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Avon Foundation for Women supports innovative research on aggressive breast cancer

The Avon Foundation for Women has awarded a $300,000 grant to Dolores Di Vizio, MD, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Surgery and the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and a member of the Cancer Biology and Urologic Oncology Research Programs at the Cedars-Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute to advance scientific research in aggressive breast cancer.

12 Sep 2013

North Carolina professor receives 2013 New Scholar in Aging Award from Ellison Medical Foundation

Li Qian, PhD, an assistant professor in the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, has received a 2013 New Scholar in Aging Award from the Ellison Medical Foundation.

12 Sep 2013

Study suggests new path to make protective malaria vaccine

This study suggests that genetically engineered malaria parasites that are stunted through precise gene deletions (genetically attenuated parasites, or "GAP") could be used as a vaccine that protects against malaria infection. This means that the harmless (attenuated) version of the parasite would interact with the body in the same way as the infective version, but without possibility of causing disease.

11 Sep 2013

Umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells may have targeting capacity for glioma

Glioblastoma is the most common ma-lignant primary brain tumor in adults. The aggressive growth manner, characterized by marked angiogenesis and extensive tumor cell invasion into normal brain parenchyma with frequent formation of tumor microsatellites at distal sites, makes eradication impossible even after extensive microsurgical resection combined with current standard chemoradiation and adjuvant temozolomide.

11 Sep 2013

Better ways to combat mosquitoes

In an advance toward providing mosquito-plagued people, pets and livestock with an invisibility cloak against these blood-sucking insects, scientists today described discovery of substances that occur naturally on human skin and block mosquitoes’ ability to smell and target their victims.

11 Sep 2013

New advances toward making molecular prosthetics a reality

The vision for a new branch of medicine, inspired by the ancient field that began with peg legs and hand hooks, commanded the spotlight in a major address by its pioneer here today at the 246th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society.

11 Sep 2013

Tri-linear interpolation algorithm can achieve cerebral white matter fiber reliable tracking

At present, fiber tracking algorithms are divided into deterministic tractography and probabilistic tractography. In deterministic algorithms, scholars proposed the fiber assignment by continuous tracking algorithm, the tensor deflection algorithm, the tensorline algorithm.

11 Sep 2013

Scientists use nanodiamonds to boost delivery of drug to leukemic cells

By binding multiple molecules of a common leukemia drug with nanodiamonds, scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) managed to boost the delivery of the drug to leukemic cells and retain the drug within the cells to combat the cancer.

11 Sep 2013

Race and ethnicity, education and economics are linked to how well American families fare

After a period of relative calm during the 1990s, rapid changes in American families began anew during the 2000s, a new analysis suggests.

11 Sep 2013

Neuroscientist explores latest research into night-time brain to understand real benefits of sleep

The role of sleep in processing our waking life and making sense of difficult emotions and experiences has been little understood and disputed amongst scientists for many years.

From The University of Manchester 11 Sep 2013

Expression of stress protein induced by ischemia/reperfusion injury, say researchers

Spinal cord ischemia/reperfusion injury is a stress injury to the spinal cord. Therefore, research on the expression of stress-related protein in neurons could be of great significance for the pathological mechanism and control measures for spinal cord ischemia/reperfusion injury.

11 Sep 2013

Older people retain ability to judge others' emotions using acquired knowledge, but not sensory cues

Compared to younger adults, older people are less adept at reading emotion in their spouse's face. But when their spouse isn't present, older and younger adults are equally able to discern their significant others' moods.

11 Sep 2013

Szechuan pepper found to mimic sense of touch in brain

The science behind the tingling sensation caused by eating a popular Asian spice has been explained by researchers at UCL.

11 Sep 2013

Accuracy of diagnoses does not differ between simple and complex multitasking conditions

Physicians may be able to complete simple tasks concurrently while diagnosing a patient without affecting the accuracy or speed of diagnoses, human factors researchers have suggested, based on the findings of a recent laboratory experiment.

11 Sep 2013

Professor to develop DNA sequencing technologies to search for long-range genome interactions

Why do some people develop disease while others with the same genetic mutation don't? For example, the National Cancer Institute estimates that women who inherit a harmful BRCA2 mutation have a 45 percent chance of developing breast cancer by age 70.

11 Sep 2013

Discovery points to clear, workable method to disrupt unwanted memories

The human brain is exquisitely adept at linking seemingly random details into a cohesive memory that can trigger myriad associations-some good, some not so good. For recovering addicts and individuals suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, unwanted memories can be devastating. Former meth addicts, for instance, report intense drug cravings triggered by associations with cigarettes, money, even gum (used to relieve dry mouth), pushing them back into the addiction they so desperately want to leave.

11 Sep 2013

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Avon Foundation for Women supports innovative research on aggressive breast cancer

North Carolina professor receives 2013 New Scholar in Aging Award from Ellison Medical Foundation

Study suggests new path to make protective malaria vaccine

Umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells may have targeting capacity for glioma

Better ways to combat mosquitoes

New advances toward making molecular prosthetics a reality

Tri-linear interpolation algorithm can achieve cerebral white matter fiber reliable tracking

Scientists use nanodiamonds to boost delivery of drug to leukemic cells

Race and ethnicity, education and economics are linked to how well American families fare

Neuroscientist explores latest research into night-time brain to understand real benefits of sleep

Expression of stress protein induced by ischemia/reperfusion injury, say researchers

Older people retain ability to judge others' emotions using acquired knowledge, but not sensory cues

Szechuan pepper found to mimic sense of touch in brain

Accuracy of diagnoses does not differ between simple and complex multitasking conditions

Professor to develop DNA sequencing technologies to search for long-range genome interactions

Discovery points to clear, workable method to disrupt unwanted memories

MIT-based center gets $25 million from NSF to advance brain understanding

Pain, itching associated with shingles may be due to virus causing "short circuit" in nerve cells

Research finding could lead to better solutions for cancer, anti-viral treatments

University of Alberta researchers study how DNA repair improves cancer therapies

Considerations for taking ASO discovery programs into animal models

Neurofilament light as a translational biomarker

How can machine learning accelerate neuroscience behavior studies?

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