Student science contest participation influences study, career choices, alumni say
...Their solution generated interest from a number of companies but unfortunately the high school students became to busy with their university studies to really pursue commercial application. "We started the patent process but it became too costly and time-consuming to complete it." The ABC com...Gladstone investigator Mike McCune wins prestigious NIH Director's Pioneer Award
...chnology companies, SyStemix and Progenesys. These companies were among the first to work on hematopoietic stem cells and the application of stem cell-based gene therapy for the treatment of HIV disease. McCune, who joined the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology in 1995, has been associated wi...Award winning researchers reveal potential new role for Glivec
...ll also aid regulatory agencies and pharmaceutical companies by speeding up drug development while helping to implement more rational regulatory policies." Dr McArthur said that one challenge the oncology community faced was working with industry and regulatory agencies to develop strategies for approving nov...Yale digital diagnostic technology is basis of new company, HistoRx Inc.
...mic institutions, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies while selectively licensing its technologies to le... feasibility studies with two major pharmaceutical companies and is scheduled to ship its first systems to two preeminent research universities this week. ...K-State, other universities to study how climate affects plant evolution
...tion, the K-State team is working with two private companies to build and package sensors that will be located at each of the research sites. The sensors will be capable of recording soil moisture, air temperature, relative humidity, solar radiation and photo reactivity. The project is one of six Frontiers in ...Washington University in St. Louis leads group studying aging process
...ve pathways already are drawing interest from drug companies as targets for new therapies."...Hardy buoys: Texas A&M project predicts oil spill movements
...uch of the $1 million-plus buoy system, and by oil companies who operate in the Gulf of Mexico. Buoys range in ... many oil drilling platforms in the area. All oil companies operating within 40 miles of the Flower Garden Banks are required by law to protect it, Guinasso not...Tufts University establishes $4 million dollar tissue engineering resource center
... growth by filling an important niche for start-up companies looking for support as they move their technologies to the next level," said Jamshed Bharucha, Tufts provost and senior vice president. "Tufts is proud to be part of this growing field," he added. ...ConocoPhillips & Conservation International launch 'Biodiversity Action Plan' in Venezuela
...ational. "That is why it is important to work with companies like ConocoPhillips to not only minimize their own...he Biodiversity Action Plan include: Petroleum companies operating in the Gulf of Paria make positive contributions to local economic development and biodive...DuPont developing new protective suits for military, first responders
...00 years of DuPont experience as one of the safest companies in the world with recognized excellence in science and technology and in-depth knowledge of key markets....Proteins show promise for mosquito control
...00 chemicals. After that, they will be looking for companies to develop the compounds into chemical inhibitors for widespread mosquito control. "Four years ago (when Lan joined the faculty of UW-Madison) I couldn't imagine having five viable compounds in hand," Lan says. "This is the first example of looking...Pneumococcal vaccine reduces ear infections, pneumonia, new study shows
...dicaid records and from three commercial insurance companies in upstate New York. They found that after routine vaccination with the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine began children in Tennessee younger than 2 years old had 7 percent fewer cases of otitis media in Tennessee; 20 percent of these children New York ...Small, Smac-like molecule encourages death of cancer cells
...id other research groups as well as pharmaceutical companies have been trying to develop a small- molecule Smac mimic. The challenge for cancer therapies now is that they also tend to kill normally growing cells as well as cancer cells, which results in undesirable side effects," he said. "Because this compoun...Molecular staples shape a cancer killer
...ot be long before biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies were racing to develop novel compounds that could be used to hasten or prevent the demise of cells. "Academic and industrial laboratories are engaged in a Herculean effort to develop new molecules that reactivate the apoptotic program in tumor cells...Computer models expose humans as main cause of caribou decline
...said, seismic lines, which oil and gas exploration companies make to produce a model of subsurface geological structures, are being made narrower than they used to be and are no longer cut in straight lines. The lines are also reseeded shortly after being cut. Research is being conducted to see if these measur...The future of HIV therapeutics is brightening, according to Gladstone Institutes Director
...ss of anti-HIV drugs. Several major pharmaceutical companies are now racing to the finishing line. These advances address but one of the three steps required for successful entry of the HIV virus. The other two steps involve the attachment of HIV virions to surface CD4 receptors and the final fusion of viri...Carnegie Mellon scientists reveal ways of studying, resolving PCB contamination in US rivers
...rs) were released initially. During manufacturing, companies made different lots of PCB mixtures called Aroclors, but poor record-keeping has confused efforts to track PCB breakdown at different sites. Now, in a statistical tour-de-force, Carnegie Mellon scientists have developed a way to identify true shifts ...Genetically-engineered 'marathon mouse' keeps on running
...such drugs already being tested by pharmaceutical companies could be abused as a way to enhance athletic performance. Led by Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Ronald M. Evans at The Salk Institute, the researchers published their findings online August 24, 2004, in the journal Public Library of ...PCB breakdown in rivers depends on sediment-specific bacteria, find Carnegie Mellon U. scientists
...mers and other materials. In the mid-20th century, companies along the Hudson and other rivers in upstate New York collectively released more than one million pounds of PCBs into the water, not knowing that these pollutants could linger for thousands of years. While U.S. production ceased in 1978, PCBs continu...Chemical engineers discover filtration system to help biotech industry
...ering breakthrough. We believe that pharmaceutical companies will immediately be able to put our research to work." Before this invention, proteins had to differ five to six times in their molecular weight, before a scientist or engineer could separate them using a process called ultra-filtration. "Now u...