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Human breast tumors transplanted into mice are excellent models of metastatic cancer and are providing insights into how to attack breast cancers that no longer respond to the drugs used to treat them, according to research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

The GDB was established at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1990 and has been funded by the US National Institute of Health and the Department of Energy, which split the annual budget of $ 3.6 million.

But in an interesting twist, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria — those at the root of hard - to - treat urinary tract infections (UTIs)-- hijack trace amounts of copper in the body and use it as a nutrient to fuel growth.

Edward Kim, MD, urologist at the University of Tennessee Medical Center and Professor at the University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine in Knoxville, and his colleagues compared such a drug, called Enclomiphene citrate, with testosterone replacement therapy (Androgel) in overweight men with low testosterone, or hypogonadism.

Sietse Jonkman, a behavioral neuroscientist at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, says that thinking about food bingeing in terms of habit could be useful for both drug addiction and overeating.

The team led by John Hogenesch, PhD, a professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics in the Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania and Jason DeBruyne, PhD, a former postdoctoral fellow in the Hogenesch lab and now an assistant professor at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, applied their new method to identifying other clock partners that target a multipurpose cell nucleus receptor for disposal.

But the man who died at Northwestern Memorial Hospital showed no signs of M. hominis, thoracic surgeon Ankit Bharat of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago and colleagues found.

The plasticizer in question is called bis (2 - ethylhexyl) phthalate, or DEHP, which is «ubiquitous» in the environment, said Shanna Swan, a reproductive epidemiologist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York who has studied the effects of phthalates on infant boys.

The sensation would primarily be soreness, like a bad sunburn, says Farmer, who now works at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois.

«First Aid, CPR and AED training need to become part of a larger culture of safety within workplaces,» said Michael Kurz, MD, chair of the American Heart Association's Systems of Care Subcommittee and associate professor at the University of Alabama School of Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine.

In September 2006 a report by the World Trade Center Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program, coordinated by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, revealed widespread, persistent respiratory illness among rescue and recovery workers who were at the site on that fateful day.

Using MRIs, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified areas in the brains of children with Tourette's syndrome that appear markedly different from the same areas in the brains of children who don't have the neuropsychiatric disorder.

Tests with mice that watched itchy neighbors, or even just videos of scratching mice, provide the first clear evidence of contagious scratching spreading mouse - to - mouse, says neuroscientist Zhou - Feng Chen of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found a drug that can lower tau levels and prevent some neurological damage.

Anthony Atala, a surgeon and director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston - Salem, North Carolina, reported that artificial bladders can be grown in the lab from a patient's own cells and successfully implanted.

Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that a kind of tolerance - promoting immune cell appears in mice that carry a specific bacterium in their guts.

Other authors on the paper are Ziyuan Guo and Gong Chen of The Pennsylvania State University; Matthew A. Lalli, Elmer Guzman and Kenneth S. Kosik of the University of California, Santa Barbara; Xinyuan Wang, Yijing Su, Nam - Shik Kim, Ki - Jun Yoon, Jaehoon Shin, Ce Zhang, Georgia Makri, David Nauen, Huimei Yu, Cheng - Hsuan Chiang, Jizhong Zou, Kimberly M. Christian, Linzhao Cheng, Christopher A. Ross, Nadine Yoritomo and Russell L. Magolis of The Johns Hopkins University; and Kozo Kaibuchi of Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan.

The other authors were Lu Wang, Daniel Hiler, Lyra Griffiths, Marie - Elizabeth Barabas, Jiakun Zhang, Xiang Chen, Xin Zhou, John Easton, Jinghui Zhang, Marc Valentine, Abbas Shirinifard, Suresh Thiagarajan, Andras Sablauer, Sharon Frase, and James R. Downing, all of St. Jude; Dianna Johnson, of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center; and Elaine Mardis and Richard Wilson of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

The heart holds its own pool of immune cells capable of helping it heal after injury, according to new research in mice at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

With summer just around the corner, Baumann and Diane Madfes, a clinical professor of dermatology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, give us the facts and fiction about 10 home skin therapies.

A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis offers strong guidance on the best way to reduce the infection risk.

Pilar de la Puente, PhD (left), and Kareem Azab, PhD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, have developed a screening tool that may predict quickly and more accurately the best treatments for individual patients with multiple myeloma.

The research, from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the Broad Institute at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, and numerous other institutions, is published online March 2 in The New England Journal of Medicine.

For its basic research award, the foundation picked the work of biomedical researchers William Kaelin Jr. of Harvard Medical School in Boston, Peter Ratcliffe of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, and Gregg Semenza of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.

«Our findings demonstrate that people naturally assign different weights to the pluses and minuses of interventions to improve cardiovascular health,» said Erica Spatz, M.D., M.H.S., the study lead author and an assistant professor of cardiovascular medicine in the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT. «I believe we need to tap into this framework when we are talking with patients about options to manage their blood pressure.

«I wish that I knew then what I know now, because I would have dealt with it differently and been more sophisticated about it,» says Greider, who currently heads the department of molecular biology and genetics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.

In 2005, Dr. Wherry was appointed assistant professor in the immunology program at The Wistar Institute before joining the Perelman School of Medicine in 2010.

The international and interdisciplinary team of investigators, led by Justine Smith, FRANZCO, PhD, Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology at Flinders University School of Medicine in Australia, introduced live Ebola virus to RPE cells in vitro.

The podcast features an interview with Garret FitzGerald, director of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia.

However, new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows that people who struggle with mood problems or addiction can safely quit smoking and that kicking the habit is associated with improved mental health.

However, Carol Greider of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore cautions that it's unclear if the changes seen are real, or normal fluctuation in noisy data.

But the researchers on the new study wanted to know what the minimum threshold was — the lowest amount of physical activity that could still provide health benefits, said Dr. Srinivasan Beddhu, a kidney specialist at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City and lead author of the new study.

Thus, «the availability of the Salmonella genome sequences is a very exciting development,» says Jorge Galán, a microbiologist at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut.»

Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found another possible explanation for some of the symptoms of fragile X syndrome.

But, cautions Leslie Baumann, director of cosmetic dermatology at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine in Florida and author of The Skin Type Solution published in 2006 and the blog Skin Guru, «Natural's not always best.»

New research indicates that hormonal intrauterine devices (IUDs) and contraceptive implants remain highly effective one year beyond their approved duration of use, according to a study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

The three centers that pulled down the biggest grants are those with the lion's share of the U.S. contribution to human genome sequence: Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

In this «very ambiguous» situation, «every tax office and controller's office at every university is going to have to make the decision [on what to do] for their university,» says Trevor Penning, associate dean for postdoctoral research and training at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia.

Frozen sperm taken by biopsy from testicles in men with no sperm in their semen is as effective as fresh sperm taken by biopsy in helping couples conceive through in vitro fertilization (IVF), according to a study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Although the study was conducted throughout Europe, where residents of countries such as Greece and Italy are thought to have healthier diets to begin with, the researchers say that results would probably be similar if the analysis had been done in the U.S. «There is no reason to expect a different effect in the U.S. vs. Europe for a comparable level of consumption,» Paolo Boffetta, of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and lead researcher on the study, wrote in an e-mail to ScientificAmerican.com.

To get a better grasp on the problem, bioengineer Christopher Chen and colleagues at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore played with the shape of growing stem cells.

[V] iews on scientific writing and plagiarism can be strikingly different from US norms,» write bioethicists Elizabeth Heitman of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville and Sergio Litewka of the University of Miami in Florida, in an article.»

«The skin can be affected by a wide variety of things you might find in your backyard, or even inside your home,» says board - certified dermatologist Amy Y - Y Chen, MD, FAAD, an assistant professor of dermatology at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in Canton, Conn. «While there are simple precautions that you can take, you have to be aware of what you might run into so you can protect yourself.»

That represents a major breakthrough, says Robert Vassar, a neuroscientist at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois.

In a 2010 study, psychiatrist Yvette Sheline and colleagues at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, found that these overactive networks converged on a common point in a region called the dorsal medial prefrontal cortex.

Stewart Massad is chief of the gynecologic oncology division at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield.

Darlene F. Zellers Director of the Office of Academic Career Development, Health Sciences; director of the Center for Postdoctoral Affairs in the Health Sciences; and associate dean for postdoctoral affairs in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania.

That's according to a new study from the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, which found the prevalence of heart failure is significantly higher in patients with COPD compared to the rest of the study population.

To test this hypothesis, a team led by microbiologist Martin Blaser of the New York University School of Medicine in New York City added antibiotics to the drinking water of mice that had just been weaned.

Eric Nestler, a neuroscientist at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, wondered what the brains of these depressed mice looked like.