Double-edged effect of inflammatory response discovered after brain injury
...regeneration. In addition to TNF, the McIntosh lab is studying another inflammatorycytokine. In a report to be published later this, the group analyzed thetherapeutic value of an interleukin-1 receptor antagonist. By simply blockinginterleukin-1 pharmacologically, memory loss and cell death were mini...UCSF Cancer Center joins elite group of National Cancer Institute-designated centers
... thatencourages collaboration between clinical and lab scientists, thus fostering thetranslation of labor...97, theCancer Center has been reconfigured so that lab scientists, clinicalinvestigators, epidemiologists, and providers of patient care work closelytogeth...NSF award to five Georgia universities for new Science and Technology Center
... information system at Emory, and through hands-on lab experiences onGeorgia State's BioBus, a 30- foot, travelling state-of-the-art laboratory thatsupplements the regular science curriculum in Georgia elementary schools. Efforts will be made to target students early for careers in behavioralneuroscience...Pain, itself, elicits pain relief, and does so through 'reward' pathway
...timulate the same reward circuit," saidGear, whose lab is directed by senior author Jon D. Levine, MD, Ph...Levine. "They'vespawned several new studies in our lab aimed at revealing more about the role ofthe reward pathway, and the nucleus accumbens specifically,...UI study identifies mechanism that causes cardiomyopathy, exacerbates muscular dystrophy
...c cell death.Campbell and other researchers in his lab determined that this disruption in thesarcoglycan ...progression ofcardiomyopathy." Now that Campbell's lab has identified the problem that leads to cardiomyopathyin patients with LGMD, the next step is to lo...... subject spentfour consecutive nights in the sleep lab and was able to have a normal night ofsleep. Blood was taken every half-hour for 24 hours to measure IL-6. On thefifth night subjects were made to stay up and not sleep at all. They wereallowed to sleep again on nights six and seven. "As we h...Study reveals how brain controls eating in normal rats
... past several years, the researchers in Elmquist's lab have combined genetic techniques with neuroanatomic methods to tease out the details of the neural pathways linking leptin to eating behavior. Last year, postdoctoral fellow Elias and her colleagues identified the pathway between the two parts of t...Inflammatory pain may help deter inflammatory diseases like arthritis
... in the animals' joints. Researchers in the Levine lab had previously shown that activated pain fibers inthe rats' hind paw caused decreased swelling in the animals' inflamed kneejoints. This decrease in swelling, far from the site where the nerve fibers wereactivated, had indicated that the nerves were ...UCSF professor receives Pharmaceutical Scientist of the Year Award
...es of individuals to absorb certain compounds. Her lab has already identified variants in genes that control transport across cell membranes. This effort -- part of the emerging fields of pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics -- is considered crucial to allow scientists to tailor drugs precisely for thei...UI findings indicate DNA methylation process may lead to oral cancer
...hismethylation phenomenon is the focus of Domann's lab investigations. Methylationis the addition of single carbon atoms to specific target sites within the DNA. Cytosine, one of the four nucleotides in DNA, is the only base that can bemethylated normally by a cell's enzymatic machinery. Cytosine is norm...UI researchers find way to possibly improve effectiveness of gene transfers
...Wiemer in the UI Department of Chemistry. Wiemer's lab created a synthetic sugar that Lee tested on cells...for improvement could be used for them." The Welsh lab findings appeared in a past issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry....'Biochemical storm' following brain trauma, an important factor in treatment
...e first two days is critical."But data from Hayes' lab suggest this critical period may extend much longer. "In our studies, we've found that a biochemical storm that is initiated with an injury continues for at least a month. The implication is that we may need to treat these patients over a much longer...Southeast appears to have a unique type of Lyme disease
...e here that meets the criteria of current national lab testing standards. Yet the majority of cases-- seven out of 10--are something different," Dr. Felz said. "The tick species transmitting this illness seems to be different and may be transmitting an organism that is very different. "Lyme disease i......epartment that investigates tuberculosis. Research lab work related to the drug discovery program includes a study of how simple sugars are synthesized in TB cell walls, conducted by professor Michael McNeil, and the application of compounds based on effective fungicides and herbicides in the battle agai...U.S., British scientific societies honor penicillin as International Chemical Landmark
...eams that helped move Fleming's discovery from the lab to the hospital will be reunited in London for the designation of the landmark by the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Washington, D.C.-based American Chemical Society. The last surviving member of the original research team, biochemist Norman Hea......occuring birth of a non-human primate twin using a lab technique called embryo splitting. The method, wh...l Primate Research Center, and his colleagues in a lab coordinated by Gerald Schatten, Ph.D., professor of obstetrics and gynecology, and cell and developm...Eastman gives Clemson University $38 million fiber technology
...emson equipment to establish a small manufacturing lab to test and demonstrate products. The innovative ...ill benefit as the technology moves from Eastman1s lab through our labs to the marketplace." "Once we decided this technology was not strategic to our cur......s 1878, all U-M students were required to complete lab instruction in every scientific subject offered, including physiology, anatomy and chemistry. This became, says Markel, the "gold standard of medical education in the United States." Likewise, the U-M was one of the first institutions to require a me...