I work as a scientific editor in a
large university medical center, where I also teach scientific writing to postdocs, junior faculty, and medical residents who are doing biomedical research.
In the July issue of Neuron, a team at Duke
University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, describes a powerful new imaging tool that helps read the brain's «smell code.»
These findings suggest that hormone levels may mediate alcohol's potency, say H. Scott Swartzwelder of
Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina.
In collaboration with researchers from the Friedrich Miescher Institute of Basel and the
Vanderbilt University Medical Center of Nashville (United States), the biologists discovered that Rif1 regulates the timing of DNA replication by acting directly at the level of the origins of replication.
«People needed to know about what was going on behind closed doors in terms of these articles,» says Adriane Fugh - Berman, a researcher at
Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington DC, who conducted the analysis.
Chairs: Kenneth Walsh, Boston University and Kensuke Egashira, Kyushu University Masanori Aikawa, Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School Systems biology of macrophage activation: target discovery for cardiometabolic inflammation Grietje Molema,
University Medical Center Groningen New technology to unravel microvascular behavior in the in vivo niche
Entamoeba researcher Daniel Eichinger of New
York University Medical Center in New York City predicts the findings will help investigators find more specific targets for antibiotics or vaccines.
«After training we see massively increased performance on memory tests,» says first author Martin Dresler, assistant professor of cognitive neuroscience at
Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Jonathan Schaffir, a doctor at Ohio
State University Medical Center who has studied the link between hormonal contraception and sexual desire but who wasn't involved in this study, suggested that trying to tease out the effect of hormonal birth control on something as complex as mate choice can be misleading.
Els Goulmy of
Leiden University Medical Center called for flexibility, such as allowing grant money to be distributed to multiple part - timers on the same project.
Julius M. Gardin, MD, chairman of the department of internal medicine at
Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack, N.J., says some patients get angina after eating a big meal because blood flow is diverted from the heart for digestion.
Dept of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research,
VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Medical devices that can fit through tiny holes in the body and expand into designed shapes on demand would be invaluable, says laparoscopic surgeon Frederick Finelli at George
Washington University Medical Center in Washington, D.C..
Boston University Medical Center researchers conducted a small pilot study with 17 veterans with PTSD to evaluate whether tai chi would be a feasible and beneficial activity.
In order to identify the age - and gender - specific incidence of AMD, the research team of the Department of Ophthalmology at the
Mainz University Medical Center led by Dr. Christina Korb, PD Dr. Alireza Mirshahi, and Professor Norbert Pfeiffer assessed the status of the ocular fundus of 4,340 participants in the Gutenberg Health Study.
«I put a lot of effort into making the designs convincing,» says study leader Alexandra Tinnermann, a neuroscientist at
University Medical Center Hamburg - Eppendorf in Germany.
A Columbia
University Medical Center study found gluten sensitivity is not an imagined condition, as many seem to think these days, and that celiac disease or a wheat allergy are not required to react to gluten.
A team of scientists, led by academics from King's College London and Erasmus MC
University Medical Center Rotterdam, have discovered 124 genes that play a major role in determining human hair colour variation.
A recent study led by Columbia
University Medical Center found that almost half of young baseball players have been encouraged to keep playing despite experiencing arm pain.
The Rice Diet Program was originated by Dr. Walter Kempner in 1939 at Duke
University Medical Center for the treatment of high blood pressure and kidney disease.
In this study, Kevin ten Haaf of the Erasmus
MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and colleagues used a microsimulation model to analyze 576 different lung cancer screening policies for persons born between 1940 and 1969 in Ontario, Canada.
Dr. Shilpa Ravella is a gastroenterologist with expertise in nutrition and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia
University Medical Center where she directs the Adult Small Bowel Program.
The achievement, say researchers at Georgetown
University Medical Center who led the research, represents a critical advance in the effort to understand the origin and drivers of this puzzling cancer — the most common in men.
«After only two days of abstinence, sperm from patients with male factor infertility initiate a process of quality degradation,» Dr. Eliahu Levitas of
Soroka University Medical Center in Beer - Sheva, Israel, and colleagues report in the journal Fertility and Sterility.
Maastricht University Medical Center + is known both nationally and internationally for its focus on prevention and taking an integrated approach to health care: from prevention, promotion of good health, and basic care, to top - level clinical diagnostics and treatment.
Researchers at Georgetown
University Medical Center on Saturday revealed what could be a major breakthrough in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.
Hadassah University Medical Center claims the world's largest collection of patients with genetic hair diseases, including roughly half the documented cases of papular atrichia, the condition Christiano linked to the hairless gene.
Doctors at Vanderbilt
University Medical Center say there isn't a good way to treat or reverse this allergy, but so - called alpha - gal patients can safely eat poultry like chicken and turkey.
Jochen Reiser, MD, PhD, Professor and chairperson of the Department of Internal Medicine at Rush
University Medical Center leads research into chronic kidney disease.
«One reason autophagy has become so important is the realization that it is a highly regulated process, not just some automatic breakdown,» says Peter - Michael Kloetzel, head of the Laboratory for Proteolytic Systems at the
Charité university medical center in Berlin.
Because multiple symptoms common with blast traumatic brain injury are also seen with growth hormone and testosterone deficiencies, perhaps treating these hormone deficiencies will help improve the symptom burden and quality of life for these veterans,» said lead study author Jeffrey S. Taylor, MD, endocrinology fellow at Virginia
Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia.