UC Berkeley Launches Kaiser Permanente Community Health Scholars Program
New $5 Million Effort Aimed at Building Public Health Workforce BERKELEY, Calif. and OAKLAND, Calif., May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of California, Berkeley , announced today the Kaiser Permanente Community Health Scholars Program, an ambitious initiative designed to meet the inc...Pitt, Berkeley researchers reconstruct seashells to model nervous system function
PITTSBURGHThe enchantingly colored seashells that lend beaches their charm could also provide information about how the brain converts memories and sensory information into action, according to research from the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Pittsburgh published online...Free Cab Rides Home for Halloween in Alameda, Oakland, Berkeley and San Francisco, California
Berg Injury Lawyers to Offer "Safe and Sober Free Cab Ride Home" Alameda, California (PRWEB) October 20, 2008 -- Alameda-based law firm Berg Injury Lawyers will be adding Halloween to its list of holidays for the Safe and Sober Free Cab Ride Home program. Berg...Innovator Award to Berkeley Lab's Joe Gray for improved breast cancer screening
BERKELEY, CA -- A grant totaling almost $8 million has been awarded to Joe Gray, Director of the Life Sciences Division of the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in the form of an Innovator Award from the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP). Throu...New Study Measures Benefits of More Involved Fathers
...ls and encouragement, especially along-side mothers," explained Carolyn Pape Cowan, Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of California, berkeley , who also co-authored the study. "And children clearly benefited because moms and dads were happier and healthier." The research was funded ...Kaiser Permanente to Provide Calorie, Nutrition Information on Cafeteria Menus
...ear, provided people don't compensate by eating more calories at other meals, or in other settings." Kaiser Permanente's collaboration with UC berkeley on the menu-labeling study builds on the organization's efforts to bring healthier, sustainable food options to its patients, staff and communities an...Gene linked to increasingly common type of blood cancer
... Investigators at the University of California, berkeley (UC Berkeley) and at the Translational Genomics Re...on study of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, scientists at UC berkeley and TGen identified a SNP a single nucleotide pol...ther studies. Additional collaborations between UC berkeley and TGen are planned. "This study paves the way...Immucor Appoints Chief Operating Officer
...sion based in Basil, Switzerland. Mr. Crouse holds a Masters of Business and a Masters of Public Health from the University of California, berkeley as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree from Boston College. About Immucor Founded in 1982, Immucor manufactures and sells a complete line...Memory test and PET scans detect early signs of Alzheimer's
... berkeley -- A large study of patients with mild cognitive i...elen Wills Neuroscience Institute and the Lawrence berkeley National Laboratory. "The field, in general, is...erkeley's School of Public Health and the Lawrence berkeley National Laboratory, found that PET scans and magn...S.C. Medical Home Pilot for Diabetes Enrolls 1,110
...metto Primary Care Physicians ( www.PalmettoPrimaryCare.com ) has 57 providers and 350 employees in 19 clinics located in Charleston, Dorchester and berkeley counties. Palmetto Primary Care Physicians has offices in: Summerville, North Charleston, Goose Creek, Daniel Island, Moncks Corner, Bonneau, Hanahan ...Stand Up To Cancer Awards $73.6 Million for Novel, Groundbreaking Cancer Research
...cular Breast Cancer Molecular Subtypes and Their 'Resistance' Phenotypes " / Leaders: Joe W. Gray, Ph.D., Life Sciences Division Director, Lawrence berkeley National Laboratory, and Dennis J. Slamon, M.D., Ph.D., Director of Clinical/Translational Research at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center; ...St. Jude Study Gives New Insights Into How Cells Accessorize Their Proteins
...l change can activate these kinds of ligases." Other authors of this paper include Laura Borg and Harold Hunt (St. Jude) and Michal Hammel (Lawrence berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif.). This research was supported in part by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; a Beckman Young Investigator Awa...Genta Updates Progress of its Phase 3 Trial of Genasense(R) in Patients with Advanced Melanoma
... Clinical Study on Track to Complete Accrual in Fourth Quarter 2008 berkeley HEIGHTS, N.J., June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Genta Incorporated (OTC Bulletin Board: GNTA) announced the presentation of a progress update from an...FDA Lifts Clinical Hold on Genta's Tesetaxel, a Leading Oral Taxane
... Clinical Studies Expected to Restart in Second Half 2008 berkeley HEIGHTS, N.J., June 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Genta Incorporated (OTC Bulletin Board: GNTA) announced that the Company has received notification fr...Genasense(R) Chemotherapy Program Yields High Response Rate in Patients with Stage 4 Melanoma
... Related Clinical Study Shows Potential Utility of Short-Course High-Dose Therapy berkeley HEIGHTS, N.J., May 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Genta Incorporated (OTC Bulletin Board: GNTA) announced preliminary results that have shown a high obj...Genta Receives Key Patent Related to Oral Gallium Compound G4544
... Company to Seek Buyer for Marketed Parenteral Product Ganite(R) berkeley HEIGHTS, N.J., April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Genta Incorporated (Nasdaq: GNTA ) today announced that the Company has received notice that its patent appli...Medical Scientist Training Program
...ool of Medicine and Carnegie Mellon University , the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine and the University of California, berkeley , and the University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine and the California Institute of Technology , among others. At mos...Nanyang Technological University and University of California, Berkeley pursue research alliance
UC Berkeley and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, aims to achieve new peaks in research excellence through collaboration in three research areas which are of significance globally - synthetic biology, stem cells and energy efficiency. A joint workshop was held on 23 and 24 Ma...UC Berkeley virologist named Keck Distinguished Young Scholar
Britt Glaunsinger, a University of California, Berkeley, virologist and an assistant professor in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, has won a W. M. Keck Foundation grant, an award given to innovative young scientists in the area of biomedical research. The grant, which totals up to...UC Berkeley researchers create a biologically-inspired artificial compound eye
Using the eyes of insects such as dragonflies and houseflies as models, a team of bioengineers at University of California, Berkeley, has created a series of artificial compound eyes. These eyes can eventually be used as cameras or sensory detectors to capture visual or chemical information from ...ORNL, UC Berkeley unravel real-world clues to Earth's mysteries
A microbial community thriving under bizarre natural conditions in California could be a gold mine to researchers in their quest to understand the complex biological relationships and how these inner workings might apply on a grander scale. In a paper to appear today on Science Online, researcher...Octopuses occasionally stroll around on two arms, UC Berkeley biologists report
In a stunning example of evolution at work, scientists have now found that changes in a single gene can produce major changes in the skeletal armor of fish living in the wild. The surprising results, announced in the March 25, 2005, issue of journal Science, bring new data to long-standing debat...Obama administration announces more than $327 million in Recovery Act funding for science research
...on next-generation particle accelerator technologies; and $7.5 for neutrino research in collaboration with Brookhaven National Laboratory. Lawrence berkeley National Laboratory; Berkeley, CA$ 37.8 million, including $13.1 million to upgrade equipment at the DOE Joint Genome Institute; $11 million for fusio...Sustainable agriculture at the ESA Annual Meeting
...sing the natural habitat in and around farms can boost populations of pests' natural enemies. Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer of the University of California berkeley surveyed the abundance of flies, ladybugs, wasps and other predators of a common agricultural pest, the cabbage aphid, in croplands ranging from 2 per...Jet-propelled imaging for an ultrafast light source
...time user of the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence berkeley National Laboratory, where he has contributed to m.... In 2008 Spence and his colleagues, including berkeley Lab's David Shapiro, successfully tested the GDVN ...e Advanced Light Source beamline 9.0.1, managed by berkeley Lab's Stefano Marchesini. The test was done with p...DOE-funded research projects win 46 R&D 100 Awards for 2009
...al fluids. The technology has been licensed to Precision Nanoparticles, Inc., of Seattle, Wash. (Jointly with Idaho State University) Lawrence berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, Calif.) http://newscenter.lbl.gov/press-releases/2009/07/20/rd-100-award-2009/ EMGeo ElectroMagnetic Geolog...New research finds possible genetic link to cause of pregnancy loss and disorders
... KNOXVILLE -- Scientists at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Lawrence berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) have published new findings about a cause of a condition at the root of genetic disorders such as Down Syndrome, pregnancy ...UC Berkeley Expands Molecular Toxicology Curriculum to Include GeneGo's Platform
ST. JOSEPH, Mich., Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- GeneGo, Inc., the leading provider of databases, software and services in systems biology, announced today that UC Berkeley will expand the use of its MetaCore/MetaDrug Discovery Platform in their Computational Toxicology course, a required component f...Advanced Immune Support Formula Licensed From UC Berkeley Launched
BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Berkeley BioSciences, Inc., co-founded by Dr. Leonard Bjeldanes, Professor and former Chairman of the Department of Nutritional Sciences at UC Berkeley and Dr. Gary Firestone, Director of the National Institutes of Health Cancer Research Program at UC B...New clues about a hydrogen fuel catalyst
...he data. These computationally challenging models were calculated on computers at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif. The computer model produced a structure that best incorporated the experimental data. To test whether this...Breaking barriers with nanoscale lasers
...ation for the U.S. Department of Defense. The agency is supporting a collaborative team partnering researchers at ASU, the University of California at berkeley and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. ASU's collaboration with Hill's team at Eindhoven happened by coincidence, Ning says. "We di...Practice makes perfect -- motor memory possible for neuroprosthetic control
..., rapid recall upon demand, and resistance to interference when new skills are learned. All three elements were demonstrated by the macaques in the UC berkeley study. To test resistance to interference, the researchers presented a new decoder marked by a different colored cursor two weeks after the monk...Nanopillars promise cheap, efficient, flexible solar cells
...rchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at berkeley have demonstrated a way to fabricate efficient sol...ovoltaics," says Ali Javey, a faculty scientist in berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and a professor ...iZumi Bio and Pierian Merge to Form iPierian to Advance Cellular Reprogramming
...out reversion to a pluripotent stem cell state. Dr. Corey Goodman was a professor at Stanford University and the University of California, berkeley and is currently an adjunct professor at UCSF in the Departments of Anatomy and Biochemistry. While on the faculty at Berkeley, he was an investigat...OncoMed Pharmaceuticals Appoints Sunil Patel Senior Vice President, Corporate Development
...s career, he was a researcher at ZymoGenetics and ProCyte. Mr. Patel received his undergraduate degree in Chemistry at the University of California, berkeley , and his master's degree in Molecular Bioengineering/Biotechnology at the University of Washington . About OncoMed Pharmaceuticals OncoMed ...BRAHMS, Cezanne and Lumiphore Announce Partnership for Diagnostic Tests
...rofessor Kenneth N. Raymond and coworkers at the University of California, berkeley . Lanthanides are exceptional due to their long fluorescent lifetime delays...e licenses to the basic science developed at the University of California, berkeley in the laboratory of Professor Kenneth N. Raymond, a world expert on lanth...