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Georgetown Study: Probiotics May Protect Premature Babies

Posted by Jennifer Nieuwkerk on Tue, Aug 20, 2013

A Georgetown University study published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics says that there is a great deal of evidence that suggests that probiotics should be used to protect prematurely born infants from a dangerous and often deadly disease. Dr. Dan Merenstein of Georgetown University was the study’s senior author. The nearly half-million babies born prematurely every year in the U.S. are at risk of developing necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), which affects the gastrointestinal tract by infecting it and destroying the bowel. According to the Georgetown website, the Georgetown University researchers believe that probiotics, a useful bacteria type, can help protect the intestinal tract and should be used with all premature babies with NEC.

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Georgetown Vaccine Cuts HPV Infections in Half

Posted by Jennifer Nieuwkerk on Mon, Jul 29, 2013

Science researchers at Georgetown University recently published a study in the Journal of Infectious Diseases that shows that the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine a Georgetown University doctor helped to invent has lead to the number of infections among teenage girls across the United States being cut in half. According to a Georgetown University news article, the vaccine was created to treat and get rid of two forms of the HPV virus, which results in most cervical cancer cases nationwide, along with head and neck cancer, anal cancer and penile cancer.

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Georgetown Study Finds Cancer Drug May Prevent Parkinsons

Posted by Jennifer Nieuwkerk on Fri, Jul 12, 2013

Scientists at Georgetown University conducted a study published in Human Molecular Genetics that gives insight into a groundbreaking new strategy for treating neurodegenerative diseases featuring an unusual buildup of proteins, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s, frontotemporal dementia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Huntington disease and Lew body dementia, to name a few. According to a Georgetown University news article, the researchers found that when the drug nilotinib is used to treat chronic myelogenous leukemia, it causes cancer cells to go into autophagy, a biological process that causes the death of cancerous tumor cells.

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Georgetown Cancer Research Links High Estrogen Levels in Womb to BRCA1 Silencing

Posted by Jaimee Saliba on Fri, Apr 19, 2013

georgetown cancer researchAt Georgetown University's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, researchers have announced the results of an important study showing that high levels of estrogen in the mother during pregnancy can increase a daughter's susceptibility to breast cancer later on. Specifically, the BRCA1 gene is disabled in an estrogen-rich environment, preventing it from carrying out its DNA repair tasks and leaving an opening for cancerous cells to grow. The research was presented at the 2013 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) meeting by Dr. Leena Hilakivi-Clarke (right). The Hilakivi-Clarke Lab is on the same floor of the Research Building as that of Dr. Robert Clarke, who collaborated on the study; the Clarkes both carry out hormone-related cancer research, and Robert Clarke is the Dean for Research at the Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC). 

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$1.25M Bioscience Research Endowment Gifted to Georgetown University Med Center

Posted by Jaimee Saliba on Mon, Jun 04, 2012

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Georgetown Gets NIH Bioresearch Grants for HIV/AIDS Research Center

Posted by BCI Staff on Fri, Mar 30, 2012

Recently, Georgetown University researchers received a $3 million NIH bioresearch grant to open a new collaborative HIV/AIDS research center called the Developmental Center for AIDS Research (D-CFAR).

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Georgetown Science Research Breakthrough Keeps Cancer Cells Alive in Lab

Posted by Jennifer Nieuwkerk on Fri, Jan 13, 2012

Researchers say they may have made a science research breakthrough in the fight against cancer by discovering how to keep tumor cells alive in the lab. Up until recently, scientists haven’t been able to keep cells alive in a way where they look and act like they would in the body. Doctors previously had to freeze or set in wax biopsied tissue to make a diagnosis.

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New Georgetown Life Science Building and Future Medical Expansion

Posted by BCI Staff on Fri, Apr 01, 2011

If committing to funding a new research building weren't daunting enough, try doing it on a dense urban campus in an historic neighborhood in our nation's capital.  This is the situation of Georgetown University, located in northwest Washington DC on the Potomac River.  The Georgetown Independent aptly calls the challenge a "massive logistical nightmare." Yet buildings do go up, and more are always under construction and in the pipeline, as evidenced by the latest Campus Plan submitted by the University to the city's Planning Department yesterday.

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