Philanthropist Paul F. Glenn launches labs for aging research at Harvard Medical School
...ers focused on aging research and to build out the labs with advanced research technology and animal models. Additionally, research pilot grants will be awarded by a steering committee to investigators wanting to investigate novel areas of molecular research addressing critical questions in the normal ag...Leadership gift from Sulpizio Family for new state-of-the-art cardiovascular center at UCSD
...gency and operating rooms, cardiac catheterization labs and other procedure rooms. RTKL Associates of Los Angeles has been chosen to design the facility. Completed plans will be presented to the UC Board of Regents for final approval, with the new facilities projected to open in 2009. The Sulpizios will b...Wisconsin scientists grow critical nerve cells
...e exact recipe for motor neuron growth, Li foraged labs worldwide to obtain the growth factors and other natural chemicals needed to guide cells from one stage of motor neuron development to another. But once past a certain point, Li found that the cells kept veering off toward different cellular destinie...Brown and NIH create joint neuroscience graduate program
...vides a mechanism to foster joint projects between labs at Brown and NIH," said Diane Lipscombe, associate professor of neuroscience and director of graduate study in the neuroscience program. "The new program is good for Brown, as well. It builds on our tradition of interdisciplinary research. And the in...Health report-card fears make doctors forgo potential life-saving heart treatment
... critical cases into their cardiac catheterization labs that hinged on how the outcome would affect their state mortality data report card. New York is one of only a handful of states to publish mortality data in an effort to raise consumer awareness about physicians' and hospitals' records, and more stat...Few Americans are aware they have chronic kidney disease
... we can treat it," said Hostetter. NKDEP is asking labs to streamline the process for identifying kidney d... offices. We are really pleased that several major labs have agreed to automatically report estimated GFR whenever creatinine is measured, removing a potent...Surprise! Cells have second source of phosphate
For 50 years, thousands of labs around the world have studied cells' critical internal communications, and scientists had assumed the speakers were known. But now, in the Dec. 17 issue of Science , Johns Hopkins researchers report finding not just a new participant, but a brand ne...Few Americans aware they have chronic kidney disease
...hysicians. "We are very pleased that several major labs have agreed to automatically report GFR whenever creatinine is measured. We are still working quite hard to standardize tests for kidney disease by all labs." People with chronic kidney disease are at high risk for premature death, heart attacks and ...UCSF receives $21 million NIH contract for sexually transmitted infection research
... dozens of programs throughout UCSF and affiliated labs and institutions, making ARI one of the largest HIV/AIDS research entities in the world....NIH awards OHSU $4 million biodefense contract to study tuberculosis
...ls. David Lewinsohn's laboratory is one of the few labs that has been successful at isolating and cloning CD8+ cells from people with latent TB. These clones will be used to help the team identify the antigens and epitopes. "From an immunologist's standpoint, TB is a really challenging disease to work on ...New internet resource facilitates international HIV/AIDS healthcare provider training
... dozens of programs throughout UCSF and affiliated labs and institutions, making ARI one of the largest HIV/AIDS research entities in the world....Department of Energy announces new agreement with USC, national labs and private company
...ys. "This unique partnership between academia, DOE labs and industry will help facilitate technology transfer from academia as well as DOE labs to make a realizable retinal prosthesis for our blind patients within the near future." The fi...First medical test on CD gets good results
...nt results. "Everyone working in the life sciences labs would fall in love with this revolutionary CD system for ELISA because it's easier, faster and cheaper to use," said Shang-Tian Yang, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Ohio State and collaborator on the project. Yang and Lee are f...3D neutron-based medical imaging, 4D lung scans, and hitting a moving tumor
...ialty of Jeffrey Evelhoch, who works at the Pfizer labs in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Compared with the blood supply system of healthy tissue, a tumor's vasculature is more chaotic in its geometry and its vessels are wider and leakier. Knowing this, a researcher can perhaps tailor an anti-cancer drug aimed at ...Antioxidant controversy: Scientists seek measurement standards
...ee years to develop and must be tested in multiple labs to ensure the methods are valid, he noted. Once official standards are established, the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry will become the first peer-reviewed scientific journal to require that contributors adhere to agreed-upon standards i...Iressa news backgrounder: Testing of smart drug expands at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
...tor signaling pathway. ZD1839 was developed in the labs of AstraZeneca pharmaceuticals after researching many new chemical entities that had a high affinity to the EGF receptor site. Baslega, currently at a university hospital in Barcelona, Spain, met with Herbst - and Herbst, an oncologist trained...Norepinephrine important in retrieving memories
...ast in their minds. Evidence from studies in other labs suggests that in PTSD there might be hyper-signaling by norepinephrine. "Perhaps that's one reason why PTSD patients experience these recurrent intrusive memories," says Thomas. Depression may include the opposite problem in that there's often dif...New mouse model of Alzheimer's, other diseases may clarify steps of brain degeneration
...cell death similar to earlier in vitro work. Other labs have created mouse models that overproduce p25 throughout their lives, but these models fail to exhibit high brain cell p25 levels and neuronal death. Tsai explains that mice in these earlier models may have found a way to cope with the overexpressio......tor signaling pathway. ZD1839 was developed in the labs of AstraZeneca pharmaceuticals after researching many new chemical entities that had a high affinity to the EGF receptor site. Baslega, currently at a university hospital in Barcelona, Spain, met with Herbst - and Herbst, an oncologist trained in mo......acilities containing BSL-3 and BSL-2 labs. The BSL labs will be designed and built using the strictest fed...gov/newsroom/releases/HHS_RCE.htm ). The biosafety labs also will be available and prepared to assist national, state and local public health efforts in the...