "Getting youths not to start smoking has been very ha...