Landmark gene agreement announced by Samoan government and UC Berkeley for anti-AIDS drug Prostratin
...ived drug with the people of Samoa. The agreement, announced today (Thursday, Sept. 30) in Apia, the capital of Samoa, supports Samoa's assertion of national sovereignty over the gene sequence of Prostratin, a drug extracted from the bark of the mamala tree (Homalanthus nutans). The drug currently is being stu...Landmark agreement between Samoa and UC Berkeley could help search for AIDS cure
...ived drug with the people of Samoa. The agreement, announced today (Thursday, Sept. 30) in Apia, the capital of Samoa, supports Samoa's assertion of national sovereignty over the gene sequence of Prostratin, a drug extracted from the bark of the mamala tree (Homalanthus nutans). The drug currently is being stu...Half-million dollar landmark achieved for the Methuselah Mouse Prize
...c prize for research on extending longevity, today announced that it has secured a total of $500,000 in funding commitments with the long term support commitment from an anonymous supporter making his donation in the name of the X PRIZE Foundation, the multi-million-dollar bounty which has successfully encoura...USAID, Conservation International & Starbucks launch Conservation Coffee Alliance in Central America
...n CI's priority areas. In January 2004, Starbucks announced a $2.5 million direct loan to help capitalize the fund. Starbucks has also enabled consumers to support these conservation efforts by making the high quality, sustainable coffees from Conservation Coffee project available to Starbucks customers acros...Preclinical safety study shows adipose-derived stem cells improve heart function after heart attack
... MacroPore Biosurgery, Inc. (Frankfurt: XMP) today announced that adipose tissue-derived regenerative cells improved heart function following myocardial infarction in a large-animal preclinical safety study. This study, performed in swine, confirms previous preclinical work by MacroPore Biosurgery and others s...Indiana University, EPA to study airborne PCBs
...gh the air. To investigate the phenomenon, the EPA announced today (Sept. 27) that it would continue its collaboration with Indiana University Bloomington environmental scientists Ronald Hites and Ilora Basu to study the toxin's circulation between the air and the Great Lakes. What the scientists learn will he...Northeastern University receives $12.4 million NSF grant for creation of nanomanufacturing institute
...STON, Mass. The National Science Foundation today announced a $12.4 ($12.376 million for five years) million grant for a new nanoscale science and engineering center to be headquartered at Northeastern University. The grant fortifies a partnership between Northeastern and the University of Massachusetts Lowel...Abstract poster contest finalists announced
(Spokane, WA) --Six finalists were announced in the poster competition at the annual Environmen...three cash awards totaling $1,750. Winners will be announced the morning of September 22, the final morning of the conference. INRA is a coalition of eight nort...Martin Saunders to receive the James Flack Norris Award
... section of the American Chemical Society recently announced Professor Martin Saunders, of the Department of Chemistry at Yale University as the 2005 recipient of the James Flack Norris Award for physical organic chemistry. The award, established in 1963 to encourage and reward outstanding contributions to ph...US investment firm gives away Rhode Island-sized lands in Chile
...enas, Chile, September 14, 2004 Goldman Sachs has announced the unprecedented gift of a sprawling wilderness in Chile to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). The lands, on the island of Tierra del Fuego, are home to the world's southernmost stands of old growth forests as well as unique grasslands, rivers...Information system to help scientists analyze mechanisms of social behavior
...eeSpace was one of six awards totaling $30 million announced today (Sept. 16) as part of the NSF's Frontiers of Integrative Biological Research (FIBR), a program now in its second year. BeeSpace will be housed in the Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB), now under construction on Gregory Drive in Urbana. The $...Cockroach-like robot leads new research effort
...lling over. The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today (Thursday, Sept. 16) a $5 million, five-year grant to the University of California, Berkeley, that will fund an all-star team of biologists, engineers and mathematicians from universities across the country to try to understand the mechanical a...NSF announces six 'FIBR' awards to tackle some of biology's most challenging questions
...ology, the National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced six new awards totaling nearly $30 million over fi... several other countries. The FIBR projects announced today include the following (see separate profiles for more detail): "BeeSpace -- An Interac...Ecology of infectious diseases grants awarded
...) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have announced funding for six projects under the Ecology of Infectious Diseases (EID) program, the fifth year of funding in this multi-year effort. The joint program supports efforts to understand the ecological and biological mechanisms that govern relationships ...AACR applauds NCI initiative on nanotechnology
...on for Cancer Research applauds the new initiative announced today by the National Cancer Institute to harness the power of nanotechnology in the fight against cancer. "Nanotechnology can serve as an effective complement to approaches including proteomics and bioinformatics that will become critical compone...Tufts University establishes $4 million dollar tissue engineering resource center
...Center on its Medford/Somerville campus, officials announced today. The grant is funded through the NIH's National Institutes of Biomedical Instrumentation and Bioengineering. Tissue engineering has grown immensely as a discipline in recent years due to advances in cell and molecular biology, biomaterials s...DuPont developing new protective suits for military, first responders
WILMINGTON, Del., Sept. 10, 2004 DuPont today announced promising research in the fight against terrorism with the development of protective materials that are resistant to chemical and biological agents. The suits are targeted for use by U.S. soldiers, firefighters, and other first responders. Early fe...Joslin Diabetes Center adds first affiliate in California at Irvine Medical Center
...r, the world leader in diabetes research and care, announced today its affiliation with University of California, Irvine Medical Center. Located at Gottschalk Medical Plaza on the UC Irvine campus, Joslin Diabetes Center at University of California, Irvine will offer the latest advances for treating diabetes a...Two Virginia Tech energy-related inventions win R&D 100 awards
... All of this year's R&D 100 technologies will be announced in the September issue of R&D Magazine and the researchers will be honored at a banquet in Chicago on Oct. 14. Past winning technologies in the international judging have included the FAX machine and HDTV. Polymer membranes make fuel cell producti......ants, although the main U.S. manufacturer recently announced plans to discontinue production of the penta and octa formulations as part of a voluntary agreement with the U.S. EPA....