Jefferson in Biological News

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

The number of spinal cord injuries among senior citizens (age 70 and above) has increased five times in the past 30 years, as compared with younger spinal cord injury patients, researchers at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Jefferson's Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center of the Delaware Val...

Immune cell communication key to hunting viruses, Jefferson immunologists show

Immunologists at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia have used nanotechnology to create a novel "biosensor" to solve in part a perplexing problem in immunology: how immune system cells called killer T-cells hunt down invading viruses. They found that surprisin...

Jefferson receives $1.7 million grant to study stem cells in intervertebral discs of the spine

... (PHILADELPHIA) Scientists at jefferson Medical College have received a five-year, $1.7 mi...he Cell and Tissue Engineering Graduate Program at jefferson Medical College of Thomas jefferson University. "As a major cause of lost productivi...

Uncooperative voltage sensors

...hannel, a voltage-gated potassium (Kv) channel. As Richard Horn (Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Hyperexcitability, jefferson Medical College) explains in his JGP commentary: "Many of the essential features of the voltage-sensing mechanism are known [including consensus...

Jefferson researcher awarded Landenberger Foundation grant for ALS research

...PHIA Piera Pasinelli, Ph.D., co-director of the Frances and Joseph Weinberg Unit for ALS Research at the Farber Institute for Neurosciences at Thomas jefferson University was recently awarded a Margaret Q. Landenberger Research Foundation grant to identify why drug therapies that showed promise in Amyotrophic...

AIUM presents 2009 William J. Fry Memorial Lecture award

...D, currently serves as a professor of radiology at jefferson Medical College and Thomas jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,...udent education for the Department of Radiology at jefferson Medical College and Thomas...

Researchers find pathway and enzyme unique to tularemia organism

... collaborated with researchers at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and Thomas jefferson University in a study that discovered that Francisella tularensis makes an essential metabolic molecule, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), us...

Gene therapy reversed heart damage in heart failure

... a recent study conducted by researchers at Thomas jefferson University's Center for Translational Medicine. Th...rector of the Center for Translational Medicine at jefferson Medical College of Thomas jefferson University. Dr. Koch's research team carried out t...

Jefferson Department of Surgery announces new pancreas tumor registry

...ross Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery at jefferson Medical College of Thomas jefferson University, announces the establishment of the new jefferson Pancreas Tumor Registry (JPTR). "The purpose of...

US Senate confirms Clemson University engineering Dean Esin Gulari to National Science Board

...r, LIGO Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; Ray Bowen, president emeritus, Texas A&M University; and Douglas Randall, professor and Thomas jefferson Fellow, University of Missouri, Columbia. ...

Jefferson scientists deliver toxic genes to effectively kill pancreatic cancer cells

...d by investigators at the Department of Surgery at jefferson Medical College of Thomas jefferson University and the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jeffers....D., assistant professor, Department of Surgery at jefferson Medical College of Thomas...

Novel structure proteins could play a role in apoptosis

...cell death. NSPs were discovered four years ago by Nianli Sang, then a doctoral student at the University and now an assistant professor at Thomas jefferson University and the Cardeza Foundation, and Antonio Giordano, director of the Sbarro Institute ( http://www.shro.org ) at Temple. The researchers not...

Meeting to highlight health impacts of smell and taste

...e limited and often ineffective. This symposium will cover several studies including clinical measurements at Monell Chemical Senses Center and Thomas jefferson University. NIDCD-funded researchers there, led by Monell's Nancy Rawson, Ph.D., and Beverly Cowart, Ph.D., are examining people with chronic sinusiti...

Scientists demonstrate means of reducing Alzheimer's-like plaques in fly brain

...nts, Dr. Zhong and other team members, who include Kanae Iijima-Ando, Ph.D., of the Farber Institute for Neurosciences and neuroscientists from Thomas jefferson University in Philadelphia, sought to turn the tables. If NEP deficiency caused pathology, what would happen if NEP enzymes were expressed in above-n...

Patriotic new lilacs introduced

... lilacs in North America may be those at the Governor Wentworth estate in Portsmouth, N.H., believed to have been planted around 1750. In 1767, Thomas jefferson recorded his method of planting lilacs in his garden book, and in 1785, George Washington noted that he had transplanted lilacs in his garden. Today, ...

Dry Tortugas show positive trends: Protected area slowly rebounding

...d for the team Types of dives = 1,245 RVC (reef fish visual census); 306 lobster; 80 coral-benthic - (plus another ≈ 250 on NPS Vessel Fort jefferson during the same time period) Number of dives on which video was captured = 72 Dives broken out by entity = UMiami 541; NOAA 515; FWRI 461; NPS 63; R...

Jefferson receives $11.6M NIH grant to study novel mechanisms of heart failure

... (PHILADELPHIA) Scientists at jefferson Medical College have received a five-year, $11.6 m...lational Medicine in the Department of Medicine at jefferson Medical College of Thomas jefferson University. We will have four core facilities and ...

Jefferson scientists studying the effects of high-dose vitamin C on non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients

... (PHILADELPHIA) - Scientists at Thomas jefferson University Hospital and Jeffersons Kimmel Cancer Center have received appro...n participating patients. As leaders in the field of integrative medicine, jefferson is always seeking new and innovative therapies for our patients, concluded ...

Dakotas continue to yield paleontological treasures

...ry laid the groundwork for a good deal of scientific research with its descriptions of territory acquired through the Louisiana Purchase. While Thomas jefferson was said to be disappointed by the absence of living megafauna, the area ultimately yielded a wealth of Late Cretaceous fossils. A new volume publishe...

MU study finds that sitting may increase risk of disease

...ng. One misrepresentation is that people tend to say 'I sit all the time, so your studies suggest that I can't even work,' but Ben Franklin and Thomas jefferson showed us that you can be very productive and still do great work in an office with a 'standing' desk." ...

Jefferson urologists studying regenerated neo-bladder to help spinal cord injury patients

... Urologists at Thomas jefferson University Hospital are studying whether a neo-bla...function for adult spinal cord injury patients. jefferson is only one of six sites in the U.S. enrolling par...gator Patrick Shenot, M.D., instructor in Urology, jefferson Medical College of Thomas...

New southernpeas developed by ARS, cooperators

...y co-developed these superior southernpeas with Blair Buckley from Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge and Dyremple Marsh, from Lincoln University, jefferson City, Mo. Fery described the research that led to the rich green color of GreenPack-DG in the June issue of HortScience. WhipperSnapper is featured...

An 'elegant' idea proves its worth 25 years later

... by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration only in 2005. Brusilow, Hamosh, and colleagues at Stanford University, University of Minnesota, Thomas jefferson University and the Medical College of Wisconsin looked back at 299 urea cycle disorder patients with a total of 1,181 hyperammonemia "episodes" from 1...

Jefferson scientists find rabies-based vaccine could be effective against HIV

...feating another implacable foe: HIV. Scientists at jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia have used a drasti...Ph.D., professor of microbiology and immunology at jefferson Medical College of Thomas jefferson University, and his co-workers tested the effects ...

Jefferson researchers' discovery may change thinking on how viruses invade the brain

... isn’t. The surprising finding, say researchers at jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, may change the wa...Ph.D., professor of microbiology and immunology at jefferson Medical College of Thomas jefferson University, viruses such as rabies must be activel...

Scientists identify a gene that may suppress colorectal cancer

... In today’s online edition of Genome Research , a husband-and-wife research team from Thomas jefferson University report the discovery of a gene that, when mutated, may suppress colorectal cancer. To conduct the study, the researchers used a strain of ...

Researchers show that veins stiffen as we age

...r is a cardiologist and director of cardiovascular research at Christiana Care Health System, as well as a clinical associate professor of medicine at jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. DiSabatino is the nurse manager at Christiana Care's cardiovascular research office. While the arterial side of t...

Jefferson scientists find high glucose before surgery raises risk of dangerous complications

...nesthesiology in the Artificial Pancreas Center at jefferson Medical College of Thomas jefferson University in Philadelphia, and his colleagues exa...hip or knee replacement surgery patients at Thomas jefferson University Hospital who were admitted between 2003...

Jefferson scientists find aging gene also protects against prostate cancer development

... Cancer scientists at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas jefferson University in Philadelphia have shown that a gene that is involved in regul...now,?says Dr. Pestell, who is also professor and chair of cancer biology at jefferson Medical College. “We’ve shown that by making a prostate cancer with cel...

Jefferson researchers uncover new way nature turns genes on and off

...fruit flies, developmental biologists at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas jefferson University in Philadelphia may have discovered a new way that genes are tur..., Alexander Mazo, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at jefferson Medical College, Svetlana Petruk, Ph.D., and their co-authors focused on pi...

Jefferson scientists identify gene mutation potentially involved in breast cancer initiation

... Researchers at jefferson Medical College and the Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas jefferson University in Philadelphia and at the Albert Einst...santi, M.D., Ph.D., professor of cancer biology at jefferson Medical College and Richard Pestell, M.D., Ph.D., ...

Agriculture and tropical conservation: rethinking old ideas

...igrating animals. "These farmers actually have monkeys that come through their farms," Vandermeer said. The U-M scientists and their collaborator jefferson Ferreira Lima of Brazil's Instituto de Pesquisas Ecologicas also spoke with members of the Landless Workers' Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rur...

Ritalin packs punch by elevating norepinephrine, suppressing nerve signal transmissions

...n the primary somatosensory cortex of awake rats," by Philadelphia-based researchers Candice Drouin, University of Pennsylvania; Michelle Page, Thomas jefferson University; and Barry Waterhouse, Drexel University College of Medicine appears online in the Journal of Neurophysiology, published by The American Ph...

AIDS-related cognitive impairment exists in two separate forms

...ne or protein "chips" to define cancer processes, but researchers at Thomas jefferson University in Philadelphia took a novel approach using a micro-RNA (miRNA) ...sed in colon cancer, compared to normal colon tissue, researchers at Thomas jefferson University used a microarray chip containing probes for most of the known m...

Markers of gene, protein, or micro-RNA activity predict outcome in prostate and colorectal cancers

...ne or protein "chips" to define cancer processes, but researchers at Thomas jefferson University in Philadelphia took a novel approach using a micro-RNA (miRNA) ...sed in colon cancer, compared to normal colon tissue, researchers at Thomas jefferson University used a microarray chip containing probes for most of the known m...

New Research Shows Artificial Light at Night Stimulates Breast Cancer Growth in Laboratory Mice

...Health, provided funding to researchers at the Bassett Research Institute of the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, New York and The Thomas jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pa. The results are published in the December 1, 2005 issue of the scientific journal Cancer Research. “This is the fir...

Jefferson researchers building a better rabies vaccine

... In an unexpected discovery, scientists at jefferson Medical College have found that a tiny change in a..., DVM, professor of microbiology and immunology at jefferson Medical College of Thomas jefferson University in Philadelphia, who led the work. "As ...

Nanoparticles, nanoshells, nanotubes: How tiny specks may provide powerful tools against cancer

...the originally treated tumor," explains co-author Eric Wickstrom, Ph.D., of jefferson Medical College of Thomas jefferson University in Philadelphia. "This could be cost-effective and could dia...

University of Delaware researchers develop cancer 'nanobomb'

...rogram. Panchapakesan is the lead investigator for a team that includes Eric Wickstrom, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Thomas jefferson University in Philadelphia, and his student Greg Cesarone, and UD graduate students Shaoxin Lu, Kousik Sivakumar and postdoctoral researcher Kasif Tek...

Building a better mouse model of lung cancer: FHIT counts

...ed the timing and order of genetic and epigenetic changes in the human experience of this disease." Huebner and colleagues at Ohio State and Thomas jefferson University bred two strains of mice, one that had only one copy of the FHIT gene, and another that lacked both copies. They also established a control...