UT Southwestern receives $1.78 million grant for obesity research as part of NIH Roadmap initiative
... investigation of cardiovascular disease involving nearly 6,000 Dallas County residents. Molecular and clinical research techniques are being used in this groundbreaking study of a large multiethnic group of individuals to develop new biotechnology and establish a novel training program for scientist-physic...Scientists to prototype cyberinfrastructure for research and education access to ocean observatories
...e Integration Grid (LOOKING). It is the largest of nearly 120 awards from the agency's Information Technology Research (ITR) program this year, which total $130 million to be disbursed over the next five years. Participating institutions will collaborate on experimental wireless, optical networks and grid t...Schepens Eye Research Institute receives 'Roadmap' grant to develop center for curing eye diseases
...alize collaboration," says Dartt. The three-year, nearly $2,200,000 "Planning Grant for Research on Blinding Eye Diseases" will fund the planning and piloting phase of what will ultimately be an interdisciplinary research center. Over the course of the three years, the Institute will hold a series of lar...New study indicates arsenic could be suitable as first-line treatment in type of leukaemia
...e still alive with a mean survival time to date of nearly 34 months. Of 11 patients who relapsed, eight went back into remission after a third cycle of treatment. Six patients in the trial have died. APL accounts for around 10% of acute myeloid leukaemias and affects an estimated 20,000 people worldwide ea...Genetic differences might help distinguish thyroid cancers
...ew cases of thyroid cancer are expected this year, nearly two-thirds of which will occur in women, and 1,460 Americans are expected to die from the disease. PTC represents about 80 percent of all thyroid cancers, with FTC representing about 10 percent of cases. Eng and her colleagues have shown that two ...Veterans with Gulf War syndrome have damage in specific, primitive portion of nervous system
...the parasympathetic nervous system may account for nearly half of the typical symptoms including gallbladder disease, unrefreshing sleep, depression, joint pain, chronic diarrhea and sexual dysfunction that afflict those with Gulf War syndrome. Their findings will be published in the October issue of the ...New sequence involved in DNA replication timing may aid in cancer detection
..."In both cases, some portions of DNA molecules are nearly always duplicated early in S phase while other portions are nearly always duplicated late." Until recently, very little was known about how cells control replication t...UMaine anthropologist wins Solon T. Kimball Award
... expected," Acheson says. Founded in 1902 and with nearly 30,000 members, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) is the world's largest anthropological organization. A Bangor, Maine resident, Acheson has a joint appointment in the Anthropology Department and the School of Marine Sciences. He is also...New hydrothermal vents discovered as 'South Pacific Odyssey' research begins
...e environment. All told, about 100 scientists from nearly 20 science institutions are involved in the quest to unravel the mysteries of the Lau Basin. Lanmuir said the project is the most complex cruise that he has been involved with because of the large number of different programs that have to be coordin......mussel shells and whole mussels in the stomachs of nearly 60 percent of the examined fish," says McGill University biologist and lead author Anthony Ricciardi. "This is a concern because mussels are not an adequate nutrition source for the fish. Furthermore, mussels contain toxins, such as PCBs and botulism...A long-necked sea predator from China described in Science
...ear, in the same marine limestone, Li discovered a nearly complete skeleton of China's first protorosaur. This skull measured 15.5 centimeters in length (about 6 inches). While Tanystropheus had a giraffe-style neck comprised of a small number (12) of extremely elongated neck or cervical vertebrae, the new ...'Smart antibiotics' may result from UCLA research
... a new idea. "Phage therapy has been practiced for nearly a hundred years in parts of the world, and even in the United States in the first half of the 20th century. But now, we think we can engineer bacteriophages to function as 'dynamic' anti-microbial agents. This could provide us with a renewable resour...Scientists find nanowires capable of detecting individual viruses
...devices are able to distinguish among viruses with nearly perfect selectivity." While there are many ways for researchers to assay viruses, most are laborious and appropriate only in laboratory settings. The use of nanowires provides immediate verification of a given virus's presence without any specialized......e land owners, according to Inman. Wolverines were nearly eliminated from the continental U.S. by around 1920, though some recolonization has taken place in recent decades. However, little is known about these rare carnivores, and previous proposals to list them as a federally threatened species have been...Scientists discover potential new way to control drug-resistant bacteria
...us phage. "Phage therapy has been practiced for nearly a hundred years in parts of the world, and even in the United States in the first half of the 20th century," says Dr. Miller. "But now we think we can engineer bacteriophages to function as 'dynamic' anti-microbial agents. This could provide us with ......gs--in a much more efficient manner. There's a nearly infinite number of silly walks, throws, and lifts, but somehow people tend to settle on one best way of doing these things. However, scientists studying motor control have been hard pressed to figure out exactly why we move the way we do. To help sol...ORNL's Delmau joins Technology Review's list of top young innovators
...s year's TR 100 group was selected from a field of nearly 650 candidates under the age of 35. Delmau and other TR 100 winners will join top innovators and peers from a variety of backgrounds, disciplines and institutions at the Emerging Technologies conference Sept. 29-30 at MIT in Cambridge. A native o...22nd amino acid synthesized and added to genetic code of e. coli bacteria
...f synthesizing the actual chemical compound. After nearly a year's worth of work and a 10-step process, Chan's research group provided Kyzycki's group with a small amount of this chemically synthesized pyrrolysine. "The sample that Michael's team produced was exactly what the chemical structure that we'd pr...Cockroach-like robot leads new research effort
...is of locomotion. The grant is one of six totaling nearly $30 million through NSF's Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research (FIBR) program, which supports integrative research that addresses major questions in the biological sciences. "The hallmark of life is movement," said Robert Full, professor of ...NSF announces six 'FIBR' awards to tackle some of biology's most challenging questions
...tion (NSF) today announced six new awards totaling nearly $30 million over five years from its Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research (FIBR) program. Each of the five-year awards brings together scientists from many areas of biology and other fields to draw upon advances in genomics, ecology, enhanced...