«The overwhelming majority of male infertility cases arise from inability to make sperm cells,» said Inder Verma, a professor of genetics at Salk and
senior author of the study appearing in today's Proc.
Not exact matches
Lee Gehrke, the Hermann L.F. von Helmholtz Professor in MIT's Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), is also a
senior author of the
study, which
appears in the Sept. 27 issue
of Science Translational Medicine.
«By identifying and enrolling these men in clinical trials immediately, the hope is to take a prostate cancer that
appears to be incurable and make it curable» stated Trevor J. Royce, MD,
senior resident in the department
of Radiation Oncology at BWH, and corresponding
author of the
study.
The combination
of drugs
appeared less toxic than standard chemotherapy, were relatively inexpensive and should be clinically evaluated, said Dwayne G. Stupack, PhD, the
study's
senior author and associate professor in the dDivision
of Gynecologic Oncology at Moores Cancer Center.
Still, «despite the lack
of controlled data, there are some things that
appear so frequently and prominently in Ebola virus disease survivors that we feel comfortable attributing them to [Ebola],» says
senior study author Daniel Bausch, a physician on WHO's Clinical Care Team for Ebola.
«Activation
of these cell receptors
appear to prevent brain cells from cleaning out the trash — the toxic buildup
of proteins, such as alpha - synuclein, tau and amyloid, common in neurodegenerative diseases,» says the
study's
senior author, neurologist Charbel Moussa, MBBS, PhD, director
of Georgetown's Laboratory for Dementia and Parkinsonism, and scientific and clinical research director
of the GUMC Translational Neurotherapeutics Program.
«We tried to untangle the large role aging
appears to play in some
of the most devastating neurological disorders,» said Edward Giniger, Ph.D.,
senior investigator at the NIH's National Institute
of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the
senior author of the
study published in Disease Models & Mechanisms.
«The findings indicate women with PCOS tend to have less diverse populations
of gut bacteria, a trend which
appears to be linked to elevated testosterone levels,» said Varykina Thackray, PhD,
senior author of the
study and associate professor in the Department
of Reproductive Medicine at UC San Diego School
of Medicine.
Traverso and Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT, are the
senior authors of the
study, which
appears in the Jan. 9 issue
of Nature Communications.
Irvine and Dane Wittrup, the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor
of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering and a member
of the Koch Institute, are the
senior authors of the
study, which
appears in the Oct. 24 online edition
of Nature Medicine.
There is really no reliable method for recapitulating the metastatic progression from a primary tumor in the colon to the liver,» says Omer Yilmaz, an MIT assistant professor
of biology, a member
of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, and the lead
senior author of the
study, which
appears in the May 1 issue
of Nature Biotechnology.
Johnson is the
senior author of the
study, which
appears in the journal ACS Central Science.
«These immature myeloid cells
appear as a main source
of circulating suPAR,» says Jochen Reiser, MD, PhD, principal investigator and
senior author of the
study presented in Nature Medicine, who has been working on solving the mysteries
of suPAR for more than a decade.
The
study,
appearing in the Journal
of the American Heart Association, is the first to identify predictors
of poor outcomes in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patients, said
senior author Dr. Pradeep Mammen, a heart failure specialist at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
«There's a school
of thought that the reason enzymes work better in cells than in solution is because the concentration
of enzymes surrounded by other biomolecules in cells is about 1,000 to 10,000 time more than in standard biochemistry lab conditions,» said Eric Ackerman, PNNL chief scientist and
senior author of a related
study that
appears today in the journal Nanotechnology.
Griffith is one
of the
senior authors of a paper on the
study, which
appears in the open - access Nature journal Scientific Reports.
«We knew that these genes in the Tbx family are important determinants in whether a limb becomes a hind or fore limb,» said Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte, Salk associate professor and
senior author on the
study, which
appears in the current issue
of Nature.
Intravenous C
appears to trigger the formation
of hydrogen peroxide, which kills some cancer cells while leaving healthy cells unharmed, says lead
study author Mark Levine, MD, chief
of the molecular and clinical nutrition section and
senior staff physician at the National Institutes
of Health.
«I think what it's telling us is that humans had an impact on the Arctic much earlier than had been thought,» said John Fyfe, a
senior scientist at Environment and Climate Change Canada in Victoria, British Columbia and one
of the
authors of the
study, which
appeared today in Geophysical Research Letters.