Articles tagged with: brown
Researchers report two advances against preeclampsia Preeclampsia, a sudden-onset and sometimes fatal prenatal disease, may strike up to 8 percent of pregnant women worldwide. Researchers have now developed a dependable pregnancy-specific animal model for laboratory testing and may have a predictive test that would allow early intervention. The studies are reported in The American Journal […]
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Brown University scientists simplify biodiesel conversion Two chemists at Brown University have streamlined the conversion of waste vegetable oil into biodiesel, eliminating the need for corrosive chemicals to perform the reactions. Writing in the journal Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, the chemists were able to pull off the waste vegetable oil-to-biodiesel conversion in a single reaction vessel […]
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Childhood adversity may lead to unhealthy stress response in adult life A study has detected a correlation between childhood adversity and exaggerated inflammatory response to stress among seemingly healthy people. It may shed light on risk for depression, other illnesses later in life. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Seemingly healthy adults, if they were abused […]
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Brown Institute for Brain Science marks decade of research impact The Future of the Brain, a two-day symposium Oct. 13-14, 2010, marks an extraordinary first decade for the Brown Institute for Brain Science. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Just as intense concentration allows a sharp mind to perform at its peak, a research institute that […]
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Brown licenses potential muscular dystrophy treatment to Tivorsan Pharmaceuticals Duchenne muscular dystrophy affects only young boys, who begin to show symptoms when they are of preschool age. The disease is invariably fatal. Justin Fallon has led a research team that has developed a novel therapy in mice. Brown University has licensed the technology to Tivorsan […]
Researchers build ‘artificial ovary’ to develop oocytes into mature human eggs Researchers at Brown University and Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island have built an artificial human ovary that can grow oocytes into mature human eggs in the laboratory. That development, reported in the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, could help preserve fertility […]
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Brown-led research divines structure for class of proteins A research team led by Brown University has determined the structure for three proteins in a class known as intrinsically disordered proteins. The findings, reported in Structure, are important because they show how these proteins fold with the regulator protein phosphatase-1, which must happen for biological instructions […]
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Computer-based video analysis boosts data gathering in behavioral studies Thomas Serre, assistant professor of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences at Brown, and colleagues at MIT and Caltech have developed a computer-based system that can learn how to identify behaviors of interest and then analyze many hours of video. The team describes the system in Nature […]
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Study: Diet and alcohol alter epigenetics of breast cancer, could predict severity of disease Researchers from Brown University and the University of California have shown that the epigenetic profiles of breast tumors are related to patient diet and alcohol use as well as tumor size. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Researchers from Brown University and […]
Study: Medicare policy may account for growing length of hospice stays in nursing homes Hospice care, certified and reimbursed by Medicare, offers specialized end-of-life care in the nursing-home setting. A new study finds that the average length of hospice stays is growing and has doubled in 10 years. A reimbursement policy based on when more […]
