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Public Release: 7-Aug-2008
Journal of Sexual Medicine
No-nose bicycle saddles improve penile sensation and erectile function in bicycling police officers
A new study examines if no-nose bike seats would be effective in alleviating the harm caused by using a traditional seat.
Contact: Sean Wagner
medicalnews@bos.blackwellpublishing.net
781-388-8550
Wiley-Blackwell
Public Release: 7-Aug-2008
TORC at UH turns to virtual world of Second Life for new study
The University of Houston department of health and human performance is launching an international effort to recruit 500 participants for a study promoting healthy dietary habits and physical activity. The study will take place entirely in the virtual world of Second Life.
The project is part of the UH Texas Obesity Research Center's International Health Challenge, and offers an enjoyable way for participants to learn about preventing and treating obesity through education, skills training and outreach.
University of Southern California-Annenberg School for Communication's Network Culture Project: Second Life and the Public Good Community Challenge
Contact: Marisa Ramirez
mrcannon@uh.edu
713-743-8152
University of Houston
Public Release: 7-Aug-2008
UT Health Science Center researchers study diet and autism
Can autism be "cured" with diet? Researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston embark on a double-blind study to find out if wheat and dairy products can affect autistic behavior, as some parents believe.
Contact: Deborah Mann Lake
deborah.m.lake@uth.tmc.edu
713-500-3304
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Public Release: 7-Aug-2008
Pathogen that causes disease in cattle also associated with Crohn's disease
People with Crohn's disease are seven-fold more likely to have in their gut tissues the bacterium that causes a digestive-tract disease in cattle called Johne's disease. The role this bacterium may or may not play in causing CD is a top research priority, according to a new report released by the American Academy of Microbiology.
Contact: Jim Sliwa
jsliwa@asmusa.org
202-942-9297
American Society for Microbiology
Public Release: 7-Aug-2008
Now that's cool
Researchers at the University of Maryland are using meta-materials, which mimic the behavior of ice, but are created out of completely different substances, to and figure out why water ice doesn't completely conform to the Third Law of Thermodynamics.
Contact: Missy Corley
mcorley@umd.edu
301-405-6501
University of Maryland
Public Release: 7-Aug-2008
For the birds or for me? Why do conservationists really help wildlife?
Volunteers who take part in conservation efforts may do it more for themselves than the wildlife they are trying to protect.
Contact: Bev Betkowski
beverly.betkowski@ualberta.ca
780-492-3808
University of Alberta
Public Release: 7-Aug-2008
Science
A new light on the brains of people with borderline personality disorder
In a game of give and get, the brains of people with borderline personality disorder often don't get it.
In fact, an interactive economic game played between two people in functional magnetic resonance imaging devices revealed a brain malfunction associated with the disorder, a serious but common mental illness that affects a person's perceptions of the world and other people, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears in the current issue of the journal Science.
Menninger Clinic, NIH/National Institute of Mental Health, NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse
Contact: Dipali Pathak
pathak@bcm.edu
713-798-4710
Baylor College of Medicine
Public Release: 7-Aug-2008
Disease Models & Mechanisms
Pre-cancerous condition linked to chronic acid reflux faces several hurdles
UK researchers address challenges in treating Barrett's esophagus, a precancerous condition found in some sufferers of chronic acid reflux disease, and call for better disease models and diagnostic markers.
Contact: Nick Birch
nick@biologists.com
44-122-342-6164
The Company of Biologists
Public Release: 7-Aug-2008
Disease Models & Mechanisms
Medical doctors who do research could be a dying breed
The road from disease research to disease cure isn't usually a smooth one. One role which bridges the laboratory and the clinic is that of the "clinician-scientist" -- a doctor who understands disease both in the patient and in the Petri dish. Yet an editorial published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, contends that clinician-scientists in the UK and elsewhere are not prospering, but rather are "under threat in a hostile environment".
Contact: Nick Birch
nick@biologists.com
44-122-342-6164
The Company of Biologists
Public Release: 7-Aug-2008
Disease Models & Mechanisms
Anything but modest: The mouse continues to contribute to humankind
"Big things come in small packages," the saying goes, and it couldn't be more true when discussing the mouse. This little creature has become a crucial part of human history through its contributions in understanding human genetics and disease. In a review published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, genetics researchers from Yale University School of Medicine and Fudan University School of Life Sciences discuss the history and future of mice as a model organism.
Contact: Donna Perry
donna@biologists.com
44-122-342-6164
The Company of Biologists
Public Release: 7-Aug-2008
Virology
Study sees need for standardized evaluation of antibody response to HIV-1
US Military HIV Research Program researcher Victoria R. Polonis, Ph.D., and colleagues released findings on a study of cross-clade neutralization patterns among HIV-1 strains from six major clades in the June 5, 2008, issue of Virology.
Military Infectious Disease Research Program
Contact: JoAnn Sperber
jsperber@hjf.org
301-294-1234
Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine
Public Release: 7-Aug-2008
American Heart Journal
People with heart disease still have trouble controlling blood lipid levels
Despite some improvements to lower "bad" cholesterol levels, people with cardiovascular diseases still need to do a better job controlling overall blood lipid levels, according to a UC Irvine Heart Disease Prevention Program study.
Contact: Tom Vasich
tmvasich@uci.edu
949-824-6455
University of California - Irvine
Public Release: 7-Aug-2008
American Journal of Primatology
Veterinarians adapt human tests for monkeys
A medical test developed to detect an overload of iron in humans has recently been adapted to screen for the condition in some distant relatives: diminutive monkeys from South America, according to veterinarians at the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Contact: John Delaney
jdelaney@wcs.org
718-220-3275
Wildlife Conservation Society
Public Release: 7-Aug-2008
CERN announces start-up date for LHC
CERN has today announced that the first attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider will be made on Sept. 10.
Contact: CERN press office
Press.Office@cern.ch
41-227-672-141
CERN
Public Release: 7-Aug-2008
Robotics research: Enhancing the lives of people with disabilities
Robots may be the solution for people with disabilities who are struggling to regain the use of their limbs, thanks to a research team that includes engineers and students from Rochester Institute of Technology.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Will Dube
wjduns@rit.edu
585-475-2816
Rochester Institute of Technology
Public Release: 7-Aug-2008
Likely cause of postpartum blues and depression identified
Unique biochemical crosstalk that enables a fetus to get nutrition and oxygen from its mother's blood just may cause common postpartum blues, researchers say.
US Department of Health and Human Services
Contact: Toni Baker
tbaker@mcg.edu
706-721-4421
Medical College of Georgia
Public Release: 7-Aug-2008
PLoS Genetics
Study helps pinpoint genetic variations in European Americans
An international team of researchers has identified just 200 positions within the curves of the DNA helix that they believe capture much of the genetic diversity in European Americans, a population with one of the most diverse and complex historic origins on Earth. Their findings narrow the search for the elusive ancestral clues known as single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs, that cause disease and account for the minute variations in the European American population.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Gabrielle DeMarco
demarg@rpi.edu
518-276-6542
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Public Release: 7-Aug-2008
NSF hosts the second US-China computer science leadership summit
Approximately 15 professors, deans and other professionals in the computing sciences from the People's Republic of China came to Arlington, Va., last month for a summit with their U.S. counterparts. The one-day meeting gave participants the chance to discuss challenges and opportunities facing computing scholars from both sides of the Pacific, and it reflected the growing level of cooperation between the academic research communities in both countries.
Contact: Dana W. Cruikshank
dcruiksh@nsf.gov
703-292-7738
National Science Foundation
Public Release: 7-Aug-2008
Negotiation and Conflict Management Research
Gender stereotypes contradicted when negotiating
A new study reveals that when trying to make a good impression, people may behave in ways counter to gender stereotypes.
Contact: Amy Molnar
journalnews@bos.blackwellpublishing.net
201-748-8844
Wiley-Blackwell
Public Release: 7-Aug-2008
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
Individual personal ties strengthen teams' overall creativity
A new article explores how creative ideas develop and spread among a team, increasing its ability to think creatively.
Contact: Amy Molnar
journalnews@bos.blackwellpublishing.net
201-748-8844
Wiley-Blackwell
Public Release: 7-Aug-2008
Structural biology spin-out tackles major diseases
A spin out company from basic structural biology has led to new technology that provides a way of creating therapeutic proteins to tackle major diseases such as cancer, diabetes and infertility. The research was carried out at the University of Sheffield in laboratories supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. This work is reported in the current edition of BBSRC Business, the quarterly research highlights magazine of BBSRC.
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Contact: Nancy Mendoza
press.office@bbsrc.ac.uk
44-017-934-13355
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Public Release: 7-Aug-2008
Midge-hunting scientists tackle spread of devastating bluetongue virus
Scientists at the BBSRC-funded Institute for Animal Health are stepping up the battle against the devastating and economically damaging bluetongue virus. By combining ingenious ways to trap and monitor midges with cutting edge computer modelling and weather predictions the IAH team are gaining an understanding of how the insects spread the disease so that they can improve surveillance methods and advise farmers how and when to protect their animals.
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Contact: Nancy Mendoza
press.office@bbsrc.ac.uk
44-017-934-13355
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Public Release: 7-Aug-2008
Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture
No evidence to support 'organic is best'
Organically grown food does not contain more major and trace elements than conventionally grown produce according to new research in SCI's Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture
International Center for Research in Organic Food Systems
Contact: Meral Nugent
meral.nugent@soci.org
020-759-81533
Society of Chemical Industry
Public Release: 7-Aug-2008
Biomacromolecules
'Edible optics' could make food safer
Tufts University scientists have demonstrated that it is possible to design biologically active, biodegradable optical devices -- made from silk and requiring no refrigeration -- with many applications in medicine, health, the environment and communications. For example, edible optical sensors could detect harmful bacteria in a bag of produce, and be consumed right along with the food if it were safe.
US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Contact: Kim Thurler
kim.thurler@tufts.edu
617-627-3175
Tufts University
Public Release: 7-Aug-2008
Cell
Putting microRNAs on the stem cell map
Short snippets of RNA called microRNAs help to keep embryonic stem cells in their stem cell state. Researchers now have discovered the gene circuitry that controls microRNAs in embryonic stem cells. Mapping the control circuitry of stem cells reveals how they maintain themselves or decide to differentiate, providing key clues for regenerative medicine and reprogramming of adult cells to a stem cell state. These maps also aid our understanding of human development and diseases such as cancer.
National Institutes of Health
Contact: Cristin Carr
carr@wi.mit.edu
617-324-0460
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
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