when researchers from the University of Iowa conducted a literature review they found that PTEN mutations show up in 40 percent of breast cancer cases up to 70 percent of prostate cancer cases and nearly half of all leukemia cases.
and housed at the University of Iowa supported the study. Source: University of Iow
#Topical antibiotics may raise pneumonia risk University of Melbourne rightoriginal Studyposted by David Scott-Melbourne on October 13 2014patients in hospital intensive care units have a higher risk of developing pneumonia
when they are treated with topical antibiotics. The findings contradict previously published research that topical antibioticsâ##medication applied to the patient s airwayâ##would decrease pneumonia rates.
Ventilator-associated pneumonia develops in approximately 20 percent of patients in intensive care units (ICUS) who are receiving prolonged medical ventilation.
The new findings will help improve understanding of how to evaluate pneumonia prevention methods in the ICU says associate professor James Hurley from the University of Melbourne.
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#Health insurance for India s poor cuts death rate Stanford university University of California Berkeley University of Southern California rightoriginal Studyposted by Robert Perkins-USC on October 8 2014a
but such disparities were eliminated completely in villages with insurance coverage##says Neeraj Sood professor and director of research at the Schaeffer Center for Health policy and Economics at University of Southern California.##
University of California Berkeley; the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore; and the World bank Group are coauthors.
and the human trials weren t large enough for the true risk of liver injury to become apparent says Paul Watkins coauthor of the study and professor of medicine and pharmacy at University of North carolina.
#Autism diagnosis catches up for kids in Tanzania Brown University rightoriginal Studyposted by David Orenstein-Brown on October 2 2014to diagnose autism in Tanzania researchers adapted several techniques
##Historically in Tanzania parents that have sought autism diagnoses had to go to other countries to receive those diagnoses##says Ashley Johnson Harrison a former postdoctoral fellow at Brown University who is now an assistant professor at University of Georgia. Researchers used the new
or adaptable and piloted the approach with the help of Tanzanian clinicians including Karim Manji of Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Dar es salaam and Brenda Shuma and Anthony Ephraim at the Gabriella Centre in Moshi.
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#DNA VIRUSES shift from solid to liquid to infect Carnegie mellon University University of Pittsburgh right Original Studyposted by Jocelyn Duffy-Carnegie mellon on October 1 2014 Many double-stranded DNA VIRUSES
In two separate studies Carnegie mellon University biophysicist Alex Evilevitch has shown that in viruses that infect both bacteria
Jamie B. Huffman and Fred L. Homa at the University of Pittsburgh; and Donald Rau at the National institutes of health.
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#Dengue virus pumps out RNA to evade attack Duke university National University of Singapore right Original Study Posted by Karen Loh-NUS on September 29 2014 A newly discovered pathway lets the dengue virus
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and comfortable much like skin itself says Yonggang Huang professor of civil and environmental engineering and mechanical engineering at Northwestern University.
and professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois. This technology significantly expands the range of functionality in skin-mounted devices beyond that possible with electronics alone.
#DNA test could diagnose TB without the wait University of Warwick right Original Studyposted by Kelly Parkes-Harrison-Warwick on September 24 2014 A new approach quickly diagnoses tuberculosis by relying on direct sequencing of DNA
or months says Mark Pallen professor of microbial genomics at University of Warwick Medical school. Plus relying on laboratory culture means using techniques that date back to the 1880s.
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and respond in a graduated way##says Wilbur Lam assistant professor in the pediatrics department at Emory University School of medicine and a physician in the Aflac Cancer and Blood disorders Center at Children s Healthcare of Atlanta.
Lam is affiliated also with the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.
and monitor anemia themselves says Wilbur Lam a physician in the Aflac Cancer and Blood disorders Center at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and the department of pediatrics at Emory University School of medicine.
T he test device was developed in a collaboration of Emory University Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Georgia Institute of technology.
It grew out of a 2011 undergraduate senior design project at Georgia Tech and Emory University.
and the severe problems associated with reconstructive surgery says team leader Francesca Mariani assistant professor of cell and neurobiology and principal investigator in the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative medicine and Stem Cell Research at University
#Cells press down to make wounds heal faster National University of Singapore rightoriginal Studyposted by Karen Loh-NUS on September 12 2014scientists have uncovered more details about how our bodies repair wounds.
Professor Benoit Ladoux co-principal investigator at the Mechanobiology Institute at the National University of Singapore and colleagues created a technique to measure the cell-generated nanoscale forces behind wound healing.
as well as Paris Diderot University in France and the University of Waterloo in Canada. Source: National University of Singapor r
#Fake platelets could keep you from bleeding to death Emory University Georgia Institute of technology rightoriginal Studyposted by John Toon-Georgia Tech on September 9 2014a new class of synthetic platelet
-like particles could give doctors a new option for curbing surgical bleeding and addressing certain blood clotting disorders without the need for transfusions of natural platelets.
##Fibrin production is on the back end of the clotting process so we feel that it is a safer place to try to interact with it##says Tom Barker associate professor of biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University and a co-corresponding author of the paper.##
which can be difficult to obtain##says Wilbur Lam another coauthor and a physician in the Aflac Cancer and Blood disorders Center at Children s Healthcare of Atlanta and the Department of Pediatrics at the Emory University School of medicine.##
##In addition to providing new treatment options the particles could also cut costs by reducing costly natural transfusions says Lam assistant professor in the biomedical engineering department at Georgia Tech and Emory University.
Other researchers from Georgia Tech Emory Chapman University and Arizona State university are also coauthors of the paper.
additional support came from the University of Chicago Research Computing Center. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funded the study.
Additional researchers contributed to the study from Argonne University of Chicago Washington University in St louis and the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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#Daily marijuana use at 30-year high on campus University of Michigan rightoriginal Studyposted by Jared Wadley-Michigan on September 8 2014 In 2013 39 percent of American
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#Heart disease could be written on your face University of Rochester rightoriginal Studyposted by Mark Michaud-Rochester on September 2 2014new technology that uses software algorithms
and diagnose cardiac disease using contactless video monitoring##says Jean-Philippe Couderc from the University of Rochester Medical center s Heart Research Follow-up Program.
Other researchers from University of Rochester and from Xerox Corp. contributed to the study which was funded by Xerox and the Center for Emerging and Innovative Sciences.
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#Low-carb beats low-fat in weight loss study Tulane University rightoriginal Studyposted by Keith Brannon-Tulane on September 2 2014new research adds heft to claims that low-carb
The results challenge the perception that low-fat diets are always better for the heart says lead author Lydia Bazzano professor in nutrition research at Tulane University School of Public health and Tropical Medicine.##
As part of the research Zaveri who earned her doctorate in biomedical engineering at the University of Florida conducted extensive sensory-perception testing to assess acceptability of the suppositories among women.
#Simple alerts can cut infections from catheters University of Pennsylvania rightoriginal Studyposted by Lee-Ann Landis Donegan-Penn on August 26 2014simpler automatic alerts in electronic health
The study was conducted among 222475 inpatient admissions in the three hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania Health System between March 2009 and May 2012.
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Lead researcher Kaye Morgan from Monash University says the imaging method allows doctors to look at soft tissue structures for example the brain airways
and progress new treatments to the clinic at a much quicker rate a key goal of co-authors Martin Donnelley and David Parsons of the CF Gene therapy group at the Women s and Children s Hospital and the University
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#This protein may explain why Ebola is so deadly Washington University in St louis rightoriginal Studyposted by Michael Purdy-WUSTL on August 14 2014discovery of a protein that makes the Ebola virus so effective at evading the immune systemâ
and immunology at University of Washington in St louis.##Now that our map of the combined structure of these two proteins has revealed one critical way Ebola does this the information it provides will guide the development of new treatments.##
The group includes researchers at the Icahn School of medicine at Mount sinai Washington University the University of Texas Southwestern Medical center Howard University and Microbiotix Inc. a Massachussetts biopharmaceutical company Source:
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#Scientists are a step closer to making blood cells on demand Monash University rightoriginal Studyposted by Glynis Smalley-Monash on August 14 2014by watching how zebrafish embryos developâ#scientists are starting to unravel theâ#mystery
Lead researcher Peter Currie a professor at Monash University says that understanding how HSCS self-renew to replenish blood cells is a##Holy grail##of stem cell biology.##
#These 3 types of gut microbes flourish in preemies Washington University in St louis rightoriginal Studyposted by Elizabethe Holland Durando-WUSTL on August 12 2014scientists believe babies are born with digestive systems containing few
However in infants born prematurely researchers at Washington University School of medicine in St louis have found that the population of bacteria in babies gastrointestinal tracts may depend more on their biological makeup and gestational age at birth than on environmental factors.
Collaborators at the Genome Institute at Washington University School of medicine used DNA sequencing to tally the bacterial populations in 922 stool samples from 58 premature infants.
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professor of neurosurgery at University of Michigan. his is an incredibly novel and exciting development,
says Joshua Stern, a veterinary cardiologist at the University of California, Davis, who led the study. n addition,
says Sherman Fan, professor of biomedical engineering at University of Michigan. or diabetes, acetone is a marker, for example.
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#Breathe on labels to know if drugs are counterfeit Counterfeit drugs make up to one-third of the pharmaceutical drug market in some countries.
who led the University of Michigan effort. The method requires access to sophisticated equipment that can create very tiny features, roughly 500 times smaller than the width of a human hair.
The university is pursuing patent protection for the intellectual property and is seeking commercialization partners to help bring the technology to market.
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#This can make the organs in your body transparent Scientists have developed a way to see through tissues, organs,
says Cameron Ball, a doctoral student in bioengineering at the University of Washington. FAST DELIVERY The team
associate professor of chemical and biological engineering at the New york University School of engineering. ee known that phosphotriesterases had the power to detoxify these nerve agents,
Zhang is now a student at Cornell University. The US ARMY Research Office and the National Science Foundation supported the research p
who directs Washington University Early Emotional Development Program. ut the good news is that if we can identify depression early,
says lead author Seema Khan, professor of surgery and professor of cancer research at Northwestern University Feinberg School of medicine.
says Linwah Yip, assistant professor of surgery in the University of Pittsburgh School of medicine. Yip says without the test a second surgery to remove the thyroid was required often
director of the division of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at University of Florida. lomid has been available for fertility treatment for more than 40 years,
HOW THEY WORK Christman oversaw one of the trial sites as one of the principal investigators at the University of Michigan.
says David S. Guzick, senior vice president for health affairs and president of University of Florida Health,
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#Vaccine triggers alarm to fight dust mite allergy A new vaccine uses a booster normally found in cancer vaccines to combat dust-mite allergies by naturally switching the body immune response.
says Aliasger Salem, professor in pharmaceutical sciences at University of Iowa and a corresponding author of the paper.
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#Lack of sleep can cause false memories When people suffer from sleep deprivation, they tend to misremember details of events,
Using the fly ear structure as a model, Neal Hall, an assistant professor of engineering at the University of Texas at Austin,
Hall credits the pioneering work of Ronald Miles at Binghamton University and Ronald Hoy at Cornell University,
a postdoctoral research scholar at Washington University in St louis. ee been searching for a single step that all those various proteins have to take to be secreted,
associate professor of psychology at University of Arizona. ut sleep problems that persist for an extended period may mean something different.
who earned her bachelor degree in psychology from University of Arizona and is now pursuing her doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Florida. f somebody is going through a divorce and unable to sleep,
they really need to get some help or it could lead to problems. We are all going to go through something stressful in our lives,
Lead researcher Bayden Wood, an associate professor at Monash University, says to reduce mortality and prevent the overuse of antimalarial drugs,
Professor Leann Tilley from the University of Melbourne says the test could make an impact in large-scale screening of malaria parasite carriers who do not present the classic fever-type symptoms associated with the disease. n many countries only
says Jon Pierce-Shimomura, assistant professor at University of Texas at Austin. An alcohol target is any neuronal molecule that binds alcohol,
and the Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research at the University of Texas at Austin provided funding for the study.
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#Fewer strokes for older Americans, but experts worry The number of older Americans who suffer strokes
says study leader Silvia Koton, a visiting faculty member at the Bloomberg School and incoming nursing chair at Tel aviv University.
for several years, says Bruce Hammock, professor at University of California, Davis, and senior author of a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. e were surprised to find that the dual inhibitor was more active than higher doses of each compound,
a University of Kansas assistant professor of sociology and the study lead author, says the study findings are significant
The National Institute on Aging and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development-funded University of Colorado Population Center supported the research project d
and ophthalmology at Mcgill University. t is giving hope to many patients who suffer from this devastating retinal degeneration.
Researchers from Mcgill University, Johns hopkins university, and Stanford university contributed to the study, which was funded by QLT Inc, the Foundation Fighting Blindness Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Fonds de recherche du Québec-Santé,
and heart damage, says co-lead author Jason Cole of the University of Queensland School of Chemistry
University of Queensland Professor Mark Walker, in collaboration with Emory University and University of California, San diego, are working on additional preclinical testing of the modified vaccine.
The University of California, San diego Program in Excellence in Glycosciences, the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust,
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#Common virus targets triple-negative breast cancer A virus not known to cause disease kills triple-negative breast cancer cells
#Living near pesticides in pregnancy ups autism risk University of California Davis rightoriginal Studyposted by Phyllis Brown-UC Davis on June 23 2014pregnant women living
and prenatal exposure to agricultural chemicals in California##says lead study author Janie F. Shelton a University of California Davis graduate student who now consults with the United nations.##
For a new study, Michael Haller, an endocrinologist at University of Florida, looked for problematic cells of the immune system that could be behind a patient inability to produce insulin
professor of electrical engineering at University of Washington. e have shown this is possible in principle. If you can fit this sensor device into an intraocular lens implant during cataract surgery
says principal investigator and senior author Edward Damiano of the Boston University department of biomedical engineering. here no current standard-of-care therapy that could match the results we saw. ne of the key virtues of this device is its ability to start controlling the blood sugar instantly,
the University of Massachusetts Medical center in Worcester, the University of North carolina at Chapel hill, and Stanford Universitynd will begin on June 16 at MGH.
a forensic nurse practitioner and research nurse at the Betty Irene Moore School of nursing at University of California,
istockphoto) University of Southampton Nurse staffing, education tied to hospital death rate ith this technology, we can help children who might otherwise not receive this level of care.
Additional researchers from the Rice Sandia National Laboratories Tokyo Institute of technology and Carnegie mellon University contributed to the project
a research team from the Universities of Sheffield and Manchester also found that sperm size
a senior lecturer in andrology at the University of Sheffield and the study lead author. t is
professor of gerontology at the University of Southern California. STARVING KILLS DAMAGED CELLS hen you starve, the system tries to save energy,
a researcher in in the molecular physiology and biological physics department at University of Virginia. ut then it escapes from that internal vesicle into the body of the cell,
associate professor of radiology at Washington University in St louis. t roughly akin to spotting the rush of blood to someone cheeks
Culver and Washington University have financial interests in Cephalogics LLC based on a license of related optical imaging technology by the university to Cephalogics LLC.
They are regulated in accordance with the university conflict-of-interest policies. The National institutes of health, Autism Speaks, a Fulbright Science and Technology Phd Award,
says Amy Esler, an assistant professor of pediatrics and autism researcher at the University of Minnesota,
Other researchers from Johns Hopkins and from Emory University contributed to the study. Source: Johns Hopkins Universit
says Zahi Karam, a postdoctoral fellow and specialist in machine learning and speech analysis at the University of Michigan.
The University of Michigan has applied for patent protection for the intellectual property involved. The researchers presented early results this month at the International Conference on Acoustics
says creator Eran Elhaik of the University of Sheffield animal and plant sciences department. f a population from the blue soup region mixes with a population from the red soup region their offsprings would appear as a purple soup. he more genetic admixture that takes place,
an associate professor of research pediatrics at the Keck School of medicine of the University of Southern California. e were surprised by the simplicity and precision of this method.
University of Pennsylvania, University of Arizona, and other research institutions around the world. Source: University of Sheffiel c
#Wireless tattoo patch tracks health 24/7 A thin, soft stick-on patch that can stretch and move with the skin uses off-the shelf chip-based electronics to continuously track health
professor of civil and environmental engineering and mechanical engineering at Northwestern University. t is as soft as human skin
John A. Rogers, professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois and a coauthor of the current study, previously demonstrated skin electronics made of very tiny, ultrathin, specially designed and printed components.
The National security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship of Energy the Korean Foundation for International Cooperation of Science and Technology,
Alexander Star, an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh, says the new chip,
Jianping Fu, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at University of Michigan, says the findings raise the possibility of a more efficient way to guide stem cells to differentiate
Fu is collaborating with doctors at the University of Michigan Medical school. Eva Feldman, professor of neurology, studies amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.
says senior author Maziar Divangahi, an assistant professor in the Faculty of medicine at Mcgill University. Despite the worldwide use of vaccination and other antiviral interventions, the flu virus remains a persistent threat to human health.
says Robert Krug, professor of molecular biosciences at University of Texas at Austin. In addition to countering the body defense mechanisms,
Monash University researchers found that weight loss surgery (gastric banding) for overweight people with diabetes had a profound impact on the illness. his is randomized the first controlled trial demonstrating that treatment of type 2 diabetes
and hugely beneficial, says Professor Paul Orien from Monash University Centre for Obesity Research and Education (CORE).
associate professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan. here are other drugs that block one or two of the signaling pathways that cause the disease,
Other researchers working on the study came from Johns Hopkins, the University at Buffalo, the University of Tokyo
The research, carried out by experts from the University of Leeds School of medicine over the past three years, focuses on identifying new genes which,
says Tim Bishop of the School of medicine at the University of Leeds and a senior co-author of the study published in Nature Genetics. ince this gene has previously been identified as a target for the development of new drugs, in the future,
co-senior author from the University of Leeds. his study would not have been possible without the help
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#To study bipolar disorder, start with skin Scientists investigating what makes a person vulnerable to bipolar disorder took skin cells from people with the condition
a stem cell specialist at the University of Michigan who co-led the work. ee very excited about these findings.
Ohea, a professor in the department of cell and developmental biology and director of the University of Michigan Pluripotent Stem Cell Research Lab,
Researchers from Stanford, Tufts University, and in Israel contributed to the study, which was funded by the National institutes of health and reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences y
#Tiny circulator in phones could double bandwidth University of Texas at Austin rightoriginal Studyposted by Sandra Zaragoza-UT Austin on November 12 2014engineers have found a way to dramatically shrink a critical component of cellphones
We have built a circulator that does need not magnets or magnetic materialssays Andrea Alu an associate professor at the Cockrell School of engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.
The new tree of life is dated the first evolutionary tree of this magnitude says coauthor Akito Kawahara assistant curator of Lepidoptera at the Florida Museum of Natural history at University of Florida. ntil now we didn t
The evolutionary history of an organism orms the foundation for telling us the who what when and why of lifesays coauthor Karl Kjer of Rutgers University. any previously intractable questions are resolved now
Researchers from the University of Bonn collaborated on the study which was published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry l
Brenda Cartmel a senior research scientist and lecturer at the Yale School of Public health is a co-author of the paper along with researchers from the USDA/Agricultural research service Grand Forks Human nutrition Research center and the University of Utah.
and Technology at Rice and the Air force Office of Scientific research Multidisciplinary University Research program i
and biological engineering at University of Florida. As reported in the journal Water Research Gao ground wood chips that were heated then in nitrogen gas but not burned.
#Tarantula venom probe shows neurons in action University of California Davis rightoriginal Studyposted by Carole Gan-UC Davis on October 24 2014a cellular probe that combines a tarantula toxin
and membrane biology at University of California Davis. o understand how neural systems or the heart works we need to know which switches are activated.
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