HHMI awards $15 million to scientists outside United States
...ns under way. The first will award $15 million for biomedical scientists in the Baltics, Central and Eastern Eur...former Soviet Union; the other, $16.25 million for biomedical scientists in Canada and Latin America. This international program complements HHMI's principal acti...Purdue researchers track deadly foodborne bacterium
...sor of agricultural and biological engineering and biomedical engineering. The ability to test for low levels of the bacterium is important, Linton says, because Listeria monocytogenes is infectious at as few as 10 cells. "Compare that with a food illness caused by Salmonella, where it would take about a millio...Gene 'shaving' could help doctors predict the efficacy of cancer treatments
...ani, called on the scientific community to boycott biomedical journals that refuse to make their research articles available for free. He said, "Scientists have to take full control of the process of disseminating scientific information by insisting that their work be treated as a freely available public re...We are family: the imperative for a chimpanzee genome project
...enetic differences. Thus, says Varki, we have a biomedical imperative to embark on a chimp sequencing project. As an added incentive, sequencing the chimp genome should provide us with intriguing glimpses into the nature of "human-ness," that is, what propelled our evolution from our ape-like ancestors. Fi...Ohio State to host first worldwide biomed/nanotech conference
...ntings from the life's work of biomedical researchers such as Ferrari. ... Ferrari to commercialize his developments in biomedical nanotechnology. Ferrari has asked the National Science Foun...Research shows radiologists will need different programs for digital mammography to work best
...tics; Shuquan Zong, graduate research associate in biomedical engineering; Bradley M. Hemminger, senior research associate in radiology; Dr. Keith E. Muller, associate professor of biostatistics; and 27 co-authors from the International Digital Mammography Development Group. The latter is a consortium of radiol...NIGMS awards 'Glue Grant' to create virtual cell
...d to forgo two of the most coveted products of the biomedical science endeavor: intellectual property rights and first rights to publish in peer-reviewed journals, the respected anthology of scientific progress. Instead, all of the data produced in the core laboratories will be deposited immediately into the ...Colorado set to fly biomedical experiments on September shuttle flight
...rchers will test the effects of low gravity on two biomedical experiments aboard the upcoming flight of NASAs sp...-sized CGBA have supported dozens of agricultural, biomedical and biotechnology experiments in thousands of customized test tubes on NASA shuttle missions in the ...Artificial muscles release medicine from tiny implants
...lds upon Madou's previous work in microsensors and biomedical microelectromechanical devices. He has developed tiny sensors that will reside on the outside of the plastic capsules to sense concentrations of certain chemicals in a patient's bloodstream. When sensors detect that a patient needs medication, the a...Whitehead Institute receives National Science Foundation grant to sequence Neurospora
...ing the Neurospora genome is an important goal for biomedical research," says Bruce Birren, assistant director o...m, fruit fly, and the human have helped accelerate biomedical research, sequencing this fungus will provide many new insights into life's processes. "Many l...Tiny microchips have big promise in fighting serious diseases
...body, according to researchers in the new field of biomedical nanotechnology. Such chips - called biological microelectromechanical devices (bioMEMS) - are less than half the width of a human hair. They could contain drugs, muscle cells or even be equipped to monitor a patient's condition minute-to-minute. And ...Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lab receives $6 million grant to decipher protein structures
...of Health that funds a significant amount of basic biomedical science. On Sept. 26, NIGMS awarded nearly $150 million to seven projects around the country, including $24 million to the Joint Center for Structural Genomics (JCSG) - a consortium of California scientific research organizations that includes SSRL, ...International research group led by UMass scientist sequences genome of ubiquitous microbe
...ns across biological membranes. Right now, several biomedical applications using Halobacterium are being investigated, including the development of orally administered vaccines, and the design of new antibiotics." NSF program director Joanne Tornow says the foundation's goal is to catalyze the development o......goals: (1) developing new models and databases for biomedical researchers worldwide, and (2) advancing understan...and all the data produced will be available to the biomedical research community. Earlier this year, the National Institutes of Health made a $16.3 million grant ...Bio-X awards $3 million in grants for imaginative interdisciplinary research and education projects
...or engineering sciences. The goal will be to equip biomedical scientists/engineers with an understanding of disease sufficient to allow them to optimally identify and pursue areas of medical research in which they can apply their more specialized training to clinical problems. ``Establishing these courses is no...Hopkins scientists shed light on how the brain 'thinks'
...of Nature, Kurt Thoroughman, a graduate student in biomedical engineering, and Reza Shadmehr, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical engineering and neuroscience, report mathematically deconstructing the learning process. Subjects i...Ion microscopy pinpoints drugs inside cancer cells
... a report on the development of the biological and biomedical application of ion microscopy earlier this year in the journal Analytical Chemistry . The subcellular location of transported ions inside normal and cancer cells can be studied with ion microscopy by placing a stable, or nonradioactive, isotope...Initial awards announced under new international bioethics education and career development award
...relevant studies on ethical theory and practice in biomedical and behavioral research." The program was developed as an outcome of the Global Forum for Bioethics in Research, the first in a series initiated by FIC and held at NIH in November 1999. At the Forum, developing country scientists and health pr......specially data mining, artificial intelligence and biomedical informatics as central features. Eventually through the Carnegie Mellon Research Institute, BMSI will develop various new online training technologies for a preparedness training system that will link federal, state and local agencies.......rmation to be tapped. The authors have exploited a biomedical technique, Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy, to produce three-dimensional images of the inclusions. These reveal the amounts of gas and oil in the inclusions, data that can be used to model both the composition and the pressure of the paleofluids. ...