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Released: 29-Aug-2013 1:00 PM EDT
Time for Tech Transfer Law to Change? U-M Doctor Looks at History of Bayh-Dole, and Says Yes
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

The law that has helped medical discoveries make the leap from university labs to the marketplace for more than 30 years needs revising, in part to ensure the American people benefit from science their tax dollars have paid for, says a physician and medical historian.

Released: 29-Aug-2013 12:20 PM EDT
Study Yields New Strategy Against High-Risk Leukemia
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists have identified a protein that certain high-risk acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) cells need to survive and have used that knowledge to fashion a more effective method of killing tumor cells.

27-Aug-2013 1:50 PM EDT
Bad to the Bone: Some Breast Cancer Cells Are Primed to Thrive
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)

A team of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) scientists has discovered that some loose breast cancer cells, have a leg up on survival—the genes they express make them more likely to prosper in bone tissue. The team also found that whether or not cancer cells turn on those genes depends on what their surroundings were like in the primary breast tumor. If the breast tumor had molecular patterns similar to those found in bone, the tumor is more likely to spread to bone later.

Released: 29-Aug-2013 12:00 PM EDT
Virtual Surgical Planning Aids in Complex Facial Reconstructions, Reports Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott

Virtual surgical planning technologies give surgeons a powerful new tool for their most challenging facial reconstruction cases, reports a paper in the September issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).

Released: 29-Aug-2013 12:00 PM EDT
Examination of Hospital Readmissions after Plastic Surgery Aims to Cut Costs, Enhance Patient Care
Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott

For patients undergoing plastic and reconstructive surgery procedures, obesity, anemia and postoperative complications—especially surgical and wound complications—are independent risk factors for hospital readmission, reports a study in the September issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).

27-Aug-2013 5:00 PM EDT
CRISPR/Cas Genome Engineering System Generates Valuable Conditional Mouse Models
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

Whitehead Institute researchers have used the gene regulation system CRISPR/Cas (for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat/CRISPR-associated) to engineer mouse genomes containing reporter and conditional alleles in one step. Animals containing such sophisticated engineered alleles can now be made in a matter of weeks rather than years and could be used to model diseases and study gene function.

27-Aug-2013 9:00 AM EDT
Neuroscientists Find a Key to Reducing Forgetting—It’s about the Network
New York University

A team of neuroscientists has found a key to the reduction of forgetting. Their findings show that the better the coordination between two regions of the brain, the less likely we are to forget newly obtained information.

26-Aug-2013 10:00 AM EDT
Study Discovers Gene that Causes Devastating Mitochondrial Diseases
Loyola Medicine

Researchers have identified a disease gene in which mutations cause rare but devastating genetic diseases known as mitochondrial disorders. Nine mutations of the gene were found in nine children in seven families, including three siblings from the same family.

Released: 29-Aug-2013 10:50 AM EDT
For Preschoolers, Sharing Is Caring When It’s Done by Choice
Cornell University

Getting kids to share their toys is a never-ending battle, and compelling them to do so never seems to help. New research suggests that allowing children to make a choice to sacrifice their own toys in order to share with someone else makes them share more in the future. The new findings are published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

Released: 29-Aug-2013 10:00 AM EDT
New Imaging Technology Promising for Several Types of Cancer
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

Researchers publish findings that a new form of imaging – PET/MRI – is promising for several types of cancer. Article is titled “PET/MRI: Applications in Clinical Imaging,” and is published in the September issue of Current Radiology Reports.

Released: 29-Aug-2013 10:00 AM EDT
Adding Blood Pressure Drug to Standard Antibiotics Speeds Up TB Treatment
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Infectious disease experts at Johns Hopkins have found, in studies in mice, that a drug better known as a treatment for high blood pressure and headaches effectively speeds up treatment of TB when added to the standard, daily antibiotic regimen. Test animals were cured in four months instead of the usual six.

Released: 29-Aug-2013 9:00 AM EDT
Men Feel Worse About Themselves When Female Partners Succeed
American Psychological Association (APA)

Deep down, men may not bask in the glory of their successful wives or girlfriends. While this is not true of women, men’s subconscious self-esteem may be bruised when their spouse or girlfriend excels, says a study published by the American Psychological Association.

Released: 29-Aug-2013 8:50 AM EDT
Moderate Physical Activity Does Not Increase Risk of Knee Osteoarthritis
University of North Carolina Health Care System

Adults age 45 and older who engaged in moderate physical activity up to two and a half hours a week did not increase their risk of developing knee osteoarthritis over a 6-year follow-up period, a new study finds.

Released: 29-Aug-2013 8:00 AM EDT
Scripps Florida Scientists Detail Critical Role of Gene in Many Lung Cancer Cases
Scripps Research Institute

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have shown that a well-known cancer-causing gene implicated in a number of malignancies plays a far more critical role in non-small cell lung cancer, the most common form of the disease, than previously thought.

   
28-Aug-2013 4:30 PM EDT
First Large Scale Study Links Autism and Autoimmunity
Autoimmune Association

A new study of more than 2,700 mothers of children with autism shows that about one in 10 mothers have antibodies in their bloodstream that react with proteins in the brain of their babies.

23-Aug-2013 10:45 AM EDT
Wireless Fitness Monitor Helps Tailor Recovery Strategy After Heart Surgery
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Using wireless technology may speed patients’ postoperative recovery following heart surgery and improve post-discharge outcomes

27-Aug-2013 11:45 AM EDT
New Medical Conditions More Likely to Spark Healthy Changes Among Better-Educated Middle-Aged Americans
American Sociological Association (ASA)

Better-educated middle-aged Americans are less likely to smoke and more apt to be physically active than their less-educated peers. They are also more inclined to make healthy changes — in general and in the face of new medical conditions — and adhere to them, according to a new study.

Released: 28-Aug-2013 6:00 PM EDT
Ultracold Big Bang Experiment Successfully Simulates Evolution of Early Universe
University of Chicago

Physicists have reproduced a pattern resembling the cosmic microwave background radiation in a laboratory simulation of the Big Bang, using ultracold cesium atoms in a vacuum chamber at the University of Chicago.

Released: 28-Aug-2013 5:00 PM EDT
What Corporations Can Learn From Microsoft
Iowa State University

A failure to adapt to changes in mobile computing ultimately led to the most recent change at the top of Microsoft. An Iowa State University professor explains how the problems at Microsoft can serve as a lesson for all businesses.

Released: 28-Aug-2013 5:00 PM EDT
A Major Cause of Age-Related Memory Loss Identified
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

A team of Columbia University Medical Center researchers, led by Nobel laureate Eric R. Kandel, MD, has found that deficiency of a protein called RbAp48 in the hippocampus is a significant contributor to age-related memory loss and that this form of memory loss is reversible. The findings were published today in the online edition of Science Translational Medicine.

Released: 28-Aug-2013 4:30 PM EDT
ORNL-Grown Oxygen ‘Sponge’ Presents Path to Better Catalysts, Energy Materials
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new oxygen “sponge” that can easily absorb or shed oxygen atoms at low temperatures. Materials with these novel characteristics would be useful in devices such as rechargeable batteries, sensors, gas converters and fuel cells.

28-Aug-2013 12:10 PM EDT
School-Age Drinking Increases Breast Cancer Risk​​​​​​
Washington University in St. Louis

​For every daily drink a girl or woman consumes before motherhood, she increases her lifetime risk of breast cancer by 13 percent, according to a study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

22-Aug-2013 3:35 PM EDT
Does Migraine Affect Income or Income Affect Migraine?
American Academy of Neurology (AAN)

Studies show that migraine is more common among people with lower incomes. This relationship is examined in a study published in the August 28, 2013, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, looking at whether developing migraines limits people’s educational and career achievements, leading to a lower income status, or whether problems related to low income such as stressful life events and poor access to health care increase the likelihood of developing migraines.

22-Aug-2013 2:55 PM EDT
Migraine May Permanently Change Brain Structure
American Academy of Neurology (AAN)

Migraine may have long-lasting effects on the brain’s structure, according to a study published in the August 28, 2013, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

Released: 28-Aug-2013 2:55 PM EDT
Mindfulness Training Can Help Reduce Teacher Stress and Burnout
University of Wisconsin–Madison

Teachers who practice “mindfulness” are better able to reduce their own levels of stress and prevent burnout, according to a new study conducted by the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds (CIHM) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Waisman Center.

   
Released: 28-Aug-2013 2:40 PM EDT
Researchers Aim to Use Light—Not Electric Jolts—to Restore Healthy Heartbeats
 Johns Hopkins University

When a beating heart slips into an irregular, rhythm, the treatment is electric current from a pacemaker or defibrillator. But the electricity itself can cause pain, tissue damage and other side-effects. Now, researchers want to replace jolts with a gentler remedy: light.

   
Released: 28-Aug-2013 2:00 PM EDT
Researchers Develop Model of “Near-Optimal” Genetic Code
New York University

Researchers have created a model that may explain the complexities of the origins of life. Their work offers new insights into how RNA signaling likely developed into the modern “genetic code.”

Released: 28-Aug-2013 1:00 PM EDT
Researchers Discover a Potential Cause of Autism
University of North Carolina Health Care System

Problems with a key group of enzymes called topoisomerases can have profound effects on the genetic machinery behind brain development and potentially lead to autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to research announced today in the journal Nature. Scientists at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine have described a finding that represents a significant advance in the hunt for environmental factors behind autism and lends new insights into the disorder’s genetic causes.

Released: 28-Aug-2013 12:25 PM EDT
Scientists Identify ALS Disease Mechanism
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Researchers have tied mutations in a gene that causes amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurodegenerative disorders to the toxic buildup of certain proteins and related molecules in cells, including neurons.

   
Released: 28-Aug-2013 11:00 AM EDT
Autistic Children Can Outgrow Difficulty Understanding Visual Cues and Sounds
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have shown that high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (ASD) children appear to outgrow a critical social communication disability. Younger children with ASD have trouble integrating the auditory and visual cues associated with speech, but the researchers found that the problem clears up in adolescence. The study was published today in the online edition of the journal Cerebral Cortex.

Released: 28-Aug-2013 10:00 AM EDT
Scientists Uncover How Superbug Fights Off Antibiotic
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Investigators working to stem the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria have taken a major step in their efforts to develop new treatments.

26-Aug-2013 5:25 PM EDT
High-Tech Imaging Contributing to Overdiagnosis of Low-Risk Thyroid Cancers
Mayo Clinic

An increasing gap between the incidence of thyroid cancer and deaths from the disease suggests that low-risk cancers are being overdiagnosed and overtreated, a study from the Mayo Clinic Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery finds. The study appears in the current issue of the British Medical Journal.

21-Aug-2013 4:05 PM EDT
T-Cell Targeted Therapy Tested in Type 1 Diabetes Study
Immune Tolerance Network

Results from the START clinical study (Study of Thymoglobulin to Arrest Newly Diagnosed Type 1 Diabetes), sponsored by the Immune Tolerance Network (ITN), are published today in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. The study did not meet its primary endpoint: at 12 months, insulin production, as measured by C-peptide responses, showed no difference in overall decline between the treatment and placebo groups.

Released: 27-Aug-2013 5:00 PM EDT
Biomaterial, Pharmacy Researchers Develop Polymer to Help Oral Medications Reach Bloodstream
Virginia Tech

Research on new polymer additives that enhance the ability of orally administered drugs will result in greater effectiveness and fewer side effects, researchers say

27-Aug-2013 4:00 PM EDT
Fast Food Advertising to Children
Norris Cotton Cancer Center Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Fast food TV commercials aimed at children 2-11 years old did not comply with self-imposed guidelines organized through the Better Business Bureau (BBB) during a one-year study period, according to Dartmouth researchers who published their findings today with PLOS ONE.

Released: 27-Aug-2013 4:00 PM EDT
Three Subtypes of Gastric Cancer Suggest Different Treatment Approaches
Duke Health

Stomach cancer, one of the leading causes of cancer death worldwide, actually falls into three broad subtypes that respond differently to currently available therapies, according to researchers at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore.

23-Aug-2013 1:00 PM EDT
Gastroenteritis Hospitalizations in Adults Reduced Since Start of Infant Rotavirus Vaccination
JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

“Implementation of infant rotavirus vaccination in 2006 has substantially reduced the burden of severe gastroenteritis among U.S. children younger than 5 years,” write Paul A. Gastanaduy, M.D., M.P.H., of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, and colleagues. “Whether indirect protection (due to reduced transmission of rotavirus) extends to adults remains unclear.”

23-Aug-2013 1:00 PM EDT
X-Ray of Ducts During Gallbladder Surgery Not Linked With Reduction in Risk of Common Duct Injury
JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

In an analysis of a procedure used to help prevent common duct injury during gallbladder removal surgery, use of intraoperative cholangiography (radiologic examination of the ducts during gallbladder surgery) was not associated with a reduced risk of common duct injury, according to a study in the August 28 issue of JAMA.

23-Aug-2013 1:00 PM EDT
Genetic Variant Associated With Increased CHD Risk in Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes
JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Researchers have identified a previously unknown genetic locus (the place a gene occupies on a chromosome) significantly associated with increased coronary heart disease risk among patients with type 2 diabetes, but the association was not found in individuals without diabetes, according to a study in the August 28 issue of JAMA.

23-Aug-2013 3:00 PM EDT
Study Examines Relationship of a Commercial ACO Contract with Medical Spending
JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Payment incentives implemented with a commercial accountable care organization (ACO) initiative in Massachusetts –Blue Cross Blue Shield’s Alternative Quality Contract (AQC) – were associated with lower spending for Medicare enrollees served by the provider groups participating in the AQC, findings that suggest that evaluations of ACO programs may need to consider the implications for other patient populations to assess their full clinical and economic benefits, according to a study in the August 28 issue of JAMA.

23-Aug-2013 1:00 PM EDT
Combination Drug Regimen Appears Beneficial for Patients With Hepatitis C
JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 1 infection with the interferon-free regimen of sofosbuvir and ribavirin resulted in a high sustained virologic response rate in a patient population with unfavorable treatment characteristics, according to a study in the August 28 issue of JAMA.

22-Aug-2013 11:00 AM EDT
Joslin Scientists Identify Genetic Variant Associated with Coronary Heart Disease in Type 2 Diabetes
Joslin Diabetes Center

Joslin scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and Italian research institutes, have identified a previously unknown genetic variant associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) in type 2 diabetic patients. This discovery has the potential to lead to the development of new treatments for CHD in diabetic patients.

Released: 27-Aug-2013 3:55 PM EDT
Profiles in Sustainable Food Technology
Institute of Food Technologists (IFT)

The world population is slated to reach nine billion by the year 2050 and with the demands of a growing population comes the need for a sustainable food supply. The August issue of Food Technology magazine published by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) includes an article about the SAI Platform (Sustainable Agriculture Initiative), a global initiative helping food and drink companies achieve sustainable production and sourcing of raw agricultural materials.

Released: 27-Aug-2013 3:55 PM EDT
Understanding Emulsions in Foods
Institute of Food Technologists (IFT)

An emulsion is a mixture of two fluids such as oil and water that is achieved by breaking up the molecules in both substances into very fine, small droplets in order to keep the combination from separating. In the August issue of Food Technology magazine published by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Contributing Editor, J. Peter Clark breaks down what emulsifiers are and how they are used in familiar foods.

Released: 27-Aug-2013 3:50 PM EDT
New Fruit Products Incorporate Old and New
Institute of Food Technologists (IFT)

As the most consumed snack food in the United States, it is no surprise that fresh fruit is also the fastest growing. In the August issue of Food Technology magazine published by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), Senior Editor Don Pszczola describes how the popularity of this snack led the food industry to create new ways of eating traditional fruit as well as introduce new and exotic fruits to the market. These new innovations provide flavorful snacks that are both healthy and functional.

Released: 27-Aug-2013 3:50 PM EDT
Millennials Drive New Snack Food Trends
Institute of Food Technologists (IFT)

Sweet and savory snacks experienced strong growth in 2012 due to the rising trend of eating between meals. In the August issue of Food Technology magazine published by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), an article explains how millennials and their unique taste preferences are the driving force behind this trend.

Released: 27-Aug-2013 2:30 PM EDT
Day of the Week Plays No Role in Mortality Risk for Patients with Acute Kidney Injury
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Disproving commonly held beliefs, a new study by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania showed that despite a lower frequency of dialysis on Sunday, patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) have mortality rates similar to that of patients who receive the therapy on any other day of the week.

Released: 27-Aug-2013 2:00 PM EDT
Physical Education Mandates Have Mixed Success in Fighting Childhood Obesity
University of Iowa

A study by a University of Iowa economist finds that increased physical education requirements help reduce obesity among fifth grade boys but not girls, and suggests school districts do not always follow the state PE mandates.

Released: 27-Aug-2013 1:00 PM EDT
Quantum Inverted Pendulum: Scientists Dynamically Control Quantum System
Georgia Institute of Technology

Researchers have demonstrated a way to maintain an unstable quantum system by applying bursts of microwave radiation. The technique is comparable to methods used for controlling an inverted pendulum in classical physics.

23-Aug-2013 2:40 PM EDT
Low Inflammation May Explain Healthy Metabolic Status in Some Obese People
Endocrine Society

Reduced levels of inflammation may explain how some obese people are able to remain metabolically healthy, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM).



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