Toxin combo common in fish appears capable of impairing motor skills
...'s Environmental Health Center, a five-institution consortium based at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Illinois. Schantz is director of FRIENDS (Fox River Environment and Diet Study), which is studying the effects of exposure to toxicants in fish being eaten in large quantities by Laotian and Hmong refuge...Researchers decode genome of rabbit fever pathogen
...arch and Development funds. The European-American consortium was funded by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, the UK Ministry of Defense, the Swedish Ministry of Defense, and the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency....Green Foundation, Trust gives $12.8 million for UT Southwestern comprehensive research center
... Alliance for Cellular Signaling, an international consortium of researchers who pool their efforts to study how cells interact with, or signal, each other. The new Green Center will become home to this initiative. "This gift is a wonderful example of the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Green," said Dr. Gilman. "It ...GM nation? Public debate: a valuable experiment
...rsity of East Anglia, the Director of the research consortium that carried out the evaluation work said:"Despite many of the problems that GM Nation? faced the results of our survey broadly mirror a number of the key conclusions of the debate Steering Board, particularly regarding the widespread levels of conce...The Rosetta space probe's long trek to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
...rds the Sun. Rosetta was built by an international consortium led by Astrium. The lander probe was developed in Cologne under the aegis of the DLR, Germany's space agency, with contributions from ESA and research centres in Austria, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy and Great Britain. The comet explorer ...Fish, FRAMES and sticky chemicals net technology award for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
...State Department of Transportation, representing a consortium of West Coast transportation agencies, engaged PNNL to create a full-scale culvert test bed at a hatchery in southwestern Washington. The one-of-a-kind facility is providing scientifically sound information for use in improving designs for new and re...Collaborative research initiative aims to cut drug development time in half
...rch foundation, today announced the formation of a consortium of five of the world's leading scientists in myelin research. By providing the funding, as well as the business and technology infrastructure to support the collaboration, the Myelin Repair Foundation expects to accelerate the research process and de...Third set of awards are announced under interagency biodiversity program
Arlington, Va.-A consortium of Federal agencies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA),have announced 12 new grants in the third set of awards in the International Cooperative Biodi...Virginia Tech-led group receives third five-year international biodiversity grant
...inia Tech, has received a third five-year grant. A consortium of Federal agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, announced 12 ICBG programs ( www.nih.gov/news/pr/dec2003/fic-16.htm ), which will total approximately $5 millio...Less is more: New technology captures gene-rich DNA segments
...me, is being sequenced as part of an international consortium funded in the United States by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Corn is the most important agricultural crop in the U.S. Because the genome structures of wheat, oats, barley, and many other crops are quite simil...International HapMap Consortium publishes scientific strategy
...ublished in the journal Nature, the public-private consortium also outlined its policies for the rapid release o...ment of Health and Human Services. The goal of the consortium is to develop a public resource a map of the common patterns of human genetic variations, or haplot...Research grants available for faculty at minority serving institutions
The Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS), a consortium of more than 60 universities and research institutions throughout the United States, Latin America, Canada, Australia and South Africa, requests applicants for an eight-week summer research experience in tropical biology for 2004. Specifically, this ...Telescience recognized for facilitating biomedical research on a global network
...yberinfrastructure that showcased an international consortium of users and a globally-distributed pool of integrated, heterogeneous resources. They demonstrated specific elements of the overall Telescience infrastructure, including the ability to query distributed, federated databases, and transparently initia......rch. We hope that this move by such an influential consortium will encourage other library groups to come on board and promote open access."...NIH establishes Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network
...y Dr. Zerhouni. Each research center consists of a consortium of clinical investigators partnering with patient support groups and institutions within and outside of the United States that have agreed to work together studying a group of rare diseases. In addition to fostering collaborative research, the RDCRCs...The DFG funds a new research vessel
...d usage of the Maria S. Merian until the operating consortium is established, the vessel will be supported according to the funding model used for the Meteor, with 70 percent of the funding provided by the DFG and 30 percent by the BMBF....Michigan receives NCRR grant for tomorrow's proteomics technology
...ndel Research Institute in Grand Rapids, Mich. The consortium was created in 2001 with a $13.7-million grant fro...r the National Center for Research Resources. "The consortium has an outstanding track record in proteomics and an impressive team of scientists building an integ...Beyond genes: Scientists venture deeper into the human genome
...) project, will be carried out by an international consortium made up of scientists in government, industry and ... The ENCODE pilot effort is being implemented by a consortium because the wide range of technologies that need to be tested and developed is well beyond the scope...DuPont and NREL to develop world's first integrated 'bio-refinery'
...ement is part of the larger $38 million DuPont-led consortium known as the Integrated Corn-Based Bioproducts Refinery (ICBR) project. The ICBR project which includes DuPont, NREL, Diversa Corporation, Michigan State, and Deere & Co. was awarded $19 million in matching funds from the Department of Energy last......rers, (Intel, Motorola, AMD, and IBM), Sematech (a consortium of semiconductor manufacturers), a laser manufacturer (Spectra Physics), and an advanced optics manufacturer (CDM Optics). Nine additional firms have expressed interest. Outreach will involve year-round research experiences with undergraduates and...