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Eurekalert Medical and Health News: 10-06-2004
The first draft of the bovine genome sequence has been deposited into free public databases for use by biomedical and agricultural researchers around the globe, leaders of the Bovine Genome Sequencing Project announced today.
The new Center for Military Biomaterial Research (CeMBR) has been set up by the New Jersey Center for Biomaterials and will hold its first open meeting on Oct. 20, 2004 at 10 a.m. in the Hyatt Regency, Two Albany Street, New Brunswick, N.J.
Due for launch next spring, ESA's ice mission CryoSat marked an important milestone last week when the innovative SAR/Interferometric Radar Altimeter (SIRAL) instrument was delivered to the prime contractor Astruim GmbH for integration into the satellite.
On 25-26 October 2004, UNESCO will host a conference in Paris on the European Research Council (ERC), a new funding mechanism for basic research at the European level that should be funded through the EC Framework Programme. This event comes only a few weeks ahead of the European Council meeting where the EU heads of state and government are scheduled to decide upon the creation of the ERC.
James A. Harris, M.D., of the Hair Sciences Centerof Colorado has invented and patented a new minimally invasive technology which will revolutionize the field of hair transplantation surgery. The new system utilizes an instrument called the Harris SAFE Scribe -- a small,self-contained device -- to isolate, extract and transplant single follicular units of hair without the trauma associated with other types of hair transplantation surgery.
Cardiopulmonary, sleep, and critical care experts from around the world will present the latest research related to clinical chest medicine during CHEST 2004, the multidisciplinary world congress on diseases of the chest, held October 23-28, in Seattle, WA.
Women who are obese when they are diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer are at a greater risk of dying of their disease than women of normal weight. "Despite being diagnosed with early stage disease, which is more commonly cured, obese women more often developed metastatic disease and more often died," explained Penny Anderson, M.D., a radiation oncologist at Fox Chase Cancer Center.
Researchers from The Rockefeller University have uncovered specific mechanisms by which cells that are genetically programmed to commit suicide stimulate growth in surrounding cells. The research, published online in Developmental Cell, provides new information about how normal, healthy tissues are maintained and may shed some light on a pathway that may contribute to tumor growth.
Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have discovered details about the molecular effects of the smallpox virus, helping to shed light on why the disease is such a devastating killer.
University of Michigan researchers are testing a new procedure in which they can take a tiny piece of a person's mouth lining, grow it into a dollar-bill sized piece of tissue and graft that expanded piece into the donor's mouth to heal a wound.
Black and Hispanic patients experience marked delays in heart attack treatment compared with whites, Yale researchers report in an article published in the October 6 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
More than 25,000 people are expected to come together in New Orleans for the world.s largest medical eye meeting, the Joint Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the European Society of Ophthalmology, Oct. 24 to 26 and the Academy.s Subspecialty Day meetings in refractive surgery, retina and glaucoma Oct. 22 to 23.
CHICA system marries the high tech manufacturing "just-in-time" concept with increased parental participation in the health-care process to produce care guidelines for pediatricians individualized for each patient and delivered when they can do the most good -- at the time of the office visit.
During exercise blood vessels in our leg muscles must respond to both dilating and constricting substances to meet the competing demands of muscle oxygen delivery and maintenance of bodily blood pressure, so we don't faint. Understanding the mechanisms by which blood flows to exercising muscles is altered with advancing age helps researchers target interventions aimed at improving exercise tolerance in older adults, according to David Proctor at Penn State University.
While questions still remain about the nature and function of stem cells found in fat, a group of researchers and clinicians meeting at the Second Annual Meeting of the International Fat Applied Technology Society agree that research should move forward with the ultimate goal of performing human clinical trials to test the cells' therapeutic potential for specific indications.
A study of more than 767,000 veterans by Veterans Affairs researchers shows those in rural areas are in poorer health than their urban counterparts. The findings, reported in the October American Journal of Public Health, validate recent and ongoing VA efforts to expand health care for rural patients.
A three-year study to validate a test to detect the recurrence of bladder cancer has been initiated by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), at 12 centers* across the United States and Canada.
Findings by a Saint Louis University researcher help us understand more about how neurons communicate.
Mechanical loading through exercise builds bone strength, especially during skeletal growth and development in childhood and adolescence. The "best" kind of exercise involves impact or high rates of load such as running or jumping, not swimming or biking or "serious" weightlifting, according to Charles H. Turner, director of orthopaedic research at Indiana University School of Medicine.Growing bones are most responsive to the strengthening effects of running or jumping, which don't affect longitudinal growth.
With two new grants totaling $2.7 million, the Brain Imaging Center at UC Irvine's College of Medicine will be working with the National Institutes of Health to help advance the federal agency's ambitious "Roadmap for Medical Research" program.
Postmenopausal women are weaker, as measured by grip and pinch tests, than women who have not entered menopause, according to a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology. However, the researchers found that physical activity protected women from losing strength as they progress through menopause.
Research appearing in this week's issue of the Journal of Molecular Biology, describes a new technique that combines theory and experiment to characterize the folding of a protein. This approach lays the basis for new methods that could predict whether a protein is prone to misfold and at what point the folding process is likely to break down. The research supports efforts to understand diseases as varied as diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer's and mad cow disease.
Spitting into a cup or licking a diagnostic test strip could someday be an attractive alternative to having your blood drawn at the doctor's office. Researchers have identified the largest number of proteins to date in human saliva, a preliminary finding that could pave the way for more diagnostic tests based on saliva samples. Such tests show promise as a faster, cheaper and potentially safer diagnostic method than blood sampling, they say.
Preliminary research from Saint Louis University shows that testosterone may speed recovery from a stroke.
A new study shows that lower doses of radiation elude a damage detection "radar" in DNA and actually kill more cancer cells than high-dose radiation. With these findings, scientists believe they can design therapy to dismantle this "radar" sensor allowing more radiation to evade detection and destroy even greater numbers of cancer cells.
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