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25-Jan-2016 5:05 PM EST
Location, Location Location: Bat Survival Depends on It
Colorado State University

Bat body type, and the environmental conditions bats use in their hibernation sites, may explain species differences in bat mortality from white-nose syndrome, according to a Colorado State University-led study.

13-Jan-2016 12:00 PM EST
Plague-Riddled Prairie Dogs a Model for Infectious Disease Spread
Colorado State University

Sporadic outbreaks of plague among black-tailed prairie dogs are an ideal model for the study of infectious zoonotic disease, say Colorado State University biologists.

Released: 8-Jan-2016 2:05 PM EST
Colorado Business Confidence Increases Slightly Heading Into 2016, Says CU-Boulder Index
University of Colorado Boulder

After a small dip last quarter, the optimism of Colorado business leaders grew modestly for the start of 2016, according to the Leeds Business Confidence Index released today by the University of Colorado Boulder’s Leeds School of Business.

Released: 6-Jan-2016 10:05 AM EST
Mines Researchers Develop Injectable Microwheels to Deliver Fast, Effective Treatment for Blood Clots
Colorado School of Mines

Research conducted by members of the Colorado School of Mines Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering demonstrates microscale biomedical devices shaped like wheels can be injected into the body and effectively “roll” to treat areas in need – such as arterial blockages.

Released: 5-Jan-2016 10:05 AM EST
Why White, Older Men Are More Likely to Die of Suicide
Colorado State University

An important factor in white men’s psychological brittleness and vulnerability to suicide once they reach late life may be dominant scripts of masculinity, aging and suicide, a Colorado State University psychology researcher says.

   
Released: 5-Jan-2016 10:00 AM EST
Flying Lab to Investigate Southern Ocean's Appetite for Carbon
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

An NCAR-led team of scientists is launching a series of research flights this month over the remote Southern Ocean in an effort to better understand just how much carbon dioxide the icy waters are able to lock away.

Released: 22-Dec-2015 12:05 PM EST
Even Before ACA, Cancer Survivors in Non-Expansion States Had Less Healthcare Access
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Even in the healthcare landscape as it existed before the ACA, cancer survivors in states without expanded Medicaid were less likely to have a personal doctor and more likely to report inability to see a doctor due to cost (odds ratios 0.76 and 1.14 respectively).

Released: 15-Dec-2015 10:05 AM EST
Small Satellites to Pave Way for Future Space-Borne Weather Observations
Colorado State University

Colorado State University researchers are creating the next generation of environmental monitoring satellites, at a hundredth the size and weight scale.

Released: 8-Dec-2015 10:30 AM EST
NCAR Develops Method to Predict Sea Ice Changes Years in Advance
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

Climate scientists at NCAR present evidence in a new study that they can predict whether the Arctic sea ice that forms in the winter will grow, shrink, or hold its own over the next several years.

Released: 7-Dec-2015 2:05 PM EST
Colorado State University's Breakthrough Imaging Tool Maps Cells' Composition in 3-D
Colorado State University

A one-of-a-kind instrument built at Colorado State University lets scientists map cellular composition in three dimensions at the nanoscale, allowing researchers to watch how cells respond to new medications at the most minute level ever observed.

Released: 6-Dec-2015 8:00 PM EST
Placental Cell Therapy Mitigates Bone Marrow Damage Caused by High Levels of Radiation
Pluristem Therapeutics

New data presented at this year’s American Society of Hematology shows the mechanism of action by which cell therapy derived from the human placenta treats radiation-induced bone marrow damage. The findings will be published online in the December 3, 2015 supplemental volume of Blood, a peer-reviewed medical journal published by ASH.

Released: 3-Dec-2015 12:05 PM EST
Colorado School of Mines-Developed Water Mist Fire Extinguishers Headed to International Space Station Dec. 3
Colorado School of Mines

A space payload designed and tested with the help of Colorado School of Mines faculty and students will be launched to the International Space Station on Dec. 3 on the Orbital ATK OA-4 mission aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket.

Released: 2-Dec-2015 6:05 PM EST
Recyclable Bioplastics Cooled Down, Cooked Up in Colorado State University Chem Lab
Colorado State University

Colorado State University chemists have made a completely recyclable, biodegradable polymer, paving a potential new road to truly sustainable, petroleum-free plastics.

Released: 2-Dec-2015 1:05 PM EST
Global Food System Faces Multiple Threats From Climate Change
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

A new international report warns that climate change will likely have far-reaching impacts on food security worldwide, especially for the poor and those in tropical regions. The report, issued today at the Paris climate talks, finds that warmer temperatures and altered precipitation patterns can affect food production, transportation, and safety.

Released: 24-Nov-2015 2:05 PM EST
Pets Will Thank You for Pumpkin Treats this Holiday Season
Colorado State University

Your dog will "gobble" up these easy-to-make pumpkin snacks. Recipe approved by Colorado State University veterinarians and Porter, the dog.

Released: 19-Nov-2015 11:05 AM EST
Small, Sustainable Actions Make Big Impacts
Colorado State University

Colorado State University students are helping the City of Fort Collins with market research on a mobile app, “Lose a Watt,” that encourages sustainable behaviors.

Released: 18-Nov-2015 11:05 AM EST
Study Shows That Without Prescription Coverage, Even Relatively Low-Cost Cancer Medicines Can Be "Catastrophic"
University of Colorado Cancer Center

University of Colorado Cancer Center study shows that some uninsured and low-income breast cancer patients do without even low-cost, high-benefit drugs.

12-Nov-2015 3:00 PM EST
Programmable Plants: Colorado State Synthetic Biologists Pave Way for Genetic Circuits
Colorado State University

Taking genetic engineering to the next level, Colorado State University researchers are creating modular, programmable genetic circuits that control specific plant functions.

Released: 11-Nov-2015 4:05 PM EST
Study Offers New Recommendations for TB Vaccine Testing in Humans
Colorado State University

CSU Professor Ian Orme recently conducted a study that provides new clues to what went wrong with a landmark TB vaccine trial in South Africa.

Released: 5-Nov-2015 10:05 AM EST
Shields Up: Colorado State Researchers Are Making the Internet More Secure
Colorado State University

A Colorado State University-led team is developing a service that can sniff out, ward off and protect against large-scale online attacks known as Distributed Denial of Service, or DDoS, attacks.

Released: 4-Nov-2015 12:05 PM EST
CK5 Marks Cisplatin-Resistant Ovarian Cancer
University of Colorado Cancer Center

A University of Colorado Cancer Center study recently published in the International Journal of Gynecological Cancer shows that protein cytokeratin 5 (CK5), known to be a marker of poor prognosis in breast cancer, also marks ovarian cancers likely to be resistant to the common chemotherapy cisplatin.

28-Oct-2015 12:00 PM EDT
Forgotten but Not Gone: West Nile Virus Impacts Greater Number of Bird Species, Study Finds
Colorado State University

A new study led by Colorado State University finds that the West Nile virus is killing birds — more so than previously thought — in the short- and long-term.

Released: 2-Nov-2015 12:05 PM EST
Sugar-Coated Nanoworms Not for Breakfast in the Human Immune System
University of Colorado Cancer Center

University of Colorado Cancer Center study shows how iron nanoparticles evade human immune system, potentially helping useful particles avoid elimination.

Released: 27-Oct-2015 10:05 AM EDT
Beyond Siri: Colorado State Researchers Are Bridging Human-Computer Interaction
Colorado State University

With the goal of revolutionizing everyday interactions between humans and computers, Colorado State University researchers are developing new technologies for making computers recognize not just traditional commands, but also non-verbal ones – gestures, body language and facial expressions.

Released: 22-Oct-2015 4:05 PM EDT
NSF Funds K-12 Teacher Water-Energy Research Project
Colorado School of Mines

A $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will establish a Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Site at Colorado School of Mines.

Released: 22-Oct-2015 11:05 AM EDT
Study Combats “Anxiety” as Barrier to Breast Cancer Screening
University of Colorado Cancer Center

New ACS breast cancer screening guidelines consider anxiety associated with mammography when deciding who should be screened. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study describes a successful intervention to decrease this anxiety, lessening this barrier to screening.

20-Oct-2015 12:05 PM EDT
Colorado State University Chemists Invent ‘Tool’ for Assembling Life Molecules
Colorado State University

The researchers report a single chemical reaction that couples two constituent chemicals into a carbon-carbon bond, while simultaneously introducing a nitrogen component.

Released: 20-Oct-2015 3:05 PM EDT
Gaining Steam
Colorado School of Mines

A steady, reliable, enormous, practically inexhaustible, carbon-free source of electric power, one capable of producing three times the wattage the United States generates each year, is right under our feet. Or more accurately, way under our feet, where it has long tantalized geothermal energy experts.

14-Oct-2015 12:05 PM EDT
Despite Promise, Vitamin D and Calcium Do Not Reduce Colorectal Cancer Risk
University of Colorado Cancer Center

The New England Journal of Medicine reports the results of a 2,259-person study conducted at 11 academic medical centers, including University of Colorado Cancer Center, showing that taking vitamin D and/or calcium supplements after the removal of pre-cancerous colorectal polyps does not reduce risk of developing polyps in the future.

1-Sep-2015 3:05 PM EDT
Study Shows Extent to Which Lung Cancer Patients with Brain Metastases Are Excluded From Clinical Trials
University of Colorado Cancer Center

A University of Colorado Cancer Center study being presented at the 16th World Conference on Lung Cancer reveals the full extent to which the CNS may be under-explored in clinical research.

Released: 8-Sep-2015 12:05 PM EDT
Study Defines Criteria for MET-Driven Lung Cancer Suitable for Crizotinib Treatment
University of Colorado Cancer Center

A University of Colorado Cancer Center study being presented today at the 16th World Conference on Lung Cancer in Denver, Colorado sheds light on the best method to determine the threshold at which MET amplification becomes clinically relevant.

2-Sep-2015 1:05 PM EDT
Nature: Study Creates Cell Immunity to Parasite That Infects 50 Million
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Multi-institutional, multidisciplinary study looks past antibiotics and sanitation to a third strategy to control infectious disease: Adjusting the landscape of the human body to remove the mechanism that allows pathogens to cause disease.

Released: 18-Aug-2015 2:05 PM EDT
Cancer Doc Earns Colorado State's First Female Endowed Chair
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Dr. Nicole Ehrhart will be appointed to the Ross M. Wilkins, M.D. Limb Preservation University Chair in Musculoskeletal Biology and Oncology at Colorado State University.

Released: 12-Aug-2015 3:05 PM EDT
Media Tip Sheet: Colorado State University Experts Available to Discuss Animas River Mine Spill
Colorado State University

The following experts are available to discuss a variety of topics related to the mine waste spill that has impacted the Animas River in southwestern Colorado. These experts are available for media interviews; this list is not intended to serve as public contact information. For more information or to contact a Colorado State University expert on any of the following topics, call the communications coordinator listed for each expert.

Released: 6-Aug-2015 5:05 PM EDT
Study: Great Plains Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions Could Be Eliminated
Colorado State University

Researchers from the Natural Resource Ecology Lab at Colorado State University and their partners have completed a historical analysis of greenhouse gas emissions from the U.S. Great Plains that demonstrates the potential to completely eliminate agricultural greenhouse gas emissions from the region.

Released: 28-Jul-2015 4:05 PM EDT
New Tool Uses ‘Drug Spillover’ to Match Cancer Patients with Treatments
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Article in journal Bioinformatics from University of Colorado Cancer Center describes a new tool that improves the ability to match drugs to disease: the Kinase Addiction Ranker (KAR) predicts what genetics are truly driving the cancer in any population of cells and chooses the best “kinase inhibitor” to silence these dangerous genetic causes of disease.

27-Jul-2015 1:05 PM EDT
University of Colorado Cancer Center and Loxo Oncology Announce Publication That Provides Clinical Validation For LOXO-101 Against TRK Fusion Cancer
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Published today in Cancer Discovery, results of LOXO-101 against TRK fusion cancer confirm that stage IV patient's tumors had substantially regressed. With four months of treatment, additional CT scans demonstrated almost complete disappearance of the largest tumors.

Released: 23-Jul-2015 6:05 PM EDT
Powerful, Efficient Ceramic Fuel Cells Could Enable in-Home Production of Electricity From Natural Gas
Colorado School of Mines

The development of affordable and efficient ceramic fuel cells that could be used to power homes is the culmination of five years worth of work by Colorado School of Mines researchers.

Released: 21-Jul-2015 1:05 PM EDT
Evolution Not Just Mutation Drives Development of Cancer
University of Colorado Cancer Center

A paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences argues against the commonly held "accumulation of mutations" model of oncogenesis in favor of a model that depends on evolutionary pressures acting on populations of cells.

Released: 29-Jun-2015 11:45 AM EDT
Picturing the Forecast: National Weather Service Graphics Developed with NCAR Research
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

The National Weather Service this summer is introducing new online forecasts based on research by a team of risk communication experts at NCAR. The new graphics will better communicate local forecasts and potential weather threats for the millions of Americans who rely on the NWS website.

Released: 10-Jun-2015 12:05 PM EDT
Survival Benefit with 'Fully Human' EGFR Antibody Necitumumab in Squamous Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Lancet Oncology reports phase III clinical trial results of necitumumab against stage IV non-small cell lung cancer

Released: 29-May-2015 12:05 PM EDT
ONT-380 Has Stage IV HER2+ Breast Cancer Patient “Worrying About Normal Stuff Again”
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Promising clinical trial results presented at the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting 2015 show activity of the investigational anti-cancer agent ONT-380 against HER2+ breast cancer, in one case specifically against brain metastases and in another case in overall survival of heavily pretreated HER2+ breast cancer patients.

Released: 29-May-2015 12:05 PM EDT
Study Shows Sexual Dysfunction After Gynecologic Cancer Treatment
University of Colorado Cancer Center

A University of Colorado Cancer Center study presented at the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting 2015 shows decreased sexual activity in women following treatment for gynecologic cancers, down from 6.1-6.8 times per month before treatment to 2.6-4.9 times per month after treatment.

Released: 27-May-2015 3:05 PM EDT
Promising Trial Results of Brigatinib Show That All Next-Gen ALK Inhibitors May Not Be Created Equal
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Phase I/II clinical trial results reported at the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting 2015 show promising results for investigational drug brigatinib against ALK+ non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), with 58 of 78 ALK+ patients responding to treatment, including 50 of 70 patients who had progressed after previous treatment with crizotinib, the first licensed ALK inhibitor. Progression-free survival (PFS) in patients previously treated with crizotinib was 13.4 months.

Released: 27-May-2015 2:05 PM EDT
Trial Creates 6 Percent Weight Loss After Breast Cancer Treatment
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Obesity is a risk factor for breast cancer. A multi-institutional study presented at the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting 2015 shows that female breast cancer survivors are able to lose weight through modest lifestyle changes.

Released: 26-May-2015 11:05 AM EDT
Clinical Trial Reduces Stress of Cancer Caregivers
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Cancer caregivers are stressed, potentially impacting the quality of the care they give. A University of Colorado Cancer Center clinical trial demonstrates how to help.

Released: 20-May-2015 12:45 PM EDT
Scientists Tackle Mystery of Thunderstorms That Strike at Night
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

From June 1 through July 15, NCAR researchers and their colleagues from across North America will fan out each evening across the Great Plains to study the mysterious phenomenon of nighttime thunderstorms.


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