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Methodist Hospital Research Institute Receives $5 Million Donation to Study Neurodegenerative Diseases, Alzheimer’s

A $5 million gift from the Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Foundation will support research on progressive neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s Disease. The gift will establish The Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Center for Bioinformatics Research and Imaging for Neurosciences (BRAIN) at The Methodist Hospital Research Institute.

Success Rates for Organ Transplants Are Increasing, But Organ Donations Are Decreasing

The number of living donor organs available for transplant has progressively declined over the past five years, according to a new study. In addition, the study showed that for the first time, organs from deceased donors decreased in 2008.

What Counts as Evidence in Educational Settings? Rethinking Equity, Diversity, and Reform in the 21st Century

AERA announces publication of the 2010 edition of Review of Research in Education (RRE) on What Counts as Evidence in Educational Settings? Rethinking Equity, Diversity, and Reform.

Learning about Riparian Areas from Photographs

Scientists developed two experiential learning exercises using existing repeat photographs of riparian areas in the state of Arizona that were presented in two different workshops

Car Talk, U of Utah Launch Driver Distraction Web Site

NPR’s Car Talk guys, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, teamed up with Univesity of Utah psychologist David Strayer -- an expert on how cell phones impair drivers -- to launch the Driver Distraction Center at cartalk.com/distraction.

Gene is Linked to Lung Cancer Development in Never Smokers

A five-center collaborative study that scanned the genomes of thousands of “never smokers” diagnosed with lung cancer as well as healthy never smokers has found a gene they say could be responsible for a significant number of those cancers.

Spying on a Cellular Director in the Cutting Room

Like a film director cutting out extraneous footage to create a blockbuster, the cellular machine called the spliceosome snips out unwanted stretches of genetic material and joins the remaining pieces to fashion a template for protein production.

Researchers Discover Two New Ways to Kill TB

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found two novel ways of killing the bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB), a disease responsible for an estimated two million deaths each year.