New 'ITN Scholars Program' provides junior faculty opportunity to develop clinical trials expertise
...l Institutes of Health and with biostatistical and laboratory personnel at the ITN's Tolerance Assay Group in Bethesda Maryland. Upon completion of the program, the fellow will have acquired the knowledge and skills necessary to develop and prepare documentation for clinical trial protocols, navigate variou...Reduced progression of atherosclerosis tied to statin drugs lowering fats, protein
...d also C-reactive protein (CRP), the most reliable laboratory measure of systemic inflammation in the body. It involved performing ultrasound tests on 502 U.S. patients with documented coronary artery disease. Half the patients then received 40 milligrams of pravastatin, while the rest underwent the more ...Birth simulator helps physicians I.D. least forceful way to manage problem deliveries
...g Gurewitsch, Allen and Paul Gilka, manager of the laboratory that housed the work, have filed a provisional patent on the simulator. In continuing work with the laboratory model, Gurewitsch and Allen plan to have other doctors train on the simulator to develop a better se...Getting pregnant while on the pill: Yet another health hazard of being overweight
...al-contraceptive use was verified through medical, laboratory and pharmacy records, which added statistical strength to the study's findings, Holt said....McMaster researchers develop test for rare bleeding disorder
...nt symptoms and complications was developed in the laboratory of hematologist Dr. Catherine Hayward, an associat...disorders, and applied this with a "gold standard" laboratory test her group developed for the QPD. "It is touching that what patients told us to ask about proved...Discovery of key protein's shape could lead to improved bacterial pneumonia vaccine
...termination of its actual structure using powerful laboratory tools. Previous work by another team suggested t...o bind to human cells," said Beth Mann, a research laboratory specialist in Tuomanen's lab who developed the bacteria carrying mutated CbpA. Mann, co-author of th...Chemicals found in cherries may help fight diabetes
...ood sugar levels in people with diabetes. In early laboratory studies using animal pancreatic cells, the chemica...niversity in East Lansing. "We're excited with the laboratory results so far, but more studies are needed." Michigan is the top cherry producing state in the nati...Four teams awarded inaugural translational cancer research grants
...that conveys new ideas and discoveries between the laboratory and the clinic. In this manner, advances in such areas as molecular genetics, regulatory proteins and cellular signaling can be applied to new diagnostic technologies and targeted treatments to help the cancer patients. The V Foundation-AACR Grants i...Youki spray curbs spread of superbug MRSA
...ew approach to wound care has been developed by UK laboratory Depeche Mode (which was set up in 1979 before the band of the same name launched). Research Director Sujata Jolly is available to discuss Depeche Mode's work. She describes the issue of wound care, and the slowness or reluctance of injuries to heal a...Major step forwards for vaccine against cervical cancer
...oped a vaccine against cervical cancer. Vaccinated laboratory animals no longer developed the disease and animals which had already developed a tumour, could be treated with the vaccine. Cervical cancer is caused by a virus. The vaccines against cervical cancer induce an immune response to proteins from this v...New clue to nerve growth may help regeneration efforts
...ght permit the same in animals. In experiments in laboratory dishes, Kantor simulated a particular step in the brain development of developing rats. During this step, specific nerves begin connecting between what will eventually be two sections of the brain. Because the accurate extension of these nerves requ...UGA researchers receive NIH contract to create a stem cell-based drug assay for SMA
...udying the molecular functions of SMN1 since their laboratory first cloned the gene in 1996. The Terns recently received a $300,000 supplement to their existing grant from the NIH to specifically examine the function of SMN in motor neurons. "What our lab is trying to understand is why only spinal motor neurons...Stanford study finds new method improves chemotherapy survival in mice
...ouse yielded significantly more neutrophils in the laboratory mice a week after a dose of a typical chemotherapeutic agent. The procedure also increased the animals' ability to fight a deadly fungal infection. The team's findings appear in the Dec. 15 issue of the journal Blood. The condition in which neutro...Fred Hutchinson receives $9.7 million to lead early detection consortium
...the results of new proteomic technologies from the laboratory into the clinic. " Once we determine how to systematically discover those markers characteristic of early cancer development, the next challenge will be to go out and conduct population-based studies to find out if using them clinically can s...Brain can be trained to process sound in alternate way, study shows
...?" Polley is a postdoctoral research fellow in the laboratory of senior author Michael M. Merzenich, PhD, co-director of the Coleman Memorial Laboratory in the UCSF Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience and UCSF professor of otolaryngology. The study was published recently in Proceedings of the National Acad...Jefferson scientists find way to see breast cancer activity from outside the body
...seen cancer gene activity from outside the body in laboratory mice. The probes, which work by attaching to genetic codes copied from an active cancer gene, may someday aid physicians and scientists in cancer detection and in determining the appropriate treatment for a cancer. "Patients might be able to avoid a...Cell marker identifies patients who are more likely to respond to taxol
... Then, research in breast cancer cell lines in the laboratory were undertaken to look at how low expression of tau leads to increased sensitivity to Taxol. Pusztai says that about 25 percent of all patients show very high sensitivity to the Taxol-containing chemotherapy, and respond with complete disappearance...Scientists stalk PPAR-gamma, find novel cancer connection
In laboratory tests on multiple myeloma cells, University of Roc...es. When the drugs bind to PPAR-gamma, at least in laboratory experiments, the cancerous cells are destroyed. PPAR-ligands are emerging as a new type of cance...Scientists align billion-year-old protein with embryonic heart defects
...uch about its role in the heart region. Miano's laboratory led a collaborative study of SRF with investigators from the Medical College of Wisconsin and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. They studied mouse embryos, using genetic trickery to nullify SRF in heart cells and key blood vessel cells cal...Book celebrates centenary of city's advances in public health
..., of the famous Edinburgh distillers, and provided laboratory and teaching facilities for medical officers of health and student doctors. The Institute, in Warrender Park Road, is now used by the University as student accommodation. The successor to the Usher Institute, public health sciences, is now located in...