New imaging method gives early indication if brain cancer therapy is effective, U-M study shows
...son, M.D., associate professor of neurology and of pediatrics and communicable diseases; Larry Junck, M.D., professor of neurology; and Alnawaz Rehemtulla, Ph.D., associate professor of environmental health sciences, radiation oncology and radiology. ...UCSD researchers maintain stem cells without contaminated animal feeder layers
...ior author, Alberto Hayek, M.D., UCSD professor of pediatrics and director of the Islet Research Laboratory at the Whittier Institute. Currently, stem cell lines derived from human embryos are grown and nourished in petri dish material called feeder layers that are made with animal connective tissue, primarily...Potential treatments for neurofibromatosis
...ntial drug compounds now. Dr. Clapp, professor of pediatrics and of microbiology and immunology, said one target of their efforts will be mast cells, which are immune system cells that are involved in asthma and allergic reactions. Mast cells play a role in neurofibromatosis because they also are involved in b...50-year-old Mystery Solved: Protein Tags Regulate Key Ion Channel
... Goldstein, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chairman of pediatrics and director of the Institute for Molecular Pediatric Sciences at the University of Chicago. "This adds a new chapter to the book of how cells control ion channel function: reversible peptide linkage." Ion channels are in every cell in the human bod...Scientists journey to southern Africa to unravel the secret world of elephant communication
...y of Christopher Contag, an associate professor of pediatrics at Stanford, O'Connell-Rodwell has been investigating the possibility that newborns with severe hearing loss could have their hearing improved by exposure to vibrational stimulation shortly after birth. A companion article appears in the May issue o...Medical College team creates website for tracking flu
... next pandemic. Kelly Henrickson, a professor of pediatrics and microbiology at the Medical College, said with...gist Michael E. Bose, M.S.; assistant professor of pediatrics Jiang Fan, M.D.; bioinformatics center applications manager Andrew Patzer; physiology genetics data ...Medical College lands $8.1M grant to detect bird flu, bioterror agents
...al investigator for the project and a professor of pediatrics and microbiology at the Medical College, said the new device that researchers are developing may allow cost effective, point-of-care diagnosis of bioterrorism agents within one to two hours. Henrickson, also a pediatric infectious disease specialist...Medical College secures $9.7M research grant
...brand disease (VWD). Montgomery, a professor of pediatrics at the Medical College and a senior researcher at the Blood Research Center of the Blood Center of Wisconsin , is principal investigator for the grant. Family history of a bleeding disorder is the primary risk factor for VWD, but many physicians do...Medical College researcher working to make genetic-based medicine a reality
... like Dr. Michael Stephens, assistant professor of pediatrics for the Medical College of Wisconsin , ultimately will make it happen. Stephens, who joined MCW in 2002, has received a five-year, $634,500 pharmacogenetics grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to study personal drug ther...EraGen diagnostic passes UW tests, could quickly detect bird flu
...mbs up" Wednesday from James E. Gern, professor of pediatrics at UW-Madison. Gern, a pediatric allergist and immunologist, is conducting research on respiratory viruses that influence acute asthma in children. The path to commercialization for the MultiCode panel, which can detect multiple viruses in one test,...Sleep Apnea Linked to Bed-Wetting in Kids
.... Lee J. Brooks, a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. In a study of 160 kids ages 4 to 17 who were referred to a sleep-disorders //clinic for suspected breathing problems at night, 66 children (41 percent) were also bed-wetters. Breathing assessments...Healthy Feeding Guidelines for Children Ages 0 to 24 Months Issued
...rgies and sensitivities. Nancy Butte, professor of pediatrics at Baylor and CNRC said, “We felt that there was a...Nancy Butte and William Heird, also a professor of pediatrics at Baylor and CNRC, were part of the panel of leading pediatric experts who developed the new guidel...Once-Fatal Metabolic Disorders Treatable, Says Stanford/Packard Researcher
...rkable." Enns, who is also associate professor of pediatrics atStanford's School of Medicine, collaborated with researchers fromthe Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the University of Minnesota,Thomas Jefferson University and the Medical College of Wisconsin onthe study, which will be published in the May 31 i...