Minimally invasive surgery for heart rhythm abnormality proven effective
...s on the heart-lung machine. We are working in the laboratory on an approach that someday will allow us to perform atrial fibrillation surgery on the beating heart."...M. D. Anderson receives SPORE grant for melanoma research
...loping a vaccine from a patient's own tumor in the laboratory and then returning it to the patient as treatment; Predicting the likelihood of melanoma recurrence from the patient's DNA repair enzymes - information that will lead to better screening and prevention strategies; Identifying the genes that regulat...Northwestern researchers pinpoint how false memories are formed
.... "Our challenge was to bring people into the laboratory and set up a circumstance in which they would remember something that did not happen," said Kenneth A. Paller, professor of psychology and co-investigator of the study. (Brian Gonsalves, who was a doctoral student of Paller's and who now is a post-do...Melanin makes skin vulnerable to harmful ultraviolet rays
...f it was related to the melanin," he said. Brash's laboratory used mice engineered with pigmentation for yellow or black hair, as well as albino mice with no pigment at all. The researchers then irradiated the mice with UV rays that are about the same as what breaks through the ozone layer, affecting humans. T...Change in polio vaccine policy eliminates cases of vaccine-associated polio in US
...r from imported virus or from possible breaches in laboratory containment that could introduce laboratory strains. Poliovirus from any source that reaches communities with low vaccine coverage may result ...Stanford to test effects of drug widely used for pediatric hypertension
...ver will spend three years conducting clinical and laboratory tests to determine the safety and effectiveness of sodium nitroprusside. This drug works to control blood pressure during anesthesia and in the intensive-care unit. The FDA listed it for testing because it is known to produce cyanide - the toxin peop...Mechanism found that 'protects' aggressive melanoma from angiogenesis inhibitors
... of the National Cancer Institute. Hendrix and her laboratory team are also members of The Robert H. Lurie Compr... have been shown effective against tumor growth in laboratory experiments. However, results of early clinical trials with these inhibitors have not yet paralleled...Technologies companies at NJIT receive $500,000 in funding from state
...in a trio of Newark buildings, provides office and laboratory space, financial help, business and technical services, and the shared expertise of the center's managers. Goals include reducing risk for fledgling entrepreneurs while creating businesses that will generate jobs and bolster New Jersey's economy. ...Stanford scientists help bring study of smallpox virus into 'molecular age'
...d strains from the CDC and the maximum containment laboratory at CDC that is sanctioned for use with smallpox. He tried infecting cynomolgus macaques, monkeys that are used frequently for infectious disease studies. He found that although the monkeys did not get sick through inhalation of the virus - the way pe...Proinflammatory mononuclear cells in obese found to contribute to diabetes, heart disease
...iet or take medication or both, Dandona said. His laboratory currently is conducting studies with obese subjects to determine how much these remedies are able to reduce cellular inflammation....Rice bioengineer named to Technology Review's TR100
...by probing early molecular signals of disease. Her laboratory also creates the computational tools and mathematical algorithms that doctors need in order to make a diagnosis based on optical imaging data. TR100 award winners are chosen by Technology Review's editors and a panel of independent judges. This year'...Lab studies show two proteins prevented progressive nerve cell loss in Parkinson's disease
... a genetically engineered virus into the brains of laboratory rats, prevented the progressive degeneration of ne...of the neuroprotective proteins as needed." In the laboratory study, the investigators used an adenoviral vector to test the effectiveness of three proteins: Son...Envisat Symposium report day 2: GMES turns science to services
...ies that have the potential to be taken out of the laboratory and turned into operational services with real world benefits." As an example of how data assimilation works in practice, Doherty gave the example of satellite detection of an oil spill revisit times would be too low to allow tracking of the spill,...NJIT business incubator helps start-up companies move out of the lab and into the marketplace
... closer look. Almost daily, the Menssana Research laboratory receives samples of human exhalations to analyze. Just as a Breathalyzer can detect drunk drivers, a Menssana process can detect illness. It's the same concept, though far more sensitive, says inventor Michael Phillips, MD, of Fort Lee. Samples are c...Transplant of pig tissue may reduce stroke size and damage
... can begin. One obvious challenge of turning the laboratory findings into an actual new therapy is that the reparative benefits of choroid plexus likely work best immediately after a stroke; right now the Food and Drug Administration typically doesn't allow invasive procedures immediately after a stroke unles...Needle-free anthrax vaccine shows promise in animal studies
...the next two to three years, investigators say. In laboratory tests using rabbits exposed to a lethal dose of in...e and recommended for other groups, including some laboratory and postal workers. Inhalation anthrax can be fatal if untreated. Doctors currently provide antibiot...Blueberry compound shows promise of lowering cholesterol as effectively as drug
...mpound in blueberries shows promise in preliminary laboratory studies of lowering cholesterol as effectively as ...have anti-diabetic properties as well. In this new laboratory study using rat liver cells, Rimando and her collaborators, Rangaswami Nagmani and Dennis Feller, of...Study indicates why hospitalists improve hospital efficiency
... researchers also found a significant reduction in laboratory testing costs, but no reduction in the costs associated with radiology tests or pharmacy services. Although the overall hospitalization costs for hospitalist-treated patients was less than for the other patients, the average cost per day was $122 hig......n Au-Yeung, who is a graduate researcher in Wolf's laboratory at Duke. To test the concept the team has designed and built a device that can be implanted under the skin close to the heart, like a pacemaker. Sensors on the implantable cardiac telemetry system pick up the heart's electrical pattern and send out a......coinfected with hepatitis B and HIV. Clinical and laboratory exacerbations of hepatitis B have occurred after discontinuation of EPIVIR and may be severe in patients with decompensated liver disease. Lactic acidosis and severe hepatomegaly with steatosis, including fatal cases, have been reported with the use ...