Broadening Partnerships to Spur Medical Advances for War Injuries

Ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have stretched the resources available for preventing and treating many of the visible and invisible wounds facing today's service members. Expanded research and options in the fields of regenerative medicine and behavioral health care services have shown some success, but without the ability to share information between military and civilian researchers and clinicians, true breakthroughs will take longer to achieve.

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Scientists Identify Critical Genes for Down syndrome

Research findings reported in the July 18 advanced online publication of Nature Neuroscience have narrowed down the critical genetic elements responsible for some aspects of Down syndrome.
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Scientists develop highly specific antibody to detect common malignant tissue changes in prostate cancer

Researchers at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) Center for Prostate Disease Research (CPDR), in collaboration with investigators at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) and Walter Reed Army Medical Center, have developed a highly specific assay for the detection of ERG, a protein associated with tumor formations which is present in more than half of all prostate cancers.

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