UQ research finds aging is satisfying

...nry and Diana Matovic from the University of New South Wales, Professor von hippel measured social activities and social satisfaction in older adults between ...re just as socially satisfied as their younger counterparts," Professor von hippel said. The reason for this social resilience seems to lie in how older a...

Brain atrophy in elderly leads to unintended racism, depression and problem gambling

...nd gambling problems. Regarding prejudice, von hippel and colleagues found that older white adults showe...ng more motivated to control their prejudices. Von hippel suggests that because prejudice toward African Ame...lso been implicated in social appropriateness. Von hippel found that older adults were more likely than youn...

Schools Help Hold the Line Against Childhood Obesity

...esity because of their structured environment, von hippel and Downey said. Time spent in class means childre...don’t mean that schools can’t do a better job, von hippel said. “Schools can ensure that they have hea...e to improve the nutrition values of lunches,” von hippel said. “But we shouldn’t be surprised if these chan...

Hippel in Medical Dictionary

Von Hippel-lindau Disease

... Von hippel – Lindau disease (VHL) is a rare, autosomal ...d with several pathologies including... von hippel - Lindau disease information sheet compiled by ...itute of Neurological ... Disorders A - Z " von hippel - Lindau Disease " ... Von ...

Von Hippel-Lindau

... Von hippel – Lindau disease (VHL) is a rare, autosomal do...d with several pathologies including... von hippel - Lindau disease information sheet compiled by ...itute of Neurological ... Disorders A - Z " von hippel - Lindau Disease " ... Tumors called hemangio...

Hippel in Biological News

George M. Whitesides receives inaugural Dreyfus prize in the chemical sciences

...r C. Cope Award, and the Society's highest award, the Priestley Medal. From other institutions his awards include the Materials Research Society's Von hippel Award, the Welch Award from the Welch Foundation, the American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal, and the Franklin Foundation's Benjamin Franklin Medal...

An AIDS-related virus tricks cells to become tumors, new Penn study finds

...-encoded protein, called latency-associated nuclear antigen, or LANA, tricks the cell into destroying two major suppressors of tumor growth called von hippel Lindau (VHL) and p53. "In addition, we have shown that when LANA expression was blocked, the tumor suppressors again become stable suggesting a direct...

UCLA scientists uncover mechanism of response to targeted therapy

...Center researchers Dr. Ingo Mellinghoff and Dr. Charles Sawyers, discovered that human kidney cancer cells that had lost the tumor suppressor gene Von hippel Lindau (VHL) were more sensitive to the growth inhibitory effects of CCI-779. One of the main functions of VHL is to regulate a protein called hypoxia...

Sandia completes depleted uranium study

...ancer. Several earlier studies were carried out by the U.S. Department of Defense, by University Professors Fetter (University of Maryland) and von hippel (Princeton), and by an Army sponsored team from Pacific Northwest National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory. The conclusions from th...