$6 million appropriation to focus Sandia research on drinking water desalination, removal of arsenic
...ociation Research Foundation (AwwaRF) and WERC - a consortium comprising New Mexico State University, University of New Mexico, New Mexico Tech, and Dine College - will share the arsenic cleanup funding with Sandia. Besides the $3 million for the arsenic project, Sandia will soon be receiving an additional $1.8...ESA and EADS-CASA sign contract to build instrument for the SMOS mission
...ial Technology). EADS-CASA now heads an industrial consortium of more than 20 companies from all over Europe, and is committed to construct the innovative MIRAS (Microwave Imaging Radiometer using Aperture Synthesis) instrument that will form the core of the SMOS mission. Scheduled for launch in early 2007, S...NIH launches first center in Nationwide Chemical Genomics Network
...t component of an initiative that will result in a consortium of chemical genomics screening centers. In addition to NHGRI, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is providing leadership for this initiative, which, like all of the Roadmap initiatives, includes representation from numerous NIH institutes...EMBL Director-General receives high German honour: the Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse
...was instrumental in establishing the international consortium that determined the mosquito genome sequence in 2002. The consortium developed new approaches to elucidate the genetic basis of interaction between the malaria parasite ...Brain disease research, particle physics meet in the middle (ware)
...nal NMI-funded teams at the GRIDS Center, the EDIT consortium and the Open Grid Computing Environments consortium. Before NMI, many research communities were developing independentand often incompatiblemiddleware solutions, said Kevin Thompson, NSF program director for NMI. The successful use of the NMI releas...Developing tools for reliable 'gene chip' measurements
...first step toward addressing reliability issues, a consortium co-led by NIST and industry is developing standards that will satisfy needs identified at a 2003 workshop. At the workshop, organized and hosted by NIST, leaders in the microarray field from industry, government and universities recommended the devel...NIH awards $20.7 million to make smallpox vaccine safer
...ional Jewish Medical and Research Center to lead a consortium of academic medical centers trying to make smallpo...f the Atopic Dermatitis and Vaccinia Network. "Our consortium will seek to understand their susceptibility and develop protocols that will allow them to be vaccin...Labs-on-a-chip to detect milk contamination
...ecurity has made a $15 million grant to a national consortium of academic, private and government organizations investigating ways of detecting and preventing food contamination. Beebe's work will be supported through the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a member of the consortium. In 1996, Beebe received a Whi...Zebrafish model human development and disease
...nt and disease, focusing on the ZF-MODELS research consortium which was recently awarded 12 million Euros by the European Union....ESA's minature Earth observer put to many uses
...) is an ESA micro-satellite built by an industrial consortium led by the Belgian company Verhaert, launched in October 2001 and operated from ESA's Redu Ground Station (Belgium). Orbiting 600 km above the Earth's surface, Proba was designed to be a one-year technology demonstration mission of the Agency but ha...New research outlines public health consequences
... symptoms. Results of the study, conducted by a consortium of researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Columbia University, New York University, Johns Hopkins University, The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, show exposure-related incr...Technique plucks rapidly evolving genes from a pathogen's genome
...molecular and cell biology and a member of the QB3 consortium (California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research). "This technique can be used to quickly identify pathogenic genes that interact closely with the human immune system, since these genes are under tremendous pressure to evolve quickly," said...K-State soil carbon sequestration research playing role in climate change efforts
... sequestration strategies. The federally-supported consortium is comprised of expert scientists from K-State, Co...ntial for soil carbon sequestration. Rice said the consortium and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, a Canadian government agency, also involved in soil carbon seq...New Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health established
...nter. Stegeman says COHH is a multi-institutional consortium that will address specific issues related to the distribution of biological agents with potential human health consequences, such as harmful algal blooms (commonly called "red tides"), in the temperate coastal ocean. Many of the major urban areas of ...Annotation marathon validates 21,037 human genes
...vely connecting them to the relevant proteins, the consortium has established a reliable systematic network of h...ssion and genetic variation within the genes. The consortium has laid the groundwork to address the challenge of connecting the functions of genes and their prod...Germany starts clinical development of a new tuberculosis vaccine
... To mark World Tuberculosis Day on March 24th, a consortium of business and research centres have launched a programme to develop just such a vaccine. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology (MPIIB) in Berlin, under the direction of Prof. Stefan H. E. Kaufmann, have developed a highly pro...UN study shows environmental consequences from ongoing boom in personal computer sales
...n how it is implemented. One model is a monolithic consortium dedicated simply to meeting official recycling targets at a fixed fee. This will likely lead to low-tech, unresponsive system that extracts little environmental or economic value from end-of-life machines. Another model is a pluralistic organization ...Scripps scientists describe dangerous cocktail of alcohol, brain peptides, and neurotransmitters
...l Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) funded a multi-year consortium headed by professors at Scripps Research to identify the molecular basis of alcoholism. Scripps Research is also home to the newly established Pearson Center for Alcoholism and Addiction Research, which aims to discover and test new compound...Power plants, other industry could offer contracts to farmers in helping reduce carbon emissions
... Gases has been formed to address such issues. The consortium consists of nine universities, including Texas A&M...r through the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The consortium is currently developing tools and information to implement carbon sequestration programs. The group ...Announcement of the chicken genome sequence and genome variation maps
...h is complementary to the work of an international consortium that is working on a sequence map for the chicken genome, is conducted by an international team led by BGI. The variation map was derived from three different domestic chicken strains, consisting of a broiler strain from the United Kingdom, a layer s...