PhD Student position at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebasti án, Basque Country, Spain)
PhD Student position at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebasti án, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.euINFORMATION ABOUT THE POSITION Position: PhD studentResearcher Profile: First Stage Researcher (R1- up to the point of PhD)Number of vacancies: 1Project: Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through the Plan Nacional RTI2018 093547 B I00 (LANGCONN)Location: Spain> Donostia-San SebastianResearch Field: Neuroscience> Cognition and LanguageType of contract/Duration of Contract : Temporary> 4 yearsJob Stat...
Source: Talking Brains - April 16, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Making a MARC at Vanderbilt
“What we’re trying to do is support the students’ attachment to being a scientist, to becoming part of the community,” says Douglas McMahon, Ph.D., the Stevenson Professor of Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and a co-director of Vanderbilt’s Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) program. MARC focuses on undergraduates from diverse backgrounds who are in the biomedical sciences and plan to pursue a Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D. degree after graduation.
Sim Plotkin.Credit: Allyson Arserio.
For years, NIGMS has funded MARC programs throughout the United States and its territor...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - April 14, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Matt Mills Tags: Being a Scientist Training Source Type: blogs
Research assistant / Lab manager position available in the O-Lab at Duke University
Research assistant / Lab manager position available in the O-Lab at Duke University We are looking for a highly motivated recent or soon-to-be graduate to join the O-Lab, led by Prof. Tobias Overath, in the Department of Psychology& Neuroscience at Duke University. Work in our lab investigates how sounds, from simple sinusoids to complex speech signals, are analyzed in the human brain, using a combination of behavioral (psychoacoustics) and neuroimaging methods (fMRI, EEG, ECoG) to track the underlying neural processes. Current projects investigate the transformation from acoustic to ling...
Source: Talking Brains - April 3, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
History of cardiology : Robert F Rushmer, a cardiac scientist par excellence .
Few individual’s works mattered more than others in the field of cardiology. Here was a man born in Utah, studied at Rush university trained in Mayo, settled in Seattle as a pediatrician. But his passion drove him to become a specialist cardiac physiologist with an urge to find the answers to all those lingering queries that arise as a practicing clinical cardiologist. He built an exclusive animal lab to study the mechanics and physics of circulation and cardiac pumps.
He can be called new age, Harvey. He seemed to always bother, how is it that the 6 liters of blood traverse from he...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - February 1, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Basic sciecne Basic science -Physiology Best books in cardiology bio ethics great cardiologists best books in cardiac physiology best cardiology books cardiovascular physiology famous Seattle doctors Great Men in cardiology history of Source Type: blogs
PhD Student position at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebasti án, Basque Country, Spain)
PhD Student position at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebasti án, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.euINFORMATION ABOUT THE POSITION Position: PhD studentResearcher Profile: First Stage Researcher (R1- up to the point of PhD)Number of vacancies: 1Project: HR18-000178 LA CAIXA FOUNDATION “HEALTH RESEARCH”Location: Spain> Donostia-San SebastianResearch Field: Neuroscience> Cognition and LanguageType of contract/Duration of Contract : Temporary> 4 yearsJob Status: Full-timeHours per week: 35Starting da...
Source: Talking Brains - January 28, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Microneedle Patch with Fluorescent Nanolabels Detects Antibodies in Skin
Researchers at the Washington University in St. Louis have developed a microneedle patch that can help to detect small amounts of antibodies in interstitial fluid. The painless technology could provide an alternative to blood draws for antibody tests, such as those used in the COVID-19 response. The new technology overcomes a bottleneck with many microneedle patch systems – their poor sensitivity. The researchers used “plasmonic-fluors,” fluorescent nanolabels, to detect protein biomarkers present in small amounts in interstitial fluid.
Blood draws are the go-to method for diagnostic testing, but they can ...
Source: Medgadget - January 25, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Medicine Pathology Public Health wustl Source Type: blogs
Spinal Cord Stimulators Manage Pain without Tingling
Boston Scientific is releasing in the United States its Wavewriter Alpha line of spinal cord stimulators. The four Wavewriter Alpha pain management devices provide Bluetooth connectivity, allow patients to still be scanned under MRI, given certain precautions, and offer so-called Fast Acting Sub-perception Therapy (FAST).
FAST is exciting because it provides near immediate pain relief without causing paresthesia, a tingling sensations that patients commonly report when utilizing spinal cord stimulators. Paresthesia-free stimulation therapies are already in existence, but they take a few days or even weeks to finally st...
Source: Medgadget - January 15, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Neurology Neurosurgery Orthopedic Surgery Pain Management bostonscientific paresthesia Source Type: blogs
Real-time ELISA for Continuous Blood Testing
Though blood tests are a routine part of clinical care and hospital labs are able to quantify a myriad biomarkers, the results only indicate measurements at certain points in time. Continuous monitoring is available for only a few analytes such as glucose and oxygen. Now researchers at Stanford University have created a device that can constantly track concentrations of just about any protein, antibody, or hormone found in blood.
The technology is doing to the ubiquitous ELISA tests (Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay) what video did to still photography. It provides a continuous stream of snapshots of readings that can...
Source: Medgadget - January 5, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiology Critical Care Diagnostics Emergency Medicine ELISA stanford Source Type: blogs
Artificial Attachments for Immune Cells Help Kill Tumors
We present a synthetic method for functionalizing the surface of natural killer (NK) cells with a supramolecular aptamer‐based polyvalent antibody mimic (PAM). The PAM is synthesized on the cell surface through nucleic acid assembly and hybridization. The data show that PAM has superiority over its monovalent counterpart in powering NKs to bind to cancer cells, and that PAM‐engineered NK cells exhibit the capability of killing cancer cells more effectively. Notably, aptamers can, in principle, be discovered against any cell receptors; moreover, the aptamers can be replaced by any other ligands when developing a PAM. Th...
Source: Medgadget - December 16, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Materials Medicine Nanomedicine Oncology Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 23rd 2020
In conclusion, the study indicates that HBOT may induce significant senolytic effects that include significantly increasing telomere length and clearance of senescent cells in the aging populations.
Data on the Prevalence of Liver Fibrosis in Middle Age
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2020/11/data-on-the-prevalence-of-liver-fibrosis-in-middle-age/
Fibrosis is a consequence of age-related disarray in tissue maintenance processes, leading to the deposition of scar-like collagen that disrupts tissue structure and function. It is an ultimately fatal issue for which there are only poor treatment options ...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 22, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Red Blood Cells Deliver Nanoparticles to Provoke Immune Response to Lung Metastases
Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have developed a way to deliver immune-stimulating agents to lung metastases. Their system involves nanoparticles loaded with an immune-stimulating agent that are attached to red blood cells. When injected into the blood stream, the red blood cells shed the nanoparticles as they squeeze through the narrow capillaries of the lungs, provoking immune cells to attack the tumors.
The EASI system delivers ImmunoBait particles into the cells that line the lungs’ blood vessels, where they release their chemokine payload. This action stimulates the body’s immune system to pro...
Source: Medgadget - November 17, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Medicine Nanomedicine Oncology Source Type: blogs
A Recommended Tour of the State of Development of Senolytic Therapies
Today's article is a cut above the usual popular science standard in terms of detail and accuracy, capturing a snapshot of the present development of senolytic therapies. It is lengthy and touches on a range of present initiatives, companies, research programs, and clinical trials. Senolytics are one of the most important developments to emerge from the medical research community in quite a long time, in that they are the first rejuvenation therapy worthy of that classification. A senolytic treatment is one that selectively destroys senescent cells. These cells accumulate in old tissues, and while never rising to very larg...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 16, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
