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A good cup of coffee might be just the wake-up call scientists need to stop multiple sclerosis. A new study coauthored by Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientist Linda Thompson, Ph.D., found that mice immunized to develop an MS-like condition were protected from the disease by drinking caffeine. The research appears in the early online edition of the June 30, 2008 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In the study, done in collaboration with Cornell University and Finland’s University of Turku, researchers followed the progress of mice that normally developed an MS-like condition. But the scientists found that when the rodents consumed the equivalent of six to eight cups of coffee a day, they did not develop of the condition. See Full Story
For six Oklahoma science teachers, this summer has provided the chance to put on different shoes: those of students. The educators, all middle and high-school teachers, were selected from a statewide applicant pool as Foundation Scholars at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. In the four-week program, the teachers work together in an OMRF laboratory, performing experiments and learning laboratory techniques they can take back to their classrooms. During the course, the teachers design and perform a
series of experiments and computer exercises working from intact cells to molecules.
Beyond learning new experiments, they gain experience designing an integrated series
of projects centered around an initial observation or idea of their own for use in
their classrooms.
Explosions. Jet engines. Bursts of gunfire. In today’s military, soldiers can be hurt by more than just bullets, and one very sensitive area has been under constant attack—the ears. Even with external hearing protection, the sounds of warfare can damage the sensitive inner ear, or cochlea, and severely reduce hearing.
But a new drug combination, developed through a collaboration of the Oklahoma Medical
Research Foundation and the Hough Ear along with support from INTEGRIS Health, has shown
promise in reducing hearing loss. The treatment could have both military and civilian
applications.
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