Researchers decode human chromosomes 5, 16, and 19
... on or before 2003. Last month, the international consortium completed the draft sequence for the human genome's second billion of three billion base pairs. The Energy Department's role in the Human Genome Project arose from the historic congressional mandate of its predecessor agencies (the Atomic Energy Comm...UNC-CH bus brings mobile lab, high-tech science focus to underserved N.C. schools
...nority Advancement in the Biomolecular Sciences, a consortium begun more than a decade ago by UNC-CH that includ...storically minority universities. The UNC-CH-based consortium introduces biomolecular science into public school and college classrooms across the state in respon...University of Washington researchers map rice genome
...national Rice Genome Sequencing Project (IRGSP), a consortium established to sequence the entire genetic make-up of rice. Data from the rice genome project will be made available to Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), which serves as the lead agency of the IRGSP. At a news conference...Scientists move in on genes conferring susceptibility, resistance to cancer
...ns." Balmain's research program is part of a new consortium for studies of mouse models of tumors that recently received support from the National Cancer Institute. Three other UCSF research programs, as well as those at 15 other institutions, are also involved. The identification of similar genetic markers...Completion of the Drosophila genome sequence
...ause disease. The Drosophila Genome Project is a consortium of the Berkeley Genome Project, European Genome Project, Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Center, and FlyBase. The Drosophila Board of Directors represents the interests of the international community of Drosophila researchers....Scientist find clues to different warming rates
... University Corporation for AtmosphericResearch, a consortium of more than 60 universities offering Ph.D.sin atmospheric and related sciences....UWs new Cell Systems Initiative welcomes Immunex collaboration
...ncer Care Alliance is a new research and treatment consortium that includes the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the UW, and Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center. Immunex's commitment of $2.1 million over three years will provide working capital for CSI. Immunex will also have four of its sen...Cooperation, not competition, to usher in new era of federally funded cancer research
...he UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, the consortium concept arose after NCI director Dr. Richard Klaus...ded that it would be far more efficient to bring a consortium of people together, identify their needs, and fund those needs in a cohesive fashion. This would ult...Scientists report first complete DNA sequence of plant chromosomes
...omosomes of Arabidopsis. Working together, a U.S. consortium led by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientist Richard McCombie, and the European Union Arabidopsis Genome Sequencing Consortium led by Michael Bevan of the John Innes Centre (Norwich, UK), completed the sequence of chromosome 4. A team of scientist......term climate studies. The study was done by a consortium of groups that included the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Italy in addition to Georgia Tech....SPIRE seeks to boost young scientists' job prospects, minority science education
...ement in the Biomolecular Sciences, an educational consortium 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. Centr...How biological molecules move electrons: Simplicity trumps complexity
...rch Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics, a consortium composed of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey; the University of California at San Diego; and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The PDB contains more than 10,000 structures. Using statistical techniques, the researchers lo...Clemson University Genomics Institute awarded $5.1 million by USDA and NSF
...aid. Other institutions in the Clemson-led consortium are the Cold SpringHarbor Laboratory Genome Center in New York, NY lead by W.R. McCombie, and theWashington University Genome Sequencing Center in St. Louis, MO, led by R.Wilson, both recognized leaders in genome sequencing research. The Inst...Search and support for the rare white abalone is on; sex must occur with close neighbors
...p in getting reestablished. A multi-agency consortium to restore the white abalone had success lastweekend when divers located a healthy bed of reproducing white abalones, located in the Tanner Banks, about 50 miles away from San ClementeIsland. Until now most of the few remaining animals that have been...NIAMS funds the North American Spondylitis Consortium
...pal investigators and participating centers in the consortium are: John D. Reveille, M.D. (coordinating center) Li Jin, Ph.D. University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center Houston, Tex. Jane Bruckel, B.S.N., R.N. Spondylitis Association of America Sherman Oaks, Calif. Michael H. Weisman, M.D. Cedars Sinai ...New electrical transformers will improve power quality
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- An engineering consortium led by Purdue University and the University of Mis...om utility poles in residential neighborhoods. The consortium developed a new class of transformers that will smooth out the uneven voltages that plague today's g...Purdue helps Indiana companies with pollution dilemma
...cope with the changes, Noonan says. As a result, a consortium has been organizedby industry, the Purdue institut...e that they work and pay foremployee training. The consortium is funded by a $90,000 grant awarded to thechamber last year by the Indiana Department of Commerce. ......ical companies and a foundation formed a nonprofit consortium with the goal of identifying 300,000 SNPsduring the next two years. SNPs are believed to be the keys to designing "personalized" drugs matched to an individual'sgenetic makeup. "In the past, geneticists have concentrated on rare genetic changes that ...