Professor of Pathology, John H. Weis, at the University of Utah School of Medicine analyzed the DNA of 140 patients with Kawasaki disease to discover that those with the genetic variation in the IFITM3 gene were significantly more likely to develop coronary artery lesions or enlargement. This discovery has significant implications on the understanding of Kawasaki disease and highly contributes to the global health improvement.
0 Comments Click here to read/write comments
Tags: 2014, university of utah, UUtah, Northwest, UТ, BioResearch Product Faire Event, Salt Lake City
Living 17 years in a Dadaab refugee camp after fleeing Somalia, Africa, Hussein Issak Magale with his family came to the United States with a resettlement opportunity in 2009. After starting off at the University of Arizona in April 2010, Magale has worked in the Orthopaedic Research Lab and participated in an international research program in Kenya, Africa, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health and administrated by the University of Alabama. He will graduate in this May 2014 with a Bachelor of Science in Molecular and Cellular Biology.
0 Comments Click here to read/write comments
Tags: 2014, University of Alabama, BioResearch Product Faire Event, UAlab, Birmingham, AL
Research lab scientists at the University of Pittsburgh recently received $10 million in research funding from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for studies focused on schizophrenia. The five-year science research grant will be used to establish the Silvio O. Conte Center for Translational Mental Health Research within the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry.
0 Comments Click here to read/write comments
Tags: 2014, University of Pittsburgh, Northeast, new research funding, UPITT, BioResearch Product Faire Event, PA, Pittsburgh, research grant
A challenging problem in biotechnology today is isolating an elusive type of blood cell that acts as a unique stem cell. Many believe it is too difficult a task to be worth the time and money. A research team at Ohio State University agrees with this belief, but sees no reason to despair: they instead propose an easier, more creative method to accomplish the same goal.
0 Comments Click here to read/write comments
Tags: 2014, Midwest, Ohio State University, BioResearch Product Faire Event, Columbus, OH, OhStu
The University of Southern California received $50 million in bioscience funding earlier this year from retired orthopedic spinal surgeon, Gary K. Michelson, to fund the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience. The new research building will be used by USC research lab scientists and engineers to produce groundbreaking research in health and similar sciences. One of the center’s aims is to turn biological sciences “into a quantitative and predictive science” and bring about new therapies and cures for diseases.
0 Comments Click here to read/write comments
Tags: 2014, CA, University of Southern California, new research building, new research funding, California, USC, Los Angeles, BioResearch Product Faire Event
Research lab scientists at the University of California, Irvine receive millions of dollars in life science research funding from organizations such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation every year, often dwarfing the research budgets of lesser known schools. Did you know that graduate students at the University of California, Irvine receive a remarkable number of life science research grants as well?
0 Comments Click here to read/write comments
Tags: 2014, CA, University of California Irvine, California, BioResearch Product Faire Event, Irvine, UCI, UC Irvine, life science research grants, life science research funding
The $500,000 Keck Fund research award was given earlier this year to bioengineering professors Kumar and Murthy for their project, Single Tumor Cell Proteomics for Diagnosis and Prognosis.
0 Comments Click here to read/write comments
Tags: 2014, University of California Berkeley, proteomics, cancer research, BioResearch Product Faire Event, UC Berkeley, UCBerk
Researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have recently demonstrated that lacking one copy of a gene called CTCF causes mice to develop cancer. CTCF is a DNA binding protein that exerts a major influence on the architecture of the human genome. It has been well studied but never linked to cancer.
0 Comments Click here to read/write comments
Tags: 2014, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, WA, Northwest, BioResearch Product Faire Event, Seattle, Hutch
As we progress farther into the digital age, society maintains a surprising dependence on paper. In industry and academia, paper is still heavily relied on for reports, records, and correspondence. Twenty years ago, bioresearchers at the University of Madison, Wisconsin began developing ways to increase efficiency of paper production. Technology forecasters at the time might have predicted that such research would be irrelevant by 2014; however, the recent release of the team’s results is actually exciting and pertinent news.
1 Comment Click here to read/write comments
Tags: 2014, Midwest, WI, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin Madison, UWisc, BioResearch Product Faire Event, Madison
Untreated or under-treated brain concussions can be deadly. More than 1.7 million people in the United States need urgent medical care for traumatic brain injuries each year; an improved method for the emergency room personnel to diagnose these injuries is a pressing need.
0 Comments Click here to read/write comments
Tags: 2014, University of Cincinnati, BioResearch Product Faire Event, Cincinnati, OH, UCinci