Researchers studying hearing loss find auditory regions of the brain convert to the sense of touch
RICHMOND, Va. (March 24, 2009) Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine researchers have discovered that adult animals with hearing loss actually re-route the sense of touch into the hearing parts of the brain. In the study, published online in the Early Edition of the Proceedings ...UC San Diego scientists developing brain imaging methods for studying natural human behavior
The Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience at UC San Diego will create a new imagining process to study human body/brain dynamics of subjects engaged in normal activity in ordinary room environments. The work, to be performed under a four year, $3.4 million research grant from the U.S. Navy...Moores UCSD Cancer Center studying novel leukemia vaccine for high-risk patients
Researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) are conducting clinical trials of a novel therapy aimed at revving up the immune system to combat a particularly difficult-to-treat form of leukemia. The experimental therapy is being offered to patients ...Penn researchers use honeybee venom toxin to develop a new tool for studying hypertension
PHILADELPHIA - Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have modified a honeybee venom toxin so that it can be used as a tool to study the inner workings of ion channels that control heart rate and the recycling of salt in kidneys. In general, ion channels selectively allow...Medical Records Institute Unveils Platform for Studying Cell Phone Applications in Healthcare
Center for Cell Phone Applications in Healthcare (C-PAHC) Now Accepting Members BOSTON, Aug. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Medical Records Institute introduces today the Center for Cell Phone Applications in Healthcare (C-PAHC), a membership-based organization that will stu...Awardees for the 2009 Young Investigator Grant for Probiotics Research Announced
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NEWPORT, Ore. Scientists are comparing annual growth rings of the Pacific Northwest's largest bivalve and its most iconic tree for clues to how living organisms may have responded to changes in climate. Analyzed by themselves, the rings from a single tree or mollusk may sometimes reflect condi...UNH researchers studying spiny dogfish, Gulf of Maine's mini shark
DURHAM, N.H. For such a small shark species, there seems to be super-sized confusion about its population status. But for researchers at the University of New Hampshire, one thing is clear definite changes have occurred to spiny dogfish shark populations in the past two decades. Commercial ...Methods for studying DNA repair and protein modification are featured in CSH Protocols
COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. (Mon., Jan. 5, 2009) - This month's issue of Cold Spring Harbor Protocols ( www.cshprotocols.org/TOCs/toc1_09.dtl ) features two articles detailing experimental methods for the analysis of molecular processes involved in DNA repair and post-translational modification o...Veterinary college researcher studying brain tumors in people and animals
Blacksburg, Va. -- A veterinary neurologist on faculty in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine( www.vetmed.vt.edu ) at Virginia Tech has been awarded funding from the Wake Forest University Translational Science Institute to study innovative approaches for treating brain t...MIT applies engineering approach to studying biological pathways
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--An MIT team has used an engineering approach to show that complex biological systems can be studied with simple models developed by measuring what goes into and out of the system. Such an approach can give researchers an alternative way to look at the inner workings of a compl...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 approval for a first-of-its kind study on the effect high dose vitamin C has on non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients. Researchers from the Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medi...New Fusion Trans-Activator Plasmids for Studying Signal Transduction Pathways
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Monitor activation status of interferon-stimulated signaling pathways Li Xu Tim Sanchez Mary Buchanan Chao-Feng Zheng Stratagene Stratagenes family of PathDetect cis-reporting systems now includes the GAS and ISRE reporting systems, to better study the activation of ...Enzyme Immunoassay for Studying Intracellular Levels of cAMP
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