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Study finds antibiotic resistance in poultry even when antibiotics were not used

...ential to threaten human health. Dr. Margie Lee, professor in the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine, and her colleagues have found that chickens raised on antibiotic-free farms and even those raised under pristine laboratory conditions have high levels of bacteria that are resistant to common antibiotics. H...

Action video games sharpen vision 20 percent

...process visual information," says Daphne Bavelier, professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester. "After just 30 hours, players showed a substantial increase in the spatial resolution of their vision, meaning they could see figures like those on an eye chart more clearly, even when o...

Mine runoff continues to provide clues to microbial diversification

...id Jill Banfield, who led the project. Banfield, a professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, expects this to have far-reaching implications. “More important perhaps is the demonstration of our ability to simultaneously identify a large fraction of an organism’s p...

Need oxygen? Cells know how to spend and save

...un out of gas," says Gregg Semenza, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of pediatrics and director of the vascular biology program in the Institute for Cell Engineering at Hopkins. "This is one way that cells maintain energy production under less than ideal conditions." A report on the work is in the April 6 issue of Cel...

New report: Explosive growth changes salmon industry

...ction is being done right," says Dr. Gunnar Knapp, professor of economics at the University of Alaska, Anchorag... said Dr. Cathy Roheim, co-author of the study and professor of economics at the University of Rhode Island. The report also recommends: harmonizing reg...

The sturdier sex? -- Study by Pittsburgh scientists finds female stem cells work better

...ss responses, according to Dr. Deasy, an assistant professor in the Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and School of Engineering, respectively. The investigators examined several aspects of stem cell behavior. They screened for difference...

Selectivity is ultimate aphrodisiac

...stwick and Northwestern's Eli J. Finkel, assistant professor of psychology, will be published in the April issue of the journal Psychological Science. Also contributing to the report are Daniel Mochon and Dan Ariely of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "How this all happens is a bit of a mystery,...

Pitt study notes decline in male births in the US and Japan

... Institute’s Center for Environmental Oncology and professor of epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate... Lovell A. Jones, Ph.D., study co-investigator and professor and director, Center for Research on Minority Health, department of health disparities research, Uni...

Nanotextured implant materials: blending in, not fighting back

...ch foreign materials, Thomas Webster, an associate professor of engineering, and Karen Haberstroh, an assistant professor of engineering, thought maybe they could use physical structure to allow the foreign materials to bl...

Researchers identify ovarian cancer biomarkers

... author Ronald Buckanovich, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of internal medicine and obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Michigan Medical School. Buckanovich was at the University of Pennsylvania when he conducted this research. The study analyzed the largest number of samples to date in tumor v...

Brown cancer biologists identify major player in cell growth

...y excited," said Alan Rosmarin, M.D., an associate professor in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry at Brown and director of clinical oncology research for Lifespan, Rhode Island's largest health care system. "This discovery not only adds to our bas...

Veterinary scientists explore poultry virus as cancer killer

...ate cancer. Dr. Elankurmaran Subbiah, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, was awarded a prestigious research grant by the Department of Defense. This “Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program?award will support the exploration and hypothesis development fo...

Imaging pinpoints brain regions that 'see the future'

...hington University doctoral graduate now assistant professor of psychology at the University of Utah; and Kathleen McDermott, an associate professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences and of radiology in the School of Medicine at Washington Univer...

MIT model helps researchers 'see' brain development

... work was led by co-author Bruce Fischl, associate professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School, research affiliate with the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and HST, and director of the computational core at the HST Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts...

'Guardian of the genome' protein found to underlie skin tanning

...ector of the Melanoma Program at Dana-Farber and a professor in pediatrics at Children's Hospital Boston. "This study suggests that p53, one of the best-known tumor-suppressor proteins in our body, has a powerful role in protecting us against sun damage in the skin." In a study published last year, Fisher a...

Horse genome assembled

...lian pregnancy. The research, conducted by Cornell professor Doug Antczak, V.M.D, Ph.D., and funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, has implications in reproduction, clinical organ transplantation and immune regulation. In addition to sequencing the horse genome, researche...

UCSD researchers discover variants of natural tumor suppressor

... The findings, by Alexandra C. Newton, Ph.D., UCSD professor of pharmacology, and colleagues are published in the current edition of the journal Molecular Cell. Previous research by Newton's lab, also published in Molecular Cell, described the discovery of an enzyme they named PH domain Leucine-rich repeat Pr...

OHSU surgeon implants donated tissue allografts

...rtunate and ironic," explained Crawford, assistant professor of orthopedics and rehabilitation in the OHSU School of Medicine, and a specialist in sports medicine. "Oregonians, it turns out, are among the most beneficent with respect to providing their bodies to organ donation programs in the entire country." ...

RNA splicing factor implicated in ovarian tumor cell growth

...rmal matching ovarian tissues," said William Beck, professor and head of biopharmaceutical sciences. In the new study, Beck and research assistant professor Xiaolong He show that knocking down PTB expression with small, interfering RNA "substantially impair...

Tracking sperm whales and jumbo squid

...eam included principal investigator William Gilly, professor of biological sciences at Stanford University, and lead author Randall Davis, professor of marine biology at Texas A&M University-Galveston. Their results, published in the March 12 ed...

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