Wake in Biological News

Brain malformations significantly associated with preterm birth, Wake Forest research shows

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. New research out of Wake Forest University School of Medicine provides for the first time a solid scientific answer for the long-standing question of whether there is an association between preterm birth and brain malformations. In a study of more than 1,000 preterm infant...

Climate change may wake up 'sleeper' weeds

Climate change will cause some of Australia's potential weeds to move south by up to 1000km, according to a report by scientists at CSIRO's Climate Adaptation Flagship. Weeds cost Australia more than $4 billion a year either in control or lost production and cause serious damage to the environm...

Taste, odor intervention improves cancer therapy, according to Virginia Tech, Wake Forest study

BLACKSBURG, Va., March 30, 2009 Cancer and its therapies, including chemotherapy and radiotherapy, may directly alter and damage taste and odor perception, possibly leading to patient malnutrition, and in severe cases, significant morbidity, according to a Virginia Tech Wake Forest University Co...

APS sets aside $50,000 to help students, post-docs, in wake of Hurricane Ike

BETHESDA, Md. (Oct. 6, 2008) − The American Physiological Society has established the Hurricane Ike Relief Fund to provide unrestricted grants of up to $2,000 to support physiology graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who suffered losses as a result of Hurricane Ike. The powerful storm...

Researchers wake up viruses inside tumors to image and then destroy cancers

Researchers have found a way to activate Epstein-Barr viruses inside tumors as a way to identify patients whose infection can then be manipulated to destroy their tumors. They say this strategy could offer a novel way of treating many cancers associated with Epstein-Barr, including at least four d...

Health of Acehnese reefs in the wake of the tsunami shows human impacts more harmful

According to research reported this week in Current Biology, tsunami damage to coral reefs closest to the epicenter of the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake was occasionally spectacular, but surprisingly limited, particularly when compared to damage from chronic human misuse in the region. Less th...

Research shows rates of severe childhood obesity have tripled

...en at risk for diabetes and heart disease, according to a report in Academic Pediatrics by an obesity expert at Brenner Children's Hospital, part of wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. "Children are not only becoming obese, but becoming severely obese, which impacts their overall health,"...

Systems biology recommended as a clinical approach to cancer

...Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech and their colleagues at the wake Forest University School of Medicine are advocating the use of systems biol...cal methods that can be used in a systems biology approach. According to wake Forest University Professor of Medicine Steve Akman, "The systems biology a...

Coral face 'a stormy future'

... new scientific study of the fate of corals in the wake of large climate-driven bleaching and storm events...the regrowth of young corals drops sharply in the wake of a major bleaching event or a hurricane," says l...1980 to see what had happened to the corals in the wake of nine hurricanes, tropical storms and bleaching ...

Following the dietary guidelines may slow heart disease in women

...individuals already in poor health? To study these questions, researchers at the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University and wake Forest University devised a statistical model that assessed adherence to the DGA and then related it to progression of atherosclerosis in women. Their...

Protective footwear for diabetics at a high-street price

... Diabetes rates have risen sharply in developed countries in the wake of the obesity epidemic, and an estimated 30 million Europeans live with the condition. Foot problems are the most common cause of admission to hospit...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- May 13, 2009

...Researchers say that better detection tests are needed, particularly in the wake of new U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines limiting melamine...s from C&EN: Water purification is becoming big business in China In the wake of growing shortages of clean drinking water worldwide, water purification ...

Babies born to native high-altitude mothers have decreased risk of low birth weight

... del Sur, La Paz, Bolivia. Dr. Yamashiro is also affiliated with Clinica Siran, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia and Dr. Moore is also affiliated with wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Birth weight differences High-altitude pregnancies typically produce lower birth weight infant...

Google Earth aids discovery of early African mammal fossils

... an associate research scientist, began studying them and identified teeth and bones of fossil bats. Gunnell shared the materials with Ellen Miller of wake Forest University, who found a few rodent jaws and some additional teeth. Recently, with funding from National Geographic Society, Gunnell, Miller, U-...

Toward a systems biology map of iron metabolism

... Blacksburg, Va. -- Scientists at the wake Forest University School of Medicine, the Universi...professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the wake Forest University School of Medicine, remarked: "I...r at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute and the wake Forest University School of Medicine at the time o...

A biological basis for the 8-hour workday?

...e cell itself. Feeding appears to control one of the 12-hour gene expression peaks. Mice consume about 20% of their daily calories right after they wake at dusk, which is near one gene expression peak. When the researchers restricted feeding to a different time of day one 12-hour peak disappeared and t...

Researchers discover that gene switches on during development of epilepsy

... WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. A discovery made by researchers at wake Forest University School of Medicine while studying mice may help explain how some people without a genetic predisposition to epilepsy can develop the...

2009 ASPB Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship award announcement

...ontral, Canada. Congratulations to the following 2009 SURF Recipients and Honorable Mentions: AWARD RECIPIENTS CATEGORY A Kevin Cooper, wake Forest University Mentor: Gloria Muday Auxin-Induced Flavonoid Gene Expression and Root Architecture I am both honored and excited to receive...

American Chemical Society Weekly PressPac -- April 8, 2009

... ARTICLE #5 EMBARGOED FOR 9 A.M., EASTERN TIME, April 13, 2009 "Weighing options: Obesity researchers assess what it will take to move forward in the wake of drug-trial setbacks" This story will be available on April 13 at http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/87/8715cover.html FOR ADVANCE INFORMAT...

AIUM presents 2009 Memorial Hall of Fame awards

...ponent of real-time ultrasound and is considered a pioneer of diagnostic ultrasound. Martin Resnick, MD, 1943-2007, earned his medical degree from wake Forest University, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, in 1969. An early user of ultrasound in urology, Dr Resnick was an accomplished researcher and prof...

The sunlight solution for better health

...djusted to a lifestyle that is less than a century old. In fact, we may be suffering from the unnatural hours we work and sleep. The sun was once our wake up call. Now, alarm clocks determine the start of our days without any regard for daylight or nighttime darkness. Dr. Michael F. Holick, of the B...

Shellfish and inkjet printers may hold key to faster healing from surgeries

...y times and increased precision for exacting operations such as eye surgery. Traditionally, there have been two ways to join tissue together in the wake of a surgery: sutures and synthetic adhesives. Sutures work well, but require enormous skill and longer operating times. Additionally, the use of sutu...

Amazon carbon sink threatened by drought

...d and measured over 100,000 trees, and recorded tree deaths as well as new trees. Weather patterns were also carefully measured and mapped. In the wake of the 2005 drought the RAINFOR team took advantage of this huge natural experiment, and focused their measurements to assess how the drought had affe...

40 minority scientists receive travel fellowships to Experimental Biology 2009 in New Orleans

...o / Medial College of Georgia Shea Gilliam-Davis, wake Forest University School of Medicine Albert L. Go...y of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign TanYa Gwathmey, wake Forest University Andres Hernandez, Auburn Univer...f Mississippi Medical Center Karl D. Pendergrass, wake Forest University Arthur J. Pope, University Of F...

Parkinson's Disease Foundation awards $300,000 in bridge funding for innovative research projects

...such a direct and catastrophic effect upon Parkinson's disease research. We are not only proud to support some of the talented scientists left in the wake of this event, but also believe that we owe this type of commitment to the nearly one million people in the US living with Parkinson's - people who ca...

Defying the disaster: Researcher explores resilient housing

... Researchers at North Carolina State University are determining ways to speed the return of residents to their homes in the wake of natural disasters. The first step is providing better, more accessible information about available tools and technologies to homeowners, builde...

Animal eggs not suitable substitutes to produce stem cells

.... The paper is available free online at www.liebertpub.com/clo Robert Lanza, M.D. and colleagues from Advanced Cell Technology (Worcester, MA), wake Forest University School of Medicine (Winston Salem, NC), Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey (Morristown), Fertility Specialists of Housto...

VUANCE Announces Crime Scene Security and Evidentiary Tracking Development Project

...the security of crime scenes and evidence collected from them. In addition, the various federal initiatives for credentialing and scene control in the wake of 9/11 and the hurricanes on the Gulf Coast have created a significant need for an end-to-end solution. VUANCE's comprehensive technology provides th...

Long-term use of diabetes drugs by women significantly increases risk of fractures

...gs commonly used to treat diabetes can double the risk of bone fractures in women, according to a new study by the University of East Anglia (UEA) and wake Forest University. Published today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) , the findings show that use of thiazolidinediones for more ...

New dummy design and development wins US Department of Defense award

... Blacksburg, Va. -- The Virginia Tech wake Forest University's School of Biomedical Engineering and Science's Center for Injury Biomechanics has received the Army Modeling and Simulation Award ...

Master gene plays key role in blood sugar levels

... those of children born with Von Gierke's disease, said O'Malley. The disorder can create serious problems unless it is recognized early. Parents must wake the infants every few hours and feed them to keep their blood glucose levels up. As long as the glucose levels are high enough, the brain is nourished...

Mineral oil contamination in humans: A health problem?

... from the Official Food Control Authority of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, titled "Does the Ukrainian sunflower oil contaminated with mineral oil wake up sleeping dogs?" discusses the situation. Dr. Koni Grob says that in many more foods more than 50 mg/kg mineral oil components from other sources wi...

Jupiter's shrinking red spot

...ner's aisle will disrupt this carefully designed flow pattern by creating a wake of eddies that can spread contaminants as far as 10 rows away. Moreover, l... Plesniak's talk, "Experimental Model of Contaminant Transport by a Moving wake Inside an Aircraft Cabin," will be given at 5:06 p.m. on Monday, November 2...

Animal and biological science highlights: San Antonio Fluid Dynamics Conference, Nov. 23-25

...nitored both the motion of their wings and the air wake created by their flapping. The researchers were...eously monitor the changing fluid structure of the wake generated by the bat's flapping wings and details ...this carefully designed flow pattern by creating a wake of eddies that can spread contaminants as far as 1...

National and international doctoral training

...dern technology, and work on better treatments for ischemic heart disease. Other topics deal with changes in the clerically based social system in the wake of European unification and the development of a self-organised mobile communi-cation system in disaster scenarios. In the Grants Committee meeting...

Lead-flapping objects experience less wind resistance than their trailing counterparts

...ich makes the appearance of the leader smaller than usual, yielding less drag. By contrast, the trailing flapping body, which flaps in the oscillating wake of the first, has greater flapping amplitude due to the resonate effect of this wake. This larger appearance in a flow translates to a greater drag. ...

Satellites helping aid workers in Honduras

...lled about 6 000 people when it ripped through Honduras a decade ago. Overall, Mitch claimed more than 10 000 lives across Central America. In the wake of Hurricane Mitch, ESA, CNES and Spot Image worked to provide rapid and accurate EO-based maps of the area to emergency response teams. The reaction ...

Wake Forest plays integral role in effort to revolutionize vehicle safety

...mies of yesteryear are evolving and researchers at wake Forest University School of Medicine are among tho...able to do with traditional crash test dummies. wake Forest researchers have been selected to form the ...logy (Delhi, India) lower extremities and pelvis wake Forest University School of Medicine, Virginia Tec...

Birth control has long-term effect on hormone exposure

... WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Researchers at wake Forest University School of Medicine may be one step closer to understanding why past oral contraceptive use dramatically lowers the risk of ovarian a...

Nanoscopic screening process to speed drug discovery

... Researchers at wake Forest University are using nanotechnology to sear...ect director and assistant professor of physics at wake Forest. "By working at this scale, we will be abl...per day." Other members of the research team at wake Forest include co-principal investigator Martin Gu...