Nationwide Children's Hospital was awarded $11.5 million from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) late last year to continue its role as one of two Biospecimen Core Resources (BCR) for The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). Contract awards to Nationwide Children's could total up to $49.2 million over six years.
On Jan. 12, 2010, Lora Iannotti, PhD, nutrition and public health expert at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, was in Leogane, a seaside town 18 miles west of Port au Prince, Haiti, working with local officials on improving the health of Haitian children. That’s when a catastrophic earthquake struck the poverty-stricken country.
Using biological samples taken from patients and state-of-the-art biochemical techniques, a Florida State University researcher is working to identify a variety of “biomarkers” that might provide earlier warnings of the presence of breast and prostate cancers.
The Caribbean is made up of Spanish-, French-, and English-speaking island states. Literary criticism tends to maintain the separation between these cultures, says Mount Holyoke College professor Roberto Márquez. "In his new book, "A World among These Islands" Márquez looks at the Caribbean as a whole to better understand the region’s literary heritage and history.
For Web site owners and bloggers, there is a new widget from NIST that will keep your Web pages right on time.
Medical researchers who crave a means of exploring the genetic culprits behind a host of neuromuscular disorders may have just had their wish granted by a NIST team that has performed surgery on single cells to extract and examine their mitochondria.
Hospitalizing teen girls with pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) costs six times as much as treating them in the emergency room, and up to 12 times more than treating them in an outpatient clinic, according to a small study conducted at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.
Citi Community Development, part of the Citi family of businesses, supports an innovative Academic Success Program at South Dakota State University. The program is designed to help students who have been re-admitted to SDSU following suspension due to low academic achievement.
Nationwide Children’s Hospital commits to addressing the epidemic of childhood obesity, and promotes the value of health and well-being for patients, families and staff members. On January 3, 2011, Nationwide Children’s will join just a handful of other healthcare institutions by eliminating all sugared-sweetened drinks from its campus. This new policy applies to the hospital’s cafeterias, gift shops, vending machines, patient room service and on-site catering service.
Thick gravel, mud, snow, steep ramps or hills . . . They might get a pedestrian a little dirty or out of breath, but to someone in an electric wheelchair, they could mean terrain that’s simply too difficult to cross alone.
Addiction researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that a risk for alcoholism also may put individuals at risk for obesity, and the association between a family history of alcoholism and obesity risk has become more pronounced in recent years.
Consistent exercise is associated with a lower risk of dying from colon cancer, according to a new study led by Siteman Cancer Center researchers at Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. The study is among the first to show that physical activity can make the disease less deadly.
Clinical trials started in December 2010 to determine how well an anti-obesity compound derived from a Chinese herb works in humans. South Dakota State University researcher Gareth Davies, the scientific director for the Avera Institute for Human Behavioral Genetics in Sioux Falls, said collaborators from SDSU and Avera have published several articles about the compound, which they call AIHBG-10.
Until space travel becomes easier, it’s still possible to hold a piece of the final frontier in our hands. Approximately 500 unique objects in a space artifacts will go for auction.
What do beer industry giant Tsingtao and a St. Louis microbrewery have in common? Hops, barley and business school. Schlafly's brewmaster and Tsingtao's president are recent graduates of Olin Business School's Executive MBA program that provides a unique experience for students to network with peers around the globe and share stories from the executive suite over a glass of beer.
Famed chef Frank Stitt has partnered with UAB Hospital's hotel style room service meal program. Stitt has designed three menu items now offered on the hospital's room service meal plan for patients.
It seems like every gadget freak, geek, and maybe even Gleek wants to get their hands on Microsoft’s new Kinect gaming device, which captures 3D movement using a camera, monochrome sensors, and infra-red light. But they don’t necessarily want to hook the gizmo up to an Xbox and play a game. They want to hack it.
Innovative trap fights dengue fever by preying on mosquitoes' motherly instincts.
A grant of about $1.8 million over five years will help scientists better understand congestive heart failure, a condition that affects 5.7 million Americans annually. The research could supply new knowledge about heart failure that could lead to new treatment strategies.
People with a known, high risk for Alzheimer’s disease develop abnormal brain function even before the appearance of telltale, amyloid plaques that are characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The findings suggest that a gene variant affects brain function long before the brain begins accumulating the amyloid that will eventually lead to dementia.
Do black leather pants qualify as a tax deduction for rock stars? Fans, musicians, journalists, researchers and anyone else interested in music can see how the courts dealt with this question and nearly any other legal issue involving the music industry at The Discography: Legal Encyclopedia of Popular Music accessible through thediscography.org. The site was created by Loren Wells, JD, musician and recent graduate of the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law and is supported by the Center for Empirical Research in the Law (CERL) at the School of Law. The site’s database — the most elaborate of its kind — covers 2,400 court opinions spanning nearly 200 years of the music industry.
Recently, Nationwide Children’s Hospital unveiled publically for the first time the clinical interiors of its new main hospital – the centerpiece of its six-part master facilities plan. On target to open in June 2012, Nationwide Children’s is undergoing the most expansive pediatric healthcare construction project ever undertaken. When complete, the hospital will add one million square feet of clinical and research space to the existing two million square feet; add an additional 2,400 hospital and research jobs; and generate a projected $1.3 billion in new regional economic activity. Once the new facility is open, and renovations have been made to the existing hospital, it will house 460 patient beds.
By determining what goes missing in human cells when the gene that is most commonly mutated in pancreatic cancer gets turned on, Johns Hopkins scientists have discovered a potential strategy for therapy.
An experimental combustion facility at Washington University in St. Louis will be used to study the burning of coal with oxygen rather than with air, which contains large amounts of nitrogen. Oxy-coal combustion makes carbon capture and sequestration much easier by raising the carbon dioxide concentration in exhaust gases from 15 percent to 95 percent.
A delicate sphere of gas, imaged by the Hubble telescope, floats serenely in the depths of space. The pristine bubble is the result of gas being shocked by the expanding blast wave from a supernova. Called SNR 0509-67.5, the bubble is the visible remnant of a powerful stellar explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy 160,000 light-years from Earth.
Nutritional information has popped up on the front of food packages using a wide range of different symbols and rating systems. But without a common form or standards, there’s a risk that consumers could be confused by the new information, says Matthew Kreuter, PhD, a public health expert and professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.
The University of Chicago next September will begin construction of the William Eckhardt Research Center, an architecturally innovative building that will host a broad spectrum of 21st-century science.
A 90-second-long educational video from NIST provides a stunning visual lesson on why keeping one’s Christmas tree moist can be a matter of life-and-death importance.
The chief consultant for an important new work about the sea spent the greater part of his career at landlocked South Dakota State University, about as far from any ocean as you can get in North America. The easy explanation is that Distinguished Professor Emeritus Charles "Fritz" Gritzner is a prolific writer about geography.
Neurologists have answered one of the most important questions about Alzheimer's: Do rising brain levels of a plaque-forming substance mean patients are making more of it or that they can no longer clear it as effectively? Researchers found clearance rates decline in Alzheimer's patients.
Loyola University Health System cancer patient continues to give after receiving life-saving bone marrow transplant from brother.
A new laser-beam steering system that aims and focuses bursts of light onto single atoms for use in quantum computers has been demonstrated by researchers in North Carolina and Wisconsin. Described in the journal Applied Physics Letters, the new system is somewhat like the laser-light-show projectors used at rock concerts and planetariums. But it’s much smaller, faster, atom-scale accurate and aimed at the future of computing, not entertainment.
The Louis S. Tregre Award is one of the interior design world’s most distinguished honors, and this year it has gone to Florida State University Professor David M. Butler, who for more than three decades as a licensed interior designer and as a faculty member in FSU’s interior design program has exemplified and promoted his field’s highest standards.
Every year, more than 50,000 babies are born premature in the United States. Despite the notable advances in neonatal care, these premature infants often suffer from preterm birth complications – the single largest cause of infant mortality. In order to better understand preterm birth, Nationwide Children’s Hospital and The Ohio State University Medical Center (OSUMC) have partnered to form the Ohio Perinatal Research Network (OPRN).
A new drug appears to help chronic myeloid leukemia patients who are out of treatment options after first- and second-line drugs have failed them or because their cancer cells have a mutation that makes them resistant from the start, researchers reported at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology.
Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have made an unexpected finding about the method by which certain genes are activated. Contrary to what researchers have traditionally assumed, genes that work with other genes to build protein structures do not act in a coordinated way but instead are turned on randomly. The surprising discovery, described in the December 5 online edition of Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, may fundamentally change the way scientists think about the way cellular processes are synchronized.
NHL referee Dan O'Halloran's son Devin was only five years old when he received a liver transplant at the University of Michigan Health System. Now he's 20, attending college and a hockey referee himself. The O'Halloran family is promoting a Dec. 5 outdoor hockey game "The Little Chill at the Big House," which will raise money for a summer camp for kids who've received transplants.
Using a new brain imaging technique, Washington University neuroscientists could see an investigational drug for Parkinson’s disease get into a patient’s brain and affect blood flow in several key structures, an indicator the drug may be effective. In the future, similar brain scans could speed the development of new drugs and help clinicians learn whether established drugs are working.
Florida State University English Professor Anne E.B. Coldiron rocked the humanities world in 2010 by winning in a matter of months not one but two premier fellowships –– first from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and, now, from the Folger Shakespeare Library, home to one of the world’s greatest archives of rare books.
Its venom-filled claw at the ready, it waits for prey to amble by it.
A five-year project led by the Georgia Institute of Technology has developed a novel approach to space electronics that could change how space vehicles and instruments are designed. The new capabilities are based on silicon-germanium (SiGe) technology.
Deletion of key muscle protein inhibits exercise.
Ryerson University Interior Design students demonstrate holiday style for less.
University of Maryland study finds that increased coverage of specially trained physicians, pharmacists and respiratory therapists can improve survival in intensive care.
Scientists are learning more about the life stages and biology of an insect that may compete with humans for the energy crops of the future — the insect some scientists are calling the switchgrass moth.
Mount Holyoke College's Waquar Ahmed has co-edited a new book that challenges conventional interpretations of India’s economic growth in the last two decades.
Online shoppers can protect their identities and financial account numbers by following five safety tips this holiday season, says Gary Warner, international cyber-crime consultant and director of research in computer forensics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham College of Arts and Sciences.
Binghamton University researchers recently revived ancient bacteria trapped for thousands of years in water droplets embedded in salt crystals. For decades, geologists have looked at these water droplets — called fluid inclusions — and wondered whether microbes could be extracted from them. Fluid inclusions have been found inside salt crystals ranging in age from thousands to hundreds of millions years old.
A major grant to South Dakota State University will help train rehabilitation counselors who can help people with disabilities find places within the workforce. The grant puts a special emphasis on training for counselors who can help veterans returning from war. It provides $749,000 over a five-year period to allow SDSU to support master’s degree students in the program with funds for tuition and fees.
Chronic kidney disease, likely caused by diabetes or hypertension, can lead to flat-out kidney failure. Now what? Nearly half of patients who end up with end stage renal disease, or kidney failure, have never seen a nephrologist, according to a new study by the University of Michigan. But patients who get early care by a nephrologist are less likely to develop kidney failure, are more prepared for dialysis and better informed about their transplant options.
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