Threats to scientists condemned by research support organization
...rks to enhance public understanding and support of biomedical research, condemns the animal rights group "The Justice Department" for sending threatening mail to over 80 research scientists across the United States. The FBI has called the incident a case of domestic terrorism. "This is not a harmless prank. T...NRC spin-off develops rapid sensors
...anuary 1999 by Drs. Armstrong and Lafrance, former biomedical Research Officers at NRC. The company is now expanding its workforce and senior management team in order to penetrate the lucrative markets in the defence, medical and occupational health/environmental sectors....Whitaker Foundation funds Washington University biomedical engineering facility
...s announced plans to construct a building to house biomedical engineering research and teaching. Groundbreaking...provide $10 million toward the construction of the biomedical engineering building, and the second award of $3 million will be used over the next three years to a...SPIRE seeks to boost young scientists' job prospects, minority science education
...nsortium established in 1989 to boost diversity in biomedical science by strengthening science education in secondary and undergraduate education. The partnership includes Elizabeth City State, Fayetteville State, Johnson C. Smith, N.C. A&T State, N.C. Central and Shaw universities and UNC-Pembroke....Scientists discover how cells 'catch' a cold
...ossible insights in other areas of science such as biomedical research.......luids. The Carilion Biomedical Institute will be a biomedical science, engineering, and technologyresearch and d...OSER will be open to any proposals relating to the biomedical sciences or engineering. As examples,other areas in which proposals would be considered could includ...UB establishes institute for research on lasers, photonics and biophotonics
... Engineering and Applied Sciences. Efforts in the biomedical arena include research into new cancer treatments, new instruments and laser training formedical, dental and aesthetic applications. Funding to launch the institute is provided by the UB Office of the Provost, with faculty support from the College o...Grant to provide training for scientists in Europe and Latin America
...ber 8, 1999 – A program that has helped train biomedical scientistsin Latin America will expand to parts of...nts to learn new developments in diverse fields of biomedical research. Thismonth, for example, scientists will gather in Santiago, Chile, for a course on "Molecu...Zebrafish's powerful heart gene could lead to transplant therapy
...nges River - and many an aquarium-- as a model for biomedical studies. Until recently studied in only a handfulof labs worldwide, it is increasingly surfacing at the lab bench. The reasons for its appeal are many, but none rival the fact that thecrystal-clear zebrafish embryo offers a view of burgeoning life t...Howard Hughes Medical Institute awards $92 million in research support to U.S. medical schools
...ll help the schools find new ways to combine basic biomedical research and clinical treatment of patients. They ...l schools to help them sustain their commitment to biomedical research. The new grants bring to $172 million the awards made to medical schools for biomedical res...Howard Hughes Medical Institute funds biomedical facilities at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
...of x-raycrystallography as a critical tool for the biomedical research community and recognizes the successand promise of the ALS in identifying and characterizing proteins." As the Human Genome Project approaches completion, the next big steps are to identify the proteinsthat human DNA codes for and find out ...U-M Medical School receives $4 million for new bioinformatics program
...ceive a Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant for biomedical research support. HHMI is a medical research orga...ization whose principal purpose is the conduct of biomedical research. It employs scientists in cell biology, genetics, immunology, neuroscience and structural...Scientists figure out how cells' tiniest motors work
... along these lines is already under way in private biomedical labs. Using four different techniques to visualize and measure changes in the motor's shape, theresearchers showed that a small region of the protein called the "neck linker" thrusts forward whenpowered by ATP, the chemical that serves as a nearly u...UCSF School of Medicine receives $3.8 Million grant for biomedical research
...fromthe Howard Hughes Medical Institute to support biomedical research. Theschool's plans for the grant include startup funds for new faculty and supportfor the study of genetic diseases. HHMI's Biomedical Research Support Program awarded 41 similar grants,including UCSF's, to medical schools across the country...Laser light from Free-Electron Laser used for first time in human surgery
... tool for awide range of basic research, including biomedical applications. Among these pioneers were a group of...llyfor applications research in the biological and biomedical sciences, as well as physics. Initial efforts to use the FEL beam as a surgical scalpel centered on...CWRU med school snares $3 million Howard Hughes Institute grant to build structural biology program
....S. medical schools find new ways to combine basic biomedical research and clinical treatment of patients. The awards, chosen from 105 proposals, are the second in a series of HHMI grants to medical schools to help strengthen their ability to do research at a time when managed care and other changes in traditi...... enable Columbia to find new ways to combine basic biomedical research with clinical treatment of patients by au...ant will increase our ability to develop new basic biomedical research areas that ultimately will augment clinical treatments," said Thomas Morris, M.D., interim ...First genetic toggle switch engineered at Boston University
...d," notes Timothy S. Gardner, a Ph.D. candidate in biomedical engineering and lead author of the study. "This type of sensor would be useful in controlling diabetes, for example, by automatically activating the synthesis of insulin when blood glucose reaches a particular level." Such a system also has potential...Increased production of antibiotics in space reported by University of Colorado researchers
...er in October 1998 show promise for developing new biomedical products, according to recent research results. Aerospace engineering sciences Assistant Professor David Klaus said an antibiotic production experiment involving microbes showed the production of the antibiotic actinomycin D was 75 percent higher i...Scientists develop most efficient mouse cloning strategy to date, create transgenic clone
...in agriculture and animal husbandry, as well as in biomedical research designed to decipher the mechanisms of disease. The mouse, in particular, is considered the best mammalian model system to study the genetic basis of human disease. In the Nature Genetics study, the Jaenisch lab and their collaborators at ...