professor 2 10

Tag: "professor" at biology news

Type of stem cell found to reside in transplanted lungs

...years after transplantation," says Lama, assistant professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Med...e MSCs, says Victor J. Thannickal, M.D., associate professor of Internal Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and senior author on th...

Bypassing eggs, flu vaccine grown in insect cells shows promise

...e results are very promising,?said Treanor, who is professor of Medicine and of Microbiology and Immunology and director of the Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Unit at the University of Rochester. “While we certainly hoped and expected the vaccine to be protective, you don’t know that until you actually test ...

Study finds surfing safer than soccer

... physician at The Miriam Hospital and an assistant professor at Brown Medical School, both in Providence, RI. In contrast, previous studies conducted by N...

Stress may help cancer cells resist treatment, research shows

...s," said George Kulik, D.V.M., Ph.D., an assistant professor of cancer biology and senior researcher on the project. The study results are reported on-line in the Journal of Biological Chemistry and will appear in a future print issue. Levels of epinephrine, which is produced by the adrenal glands, are ...

Hybrid molecule causes cancer cells to self-destruct

...tner molecule," said Kevin J. Yarema, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering who supervised the project. "Our insight was to select the sugar partner to serve not just as a passive carrier but as additional ammunition in the fight against cancer." The researchers focused on a sugar called N-acetyl...

Columbia scientists determine 3-dimensional structure of cell's 'fuel gauge'

... obesity," said Lawrence Shapiro, Ph.D., associate professor of Biochemistry and Jules and Doris Stein Professor of Research to Prevent Blindness at Columbia University Medical Center, and senior author of the paper. The protein, known as AMP-activated protein kinase or AMPK, controls metabolic decisions ...

Nanotechnology meets biology and DNA finds its groove

...hread of DNA, explains Juan de Pablo, a UW-Madison professor of biomedical engineering and a co-author of the study. The team has a way, he says, of "positioning the DNA molecule right where we want it to be. It is important that we can manipulate it with such fidelity." The system, says Schwartz, promises ...

Lithium builds gray matter in bipolar brains, UCLA study shows

...earden, a clinical neuropsychologist and assistant professor of psychiatry at UCLA, and Paul Thompson, associate professor of neurology at the UCLA Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, used a novel method of three-dimensional magne...

When your brain talks, your muscles don't always listen

...laware researcher Christopher Knight, an assistant professor in UD's College of Health Sciences. "As a result of age-related changes in muscle and neurons, elderly people are often frustrated by poor control during precision tasks, and slowed physical responses contribute to more falls as people grow older,...

3 proteins may play important role in nerve-cell repair

...oduction in nerve cells," says Saeki, an associate professor of neurological surgery and chief of Ohio State's Dardinger Laboratory for Neuro-oncology and Neurosciences. In this study, first author Shigeru Tanaka, a postdoctoral fellow in Saeki's laboratory, and his colleagues used nerve cells obtained fro...

McBride shows DNA detective work with paper-eating bacteria that 'glide'

...paper pulp, sawdust, straw and grain hulls. A UWM professor recently helped DOE do just that by analyzing the ...ing paper) and waste feedstocks. Mark McBride, a professor of biological sciences, worked with DOE's Joint Genome Institute and scientists at Los Alamos Nation...

Synthetic peptide targets latent papilloma virus infections

...of this virus will respond," said Michael Botchan, professor of molecular and cell biology and a faculty affiliate of the UC Berkeley branch of the California Institute for Quantitative Biology (QB3). "The hope is to have one drug that works for all different human virus types." "The second most preventable ...

UTSA researchers examine effects of global warming on Antarctic

...search team last year as a UTSA research associate professor and has more than a dozen trips to both the Arctic and Antarctic to his credit. His outstanding contribution to sea ice research was recognized in 2004 when the US Board of Geographical Names honored him by naming Ackley Point, a geographic feature ...

Scientists find hormone activity explains adolescent mood swings

...oscience, researchers led by Sheryl S. Smith, PhD, professor of physiology and pharmacology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, report findings demonstrating that a hormone normally released in response to stress, THP, actually reverses its effect at puberty, when it increases anxiety. This hormone normally a...

Bisexual fruit flies show new role for neurochemical

...research team led by David Featherstone, assistant professor of biological sciences, has discovered that receptor numbers are controlled by the brain's level of glutamate. But it is not the same glutamate that most neuroscientists think about -- the neurotransmitter that moves in message packets across the syn...

Robotic exoskeleton replaces muscle work

...of the spinal cord," said Daniel Ferris, associate professor in movement science at U-M. "For patients that can walk slowly, a brace like this may help them walk faster and more effectively." Ferris and former U-M doctoral student Keith Gordon, who is now a post-doctoral fellow at the Rehabilitation Insti...

New study challenges 'critical period' in childhood vision development

...allenges in neuroscience. In 2003, Pawan Sinha, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, launched an initiative with the hopes of shedding some light on the acquisition of visual skills. The goal of his "Project Prakash" is to find, treat, and study congenitally blind children in India. A un...

Africa's first large-scale HIV vaccine study launches

...linical Research Division and a clinical associate professor of health services at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. The test vaccine, known as the MRKAd5 HIV-1 trivalent vaccine, is manufactured by Merck & Co., Inc. and already has been studied for several yea...

Cocoa 'vitamin' health benefits could outshine penicillin

...ustry, the magazine of the SCI. Norman Hollenberg, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, told C&I that epicatechin is so important that it should be considered a vitamin. Hollenberg has spent years studying the benefits of cocoa drinking on the Kuna people in Panama. He found that the risk of ...

Newborn brains grow vision and movement regions first

...t been described before," said Dr. John Gilmore, a professor of psychiatry in the UNC School of Medicine and lead author of the study. "An enormous amount of brain development takes place between birth and late childhood that we know very little about. This study gives us the first glimpse into understanding t...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10