Brain remapping may be key to recovery from stroke
...ing strategies for brain-machine interfaces, which enable patients with brain injuries to operate external devices, such as artificial limbs, using only their brain signals. This new technology requires implanting electrodes in the brain to pick up movement-producing signals from neurons. A computer then tr...Federal funds given for regenerative medicine center
...earch facilities, housed at Case, UH and CCF, will enable new non-embryonic stem cell research discoveries by faculty to be translated into therapies that can be used to treat thousands of patients each year. In addition, the center's education programs will train personnel to perform groundbreaking resear...Space sentinels track desertification on Mediterranean shores
...eveloping standardised geo-information products to enable cross-border comparisons. DesertWatch products are also envisaged as a means for countries to fulfil their reporting obligations to the United Nations Convention on Combating Desertification (UNCCD), a 191-nation agreement to fight desertification o...Chemoprevention backgrounder: Working for a future of cancer chemoprevention
...have promising leads from the laboratory that will enable us to conduct good trials in the future," says Levin. "The best is yet to come."...NIAID launches influenza genome sequencing project
...ecause they undergo continual genetic changes that enable them to evade the body's immune response and sometimes become more virulent," says Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of NIAID. "This project not only provides a valuable resource for current influenza researchers, it also will attract investigators fr...Marine sponge leads researchers to immune system regulator
...f T-cell receptors. These stripped-down receptors enable NKT cells to respond to a limited array of lipid or carbohydrate antigens when presented in certain ways. The only substance known to fully activate NKT cells through these receptors was the glycosphingolipid derived from an Okinawan sea sponge Agela...Initiative yields effective methods for anthrax detection; RAMP and MIDI, Inc., methods approved
...ose was to identify reliable analytical methods to enable security, defense, and other federal agencies to make science-based decisions in the event of biological attacks. Additionally, first responders, public health agencies, defense, and security needed validated field-usable methods for detecting agen...Designing an ultrasensitive 'optical nose' for chemicals
...oncentrations and at very low pressures, which may enable identification of compounds such as explosives that are difficult to detect by other means....Scientists pinpoint flaw, offer new promise for stroke treatment
...eam identified the specific molecular signals that enable tPA to enhance the damage done by stroke. TPA kills neurons and endothelial cells, the specialized cells that line our blood vessels, by accelerating a process known as apoptosis or programmed cell death. In both human cells as well as the brains of ...New ways identified to treat 'lazy eye' in children: Beyond eye patches and daily drops
...ix hours. The combined body of research should enable doctors to make better decisions about treatment for their patients, Dr. Cruz said. "A treatment that is tolerated well by one child won't necessarily be tolerated well by another," he said. "It's important for families and their physicians to ha...DepoDur found to be innovative option for postoperative pain relief
...surgery with a single shot. This product will help enable healthcare professionals to achieve optimal pain control for their patients without the many challenges commonly associated with postoperative pain relief." The majority of surgical patients experience moderate-to-severe postoperative pain, but th...Nerve navigation findings prompt new direction for spinal cord research
...ish connections and the movement and feeling they enable lost to spinal cord injuries. "This kinase plays a role in helping direct axon movement across the spinal cord during development," Dr. Xiong says. "How it does that is one of the questions we hope to answer next. We still have a lot of qu...Gender and sex hormones affect the brain's pain response and more, according to new studies
...h or on the first day after birth is sufficient to enable males to regain their 'male phenotype' as long as they are exposed to testosterone in adulthood," says Craft, "whereas exposing females to testosterone soon after birth is insufficient to completely change them into the male phenotype in terms of the...Northwestern University receives $7.5 million for regenerative medicine
...would like to help paralyzed people walk again and enable diabetic individuals to lead a normal life without daily treatments or organ donations, are using regenerative medicine as their approach to achieving these goals. "Regenerative medicine is one of the great biomedical challenges of this century as w...Novel drug-antidote strategy provides greater control of drug action
...t the beginning of the drug development process to enable the control of drug activity in patients. The results of the Duke experiments were published Oct. 17, 2004, as an Advance Online Publication of the journal Nature Biotechnology. The study was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the...Department of Energy announces new agreement with USC, national labs and private company
...ve joined forces to deliver a capability that will enable blind people to see. This agreement between the DOE laboratories and the private sector will facilitate transfer of many aspects of DOE technology to a clinical device that has the potential of restoring sight to millions of individuals." There ar...DOE labs, universities and second sight partner to speed development of 'artificial retina'
...ve joined forces to deliver a capability that will enable blind people to see. This agreement between the DOE laboratories and the private sector will facilitate transfer of many aspects of DOE technology to a clinical device that has the potential of restoring sight to millions of blind individuals." The ...Livermore scientists join DOE consortium
...ve joined forces to deliver a capability that will enable blind people to see. This agreement between the DOE laboratories and the private sector will facilitate transfer of many aspects of DOE technology to a clinical device that has the potential of restoring sight to millions of blind individuals. An ...Northwestern receives $2.1 million grant for Parkinson's disease research
... quality of their lives by providing services that enable them to become productive, self-sufficient and healthy, the foundation concentrates on a variety of activities, including innovations in schools, curriculum development, after-school and summer programming, the arts, tolerance education and biomedica...$25 million funds health promotion studies at UT School of Public Health
...ing to support the Prevention Research Center will enable the school to continue partnerships with communities and to identify and test ways to prevent health-related problems, particularly in Texas youth and other populations." Established in 1986 with the help of funding from the Centers for Disease Contr...