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New NIAID grants strengthen national biodefense and emerging infectious diseases research network

...k the completion of a national network of academic centers that conducts research to counter threats from bio...esearch needs. For example, researchers in the new centers have expertise in equine encephalitis and other viral diseases that can be transmitted to people by ...

Rutgers to lead $52.7 million protein research program

...ructural bioinformatics. Other NIGMS pilot program centers brought the total to about 1,500 structures which ...is shifting to a production phase in which the new centers will use methods developed during the pilot period to rapidly determine thousands of protein structu...

Studies clarify risk factors for mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis C virus

...volved 1,479 mother-and-child pairs enrolled at 33 centers in Italy, Spain, Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Norway, and Sweden. The other study, by Eric E. Mast, MD, MPH, of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and colleagues, followed 244 infants born to infected mothers in Houston and ...

Out of sight, out of mind? Not necessarily

...h this region of the thalamus to the higher visual centers of the brain, Ro said. "In addition to providing direct evidence that unconscious processing takes place within the brain - a controversial claim that was advanced by the likes of Sigmund Freud and William James - our results suggest that multiple p...

Volunteers sought for avian flu vaccine study

... vaccine trial, conducted at various other medical centers around the country, tested the vaccine in normal, healthy adults and determined it was safe to test in other populations. The development of a widespread epidemic of avian influenza, or "birdflu," is of growing concern throughout the world. Human ...

HIV mortality in India drops with introduction of generic antiretroviral therapy

... patients to seek treatment. "Voluntary counseling centers are being set up in public hospitals and in centers where persons with high risk for HIV seek medical attention," Dr. Kumarasamy said. Such centers offe...

Yale participates in global human genome initiative

... alliance of top international biomedical research centers formed to speed scientific and medical discoveries that target genes of the entire human genome. The initiative is sponsored by Dharmacon, Inc. , manufacturer of the first complete human genome siRNA library, or compilation of short, interfering rib...

How Fruitflies Know It's Time for Lunch

...tact the protocerebrum, a structure close to brain centers for learning and remembering odors. A third set of... and memory. Besides linking hug neurons to brain centers that regulate taste-related feeding behavior, the study also raises questions about how the nervous ...

Compound from marine bacteria shows potential as multiple myeloma therapy

...ion by the end of the year, with trials at several centers ?including Dana-Farber ?starting in early 2006. ...

Stress substantially slows human body's ability to heal

...tudy have major financial implications for medical centers and health care insurers. The new study, reported in the current issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, is the latest discovery in a three-decade-long series of experiments underway at the Ohio State University 's Institute for Behavioral Med...

UCLA imaging study of children with autism finds broken mirror neuron system

...autism also showed reduced activity in the emotion centers of the brain, consistent with the hypothesis that this mirroring mechanism may play a crucial role for understanding how others feel and for empathizing with them. All of the children rehearsed the tasks prior to the fMRI scans to assure researchers...

Powerful new tool for studying brain development

...ke (NINDS), and a partnership of 14 institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which have formed a consortium to accelerate breakthroughs in understanding the nervous system. St. Jude undertook the BGEM project under subcontract from Rockefeller University (New York) on behalf of NIND...

Bringing the zoos to the zebras

...s part of a network of four collaborative research centers that engage local communities in addressing conservation issues. ...

How 'hot' emotional brain interferes with 'cool' processing

...rchers have seen in action how the "hot" emotional centers of the brain can interfere with "cool" cognitive p..."see-saw" effect, in which activation of emotional centers damped activity in the "executive" centers responsible for such processing. The findings of the Duk...

NHGRI announces new sequencing targets

...raft or finished form sequenced by NHGRI-supported centers and made freely available in public databases. Sci...ssignment of each organism to a specific center or centers will be determined at a later date. NHGRI's process for selecting sequencing targets begins with th...

New mechanism for essential genome-wide gene silencing identified

...ntified mechanism of its kind." The new mechanism centers on histones, relatively small proteins around which DNA is coiled to create structures called nucleosomes. Compact strings of nucleosomes, then, form into chromatin, the substructure of chromosomes. In the study, conducted in a type of yeast called...

Intensive statin therapy may partially reverse plaque build-up in arteries

...al was conducted at 53 community and tertiary care centers in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. A total of 507 patients had baseline intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) examination and received 40 mg daily of rosuvastatin (brand name Crestor®). IVUS provides a precise and reproducible method fo...

Research updates 65-year-old genetic discovery

...hese samples to help zoos, sanctuaries and primate centers identify subspecies of chimpanzees. "My goal is to better understand chimpanzees in their own right and to ultimately help with their preservation," she says. Her samples contributed to this latest research, which found that when compared to human ...

Efficiency, not more doctors, is the prescription for aging population

...hat the practices of the highest-intensity medical centers where many more doctors and resources are used in providing medical services at the end of life, should be the standard for the country as a whole. "Instead of financing further growth in our medical education system, resources might be better direct...

New licensing agreement to maximize AIDS drug development

...anda and South Africa, Benin, Burkina Faso and two centers in India. The trials will evaluate Ushercell for the prevention of HIV infection among 2,574 adult women at high risk of acquiring HIV. This study will also assess incidence of genital gonorrhea and chlamydia. CONRAD is a cooperating agency of U...

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