Optical glucose sensor holds promise for diabetics and intensive care patients
...example of successful technology transfer from the university to a company that can commercialize on this," Wipke said. "The collaboration has enabled the research to flourish and supported graduate student education at the university, and it has enabled the start of a new company in the Santa Cruz area." Glume...Student builds micro biosensor chip to move DNA molecules
...vost's Undergraduate Research Award grant from the university to spend much of last summer working on his projec...do a really good job." On March 11, Steven Knapp, university provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, hosted the 11th annual Provost's Undergradua...2004 Award for Basic Research in Biological Mineralization goes to Dr. Yoshiro Takano
... in 1975 and his PhD in Oral Anatomy from the same university in 1979. From 1990-1992, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, working under the mentorship of Drs. Miles Crenshaw and James Bawden. He has been credited for his work on calcium transport in the enamel org...Problems controlling anger lead to weight gain for teens
...ic Health. In the mid-1990s, investigators at the university conducted a pilot study in which they found a strong association between body mass index and internalized anger in teen-agers. The association was stronger in girls than in boys. Project HeartBeat! is a longitudinal study of children aged 8 to 18 th...Depression on College Campuses conference
...e campuses if physicians, allied health providers, university leaders, residence hall advisers, student leaders, preventive education specialists, third-party payors, mental health advocates, journalists, and parents get involved," says John Greden, M.D., executive director of the U-M Depression Center, the onl...Whole-body PET/CT scan appears useful for determining tumor stage
...RI for tumor staging. The study was conducted at a university hospital from December 2001 through October 2002 and had a mean follow-up of 273 days (range, 75-515 days). The images were evaluated by 2 different teams. The diagnostic accuracies of the 2 imaging procedures were compared. The researchers found tha...Texas A&M scientists clone world's first deer
...erinary Medicine. Other cloned animals born at the university include several litters of pigs, a Boer goat, a disease-resistant Angus bull, and the first Brahma bull. "The knowledge we gain from cloning these animals could greatly affect several areas of science and medicine," said H. Richard Adams, dean of ...Blocking immune response to spinal cord injury can improve chances for recovery
...rsity of California, Irvine is a top-ranked public university dedicated to the principles of research, scholarship and community. Founded in 1965, UCI is among the fastest-growing University of California campuses, with more than 24,000 undergraduate and graduate students and about 1,300 faculty members. The th...HHS awards $14 million to support Bioethics Research Center
... HHS' National Institutes of Health will allow the university to provide research and teaching facilities for fa...ntaged populations." The new grant will enable the university to renovate the former hospital in which the syphilis study was conducted, in part, as well as a res......to the EGF receptor site. Baslega, currently at a university hospital in Barcelona, Spain, met with Herbst - and Herbst, an oncologist trained in molecular biology, jumped at what he recognized as a huge opportunity to change lung cancer treatment. His chairman Waun Ki Hong, M.D., supported him. "I pursued th...Repeated alcohol detoxifications can impair cognitive function
...l drinkers (23 males, 20 females) recruited from a university setting. The patient population was further divided into two populations based on information about prior, medically supervised detoxifications: patients with fewer than two experiences (n=36) and patients with two or more experiences (n=6). All of...Investigational drug may protect cancer and AIDS patients from side effects of pain relief therapy
...eceptors in the gastrointestinal tract. Goldberg's university colleagues continued to develop the compound, testing it in animals and performing the initial human safety trials and clinical studies in volunteers and patients. Since then, the potential uses have multiplied. They now include treatments of post-o...Smoking more common among nursing than medical students
...ts of medical and nursing students enrolled at the university and examined whether smoking habits changed during the course of education for each group. Medical and nursing students completed anonymous surveys containing questions on graduating class year and demographics, and the Fagerstrom test for nicotine ...Hopkins' Peter Agre receives 2003 Nobel Prize in chemistry
... is a great day for the school of medicine and the university at large," says Edward D. Miller, M.D., dean of the medical faculty and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine. "There are few happier occasions to celebrate at an academic medical center." "This is a terrific day for Peter and a tremendous day for the Hopkin...Researchers receive $4.9 million grant to continue study of children prenatally
...e Case School of Medicine, and interim provost and university vice president at Case. Her collaborators include Barbara Lewis, Ph.D., associate professor of pediatrics, Betsy Short, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology, Sandra Russ, Ph.D., professor of psychology, Lester Kirchner, Ph.D., assistant professo...Post-Sept. 11 study results published by U. of Colorado Center
...of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, university researchers joined emergency personnel at Ground Zero and other locations to begin studying the events' aftermath and recovery efforts. The results of their studies were published this week by the Natural Hazards Research and Applications Informatio...Pancreatic cancer linked to developmental cell signaling pathway
...rcinoma and very recently, small cell lung cancer, university and commercial labs are screening for more effective Hedgehog blockers. "If Hedgehog is involved in pancreatic cancer, these other blockers might offer a bright prospect in treating a disease that has eluded effective treatment up to now," Hebrok sai...Lotion made from tea could help fight skin cancer
...y leader Dr. Zigang Dong, M.D., a professor at the university and executive director of the school's Hormel Institute. "Topical application of certain tea polyphenols appears to block a key process that leads to skin cancer." Dong and his research team are currently working to optimize the effectiveness of tea...Black cohosh may reduce hot flashes by targeting brain's thermostat
...gh frequency of hot flashes is now underway at the university to determine whether black cohosh actually reduces the frequency and intensity of hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms. The women will either receive black cohosh, red clover, a placebo or estrogen replacement during the one-year trial, which is...Male athletes also suffer from body image problems, study shows
...omen. A pilot survey of elite male athletes at one university found that about one in five believed they aren't sufficiently muscular. While female athletes in the study said they wanted to lose weight (an average of 6.8 pounds), men wanted to gain weight an average of 3.2 pounds. The findings showed that 17.5...