All the latest news from Emory University.http://shared.web.emory.edu.xmlhttp://shared.web.emory.edu.xmlSat, 07 Nov 2009 05:27:03 -0500Cascade ServerResearchers have developed an improved version of an enzyme that degrades the dense scar tissue that forms when the central nervous system is damaged.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/modified-enzyme-digests-scar-tissue.htmlThu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/modified-enzyme-digests-scar-tissue.htmlEmory University's Woodruff Health Sciences Center will host a book signing for Sanjay Gupta, MD, assistant professor of neurosurgery, Emory School of Medicine, and CNN's top medical journalist. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/sanjay-gupta-book-signing-short.htmlWed, 04 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/sanjay-gupta-book-signing-short.htmlEmory University School of Nursing researchers have received a four-year, $1.2 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to examine how pregnant farmworkers perceive their risks for certain environmental and occupational hazards.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/pregnant-farmworkers-occupational-risks.htmlWed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/pregnant-farmworkers-occupational-risks.htmlEmory University's Michael C. Carlos Museum has been awarded a five-year, $500,000 grant through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to link art conservation with the teaching of science at the university. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/art-conservation-science-education-funded-at-emorys-carlos-museum.htmlTue, 03 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/art-conservation-science-education-funded-at-emorys-carlos-museum.htmlU.S. physicians are more aggressive than their Western European counterparts when it comes to screening for and treating asymptomatic health conditions such as early stage cancer. This approach may explain why U.S. health care costs are much higher when compared to those incurred by European health care systems, according to a study published in the current issue of the journal Health Affairs. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/screenings-increase-u.s.-health-costs.htmlTue, 03 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/11/screenings-increase-u.s.-health-costs.htmlTwenty-five years ago neuroscientist Donald Stein, PhD, began to suspect that women's brains differed from men's when it came to recovering from traumatic brain injuries.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/progesterone-more-than-a-sex-hormone.htmlMon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/progesterone-more-than-a-sex-hormone.htmlPregnant women are at particularly high risk of serious disease and death after flu infection, and healthcare providers should encourage them to be vaccinated, say a team of vaccine and public health researchers. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/vaccines-safe-in-pregnancy.htmlThu, 29 Oct 2009 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/vaccines-safe-in-pregnancy.htmlIn a study funded by U.S. Air Force and Navy, Emory University researchers will use magnetic resonance imaging to assess activity in the brain when sacred values are perceived as being attacked or diminished.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/moral-outrage-in-creation-of-political-conflict.htmlWed, 28 Oct 2009 17:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/moral-outrage-in-creation-of-political-conflict.htmlThis year The Scientist magazine's readers ranked Emory University as the 5th Best Place to Work in Academia in the United States. The ranking was based on a survey of more than 2,350 life scientists with a permanent position in an academic, hospital, government or research organization.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/the-scientist-magazine-ranks-emory-5th-best-place-to-work.htmlWed, 28 Oct 2009 09:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/the-scientist-magazine-ranks-emory-5th-best-place-to-work.htmlA team of Emory University researchers has received a five-year, $3.5 million program-project grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research of the National Institutes of Health. The research will focus on reducing heart disease risk and improving health and wellbeing among family caregivers of dementia and heart failure patients.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/improving-health-for-family-caregivers.htmlWed, 28 Oct 2009 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/improving-health-for-family-caregivers.htmlHistoric video and audio interviews, photos, presentations and government papers that document the intense battle to eradicate smallpox are now available online to researchers and the public alike.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/global-health-chronicles-smallpox.htmlTue, 27 Oct 2009 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/global-health-chronicles-smallpox.htmlEmory University scientists have earned 12 NIH Challenge Grants and Six Grand Opportunity (GO) awards from American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (stimulus) funding.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/nih-emory-challenge-and-go-grants.htmlMon, 26 Oct 2009 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/nih-emory-challenge-and-go-grants.htmlEmory University researchers have been awarded a Dana Foundation grant of $200,000 for nanotechnology and brain tumor research.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/dana-foundation-awards-grant-to-emory1.htmlMon, 19 Oct 2009 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/dana-foundation-awards-grant-to-emory1.htmlEmory University researchers have identified the first fish known to have switched from ultraviolet vision to violet vision, or the ability to see blue light. The discovery is also the first example of an animal deleting a molecule to change its visual spectrum.http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/fish-vision-discovery-makes-waves-in-natural-selection.htmlFri, 16 Oct 2009 13:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/fish-vision-discovery-makes-waves-in-natural-selection.htmlOne minute, you're clicking away with your mouse while sitting in front of the computer. The next, you're on the back roads of the U.S. South exploring its regions and culture through Southern Spaces. The multimedia, open access, interdisciplinary digital journal showcases innovative scholarship exploring the South. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/real-and-imagined-souths-in-digital-journal.htmlFri, 09 Oct 2009 01:00:00 -0400http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2009/10/real-and-imagined-souths-in-digital-journal.html