 UCLA
Study Offers Clues Why Women Get More
Migraines Than Men
Lead
researcher, Andrew Charles (picture right), director of the
Headache Research and Treatment Program in the UCLA Department of
Neurology, suggests in the Annals of Neurology that women may have
a faster trigger than men for activating the waves of brain
activity thought to underlie migraines. If the theory is correct,
this triggering mechanism may be a new target for migraine
treatment. USC
Faculty Collaborate in Understanding How the Body Metabolizes
Sugar
Kinesiologist
Casey Donovan, left, and neurobiologist Alan Watts work together
to better understand how the body and brain function in responding
to hunger and metabolizing sugar. Their partnership will help answer questions like
how we know when we need to eat.- Caltech
Research Opens the Door to Understanding Nicotine Addiction
Henry Lester, the Bren
Professor of Biology at Caltech and his colleagues have now
identified two roots of nicotine addiction. The discoveries were
made possible by developing a special mouse strain with
fluorescent nicotine receptors. These fluorescent tags allowed the
scientists to monitor the effects of the nicotine throughout the
brain, down to the level of individual neurons. This research may
offer new hope not just for smokers, but eventually also for
sufferers of Parkinson's disease, a debilitating movement disorder
that affects some 40 million people worldwide.
 Recent
New
England Journal of Medicine study supported by Augie’s Quest
offers increased opportunities for finding a cure. Tahseen
Mozaffar (picture
right), a neurologist and director of the MDA ALS and
Neuromuscular Diseases Center at the UC Irvine Medical Center,
participated in this effort.
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Sciences Competitiveness Act of 2007 (H.R. 3264)
This Act was introduced
last week in the House by U.S. Reps. Allyson Schwartz
(D-PA), Kevin Brady (R-TX), Richard Neal (D-MA) and
Wally Herger (R-CA). The legislation aims at modernizing
numerous elements of the federal tax code to ensure
that America’s biotechnology companies can continue
to raise the funding necessary to bring new therapies
to market.
HIGHLIGHTS OF H.R.
3264:
- Provisions to make the
R&D tax credit
permanent;
- Reform the net
operating loss (NOL) rules;
- Create a medical
innovation tax credit for clinical trials;
- Modernize the orphan
drug credit;
- Encourage development
of new bio-defense, pandemic flu counter-measures;
and
- Promote long-term
investment in small life sciences companies
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