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Sleeping Sickness Epidemic Spreading in Uganda

...rt of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the biomedical research arm of the federal government. NIH is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The NICHD sponsors research on development, before and after birth; maternal, child, and family health; reproductive biology and population ...

Drug Offers Alternative to Surgical Treatment After Miscarriage

...rt of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the biomedical research arm of the federal government. NIH is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The NICHD sponsors research on development, before and after birth; maternal, child, and family health; reproductive biology and population ...

Anthrax inhibitors identified by Burnham team

... founded in 1976, is an independent not-for-profit biomedical research institution dedicated to advancing the frontiers of scientific knowledge and providing the foundation for tomorrow's medical therapies. The Institute is home to three major centers: the original Cancer Center, the Del E. Webb Neuroscience an...

Purdue scientists may have found key to halting spinal cord damage

... who is an associate professor of neuroscience and biomedical engineering in Purdue's School of Veterinary Medicine and Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering. "Our latest research indicates that acrolein may be the primary culprit that enables this vicious cycle. Because acrolein has already been implicated i...

Biologists determine genetic blueprint of social amoeba

...achievement will have an immediate application for biomedical researchers, who can now mine the Dictyostelium genome for a host of genes that cause human disease, thus gaining a new and efficient way to study those human diseases with a simple organism in their laboratories. For evolutionary biologists, the ge...

Researchers use 3-D imaging system to unveil swimming behavior of microscopic plankton

...not unlike those used in ultrasound procedures for biomedical applications. "One of the most amazing aspects of this research is that we were able to see 375,000 of these animals, many as small as one millimeter in length," said Jaffe, a research oceanographer in the Marine Physical Laboratory at Scripps. "I f...

New method shows it is possible to grow bone for grafts within a patient's body

An international team of biomedical engineers has demonstrated for the first time that...d," says V. Prasad Shastri, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Vanderbilt University who led the effort. "And we did so by persuading the body to do...

Where Bacteria Get Their Genes

...y of Arizona in Tucson. The finding has important biomedical implications because such gene-swapping, or lateral gene transfer, is the way many pathogenic bacteria pick up antibiotic resistance or become more virulent. "To maintain effective treatments and develop new antibiotics, it's important to monitor th...

Depression gene may weaken mood-regulating circuit

...(NIH), the Federal Government's primary agency for biomedical and behavioral research. NIH is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. * Information on Depression http://www.nimh.nih.gov/healthinformation/depressionmenu.cfm ** Gene More Than Doubles Risk of Depression Following Life St...

Computational Tool Predicts How Drugs Work In Cells, Advancing Efforts To Design Better Medicines

...nology, reports on collaborative work by a team of biomedical engineers and chemists at Boston University. The team was led by Tim Gardner, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering’s Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) and its Center for BioDynamics, and James Collins, a professor in BME and ...

Searching the depths of the straits of Florida for disease cures

...uba dives in search of shallow-water organisms for biomedical testing. Though Harbor Branch has used its submersibles to explore the Bahamas extensively since the 1970s, this will be the institution's first trip to Cay Sal. Almost no information is available about the area's deepwater habitats. Ultimately, Har...

Innovative coating could give medical implants a longer life

...ich Phillip B. Messersmith, associate professor of biomedical engineering in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science and lead investigator in the study, believes to be the longest successful in-vitro antifouling demonstration. The findings are published online today (May 13) by the Journal of t...

Engineers improve plastic's potential for use in implants by linking it to biological material

...that conducts electricity and has shown promise in biomedical applications. When the protein piece, or peptide, ...in the laboratory. "It will be very useful from a biomedical standpoint to be able to link factors to polypyrrole in the future that stimulate nerve growth or se...

A probe, not an echo

... or MRI units. Vasilis Marmarelis, a professor of biomedical engineering at the Viterbi School, presented HUTT images of animal organ tissue in San Diego at the 28th International Acoustical Imaging Symposium, held March 20-23. According to Marmarelis, HUTT offers nearly order-of-magnitude improvement in reso...

Purdue researchers use enzyme to clip 'DNA wires'

...a and Albena Ivanisevic, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and chemistry at Purdue. DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, has an overall negative charge, so it might be used in a process called self-assembly to create electronic devices. When placed in a solution with magnetic particles that have a pos...

NHGRI targets 12 more organisms for genome sequencing

...ith the greatest potential to fill crucial gaps in biomedical knowledge," said Mark S. Guyer, Ph.D., director of...w that these tools, freely available to the entire biomedical research community, can be used in other scientific fields to further improve animal and human welfa...

Where bacteria get their genes

...y of Arizona in Tucson. The finding has important biomedical implications because such gene-swapping, or lateral gene transfer, is the way many pathogenic bacteria pick up antibiotic resistance or become more virulent. "To maintain effective treatments and develop new antibiotics, it's important to monitor th...

Newly Discovered 'Branding' Process Helps Immune System Cells Pick Their Fights

...re their potential relevance to different areas of biomedical research. He notes that insulin-producing beta cells, the pancreatic cells attacked by T cells in type 1 diabetes, also generate reactive compounds similar to those made by antigen-presenting cells. "The beta cells could therefore be modifying their...

Mouse with designer liver has enhanced glucose tolerance, insulin response

... founded in 1976, is an independent not-for-profit biomedical research institution dedicated to advancing the frontiers of scientific knowledge and providing the foundation for tomorrow’s medical therapies. The Institute is home to three major centers: the original Cancer Center, the Del E. Webb Neuroscience an...

Gladstone investigators discover how resting T cells avoid HIV infection

...id Gladstone Institutes, an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institution affiliated with UCSF. For further information, visit www.gladstone.ucsf.edu. ...

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