New study to compare digital, film mammography in massive $26.5 million effort to save womens lives
...l, which is the cooperative research networks most ambitious undertaking, will guide womens breast care into the future, said Dr. Bruce J. Hillman, chair of the research network. This work is very exciting, and its going to be very important, said Pisano, chief of breast imaging at UNC Hospitals. Beginning M......eve world renown. "This institute will be the most ambitious tissue engineering program in the nation, coupling biology and engineering in all facets of its work," stated Dr. Russell, whose primary academic appointment will now be in the school of medicine's department of surgery. "The University of Pittsburgh......hat began as a summer vacation soon turned into an ambitious 9,000-mile scientific expedition. Harrimans guest list grew to include 25 of the 19th centurys most accomplished scientists, conservationists and artists, among them nature writer John Burroughs, naturalist and mountaineer John Muir and photographer......olerance. Through the Immune Tolerance Network, an ambitious undertaking supported by the National Institutes of Health and Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International, Dr. Thomson and Adriana Zeevi, Ph.D., are leading this unique study to better understand the specific immunological process that occurs in tran...First dinosaur found with its body covering intact; displays primitive feathers from head to toe
...on, and exhibitions. The Museum accomplishes this ambitious goal through its extensive facilities and resource...nces. In February 2000 the Museum opened its most ambitious endeavor everthe monumental 120-foot-high, 333,500-square-foot Frederick Phineas & Sandra Priest Ros...Searching for the secrets of drug-free transplants
...s one of the key areas of study of the network, an ambitious $144 million undertaking supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International. The Pitt team was selected because......, but the harder it is to put it there. The most ambitious option, first proposed by James Early in a Lawrence Livermore National Lab report in 1989, is a 2000-kilometre-wide solar shield in orbit about 1.5 million kilometres from Earth. The satellite would sit in a sweet spot known as the Lagrange point-a p...Genomics project aims to create a "virtual plant"
...tic studies. The 2010 Project report outlines an ambitious 10-year effort that emphasizes the training of sci... unknown," said Chory. "So, we've got an extremely ambitious goal to fully understand their function. "Understanding how every protein interacts with others is ......etion, scientists nationwide are launching another ambitious project -- this time to learn how variations in genes affect people's responses to drugs. Differences of a single "letter" among many thousands in the DNA instructions of a gene are thought to often affect drug response. The emerging research, in th...Three Americans win top international prizes for science and medicine
...iological diversity of species. Professor Wilson's ambitious work bringing together various fields of knowledge, in a single framework, have made him one of the past century's most important biologists. Professor Wilson, born in Birmingham, Alabama, is renowned for his Pulitzer Prize-winning books On Human Na...Road dust: Rural vehicles emit more pollutants than urban ones
...ity's Air Quality Laboratory, has performed an ambitious study of vehicular emissions in the St. Louis region. Emission measurements were taken for particles smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter, which is the size range for a standard issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1997. ...Major grant to aid McGill University professor's efforts to improve school science teaching
... science." In addition to leading the new, highly ambitious project, Professor Alters serves as Director of arecently created McGill centre dedicated to evolution education research. The Evolution EducationResearch Centre will provide a necessary unifying structure where members of various departments,faculti...China now leads world in sulfur emissions, study shows
...e world have shifted from the West to the East. An ambitious analysis of global sulfur emissions estimates spanning two centuries shows that the United States, Europe and the former Soviet Union have stabilized their emissions over the past 20 years, while mainland China's sulfur emissions have soared. China ...Revolutionary genomics project launched
...y 20th century. UC Davis has undertaken this very ambitious initiative in order to ensure its international position as a leader in the biological sciences." The impact of this new field on the practice of medicine will be especially significant, said Joseph Silva, dean of the School of Medicine. "We are ant...Stanford launches interdisciplinary initiative in the biological sciences
... sciences makes it imperative. They are backing an ambitious newinterdisciplinary initiative, called Bio-X, that is specifically designed tostrengthen the links between faculty and students in medical research,engineering, chemistry, physics and biology. Not to be mistaken for the unknown or alien "X" of TV's ...Horseshoe crab studies providing new insight into valuable ancient creatures
... Wildlife, saysthe new horseshoe crab census is an ambitious undertaking, which willrequire extensive volunteer support. Eight beaches on both sides of the bayhave been chosen for sampling. Teams of volunteers and staff of naturalresource agencies will count adult horseshoe crabs along establishedtransects dur...Testing Restaurant Compost For Greenhouses
...l come later -- along with funding support for the ambitious program, thestudents hope. At first, the restaurant food wastes will be hauled to anexisting compost facility, such as the one at Ithaca's Cayuga Nature Center,where food wastes from one area supermarket are processed, or to Future Farms inVan Etten...Major $17 Million Grant To Fund Ocean Research
...ented scale. The new consortium will implement an ambitious program ofmonitoring, experimental research, interdisciplinary training, studenteducation, public outreach and use of findings to help guide policy and decisionmakers. "This project represents the kind of scientific research we need to protect ourcoa...DOE Joint Human Genome Effort Exceeds Sequencing Goal
...elp decipher the human genetic code, surpassed its ambitious goal of sequencing20 million base pairs for fiscal year 1998. "This achievement marks an unprecedented ten-fold increase in production outputover the previous year," said Martha Krebs, the DOE's Director of the Office ofEnergy Research. "With thi......ght show as they flew the last mission of the most ambitious hurricane study campaign in the Atlantic Ocean. Rarely seen lightning fields and purple sprites were detected in the eye of the hurricane by the ER-2 pilot as he flew more than 19.8 km (65,000 ft) above the Atlantic. The third Convection and Moist...