Topic: Washington University In St. Louis
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists say they have discovered the first solid evidence that variations in some peoples' genes may cause depression -- one of the world's most common and costly mental illnesses.And in a rare occurrence in genetic research, a British-led international ...
Genome-sequencing is getting cheaper and faster, and can eliminate the guesswork in treating cancer by offering personalized clues on how to best attack tumors, US doctors said on Tuesday.The human genome was first sequenced in 2003, followed by the first cancer tumor ...
For work on the functions of the nerve threads, Erlanger shared with Herbert Spencer Gasser the 1944 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine. Erlanger was born in San Francisco and was educated at the University of California and at Johns Hopkins University.
Kornberg, Arthur (1918-), an American physician and biochemist, was the first to discover how molecules of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) duplicate within bacterial cells and also the first to devise a method for synthesizing this process in a laboratory setting. In the late ...
1 Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA. 2 Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA. 3 Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, ...
German scientists created a steel version of Velcro that is said to be strong enough to support a building. Ryohei Kanzaki of Tokyo University is working on insect-machine hybrids; applications could include sniffing out toxic gas for the SWAT team. "Professor Josh ...
We have long wanted to create a neuron-by-neuron map of the brain's circuitry to give us a 3-D glimpse into its connections are, how they work and how the different parts of the brain talk to one another. This massive and complex ...
A massive new project to scan the brains of 1,200 volunteers could finally give scientists a picture of the neural architecture of the human brain and help them understand the causes of certain neurological and psychological diseases. "We want to learn as ...
In the summer of 2003 Washington University in St. Louis sued one of its former researchers, prostate cancer specialist William Catalona, for ownership of tissue samples collected from thousands of his patients over the years. Catalona, developer of the PSA diagnostic test ...
from BBC News Online. Children's mental development could be recorded in much the same way we chart height and weight, say scientists. They have devised a way of mapping development using an MRI machine and a mathematics programme. Last year, the team ...
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