Brain Protein "Rescues" Neurons From Atrophy
...resent into strengthened connections. Besides NIH support for the experiments, the Duke scientists also received critical materials for these experiments, including neurotrophins, from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals of Tarrytown, N.Y. These experiments would not have been possible, the scientists said, without t...Key to Triplet Repeat Brain Diseases Open Door For New Way To Understand, Treat Genetic Diseases"
... an understanding,"he said. Additional funding or support for the study came from the Joseph and KathleenBryan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Duke, the Duke Center for HumanGenetics, and the National Institutes of Health (specifically the NationalInstitute on Aging, and the National Institute of Neu...Second Breast Cancer Gene Located
...heir options and how to develop clinics to provide support servicesfor the women who may carry breast cancer ... is important to couple testing withcounseling and support services, Rimer said. As the medical community learns to deal with BRCA1 and BRCA2, Futreal...Duke Researchers Discover Candidate Susceptibility Gene For Autoimmune Disease
... of disease completely disappeared. The findings support preliminary results of human clinical trials beingconducted at Duke and other research institutions of an experimental treatmentfor rheumatoid arthritis (RA) that also uses antibodies to TNFa, Blackshearsaid. Such studies have shown antibodies to TNF...From Corn Rootworms To Art, Cornell's Reactor Is At The Core
... reactors. The vapor fraction measurements are in support of a two-phase flow model important in understanding the potential for severe accidents in nuclear reactors....Transgenic Rice Plants Resist Insects, Drought And Salt Damage
...hou, China. The transgenic rice was developed with support from the Rockefeller Foundation's International Rice Biotechnology Program. That program funds some 40 laboratories in developed countries and another 80 in developing countries where scientists are trained to help their countries become more agricu......sity of Wisconsin, Madison; Maria Eisner, research support specialist at CIRCE; Braden Roach, a Cornell postdoctoral researcher at the time of the studies and now a staff scientist at the Ithaca-based pharmaceutical-development firm, Phyton Inc.; and Jerrold Meinwald, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistr...... by the National ScienceFoundation with additional support through the Fulbright Program,the National Geographic Society, and the National SpeleologicalSociety....Environmental Reform: The Next Generation Project
...n, Edward Strobehn and Fred Krupp. Major project support has come from the Avina Foundation, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, GE Fund, German Marshall Fund, Hughes Foundation, the Assocition of American Railroads and the ERQ Educational Foundation and the McKnight Foundation. A reception will follow the wor...Gene Discovery Could Overcome Aluminum Barrier To Higher Wheat Yields Worldwide
...umbia, Mo. "If the international collaboration and support continues, we should be able to give wheat breeders lines that are more aluminum tolerant than existing varieties in about five years," Gustafson said. That would offer potentially higher yields for a hungry world, he added. World population, now 5....NCAR Scientists Trek To Africa For Biosphere-Atmosphere Chemistry Study
...r-mounted instruments and a research aircraft will support studies of biomass burning, rainforest-savanna bou...Science Foundation, which is providing substantial support for EXPRESSO. With its vast expanse of land near the equator, Africa exerts a powerful influence on ...North America Hit Hard By Asteroid Strike In Yucatan 65 Million Years Ago
...searchers said that biological evidence appears to support theiroblique-impact hypothesis. North America, the first region to experience thefireball, had the most severe extinctions of plants. After the devastation, ferns dominated the flora of central North America.Ferns accounted for 70 to 100 percent of ...Antarctic Science Season Gears Up With Searches for Meteorites, Neutrinos, and New Life Forms
...ndreds of thousands of years. NSF provides flight support for the project and grants to glaciologists studying the ice core. More Favorite Martians? The news last summer that ALH84001, a meteorite from Mars found in Antarctica's Allan Hills, may contain fossils of early life startled scientists an...Scientists Trek to Africa for Biosphere-Atmosphere Chemistry Study
...r-mounted instruments and a research aircraft will support studies of biomass burning, rainforest-savanna boundaries and the influence of tropical vegetation on global air chemistry. This fall's field work, which begins on Nov. 10, is the climax of a multiyear project called EXPRESSO, the Experiment ...New Finding Suggests "HATs" Are Key To Gene Activation Puzzle
... The team has found the strongest evidence yet to support the widely accepted theory that gene activation is linkedto the uncoiling of the tightly wound form in which DNA is usually stored. "How genes are activated has confounded biologists for years," says C. David Allis, a professor of biology who ma...A Sensor, A Switch, A Zipper: Protein Engineers Design Potential Tool
...onal Institutes of Health dedicated to the support of basic research and training....Bottom-up Ecological Processes Better For Clear Waters, Study Finds
...meta-analysis of 54 studies, providing unequivocal support forthe trophic cascade hypothesis in the Proceedings of the National Academyof Sciences. Next, the pair set out to compare this top-down hypothesis with the "bottom-up"effect of nutrients upon the quantity of algae. The UC Davis researchers looked......pandingearthquake monitoring to reduce hazards and support the comprehensivenuclear test ban treaty, and for ...ion of geographic research andapplication funds to support urban dynamic investigations in fourmetropolitan regions: New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Portl...Scientists Determine 3-D Crystal Structure Of Cancer-Causing Protein
...hes Medical Institute. In addition,Miller received support from the federal government's National Institutes ofHealth. Sicheri is a fellow of the Human Frontiers Science Program. On a historical note, in work that would win him a Nobel Prize in 1966,Rockefeller's Peyton Rous, M.D., Sc.D., discovered ......phic information systems (GIS) software. Financial support for construction of BirdSource comes, in part, from a matching grant by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to the National Audubon Society. The site will be co-managed by Audubon and by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. "BirdSource will pr...