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Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 22.02
Engineers create cell phone-based sensor for detection of E. coli
Engineers create cell phone-based sensor for detection of E. coli
UCLA RESEARCH ALERT FINDINGS: Researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a new cell phone–based fluorescent imaging and sensing platform that can detect the presence of the bacterium Escherichia coli in food and water.

Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 21.02
Cocaine and the teen brain: Yale research offers insights into addiction
When first exposed to cocaine, the adolescent brain launches a strong defensive reaction designed to minimize the drug's effects, Yale and other scientists have found. Now two new studies by a Yale team identify key genes that regulate this response and show that interfering with this reaction dramatically increases a mouse's sensitivity to cocaine.

Medicine/Pharmacology - 21.02
Combined use of recommended heart failure therapies significantly boosts survival odds
A UCLA-led study has found that a combination of several key guideline-recommended therapies for heart failure treatment resulted in an improvment of up to 90 percent in the odds of survival over two years.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 21.02
What cancer cells need to travel
What cancer cells need to travel
Cancer cells must prepare for travel before invading new tissues, but new Cornell research has found a possible way to stop these cells from ever hitting the road. Researchers have identified two key proteins that are needed to get cells moving and have uncovered a new pathway that treatments could block to immobilize mutant cells and keep cancer from spreading, said Richard Cerione, Goldwin Smith Professor of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Chemistry - 21.02
How Good Cholesterol Turns Bad
How Good Cholesterol Turns Bad
Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have found new evidence to explain how cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) mediates the transfer of cholesterol from "good" high density lipoproteins (HDLs) to "bad" low density lipoproteins (LDLs).

Medicine/Pharmacology - Chemistry - 20.02
Yale Center for Molecular Discovery created at West Campus
Yale Center for Molecular Discovery created at West Campus
The road from discovering a novel insight to turning it into a practical biomedical application is full of twists, turns, and dead ends, but a combined center at Yale's West Campus seeks to provide University faculty with the knowledge and tools to navigate from basic science to new breakthroughs in disease management.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 17.02
UCLA discovery that migrating cells ’turn right’ has implications for engineering tissues, organs
UCLA discovery that migrating cells 'turn right' has implications for engineerin
What if we could engineer a liver or kidney from a patient's own stem cells? How about helping regenerate tissue damaged by diseases such as osteoporosis and arthritis? A new UCLA study bring scientists a little closer to these possibilities by providing a better understanding how tissue is formed and organized in the body.

Medicine/Pharmacology - 17.02
Study Provides Roadmap for Improved Care of Epilepsy Emergencies by Paramedics
Injecting epilepsy patients with medication via an autoinjector - similar to the EpiPens used to treat serious allergic reactions - works more quickly to stop seizures than delivery of a drug via IV on board ambulances, according to a national study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine .

Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 16.02
Study proves nobody is genetically perfect
Every person carries on average 100 variants that disable genes - yet very few suffer ill effects, reports an international team of researchers led by Yale University and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the Feb.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Chemistry - 16.02
Successful human tests for first wirelessly controlled drug-delivery chip
Clinical trial of the programmable, implantable device shows promise in treating osteoporosis. About 15 years ago, MIT professors Robert Langer and Michael Cima had the idea to develop a programmable, wirelessly controlled microchip that would deliver drugs after implantation in a patient's body.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 16.02
When body clock runs down, immune system takes time off
The circadian clock is a finely tuned genetic mechanism that regulates our sleep cycle and key metabolic changes during the 24-hour cycle. It also may help determine whether we get sick or not, according to a new Yale School of Medicine study published online Feb 16 in the journal Immunity.

Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 16.02
How mitochondrial DNA defects cause inherited deafness
Yale scientists have discovered the molecular pathway by which maternally inherited deafness appears to occur: Mitochondrial DNA mutations trigger a signaling cascade, resulting in programmed cell death.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Administration/Government - 15.02
Tool assessing how community health centers deliver ’medical home’ care may be flawed
On the health front, the poor often have at least two things going against them: a lack of insurance and chronic illnesses, of which diabetes is among the most common. The federal Affordable Care Act would expand the capacity of the nation's 8,000 community health centers to provide care for low-income, largely minority patients — from the current 20 million to about 40 million by 2015.

Agronomy/Food Science - Medicine/Pharmacology - 15.02
Parent-training intervention curbs pediatric obesity rates, study shows
Researchers found that after one year, there was a 9 percent reduction in overweight and obese children in the parent-training intervention group, while a control group that did not receive the parent training had a 16 percent increase in overweight and obese children.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Physics/Astronomy - 15.02
Prolonged fructose intake not linked to rise in blood pressure: study
Eating fruit sugar over an extended period of time does not lead to an increase in blood pressure, according to researchers at the University of Toronto and St. Michael's Hospital. A new study has found that despite previous research showing blood pressure rose in humans immediately after they consumed fruit sugar – also known as fructose - there is no evidence fructose increases blood pressure when it has been eaten for more than seven days.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Administration/Government - 15.02
Radiation generates cancer stem cells from less aggressive breast cancer cells
Radiation generates cancer stem cells from less aggressive breast cancer cells
Breast cancer stem cells, thought to be the sole source of tumor recurrence, are known to be resistant to radiation therapy and don't respond well to chemotherapy. Now, researchers with the UCLA Department of Radiation Oncology at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center report for the first time that radiation treatment, despite killing half of all tumor cells during every treatment, transforms other cancer cells into treatment-resistant breast cancer stem cells.

Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 13.02
Neuron memory key to taming chronic pain
Study suggests erasing neuronal memories may help control persistent pain For some, the pain is so great that they can't even bear to have clothes touch their skin. For others, it means that every step is a deliberate and agonizing choice.

Chemistry - Medicine/Pharmacology - 9.02
New Method Makes Culture of Complex Tissue Possible in any Lab
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a new method for making scaffolds for culturing tissue in three-dimensional arrangements that mimic those in the body. This advance, published online in the journal Advanced Materials , allows the production of tissue culture scaffolds containing multiple structurally and chemically distinct layers using common laboratory reagents and materials.

Medicine/Pharmacology - 8.02
Cancer institute researchers seek men for prostate study
One in six men is at risk of getting prostate cancer in his lifetime. Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute researchers are trying to determine if selenium yeast and selenomethionine lower prostate-specific antigen levels and prevent other markers related to prostate cancer development in healthy individuals of different age groups.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 7.02
Treatment for TB can be guided by patients’ genetics
Treatment for TB can be guided by patients' genetics
A gene that influences the inflammatory response to infection may also predict the effectiveness of drug treatment for a deadly form of tuberculosis. An international collaboration between researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle, Duke University, Harvard University, the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam and Kings College London reported these findings Feb.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 6.02
Metabolic “breathalyzer” reveals early signs of disease
The future of disease diagnosis may lie in a "breathalyzer"-like technology currently under development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It's a cheaper, faster, and more sensitive method of diagnosis.” Fariba Assadi-Porter New research published online in February in the peer-reviewed journal Metabolism demonstrates a simple but sensitive method that can distinguish normal and disease-state glucose metabolism by a quick assay of blood or exhaled air.

Medicine/Pharmacology - 6.02
Gene mutation discovery sparks hope for effective endometriosis screening
Gene mutation discovery sparks hope for effective endometriosis screening
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have, for the first time, described the genetic basis of endometriosis, a condition affecting millions of women that is marked by chronic pelvic pain and infertility.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 6.02
Hormel Institute study makes key finding in stem cell self-renewal
Institute's cancer research is published in top scientific journal MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (02/06/2012) — A University of Minnesota-led research team has proposed a mechanism for the control of whether embryonic stem cells continue to proliferate and stay stem cells, or differentiate into adult cells like brain, liver or skin.

Medicine/Pharmacology - 6.02
Exercise triggers stem cells in muscle
Exercise triggers stem cells in muscle
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - University of Illinois researchers determined that an adult stem cell present in muscle is responsive to exercise, a discovery that may provide a link between exercise and muscle health.

Medicine/Pharmacology - 6.02
Children hospitalized at alarming rate due to abuse
Children hospitalized at alarming rate due to abuse
In one year alone, over 4,500 children in the United States were hospitalized due to child abuse, and 300 of them died of their injuries, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in a new study. The findings are published in the March 2012 issue of Pediatrics (published online Feb.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 3.02
UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center Offers New Hope for Deadly Brain Tumor
Jim Black is fighting the meanest, most aggressive, most common kind of brain tumor in the United States: recurrent glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). In the United States, each year, approximately 10,000 patients are affected by GBM.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 2.02
Higher intake of processed meat linked to greater type 2 diabetes risk in population with high diabetes rates
Diabetes risk is increased in men and women who eat a diet that is high in processed meats, according to a study published online this week in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition . Processed meats include hot dogs, lunch meat, sausages and canned meats.

Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 2.02
Researchers identify peptide that inhibits replication of hepatitis C virus
Researchers identify peptide that inhibits replication of hepatitis C virus
Researchers from UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a cell-permeable peptide that inhibits a hepatitis C virus protein and blocks the viral replication that can lead to liver cancer and cirrhosis.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 2.02
Alzheimer’s Disease May Spread by
For decades, researchers have debated whether Alzheimer's disease starts independently in vulnerable brain regions at different times, or if it begins in one region and then spreads to neuroanatomically connected areas.

Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 1.02
Stem cells could drive hepatitis research forward
By creating liver-like cells, scientists can study why people respond differently to the disease. Hepatitis C, an infectious disease that can cause inflammation and organ failure, has different effects on different people.

Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 31.01
Genes linked to cancer could be easier to detect with liquid lasers
Physics/Astronomy - Medicine/Pharmacology - 30.01
Bright Lights of Purity
Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 30.01
Genetic breakthrough for brain cancer in children
Medicine/Pharmacology - Administration/Government - 25.01
Nature: Kawaoka authors commentary on flu research
Medicine/Pharmacology - Social Sciences - 25.01
Dawn of Social Networks
Medicine/Pharmacology - Mechanical Engineering/Mechanics - 25.01
Researchers Suggest a Proximate Cause of Cancer
Medicine/Pharmacology - 24.01
Saliva HIV test passes the grade
Medicine/Pharmacology - Arts and Design - 24.01
Drug treatment delays progression of prostate cancer
Medicine/Pharmacology - Chemistry - 24.01
Methamphetamine Use Increasing Again, Researchers Find
Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 24.01
Window over mouse spinal cord allows imaging to aid trauma therapy
Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 23.01
Painful egos: Narcissism may be harmful for men
Medicine/Pharmacology - Environmental Sciences - 23.01
New U-M computer model predicts cholera outbreaks up to 11 months in advance
Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 23.01
Patterns of antibiotic-resistant bacteria seen in Galpagos reptiles
Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 23.01
Mighty mesh
Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 23.01
Lead blood levels may increase smokers' risk for kidney cancer
Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 20.01
Gene critical to sense of smell in fruit fly
Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 19.01
Potential Of Manganese in Neutralizing Deadly Shiga Toxin
Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 19.01
Hardy bacteria help make case for life in the extreme
Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 18.01
Important gene-regulation proteins pinpointed by new method
Medicine/Pharmacology - Business/Economics - 9.01
Tomato, wine byproducts in filters could make cigarettes less toxic
Agronomy/Food Science - Medicine/Pharmacology - 26.12.2011
Evidence found for brain injury in diet-induced obesity
Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 22.12.2011
New target for HIV drugs
Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 22.12.2011
How bacteria fight fluoride in toothpaste and in nature
Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 22.12.2011
DNA Mismatch Repair Happens Only During A Brief Window of Opportunity
Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 20.12.2011
Breast cancer and heart disease may have common roots
Medicine/Pharmacology - 20.12.2011
Pre-surgery exam rates vary widely among hospitals
Medicine/Pharmacology - Law/Forensics - 16.12.2011
Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage Improves Health in Gay Men
Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 14.12.2011
Pathogen causes speck disease in tomatoes
Medicine/Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 14.12.2011
Secrets of the "sleep hormone"
Life Sciences - Medicine/Pharmacology - 12.12.2011
Research gives insights into rare bone disorder