ESA's first step towards Mars Sample Return
...ical technologies required for the success of this ambitious endeavour have yet to be developed in Europe, e.g. re-entry of spacecraft arriving from at high velocity from deep space. As a preliminary stage in developing a vehicle capable of bringing back samples from Mars, it was considered necessary to devel...NHGRI selects sequencing centers
...ientific experience will meet and even surpass our ambitious sequencing goals. From the Human Genome Project, we have learned that teamwork really pays off when it comes to scientific discovery," said Dr. Collins, who noted that over the past five years, the MIT, Washington University and Baylor centers were m...Study reveals patterns of gene activity in the mouse nervous system
...). "This paper presents the first fruits of a very ambitious project to map gene expression onto the anatomy of the mouse brain. We believe that this information will facilitate investigations in the function of the normal and diseased brain," says Story C. Landis, Ph.D., director of NINDS. "With this project,...How many fish in the sea? Census of Marine Life launches first report
...t has advanced during the first three years of the ambitious 10-year, $1 billion Census initiative. Following the reports launch, leading scientists involved in the project will meet to map out research priorities for the next seven years, one of the most important meetings of ocean researchers ever conducted...$62-million partnership to revolutionize ocean research
... and ocean environment." "NEPTUNE's goals are very ambitious and very important scientifically," said Dr. David Strangway, President and CEO of CFI. "The CFI's investment in NEPTUNE's infrastructure has the potential to transform areas of geological and marine science by radically improving the nature, qualit...NIH announces strategy to accelerate medical research progress
...nt doubling of the NIH budget. In setting forth an ambitious vision for a more efficient and productive system of medical research, the NIH Roadmap focuses on the most compelling opportunities in three main areas: new pathways to discovery, research teams of the future and re-engineering the clinical research ......cs and molecular biology. Since accomplishing this ambitious aim is well beyond the ability of any single researcher or laboratory, the NIGMS-supported centers of excellence are designed to bring together scientific teams with expertise in both the biomedical and quantitative sciences, including mathematicians...Grant renews funding of research toward cloning primates
...ientists at the Pittsburgh Development Center have ambitious goals for the five-year grant period, including overcoming fundamental molecular obstacles to cloning nonhuman primates first reported by the group in the April 11, 2003, edition of the journal Science. Despite using four common techniques of nuclear...Audience pick: Older violin, sweeter music?
... every position and every note with the scales and ambitious music -- to be balanced, Nagyvary explained. "I'm even attempting to fake the age so that even if the screen were removed, the audiencewould not be able to tell the two violins apart," Nagyvary said. The whole even is a bit of a scientific exp...Worm farmers wriggle into US market
...ry feed market. 'Seabait Ltd is now engaged on an ambitious expansion programme and is actively seeking investment from private and small venture capital sources....Lipids get the spotlight in new NIGMS 'Glue Grant'
...itutes of Health puts lipids at center stage in an ambitious scientific project that promises to shed light on heart disease, arthritis and other major illnesses. The five-year grant will fund the Lipid MAPS Consortium, a large collaborative effort led by the University of California, San Diego. NIH anticipat...Type 2 diabetes linked to a family of metabolic genes
BOSTON -- An ambitious and exhaustive genetic study, led by investigators at the Joslin Diabetes Center and the Children's Hospital Boston Informatics Program, has pinpointed a group of genes that are involved in type 2 diabetes and shows that the activity of these genes c...Industry asked to design Mars rover and payload
...nticipated to be around 40 kg. "ExoMars is a very ambitious mission and a key step in the development of the Aurora long-term plan to send a human expedition to Mars," said Bruno Gardini, Aurora Project Manager. "Not only will it include Europe's first planetary roving vehicle, but it will also be the first ...First steps to EMBO research awards agreed by the EMBC
...es in Europe and acts as a prototype to other more ambitious programmes, such as the European Research Council, that are currently being actively discussed in Europe"....Michigan solar car ready to shine
...s one of the largest, most complex and technically ambitious student projects at the University. About 150 students make contributions to the car, including students from the College of Engineering, Business School and School of Art & Design. Throughout the year, the team designs, manufactures and tests the ve...Scientists discover 'drive shaft' in mechanism that propels parasite into cells
...eases such as toxoplasmosis and malaria. That's an ambitious undertaking, and there are many hurdles to overcome, but given the importance of these diseases, it is a possibility we must explore." About 35 million people in the United States and up to a quarter of the world's population are thought to be infe...UK-Canadian consortium commits $95 million to international health research project
... hundreds of human proteins will be the goal of an ambitious $95 million partnership that brings together British and Canadian health researchers under the direction of an internationally renowned Canadian scientist. The newly formed Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) is a three-year initiative led by Canadi...Boston chemist wins national award for protein research
...phy. At that time the Human Genome Project and its ambitious goal to decipher the complete coding of the body's proteins was more than a decade away, but Hancock's analytical methods would play an increasingly important role. "The Human Genome Project was about the genetics of proteins, and now it's a global s......uccess was inspired by his mother, a woman with an ambitious spirit, and his late father, a talented man who struggled with schizophrenia and periodic homelessness while Erich was a child in New York City's Harlem community. His father's eclectic interests and appreciation for the natural world helped to shape...Essay on genes and behavior prompts culture clash in academic journal
...ection to seek a mate who is dependable, generous, ambitious and confident. ''Ellis is simply confusing the preferences of women he knows in his society with evolutionary fitness,'' wrote Ehrlich and Feldman, noting that no data exist showing that women who seek those characteristics in their sexual partners a...