USC law professor battles schizophrenia
... with honors from Yale Law School, was a Marshall scholar at Oxford and today is a respected legal scholar at University of Southern California Gould School of Law. And, since adolescence, Saks has battled...UCLA, Italian chemists move closer to solving Lou Gehrig's disease mystery
...and biochemistry; Stefania Girotto, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Florence; Edith Butler Gralla, a senior research chemist at UCLA; Manuele Martinelli and Miguela Vieru, graduate students at the University of Florence; and Julian P. Whitelegge, an adjunct professor at the Semel Institute for Ne...Aging stem cells in mice may hold answers to diseases of the aged, Stanford study finds
...w cells age, said Derrick Rossi, PhD, postdoctoral scholar and co-first author of the paper. One of those the... Weissman and the other first author, postdoctoral scholar David Bryder, PhD, tested that idea in two different sets of experiments. In the first, they studied...Stanford researchers track human stem cells transplanted into rat brain
...o use the technique in humans, he and postdoctoral scholar Raphael Guzman, MD, wanted to make sure that the particles worked in human cells as well. "I think it's critical that we are applying this technique in human stem cells that can be used in human clinical trials," said Guzman, who is lead author of ...Decorated professor adds Farfel Award to his long list of honors
...d dynamics, Hussain is the world's most celebrated scholar in the area of fluid mechanics and turbulence studies," wrote a UH colleague in an endorsement letter. Leading the Aerodynamics and Turbulence Laboratory at UH, Hussain was one of the first to recognize that the organized motion underlying the se...Stanford researchers identify immune dysfunction in melanoma patients
...d NK, or natural killer, cells. Then, postdoctoral scholar Rebecca Critchley-Thorne, PhD, lead author of the paper, looked in the immune cells of healthy people vs. those with melanoma to see if they had the same levels of activation of roughly 20,000 genes. She found that the B cells and both types of T c...Fragile X, Down syndromes linked to faulty brain communication
...n. In the latest study, Madison and postdoctoral scholar Jesse Hanson, PhD, studied Fragile X syndrome, which is a leading cause of mental retardation in this country. Affected people tend to have learning disabilities, distinct physical characteristics such as enlarged ears and a long face, and such behav...A remedy for what ails medicine
... Linda Pololi, MD, a senior scientist and resident scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis. Many women physicians and scientists believe that the current organization and culture of academic medicine disadvantages them, preventing them from reaching key decision-making positions, Pololi ...Schmalz to receive major IADR Pulp Biology Research Award
...on. Dr. Schmalz is an internationally recognized scholar who has made significant contributions to the field of Pulp Biology, especially through his long-standing program of research on pulp cell behavior in response to dental materials. This program of research has extended over 30 years, during which tim...Opening of specialty cardiac hospitals associated with increase in rate of cardiac procedures
...ed part of this work while supported as a clinical scholar under a K12 grant from the National Institutes of Health. Please see the article for additional information, including other authors, author contributions and affiliations, financial disclosures, funding and support, etc. Editorial: Physician-O...Drug treatment improves learning in mice with Down syndrome symptoms, Stanford/Packard study shows
... in the brains of Down syndrome mice, postdoctoral scholar Wade Morishita, PhD, who works in the Stanford laboratory of professor Rob Malenka, PhD, found that it approached normal levels after chronic PTZ treatment and remained comparable to that in wild-type mice for up to three months after PTZ was discont...Men with hypertension who drink moderate amounts of alcohol may have a lower risk of heart attack
...y of Life and Wageningen University and a visiting scholar at HSPH when the study began. The study appears in the January 2, 2007, issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine. The researchers analyzed data from 11,711 hypertensive men from the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, which was launched in 1986...It's OK for men with high blood pressure to have a drink or two, new study finds
...he time of the study and was working as a visiting scholar at the Harvard School of Public Health, which sponsors the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study. An accompanying editorial, by Victor Kipnis, PhD, at the National Cancer Institute, and others, discusses measurement error in nutritional epidemiology...University of Western Ontario's McMullin wins GSA's 2006 Margret M. Baltes Award
...e Award, McMullin is an internationally recognized scholar in the area of aging and the life course. Her reputation is demonstrated by her repeated invitations to present her research in Canada, Australia, the U.S., and Germany. She was also awarded a visiting professorship at the University of Bremen (Germa...Community model effective in allotting anti-AIDS meds, Stanford doctor says
...," said Seble Getachew Kassaye, MD, a postdoctoral scholar in infectious disease at Stanford and first author of the study. Moreover, patients who received drugs showed substantial increases in their CD4 counts, a measure of immune system function, the researchers found. Given the results, researchers beli...Boosting key protein in brain could improve seizure treatment, Stanford study finds
...uite a surprise," said Julia Brill, a postdoctoral scholar in Stanford's neurology department who worked on the study. VPA has long been a mainstay in treating epilepsy, although how it suppressed seizures was a mystery. It has a minimal sedative effect, but a host of other unpleasant side effects includin...Stanford snake venom study shows that certain cells may eliminate poison
...nse. But Galli and Martin Metz, MD, a postdoctoral scholar in pathology and first author of the study, have shown that when mast cells respond to selected venoms, they unleash proteins that break down some of the venoms' most toxic components. The study was inspired by a 2004 paper in Nature, by Galli and ...Smoking, diabetes predict different forms of peripheral artery disease
...ges, France conducted this study while a visiting scholar in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. He and colleagues examined 403 men and women (average age 69) with LV-PAD and 290 with SV-PAD (average age 68) who were previously suspected of having PAD...Infants or adults? NIH ethicists argue for new bird flu priorities
...emeritus of political science and current visiting scholar at the National Institutes of Health, and Ezekiel Emanuel, head of the NIH's clinical bioethics department, argue for an alternative approach. Attempting to save the most lives gives the oldest, youngest and sickest priority for vaccination. Guideli...Students feel safer in ethnically diverse schools, UCLA psychologists report
...hina conducted bullying research as a postdoctoral scholar at UCLA. A "balance of power" among ethic groups may be the reason that students in ethnically diverse schools feel safer and less vulnerable, the authors say. When ethnic groups are fairly equally represented, bullying and harassment may decrease, t...