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Medical News Short Bowel Syndrome Results in Changes to Gene Expression Investigators at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, led by Tracy C. Grikscheit, MD, have mapped the genetic changes resulting from short bowel syndrome (SBS) using a novel zebrafish model and by performing intensive gene sequencing. This approach to ... – Children's Hospital Los Angeles Saban Research Institute BioMed Central Genomics; 8236-TCS008566; 8237-TGA009320-00 Embargo expired on 25-Jan-2017 at 06:00 ET Diabetes Drug Takes Aim at Cancer’s Fuel Source To understand how metformin changes the biology of cancer cells, researchers at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University tested tumor cells before and after metformin treatment in non-diabetic cancer patients. The pilot clinical... – Thomas Jefferson University The Laryngoscope; K08 CA175193-01A1 ; 5P30CA056036-17; 2014 Young Investigator Award from the American Academy of Otolaryngology and American Head and Neck Society Embargo expired on 25-Jan-2017 at 09:00 ET Consumer-Use Baby Monitors Have Little Proven Benefit for Healthy Infants It sounds simple and harmless—an electronic sensor attached to a baby’s sock that monitors vital signs and alerts parents on their smart phones if, for instance, an infant’s oxygen saturation level drops. But pediatric experts argue that such d... – Children's Hospital of Philadelphia JAMA, Jan. 24, 2017 Embargo expired on 24-Jan-2017 at 11:00 ET Parents of Children Born with Heart Defects Crave Disease Stats, Surgeon Info Survival statistics, surgeon-specific experience, and complication rates are the types of information most wanted by parents of children with congenital heart disease, according to a survey released at the 53rd Annual Meeting of The Society of Thorac... – The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Embargo expired on 24-Jan-2017 at 10:00 ET Lung Cancer Screening Programs in Communities Are Vital, but Challenges Exist Implementing lung cancer screening as a high-quality preventive health service in a community setting is feasible, but comes with several key challenges, according to a scientific presentation at the 53rd Annual Meeting of The Society of Thoracic Sur... – The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Embargo expired on 24-Jan-2017 at 10:00 ET Heart Surgery Is Excellent Option for Elderly Patients with Aortic Stenosis Elderly patients with aortic stenosis (AS) and medium surgical risk experienced better than expected results after undergoing traditional surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR), according to research presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of The Soci... – The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Embargo expired on 24-Jan-2017 at 10:00 ET Body Cooling vs. Active Fever Prevention: Similar Outcomes for Children After in-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Emergency body cooling does not improve survival or functional outcomes in children who experience in-hospital cardiac arrest any more than normal temperature control. – Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan Embargo expired on 24-Jan-2017 at 17:30 ET Mindfulness Meditation Training Lowers Biomarkers of Stress Response in Anxiety Disorder Mindfulness meditation is an increasingly popular treatment for anxiety, but testing its effectiveness in a convincing way has been difficult. Now a rigorously designed, NIH-sponsored clinical trial has found objective physiological evidence that min... – Georgetown University Medical Center Psychiatry Research Embargo expired on 24-Jan-2017 at 10:00 ET Deep Brain Stimulation Studies in Alzheimer’s Disease Pose Ethical Challenges Promising, early studies of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease have paved a path for future clinical trials, but there are unique ethical challenges with this vulnerable population regarding decision making and po... – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease Embargo expired on 24-Jan-2017 at 12:15 ET Critically Ill Children Don't Benefit From Tightest Control of Blood Sugar Critically ill infants and children do not gain extra benefit from control of their blood sugar level to lower levels, compared to higher levels within the usual care range, say researchers who led a national clinical trial. While both levels of bloo... – Children's Hospital of Philadelphia New England Journal of Medicine, Jan. 24, 2017; Society for Critical Care Medicine 2017 annual meeting; HL107681, HL108028 Embargo expired on 24-Jan-2017 at 17:30 ET Study Unveils New Way to Starve Tumors to Death Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have exploited a common weak point in cancer cell metabolism, forcing tumor cells to reveal the backup fuel supply routes they rely on when this weak point is compromised. Mapping th... – Washington University in St. Louis Cell Reports Embargo expired on 24-Jan-2017 at 12:00 ET Researchers Discover BRCA1 Gene Is Key for Blood Forming Stem Cells Researchers at from the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center have found that the BRCA1 gene is required for the survival of blood forming stem cells, which could explain why patients with BRCA1 mutations do not have an elevated risk for leuk... – UT Southwestern Medical Center Embargo expired on 24-Jan-2017 at 12:00 ET Partnership to Deliver Safer Football Helmets Announced UAB and VICIS have each made major strides in developing next generation football helmets in response to the growing concussion crisis, and they have partnered to combine expertise and intellectual property to bring more effective helmets to the mark... – University of Alabama at Birmingham Embargo expired on 24-Jan-2017 at 17:00 ET Orlando Health Takes Proton Therapy to the Next Level with Advanced Image Guidance UF Health Cancer Center at Orlando Health is working with Mevion Medical Systems to take the next step in the evolution of the health system’s proton therapy center. The organizations are enhancing Orlando Health’s proton therapy system with the ... – Orlando Health Embargo expired on 25-Jan-2017 at 09:00 ET When Should Doctors Treat Short Children and Teens with Growth Hormone? When is it appropriate to treat short children with growth hormone? The answer is not always clear-cut, as many parents and physicians weigh social, medical and ethical concerns. Experts in pediatric endocrinology have issued a new set of guidelines ... – Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Hormone Research in Paediatrics, online Nov. 25, 2016, in print Jan. 2017 Swarthmore Economists Discover That Coupons for Produce Can Boost Healthy Food Purchases In the experiment, economists Erin Todd Bronchetti, Ellen Magenheim, David Huffman, and more than 30 students found that providing coupons for produce at a Chester (Pa.) grocery store led shoppers to spend more total dollars on fresh fruits and veget... – Swarthmore College Predicting and Preventing Prostate Cancer Spread Australian researchers have uncovered a new pathway which regulates the spread of prostate cancer around the body. The discovery may lead to the development of a blood test that could predict whether cancer will spread from the prostate tumour to oth... – University of Adelaide Cancer Research Nutritional Considerations for Healthy Aging, Is Bacon Fit for a Breakfast of Champions, Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper, and More in the Food Science News Source Click here to go to the Food Science News Source – Newswise Biologists Identify Reproductive "Traffic Cop" University of Iowa researchers have found a protein that regulates how chromosomes pair up and pass genetic information. FDK-6 dictates the speed at which maternal and paternal chromosome strands move and join in roundworms. The findings were publish... – University of Iowa Journal of Cell Biology Penn Researchers Help Unravel Mysteries of Pancreatic Cancer’s Resistance to Standard Therapies In a new study, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have illuminated one of pancreatic cancer’s major resistance mechanisms: a form of inflammation that is triggered by the tumor in response to treatment... – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania K08 CA138907; F30 CA196106; F30 CA196124 KU Researchers Find Statins May Hold Keys to Future Cancer Treatment Researchers at The University of Kansas Cancer Center have found that high doses of drugs commonly used to fight high cholesterol can destroy a rogue protein produced by a damaged gene that is associated with nearly half of all human cancers – University of Kansas Cancer Center Nat Cell Bio, Nov-2016 Timing of Chemo Affects Inflammation, Mice Study Suggests COLUMBUS, Ohio – The time of day that breast cancer chemotherapy drugs are given affects the amount of damaging inflammation in the body, a new study in mice suggests. – Ohio State University Scientific Reports New Models for Validating Computational Simulations of Blood Flow and Damage in Medical Devices A collaborative effort to improve the development of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methodologies for evaluating "blood contacting" medical devices—receiving the Willem Kollf Award for top abstract at the ASAIO 2016 conference—is now reported... – Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins ASAIO Journal Immigration Fears Among Latinos Can Impact Baby Size at Birth With deportation and discrimination fears currently on the minds of many in the United States, a University of Michigan study shows that the stress from an historic immigration raid is associated with Latina mothers delivering babies with lower birth... – University of Michigan Scripps Florida Team Awarded $1.8 Million Grant to Develop Drugs for Heart Disease and Rheumatoid Arthritis Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have been awarded approximately $1.8 million from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health to develop a series of drug candidat... – Scripps Research Institute 1R01GM122109-01 Natural Compound Found in Herbs, Vegetables Could Improve Treatment of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer in Women Triple-negative breast cancers, which comprise 15 to 20 percent of all breast tumors, are a particularly deadly type of breast disease that often metastasize to distant sites. Now, University of Missouri researchers have found that luteolin, a natura... – University of Missouri Health Researchers Discover Potential New Target for Treating Glioblastoma Scientists have found a way to inhibit the growth of glioblastoma, a type of brain cancer with low survival rates, by targeting a protein that drives growth of brain tumors, according to research from the Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute and Har... – UT Southwestern Medical Center Brain Scan Before Antidepressant Therapy May Predict Response A functional MRI brain scan may help predict which patients will respond positively to antidepressant therapy, according to a new study published in the journal Brain. – University of Illinois at Chicago Brain Institute for Autism Research (IAR) at Canisius College Gives Hope to Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder The latest study released by the Institute for Autism Research (IAR) shows more promise that a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder no longer guarantees a difficult life for children. – Canisius College Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Dec-2016 Vanderbilt Studies Find Tonsillectomies Offer Only Modest Benefits Removing tonsils modestly reduced throat infections in the short term in children with moderate obstructive sleep-disordered breathing or recurrent throat infections, according to a systematic review conducted by the Vanderbilt Evidence-based Practic... – Vanderbilt University Medical Center Pediatrics New Tuberculosis Therapy Could Be More Potent Than Current Treatments Researchers have devised a potential drug regimen for tuberculosis that could cut the treatment time by up to 75 percent, while simultaneously reducing the risk that patients could develop drug-resistant TB. – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences Nature Communications Generating Improvement in Spinal Cord Injuries Results from an ongoing treatment for spinal cord injury research study were announced on Jan. 24 in a conference held by Asterias, the biotechnology company that manufactures AST-OPC1. – Rush University Medical Center Northwestern Memorial Hospital Best in United States for Heart Attack, Stroke and Heart Failure Survival In a feat unmatched by any other United States hospital, Northwestern Memorial Hospital is ranked first for survival of patients suffering heart failure and second for survival of patients with heart attack and stroke, the three most common and dire ... – Northwestern Medicine IMSH to Demonstrate the Role of Simulation-Based Training in Patient Safety Global simulation in healthcare event to address the newest ways that simulated learning environments are used to train medical professionals for active shooting scenarios, mass casualty emergencies and medical training – Society for Simulation in Healthcare The International Meeting for Simulation in Healthcare Eric A. Rose Receives Bakken Scientific Achievement Award World-renowned surgeon, scientist, and inventor Eric A. Rose, MD, was awarded the 2017 Earl Bakken Scientific Achievement Award by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons during the organization’s 53rd Annual Meeting. – The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Media Alert: Addressing Healthcare Gaps with Free Eye Screenings for Older Baltimoreans in Need The Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute will provide free eye screenings for Baltimore seniors as part of its Screening to Prevent Glaucoma (SToP Glaucoma) program. It will be held during an event at the Mary Harvin Senior Center on Thursday, Jan. 26.... – Johns Hopkins Medicine Penn Nursing Professor Authors New Book Detailing the Historical Importance of Public Health Programs ‘Nursing with a Message’ reveals the key role that local public health programs—and the nurses who ran them—influenced how Americans perceived both their personal health choices and the well-being of their communities. – University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing School of Public Health Partners with Chicago Public Health Office On Jan. 25 the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health and the Chicago Department of Public Health will launch a new progressive partnership aimed at improving public health in Chicago. Under a 10-year agreement, the two organizatio... – University of Illinois at Chicago New Collaboration Between the University of Kansas Cancer Center and Children's Mercy Hospital Aims to Transform Pediatric Oncology The University of Kansas Cancer Center and Children’s Mercy Hospital have announced four first-of-their-kind endowed chair appointments that will help eliminate childhood diseases around the world. – University of Kansas Cancer Center Mass. Eye and Ear Launches Collaboration with Bay State Council of the Blind to Improve Access In partnership with the Bay State Council of the Blind, Massachusetts Eye and Ear today announced the launch of a comprehensive initiative to ensure that persons with visual disabilities have full and equal opportunity to the best possible care. – Massachusetts Eye and Ear UWM Receives State Support for Entrepreneurship in Health Field Grant will make I-Corps training accessible to healthcare professionals outside of academia. – University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Science News Role of Thrust and Drag Clarified for Swimming Microorganisms For years, B. Ubbo Felderhof, RWTH Aachen University, has explored the mechanisms fish and microorganisms rely on to propel themselves. He has created mechanical models to support the theory behind the “swimming” of microorganisms, consisting of ... – American Institute of Physics (AIP) Embargo expired on 24-Jan-2017 at 11:00 ET Modeling the Rhythmic Electrical Activities of the Brain Researchers studying the brain have long been interested in its neural oscillations, the rhythmic electrical activity that plays an important role in the transmission of information within the brain’s neural circuits. Working with the Wilson-Cowan ... – American Institute of Physics (AIP) Embargo expired on 24-Jan-2017 at 11:00 ET Prized Fossil Find — the Oldest, Most Complete Iguanian in the Americas — Illuminates the Lives of Lizards in the Age of Dinosaurs Paleontologists at the University of Washington, picking through a bounty of fossils from Montana, have discovered something unexpected — a new species of lizard from the late dinosaur era, whose closest relatives roamed in faraway Asia. – University of Washington Proceedings of the Royal Society B Embargo expired on 24-Jan-2017 at 19:05 ET Danforth Center Expands Major Research Program to Benefit Farmers in the Developing World It is of interest, not only because it is a staple crop in Sub-Saharan Africa, but because grain sorghum yields have been flat or declining due to the lack of sufficient investment in the development of new improved varieties. Sorghum is very resilie... – Donald Danforth Plant Science Center OPP1129063 Embargo expired on 25-Jan-2017 at 08:00 ET Can Prostate Cancer Metastasis Be Stopped Before It Starts? Research Team Identifies Role for Particular MicroRNA Metastasis, or spread of a tumor from the site of origin to additional organs, causes the vast majority of cancer-related deaths, but our understanding of the molecular mechanisms behind metastasis remains limited. A research team led by Dean Tang, P... – Roswell Park Cancer Institute Your (Social Media) Votes Matter Tim Weninger, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame, conducted two large-scale experiments on Reddit and the results provide insight into how a single up/down vote can influence what content users see... – University of Notre Dame Association for Computer Machinery journal, Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology New Organ Culture System Reveals Effects of BPA Exposure on Fetal Mammary Glands A new laboratory model enables tests of how developing fetal mammary tissue is affected by exposure to estrogen and estrogen-like chemicals such as BPA. Previous animal model research has suggested changes in fetal mammary tissue may be linked to hig... – Tufts University ES08314 Study Suggests Color of Sweetener Packet Impacts Sweetness Perception and Liking A study published in the Journal of Food Science found that the packet color of nonnutritive sweeteners may impact the sweetness perception and overall liking of the product. – Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) New Review Article Suggests Sheep Milk May Be the Next Functional Dairy Food A paper published in Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety explored the physicochemical and nutritional characteristics of sheep milk and development of sheep milk dairy products containing prebiotics and/or probiotics. – Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) WIU Professor Part of Groundbreaking Trilobite Research Team MACOMB, IL – For the past two years, Western Illinois University Assistant Professor of Geology Thomas Hegna has been part of a three-member team conducting research on what are believed to be the first-ever discovered trilobite eggs paired with a ... – Western Illinois University Little Tortoise, Big Range WCS scientists have discovered the impressed tortoise (Manouria impressa) in the Hukaung Valley Wildlife Sanctuary in northern Myanmar, some 528 miles from its known range in that country. – Wildlife Conservation Society Predator or Not? Invasive Snails Hide Even When They Don't Know The specific cues that trigger an animal’s natural defense vary depending on the species and its history in the ecosystem, a new University of Washington study finds. – University of Washington American Naturalist, Jan-2017 IU Study Finds Fly Growth Mimics Cancer Cells, Creating New Tool in Fight Against Disease Scientists who study a molecule known to play a role in certain types of cancers and neurodegenerative disorders have a powerful new tool to study this compound due to research conducted at Indiana University. The study was published Jan. 23 in the P... – Indiana University Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; R00GM101341; 1R35GM119557 Watching Gene Editing at Work to Develop Precision Therapies MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have developed methods to observe gene editing in action, and they’re putting those capabilities to work to improve genetic engineering techniques. – University of Wisconsin-Madison The Contradictory Catalyst Using a natural catalyst from bacteria for inspiration, researchers have now reported the fastest synthetic catalysts to date for hydrogen production-- producing 45 million hydrogen molecules per second. – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Angewandte Chemie Bursts of Methane May Have Warmed Early Mars Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) suggest that early Mars may have been warmed intermittently by a powerful greenhouse effect. – Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences Geophysical Research Letters Event Puts Spotlight on the Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative William’s book, The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative, traces the idea that exposure to nature can make us happier back in history to Aristotle’s time. – George Washington University I Can See Clearly Now University of Utah engineers have created “smart glasses” with liquid-based lenses that can automatically adjust the focus on what a person is seeing, whether it is far away or close up. – University of Utah Optics Express Gender Diversity in STEM: ‘Let’s Change the World Together’ Universities across the U.S. have developed programs to attract women and under-represented minorities to the STEM disciplines. So why aren’t such efforts translating into more of these students majoring in science, technology, engineering and math... – Wake Forest University Food Scientist Shares Insights on How to End Food Waste Edward Hirschberg, President of Innovative Foods and recipient of the Institute of Food Technologists’ 2016 Babcock-Hart Award for his many contributions to food processing, shared some potential solutions to many of the world’s food waste proble... – Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Designing Diagnostic Labs That Are Safe, Specific and Sustainable To detect an outbreak early — whether Ebola, Zika or influenza — healthcare workers must have a local, trustworthy diagnostic lab. For the past five years Sandia’s International Biological and Chemical Threat Reduction group has served as a tru... – Sandia National Laboratories Texas Biomed Scientist Receives 5-Year, $4.6 Million Merit Award From NIH for Malaria Research Dr. Timothy Anderson, Scientist in the Department of Genetics at Texas Biomedical Research Institute, received a five-year, $4.6 million MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health. – Texas Biomedical Research Institute 4R37AI048071-16 Center for the Built Environment at UC Berkeley Celebrates 20 Years of Collaborative Research CBE will celebrate two decades of research that's yielded a broad and valuable body of knowledge, innovation, publications and industry impacts. – UC Berkeley, College of Environmental Design MSU ‘Rethinks Hydropower’ with $2.6M National Science Foundation Grant An interdisciplinary team of Michigan State University scientists will use a $2.6 million National Science Foundation grant to investigate new ways of producing hydropower, increasing food production and lessening the environmental damage caused by d... – Michigan State University NSF - 1639115 WFU Taps NSF’s Olga Pierrakos as Founding Engineering Chair Wake Forest University has appointed Olga Pierrakos as founding chair of the Department of Engineering, one of Wake Downtown’s new anchoring academic programs, which will begin offering classes this fall.