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...mber states. The main objective of this move is to bring benefit to the candidate's home laboratory and promote collaboration. Candidates from developing countries and emerging economies may in very exceptional circumstances have the opportunity to extend their fellowship to a period of up to 6 months. C...University of Pittsburgh medical center among first to implant heart assist device
... the Heartmate XVE. "We are pleased to be able to bring this new technology and therapeutic approach to our patients," said Robert L. Kormos, M.D., professor of surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and director of UPMC's Artificial Heart and Heart Transplant programs. "Heart transpla...Research reveals role of gene in infertility
...d with another piece because RAD51 is not there to bring the two pieces together," Ma says. The electron-microscope images show definitively that the RAD51 gene is required in plants for forming the central element that pairs the two chromosomes. The RAD51 gene also is known to be required for its role ......d other entirely novel ways of tackling cancer. To bring these new developments to patients as quickly and efficiently as possible requires international collaboration, early and optimal exchange of information, good quality translational research, efficient drug development and large prospective clinical ...European researchers tackle mitosis
...role, but researchers don't know how these enzymes bring about the important changes in cells that cause them to divide. To understand cell division in a comprehensive manner, the MitoCheck consortium of European scientists will systematically hunt for all genes that are required for division and then chec...Society for conservation biology conference
...t the Earth Institute at Columbia University, will bring together more than 1,700 scientists, conservation biology practitioners, and students from around the world to focus on this year's theme "Conservation in the Urbanizing World." The United Nations projects that almost all the world's population growt...Wistar-discovered antibody will help diagnose appendicitis
...he region and its international corporate partners bring to the clinic an important advance in physicians' ability to diagnose hidden infections." The Wistar antibody, labeled with radioactive technetium to create NeutroSpec, binds selectively to the CD15 receptor on neutrophils, a type of white blood cell...Spanish scientists develop powerful tool for exploration and integration of biological information
...er a revolution in new text-mining tools that will bring biomedicine within closer reach of both the scientific community and the wider public....Summer in the South: Kudzu and oriental bittersweet
...native invasive plants. Forest Service researchers bring a variety of approaches to this problem. Forest Fragmentation - SRS researcher Kurt Riitters and collaborators from universities and other federal agencies are using high-resolution land cover maps derived from satellite images to model forest fra...UCSD team determines cellular stress within body is critical
...thor of the paper in PNAS, noted that the findings bring to light new possibilities in the development of drugs to treat autoimmune diseases, transplant rejection and cancer. "We are particularly excited about the implications of our findings to cancer cell biology," Ho said. "The tissue microenvironment ...New $9 million NSF grant to fund creation of center at LSU
...merly owned by Albemarle chemical company. It will bring together an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional research team with expertise in microsystems engineering, materials, chemistry and biological systems and provide state-of-the-art equipment and facilities. Steven A. Soper, the William L. and Patri...'Plants for the future': A European vision for plant biotechnology towards 2025
...o need to be created to develop these products and bring them to market. "EPSO and EuropaBio will develop this Technology Platform in the framework of an EU supported project that started on 1st June 2004. We aim to broaden the stakeholder forum, to articulate the Long Term Strategic Research Agenda 2025 ...NIH awards grant for cancer research to the University of Wisconsin
...." "Scientific discovery requires approaches that bring together---both physically and intellectually---scientists and clinicians with a broad range of expertise and skills," said Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., director of NIH. "By removing physical barriers, researchers at this facility can work as interdiscip...$5 million grant funds partnership, studies of minority-based issues in reproductive health
...orically black institution, said both institutions bring unique strengths to the partnership and a largely homogeneous patient population, Meharry's being primarily African-American, and Penn State Hershey Medical Center's being primarily Caucasian. "This is really an opportunity for our two institutions...Plant pathologists to discuss the future of organic farming
...w developments in sustainable agriculture and will bring into focus the roles and accomplishments of APS members in this area. This event is open to everyone for a special one-day registration cost. Members of the media are invited to attend annual meeting events and complimentary registration is available...AAAS urges US to give scientists a voice in research misconduct cases
...nd their use has demonstrated the added value they bring to the judicial proceedings," wrote Alan I. Leshner, AAAS chief executive officer, in the letter to ORI. The Court Appointed Scientific Experts Project (CASE) was launched in 1998 and is managed by AAAS staff. For more information on this program, pl...AAAS 2004 salary survey: Despite long hours and low pay, life scientists love their work
...t the low end, averaging $39,000, while physicians bring home approximately $170,000. Seventy percent of scientists in universities and other doctoral-granting institutions claim they are either "extremely" or "very" satisfied. Self-employed people also rate their satisfaction highly. Only 22 perce...NASA data shows hurricanes help plants bloom in 'ocean deserts'
...ane's high winds stir up the ocean waters and help bring nutrients and phytoplankton to the surface, where they get more sunlight, allowing the plants to bloom," Babin said. Previous research has relied largely on sporadic, incomplete data from ships to understand how and when near-surface phytoplankton b...Therapeutic cloning may be permitted at Newcastle University
...tem cell biology and nuclear transfer technique to bring faster and more efficient stem cells from the bench to the patient's bed. Newcastle University's Institute of Human Genetics and the Life Fertility Center is one of only two groups in the UK to derive human ES (embryonic stem cells) from s...Molecule that 'blocks' key bacterial enzyme may lead to new antibiotics
...me, RNA polymerase (RNAP). The "tunnel" is used to bring raw materials for RNA synthesis into the enzyme and to expel byproducts of RNA synthesis. "Closing the crowded, two-way 'tunnel' starves RNAP, shuts it down and kills the bacteria," said Richard H. Ebright, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute...