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Boston University biomedical engineers win major grant for pursuit of the '$1,000 Genome'

..., which he names "Opti-Pore." Weng's involvement centers on bioinformatics ?using computational methods to organize the large amount of data collected. Meller said he is grateful for the grant, which validates his approach to DNA sequencing. "We are very close to a proof of principle that we can read a s...

Slow brain waves play key role in coordinating complex activity

...calize important areas they need to avoid, such as centers of language, vision or motor activity. The goal of the UC Berkeley-UCSF Intracranial Project is to use high-gamma waves to produce a finer map of the brain to guide neurosurgeons during brain surgery and potentially to use these same high frequency ...

Protein 'fingerprint' in spinal fluid could spot Alzheimer's disease

...ineering at Cornell. Researchers at a variety of centers have long sought biomarkers in blood or cerebrospinal fluid that identify the presence of Alzheimer's pathology and distinguish it from other conditions that cause dementia. "Some of these studies have met with limited success, but most have corr...

Hair-growth drug artificially lowers PSA levels in prostate cancer screening, study finds

...born from 1998 to 2000 in cooperation with medical centers in Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas and Virginia. The data in The Lancet study are derived from a study Dr. Roehrborn conducted with Merck & Co., Inc. in ...

Protein structure initiative launches new resources for the scientific community

...ientific questions." To date, the PSI research centers have produced more than 100,000 clones. Norvell expects the current centers to produce a total of 20,000 clones annually. Knowledgebase In fall 2007, the PSI will establi...

A potential biological cause for sudden infant death syndrome

...m, which in turn stimulate respiratory and arousal centers in the brain so that the baby doesn't asphyxiate. "A normal baby will wake up, turn its head, and start breathing faster when carbon dioxide levels rise," explains Kinney. But in babies who die from SIDS, defects in the serotonin system may im...

Temple University Hospital investigates treatment for cervical dysplasia

... in a pivotal phase 2 clinical program in multiple centers in the U.S., including Philadelphia. "This product candidate is designed to enhance the body's immune response to cervical dysplasia, and is being developed to offer patients with cervical dysplasia and healthcare providers an option to surgical inte...

New fMRI technology making brain tumor surgery safer

..., which pinpoint language, cognition, and mobility centers of the brain, allow neurosurgeons to remove tumors to the greatest extent possible without harming areas that are critical to the patient’s quality of life. Functional MRI creates a series of images that capture blood oxygen levels in parts of the...

UCLA: How does your brain respond when you think about gambling or taking risks?

...ck said. The researchers also found that reward centers in the brain respond not only when we actually receive rewards but also when we make decisions about potential rewards, and that when we make decisions, the reward circuitry in the brain is more sensitive to possible losses than to possible gains. ...

NIH neuroscience microarray consortium launches high-throughput genotyping services

...sortium is comprised of four nationally recognized centers located at Duke University in Durham, NC, the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) in Phoenix, AZ, the University of California in Los Angeles, and Yale University in New Haven, CT. The Consortium can be accessed through its web portal at...

Groundbreaking Canadian asthma study

...luded 112 patients between the ages of 18-65 at 11 centers in four countries, and followed these patients for one year after treatment. Several years ago, Dr. John Miller began limited bronchial thermoplasty procedures in patients who were scheduled to have lung surgery. "We saw that this particular way o...

Scientists reveal structure of gateways to gene control

... nucleosomes at the transcription-promoter control centers occupy several overlapping positions on the DNA mo... Another discovery is that transcription-control centers tend to be located on the outside edge of the nucleosome and tend to face outward on the DNA helix, ...

New science of metagenomics 'will transform modern microbiology'

... sites. The large projects would be "virtual" centers collecting data from scientists working at many locations around the world, and would probably need to be sustained for 10 years, the report notes. They would also serve as incubators for the development of novel techniques and community databases...

Stem cell therapy shows promise in regenerating damaged muscle in heart attack patients

...s on March 25. Rush was one of 10 premier cardiac centers across the country that participated in the 53-patient, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Among other findings, patients receiving Provacel were 75 percent less likely to experience an arrhythmic adverse event compared to those receiving place...

Do you hear what i see?

...earch pinpoints specific areas in sound processing centers in the brains of macaque monkeys that shows enhanced activity when the animals watch a video. This study confirms a number of recent findings but contradicts classical thinking, in which hearing, taste, touch, sight, and smell are each processed in ...

NIH announces phase III clinical trial of creatine for Parkinson's disease

...roll 1720 people with early-stage PD at 51 medical centers in the United States and Canada. "This study is an important step toward developing a therapy that could change the course of this devastating disease," says Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., director of the NIH. "The goal is to improve the quality of lif...

New test for most virulent HPV strains under study

...al pre-cancers and cancers caused by HPV, although centers such as MCG are evaluating potential therapies. Resulting cervical changes may be followed with frequent Pap smears or colposcopy, in which physicians can view the cervix and freeze, excise or vaporize significant cellular changes. For more infor...

Gene chips forecast ecological impacts of climate change

... San Francisco on Sunday, Feb. 18. Her research centers on sea urchins and mussels, important members of marine ecosystems. The main focus will be on finding ways to assess the effects of temperature stress and low pH, due to ocean acidification, on adults and early developmental stages of marine inverteb...

Lead with a poisonous electron shield

...A calcium ion binds to seven ligands at the active centers of the enzyme. If one of the four possible calcium ions of calmodulin is replaced by lead, the lead ion remains roughly heptacoordinated, but this active center becomes distorted and inefficient; the three remaining sites get a reduced efficiency. ...

Elderly spinal cord injuries increase five-fold in 30 years, Jefferson neurosurgeons find

...pact spine surgeons and spinal cord rehabilitation centers as these patients become a larger proportion of the spinal cord injury (SCI) population. The findings were just presented by Jefferson neurological surgeons at a meeting in Phoenix, Ariz. of the Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral ...

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