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MITRA-MANDAL                                                                                      NEWSWISE Medical News Microorganisms Isolated in Cave Helps Researchers Understand the Origins of Antibiotic Resistance Scientists examined one bacterium found 1,000 feet underground (called Paenibacillus) that demonstrated resistance to most antibiotics used today, including so-called ‘drugs of last resort’ such as daptomycin. These microorganisms have been isol... – McMaster University Embargo expired on 08-Dec-2016 at 05:00 ET Scientists Unlock Genetic Code of Diseased Lung Cells to Find New Treatments for IPF Researchers cracked the complete genetic code of individual cells in healthy and diseased human lung tissues to find potential new molecular targets for diagnosing and treating the lethal lung disease Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF). Scientists f... – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center JCI Insight Dec. 8, 2016 Embargo expired on 08-Dec-2016 at 09:00 ET Brain Activity May Predict Risk of Falls in Older People Measuring the brain activity of healthy, older adults while they walk and talk at the same time may help predict their risk of falls later, according to a study published in the December 7, 2016, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of th... – American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Embargo expired on 07-Dec-2016 at 16:00 ET Brain Activity May Predict Risk of Falls in Older Adults Falls are the leading cause of fatal and non-fatal injuries among older Americans and all too often lead to physical decline and loss of independence. Now, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine have found that measuring the brain activit... – Albert Einstein College of Medicine Neurology Embargo expired on 07-Dec-2016 at 16:00 ET Diabetes Drug Slows Experimental Parkinson’s Disease Progression, Human Trials to Begin Next Year A new investigational drug originally developed for type 2 diabetes is being readied for human clinical trials in search of the world’s first treatment to impede the progression of Parkinson’s disease following publication of research findings to... – Van Andel Research Institute Science Translational Medicine Embargo expired on 07-Dec-2016 at 14:00 ET Scientists Developing Model to Predict if Chemotherapy Will Work for Aggressive Breast Cancer In a study presented at the 2016 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, researchers report they developed a model that can predict which triple negative breast cancer patients will respond to chemotherapy. – University of North Carolina Health Care System San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium-2016 Embargo expired on 07-Dec-2016 at 18:05 ET Genetic Alterations More Common in Tumors of Older Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer In a preliminary findings presented at the 2016 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, researchers reported that older patients were as likely as younger patients to receive targeted therapy and enroll in therapeutic trials based on their sequencing re... – University of North Carolina Health Care System San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 2016 Embargo expired on 07-Dec-2016 at 18:05 ET Brain Metastasis Persists Despite Improved Targeted Treatment for HER2 Breast Cancer A study presented Wednesday at the 2016 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium examined the incidence of brain metastasis after diagnosis for three groups of patients with HER2-positive breast cancer. – University of North Carolina Health Care System San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 2016 Embargo expired on 07-Dec-2016 at 18:05 ET Stem Cell-Based Test Predicts Leukemia Patients’ Response to Therapy to Help Tailor Treatment Leukemia researchers at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre have developed a 17-gene signature derived from leukemia stem cells that can predict at diagnosis if patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) will respond to standard treatment. – University Health Network (UHN) Nature, Dec-2016 Embargo expired on 07-Dec-2016 at 13:00 ET Mayo Clinic Research Helps Refine Role of Gene Variants in Breast Cancer Risk Inherited pathogenic variants in protein coding genes BARD1 and RAD51D increase a woman’s likelihood of developing breast cancer, according to research conducted at Mayo Clinic and presented today at the 2016 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. – Mayo Clinic Embargo expired on 07-Dec-2016 at 16:15 ET Researchers Link Dental Problems in Cleft Lip and Palate to Abnormal Salivary Glands A new study in the Journal of Dental Research suggests that dental problems commonly associated with cleft lip and palate may be caused by abnormalities in salivary glands and an imbalance of immune compounds in the mouth. – Seattle Children's Hospital Journal of Dental Research, Dec-2016 Adhering to a Work Routine Helps Reduce Pressure in Protracted War Situations Two recently-published studies at the University of Haifa examined the connection between work routine and stress during the Second Lebanon War. The studies found that work routine reduced stress among residents of northern Israel during the war. The... – University of Haifa When Neurons Are ‘Born’ Impacts Olfactory Behavior in Mice Neurons generated at different life stages in mice can impact aspects of their olfactory sense and behavior. – North Carolina State University Nature Neuroscience Researchers Combine MERS and Rabies Viruses to Create Innovative 2-for-1 Vaccine In a new study, researchers have modified a rabies virus, so that it has a protein from the MERS virus; this altered virus works as a 2-for-1 vaccine that protects mice against both Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and rabies. – University of Maryland School of Medicine Mount Sinai Researchers Find Signs of Secondhand Marijuana Smoke Exposure in Children Children exposed to secondhand marijuana smoke show measurable amounts of the drug in their bodies, a researcher at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has found. – Mount Sinai Health System Researchers Reveal 3D Structure of Cell’s Inflammation Sensor and Its Inhibitors Researchers at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of California San Diego have now determined the 3D structure of CCR2 simultaneously bound to two inhibitors. Understanding how these molecules fit together may bet... – University of California San Diego Health Sciences Nature Two UTHealth Researchers Elected to Prestigious Scientific Association In recognition of their efforts to develop new treatments for fungal infections and stress-related chronic illnesses, respectively, Michael Lorenz, Ph.D., and Xiaodong Cheng, Ph.D., of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealt... – University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Scripps Florida Scientists Uncover Potential Driver of Age- and Alzheimer’s-Related Memory Loss Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have made an important discovery toward the development of drugs to treat age-related memory loss in diseases like Alzheimer’s. – Scripps Research Institute NIH/NINDS R01-NS094577; NIH/NIMH R01-MH105610; 2015-NIRG-344356; NIH/NINDS R01-NS087019 High-Resolution Brain Scans Could Improve Concussion Detection Simon Fraser University researchers have found that high-resolution brain scans, coupled with computational analysis, could play a critical role in helping to detect concussions that conventional scans might miss. – Simon Fraser University PLOS Computational Biology Rhythm of Breathing Affects Memory and Fear Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered for the first time that the rhythm of breathing creates electrical activity in the human brain that enhances emotional judgments and memory recall. These effects on behavior depend critically on whethe... – Northwestern University R00DC012803; R21DC012014; R01DC013243 Researchers Discover Enzyme Crucial to Tumor Development Technion researchers have discovered a biological pathway that plays an important role in tumor development. The findings could lead to cancer-fighting drugs that work by shortening the half-life of select cancer-promoting proteins known as oncoprote... – American Technion Society Cell Reports, Sept 20-2016 The Medical Minute: Music Can Be Good Medicine Music may not seem as potent as a pill, but in many cases, it’s just what the doctor ordered. – Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Toy-Safety Research Started with Initiative to Protect Soldiers From Eye Injuries Research that helps protect soldiers from blast injuries on the battlefield can also prevent kids battling with foam swords in their basements from poking each others’ eyes out. – Virginia Tech German Government Honors Esteemed Medical Geneticist John M. Opitz, M.D., with National Honor Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany give to recognize Opitz's lifetime of work as one of the world's foremost authorities in the field of medical genetics. – University of Utah Health Sciences The Myositis Association Achieves Milestones in Research Funding for Rare Disease Since the inception of its research funding program in 2002, the Myositis Association has approved 50 research projects, including grants and fellowships totaling nearly $6 million. – Myositis Association The Myositis Association Offers $500,000 for New Research Into Rare Disease This year, TMA offered half a million dollars in new funding for research into causes, treatments, and cures for rare myositis diseases. – Myositis Association Statement From the American Dental Hygienists’ Association on the Importance of Oral Health ADHA believes that integrating dental hygienists into the healthcare delivery system as essential primary care providers to expand access to oral health care will help improve the public’s overall health. This is why proper dental hygiene diagnosis... – American Dental Hygienists' Association Overcoming the Opioid Crisis in the Primary Care Setting Through monitoring and dosing guidelines, provider education and training and better alternatives for patient pain management, medical group reduces monthly average of written pain medicine prescriptions by 20 percent, while the number of providers w... Expert Available – PinnacleHealth SABCS 2016 — NewYork-Presbyterian’s World-Renowned Breast Cancer Experts Available for Comment Leading breast cancer experts from NewYork-Presbyterian, Columbia University Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medicine will be presenting at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) in San Antonio, Texas from December 6, 2016 through Decembe... Expert Available – New York-Presbyterian Hospital Endocrine Society Calls for Solutions Regarding Insulin Price Crisis The Endocrine Society lauds Novo Nordisk’s recent announcement that it would limit price increases for its therapies, including insulin, and hopes that other entities in the insulin supply chain including manufacturers, pharmacy benefit managers, a... – Endocrine Society APA Applauds Senate Passage of Mental Health Provisions in 21st Century Cures Act The 21st Century Cures Act, passed Wednesday by the Senate, will result in much-needed reform of the nation’s mental health system, according to the American Psychological Association and the APA Practice Organization. – American Psychological Association (APA) Deadline Extended for Nominations: the Endocrine Society’s Award for Excellence in Science and Medical Journalism The Endocrine Society is extending the deadline for nominations for the 10th annual Award for Excellence in Science and Medical Journalism. The award recognizes outstanding reporting that enhances public understanding of health issues pertaining to t... – Endocrine Society ENDO 2017, Apr-2017 Rensselaer Data Project Addresses Childhood Stunting in Developing Nations Support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will lead to interactive data visualization platform – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) AMSSM International Traveling Fellows Journey to Italy The American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) is pleased to send a contingent of leaders in the field sports medicine to Italy as part of the International Traveling Fellowship Program, which is in its third year. – American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) NewYork-Presbyterian and New York Methodist Hospital Establish New Relationship to Enhance Care in Brooklyn NewYork-Presbyterian and New York Methodist Hospital have established a new relationship aimed at improving access and enhancing care for patients in Brooklyn. – New York-Presbyterian Hospital Science News Scientists Track Chemical and Structural Evolution of Catalytic Nanoparticles in 3D To help tackle the challenge of finding effective, inexpensive catalysts for fuel cells, scientists at Brookhaven Lab have produced dynamic, 3D images that reveal how catalytic nanoparticles evolve as they are processed. – Brookhaven National Laboratory Nature Communications, Dec. 8, 2016 Embargo expired on 08-Dec-2016 at 05:00 ET New Study Traces the Origins of Marsupials in N. America, Find Mammals During Age of Dinosaurs Packed a Powerful Bite A new study by Burke Museum and University of Washington paleontologists describes an early marsupial relative called Didelphodon vorax that lived alongside ferocious dinosaurs and had, pound-for-pound, the strongest bite force of any mammal ever rec... – University of Washington Nature Coimmunications (article released 12/08/2016 at 5:00am EST) Embargo expired on 08-Dec-2016 at 05:00 ET Scientists Shed New Light on How the Brain Processes & Maintains What We Don’t See A team of scientists has mapped out how our brains process visuals we don’t even know we’ve seen, indicating that the neuronal encoding and maintenance of subliminal images is more substantial than previously thought. – New York University Neuron Embargo expired on 07-Dec-2016 at 12:00 ET Greenland on Thin Ice? New research opens up the deep history of the Greenland Ice Sheet, looking back millions of years farther than previous techniques allowed—and raises urgent questions about if the giant ice sheet might dramatically accelerate its melt-off in the ne... – University of Vermont Nature, December 8, 2016 Embargo expired on 07-Dec-2016 at 13:00 ET Jefferson Lab–NVIDIA Collaboration Uses Titan’s GPUs to Boost Subatomic Particle Research A research team led by Jefferson Lab’s Robert Edwards has been using computation to inform GlueX experiments at Jefferson Lab as well as corroborate experimental findings. – Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility TET Proteins Drive Early Neurogenesis The fate of stem cells is determined by series of choices that sequentially narrow their available options until stem cells’ offspring have found their station and purpose in the body. Their decisions are guided in part by TET proteins rewriting th... – La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology NIH R01 grants CA151535 and HD065812; CIRM UCSD Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Research & Training Grant II (TG2-01154) Blocks of Ice Demonstrate Levitated and Directed Motion Resembling the Leidenfrost effect seen in rapidly boiling water droplets, a disk of ice becomes highly mobile due to a levitating layer of water between it and the smooth surface on which it rests and melts. The otherwise random rotation and translat... – American Institute of Physics (AIP) Story Tips From the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, December 2016 Almeria Analytics adds a capability with ORNL technology; Wireless sensor network provides insight into population density, movement; New ORNL technology quickly detects cracks in walls, roofs; ORNL motor boasts 75 percent power gain over competing d... – Oak Ridge National Laboratory Ecologists Publish Research on Soil's Potential to Increase the Earth's CO2 Soil, an important part of the carbon cycle, might compound the world's carbon dioxide problem, according to a global study involving Kansas State University researchers and Konza Prairie Biological Station. The study, "Quantifying global soil carbon... – Kansas State University 10.1038/nature20150 Critical Zone, Critical Research The critical zone extends from the top of the tallest tree down through the soil and into the water and rock beneath it. It stops at what’s called the weathering zone — or where soils first begin to develop. This zone allows crops to grow well an... – American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) Vadose Zone Journal, September 22, 2016 Saturn’s Bulging Core Implies Moons Younger Than Thought Freshly harvested data from NASA’s Cassini mission reveals that the ringed planet’s moons may be younger than previously thought. – Cornell University East Greenland Ice Sheet Has Responded to Climate Change Over the Last 7.5 Million Years Using marine sediment cores containing isotopes of aluminum and beryllium, a group of international researchers has discovered that East Greenland experienced deep, ongoing glacial erosion over the past 7.5 million years. The research reconstructs ic... – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory New Studies Take a Second Look at Coral Bleaching Culprit Scientists have called superoxide out as the main culprit behind coral bleaching: The idea is that as this toxin build up inside coral cells, the corals fight back by ejecting the tiny energy- and color-producing algae living inside them. In doing so... – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Nature Communications Closing the Carbon Loop Pitt chemical engineering team identifies new catalyst that advances capture and conversion of atmospheric carbon dioxide – University of Pittsburgh Royal Society of Chemistry Catalysis Science & Technology Scientists Improve Predictions of How Temperature Affects the Survival of Fish Embryos Scientists closely tracking the survival of endangered Sacramento River salmon faced a puzzle: the same high temperatures that salmon eggs survived in the laboratory appeared to kill many of the eggs in the river – NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center Ecology Letters Weather Radar Helps Researchers Track Bird Flu Using weather radar technology, scientists are tracking migratory birds, which may carry the avian influenza virus. They are exploring how to use the data to prevent a disease outbreak in the poultry industry. In 2014-2015, a U.S. bird flu outbreak l... – University of California - Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources Four New NSF Grants — Three in Neuroscience — Deepen UAB’s Research Portfolio, Forge Collaborations Four teams of UAB researchers have been awarded National Science Foundation grants totaling $5.4 million for basic neuroscience research and new methods of environmental monitoring. – University of Alabama at Birmingham Sandia Labs, Singapore Join Forces to Develop Energy Storage Sandia National Laboratories has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the government of Singapore’s Energy Market Authority (EMA) that will tap into the labs’ expertise in energy storage. – Sandia National Laboratories Machine Learning Enables Predictive Modeling of 2-D Materials In a study published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, a team of researchers led by Argonne computational scientist Subramanian Sankaranarayanan described their use of machine learning tools to create the first atomic-level model that ac... – Argonne National Laboratory AAAS and Los Alamos National Laboratory Announce 2016 Fellows Scott Crooker, of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Condensed Matter and Magnet Science group, and William Charles Louis III, of the Laboratory’s Physics Division, have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ... – Los Alamos National Laboratory Lifestyle & Social Sciences Study Shows How Social Media Support Groups Help Transplant Recipients One in 4 adults have searched online to find others who have the same medical condition, especially chronic conditions. A unique study at FAU explored how transplant recipients use social media sites for support and healing, providing an intimate gli... – Florida Atlantic University Computers, Informatics, Nursing IU Media School Reporting Project Raises Questions About Veracity of State Campaign Finance Data Since 2000, state-level political committees in Indiana have taken in nearly $1 billion in contributions to run campaigns and influence elections. A new reporting project by student journalists in The Media School at Indiana University raises questio... – Indiana University Intimate and Social Relationships Important for Older Adults in Assisted Living, Study Finds Intimate and social relationships remain important for older adults residing in assisted-living facilities, according to a recent study. – Georgia State University Johns Hopkins Study: Well-Meaning Regulation of One Industry Can Cause Unintended Negative Impact on Neighboring Industry In a new study for Economic Inquiry, researchers show that the deregulation of the once-constrained television industry in Spain set off a boom in TV viewing. This in turn led to a substantial decline in attendance and box office revenues at Spanish ... – Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School Economic Inquiry New Year's Resolution: Become a Volunteer If your New Year's resolution is to get healthier and to lead a more satisfying life, consider becoming a volunteer. A recent study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society found that volunteering may have positive health benefits for old... – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences Journal of the American Geriatrics Society Three Degrees for Kennesaw State Graduate Cole Daniel will graduate from Kennesaw State University with not one degree, but three. With bachelor’s degrees in biology, economics and finance, he will become Kennesaw State’s first Honors Scholar to earn three degrees simultaneously. – Kennesaw State University Office Holiday Party: Will It Help or Haunt Your Career? Florida State University College of Business Professor Wayne Hochwarter dives into the do's and don'ts of the often tricky office holiday party, which can present all kinds of treacherous risks or valuable rewards. Expert Available – Florida State University AACI Thanks the Senate for Approving 21st Century Cures Legislation, Asks for Funding in CR AACI applauds the Senate for passing the 21st Century Cures Act. The innovative legislation will provide nearly $4.8 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) over the next ten years via a NIH Innovation Account. – Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI) Business News Leading Development Economist to Join Northwestern Christopher Udry, one of the foremost U.S. authorities on development in Africa, will join Northwestern University as professor of economics, effective July 1, 2017. Currently the Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics at Yale University, Udry ... – Northwestern University