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Breaking News & Developments from Leading Universities, Worldwide. Most Recent Sort By Date 4655 News Articles Fetched! Page 1  of  187 [|< First]   [<< Previous]   [Next >>]   [Last >|] 1. Life Expectancy of HIV Patients Increases Posted on: Friday, July 25, 2008 HIV-infected patients in high income countries are living some 13 years longer thanks to improvements in combination antiretroval therapy (cART). Improvements in and long-term effectiveness of cART have seen life expectancy increase by some 13 years from 1996-99 to 2003-05, and an accompanying drop in mortality of nearly 40 per cent in the same period.... University of Bristol 2. Researchers Identify Gene Responsible for Rare Childhood Disease Posted on: Thursday, July 24, 2008 The chromosomal abnormality that causes a rare, but often fatal, disorder that affects infants has been identified by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, who happened to treat two young children with the disease in San Diego – two of perhaps a dozen children in the entire country diagnosed with the disorder.... University of California, San Diego 3. Researchers Discover Key Gene for Making Motor Neurons Posted on: Friday, July 25, 2008 Simple, everyday movements require the coordination of dozens of muscles, guided by the activity of hundreds of motor neurons. Now, researchers have revealed an important step in the process that guides the early development of neurons themselves, as they establish the precise connections between the spinal cord and muscles.... Howard Hughes Medical Institute 4. Gene Clue to Statins Side Effect Posted on: Thursday, July 24, 2008 Researchers from Oxford have discovered that a common gene variation is a major cause of a rare side-effect of the cholesterol-lowering drugs, statins. Their findings, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, could now lead to a simple genetic test to identify those people at increased risk of 'myopathy'... University of Oxford 5. Eye Movement Disorder Caused by Improper Development of Motor Neurons Posted on: Thursday, July 24, 2008 An international team of researchers has identified a gene mutated in Duane syndrome, a common disorder that restricts the movement of the eyes. The research group, led by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator Elizabeth C. Engle, published its article on July 24, 2008 in Science Express, which provides electronic publication of selected Science papers in advance of print.... Howard Hughes Medical Institute 6. Robot Interaction may Help Youngsters Posted on: Thursday, July 24, 2008 USC studies document that children with autism disorders actively interact with robots. Creation of therapy tools is the next step. Papers delivered at three conferences in the United States and Europe report on new research at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering featuring interactions of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and bubble-blowing robots.... University of Southern California 7. How Safe is Texting While Driving? Posted on: Friday, July 25, 2008 A new study is asking drivers to share their experiences of mobile phone use while driving, in the hope of identifying how common and safe this behaviour is. The research, conducted by University of Auckland Masters student Charlene Hallett, is one of the first studies worldwide to look specifically at texting while driving.... University of Auckland 8. UC Santa Barbara Chemist Goes Nano with CoQ10 Posted on: Thursday, July 24, 2008 (Santa Barbara, Calif.) – If Bruce Lipshutz has his way, you may soon be buying bottles of water brimming with the life-sustaining coenzyme CoQ10 at your local Costco. Lipshutz, a professor of chemistry at UC Santa Barbara, is the principal author of an upcoming review, "Transition Metal Catalyzed Cross-Couplings Going Green: in Water at Room Temperature," which will be published in Aldrichimica Acta in September.... University of California, Santa Barbara 9. A New Era in Search for 'Sister Earths'? (Research Shows Identification, Analysis Thresholds Passed) Posted on: Thursday, July 24, 2008 Research presented at a recent astronomical conference is being hailed as ushering in a new era in the search for Earth-like planets by showing that they are more numerous than previously thought and that scientists can now analyze their atmospheres for elements that might be conducive to life.... Harvard University 10. Limiting Fructose may Boost Weight Loss, Researcher Reports Posted on: Thursday, July 24, 2008 DALLAS — July 24, 2008 — One of the reasons people on low-carbohydrate diets may lose weight is that they reduce their intake of fructose, a type of sugar that can be made into body fat quickly, according to a researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center.... UT Southwestern Medical Center 11. Hyperactive Immune Resistance Brings Blindness in Old Age (Recent Discoveries Regarding the Origins of Senile Blindness) Posted on: Thursday, July 24, 2008 Age-dependent macular degeneration (AMD) is the commonest cause of blindness in the western industrialised nations. Hereditary changes in the regulation of the immune system influence the risk of contracting AMD. Opthalmologists at the University Clinic in Bonn, working in co-operation with researchers from Göttingen, Regensburg and Great Britain... University of Bonn 12. Advanced Energy Consortium Issues Request for Proposals to Develop Micro- and Nanosensors to Boost Energy Production Posted on: Thursday, July 24, 2008 The Advanced Energy Consortium (AEC), a research consortium whose lead technical partner is Rice's Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, has issued a request for proposals to develop micro- and nanoscale technology for enhanced reservoir characterization and hydrocarbon detection in conventional oil and gas reservoirs with the ultimate goal of increasing hydrocarbon recovery from known fields.... Rice University 13. Researchers Unravel Key Mechanism of Cellular Damage in Aging and Disease Posted on: Thursday, July 24, 2008 Researchers have taken a first snapshot of how a class of highly reactive molecules inflicts cellular damage as part of aging, heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, kidney disease and Alzheimer's disease to name a few. According to a study published today in the journal Cell, researchers have discovered a tool that can monitor related damage and determine the degree to which antioxidant drugs effectively combat disease.... University of Rochester Medical Center 14. UC Health Line: Caution! Summer Heat Harmful for Heart Patients Posted on: Thursday, July 24, 2008 CINCINNATI—The scorching summer heat and the discomfort that comes with it affects everyone, but for people with heart conditions, it could be a matter of life and death. Experts at the University of Cincinnati urge people with cardiovascular disease to take extra precautions during the summer months to avoid major health problems.... University of Cincinnati 15. Groundbreaking Surgical Procedure Will Allow Dog with Amputated Limb to Walk on Four Legs Again Posted on: Thursday, July 24, 2008 A pioneering North Carolina State University collaboration between a veterinary surgeon and an engineer will give a deserving dog the ability to walk on four legs again. Cassidy, a male German shepherd mix, was born with a defect in his right hind leg.... North Carolina State University 16. New Test may Lead to Early Diagnosis of Devastating Eye Condition Posted on: Thursday, July 24, 2008 A test to show whether a person may be genetically predisposed to suffer one of the most prevalent forms of blindness in the elderly – before symptoms arise - has moved a step closer to reality after a licence agreement involving Cambridge Enterprise.... University of Cambridge 17. Chemotherapy and Radiation After Surgery Prolongs Life for Pancreatic Cancer Patients Posted on: Thursday, July 24, 2008 Pancreatic cancer patients treated with a combination of chemotherapy and radiation after surgery survive approximately six months longer than those receiving surgery alone, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center scientists report. Previous clinical trials conducted in the 1980s and 90s in the United States established the benefit of postoperative chemotherapy and radiation.... Johns Hopkins Medicine 18. MIT Students Seek to Harness Waste Heat (Device Could Make MIT's Cogeneration Plant Even More Efficient) Posted on: Thursday, July 24, 2008 MIT's cogeneration plant, which provides most of the electricity, heat and air conditioning for the campus, could get even more efficient if a team of students' project to harness surplus heat works as expected.... Massachusetts Institute of Technology 19. Study Shows Residents may Benefit Most from Time in the Clinic Posted on: Thursday, July 24, 2008 CINCINNATI—A new approach to internal medicine residency training could improve patient care and physician-patient relationships, according to a University of Cincinnati study. Eric Warm, MD, associate professor of medicine and lead investigator of the study, says research showed residents who spent increased time in outpatient settings as opposed to the hospital delivered a higher quality of care and had more satisfaction in their duties.... University of Cincinnati 20. Why Play a Losing Game? Carnegie Mellon Study Uncovers Why Low-Income People Buy Lottery Tickets Posted on: Thursday, July 24, 2008 PITTSBURGH—Although state lotteries, on average, return just 53 cents for every dollar spent on a ticket, people continue to pour money into them — especially low-income people, who spend a larger percentage of their incomes on lottery tickets than do the wealthier segments of society.... Carnegie Mellon University 21. Across Species, Genes Evolve to Minimize Protein Production Errors (Previously Unexplained Patterns of Evolution may Aim to Prevent or Tolerate Mistranslation) Posted on: Thursday, July 24, 2008 Scientists at Harvard University and the University of Texas, Austin, have found that genetic evolution is strongly shaped by genes' efforts to prevent or tolerate errors in protein production. Their study also suggests that the cost of errors in protein production may lie in the malformed proteins themselves, rather than the loss of functional proteins.... Harvard University 22. Practice of Mindfulness Meditation Slows the Progression of HIV, Study Shows (Reducing Stress can Bolster Immune System in HIV-Positive Adults, others) Posted on: Thursday, July 24, 2008 CD4+ T lymphocytes, or simply CD4 T cells, are the "brains" of the immune system, coordinating its activity when the body comes under attack. They are also the cells that are attacked by HIV, the devastating virus that causes AIDS and has infected roughly 40 million people worldwide. The virus slowly eats away at CD4 T cells, weakening the immune system.... University of California, Los Angeles 23. Novel Structure Proteins Discovered by Temple University Researchers could Play a Role in Apoptosis Posted on: Thursday, July 24, 2008 Isoforms from Novel Structure Proteins (NSP), a new family of genes discovered by researchers in the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine in Temple University's College of Science and Technology, could be involved in apoptosis or programmed cell death.... Temple University 24. Maths Grant for International Research on Biomaterials Posted on: Thursday, July 24, 2008 Dr Tanniemola Liverpool of the Department of Mathematics has been awarded a grant worth US $810,000 as part of an international, collaborative project of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Materials World Network entitled 'Microscopic models of cross-linked active gels'. The project will support an international collaboration of joint research between the University of Bristol... University of Bristol 25. Novel Imaging Study of Pain Sheds Light on Mystery Condition (McLean Hospital and Children's Hospital Boston Research may Lead to New Therapeutic Approaches to Chronic Pain) Posted on: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Belmont, MA - The first-ever functional brain imaging study of chronic pain conducted in children, done by researchers at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital and Children's Hospital Boston, has shed new light on a mysterious condition known as complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) and offers hope for a better understanding of the disorder in both children and adults.... McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University [|< First]   [<< Previous]   [Next >>]   [Last >|]