NSF grant to ORNL is big step toward national cyberinfrastructure
...ercomputing Center joined the partnership, and the consortium received another $35 million. The ORNL award includes money to create a new TeraGrid hub in Atlanta, which will bring the number of TeraGrid hubs nationwide to three, joining existing hubs in Chicago and Los Angeles. The hubs are connected by high-sp...Canada, US launch collaborative research programs for circulatory and respiratory health
...o Improve Resuscitation Outcomes" will establish a consortium of several regional centers in which investigators, emergency medical personnel, and community leaders work cooperatively to translate promising research into effective strategies to resuscitate patients who experience heart attacks or life-threateni...Threatened juvenile salmon get scientific assistance
... our environment," said Peterson. A transportation consortium that includes the states of California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska, and the Federal Highway Administration pooled funds totaling $1.16 million to contract with PNNL to conduct the first phase of a five-year $3.4 million interdisciplinary program. ...Lipids get the spotlight in new NIGMS 'Glue Grant'
...grate and organize the massive amounts of data the consortium plans to collect. Experimental results and protocols will be available through a public Web site....... Southeastern Universities Research Association, a consortium of universities in the Southeast. The Navy's interest in this technology is the development and demonstration of an electrically driven tunable laser that can operate at infrared wavelengths (where light is most efficiently transmitted in the atmosph...Salk news: Understanding gene function
...rst plant to have its entire genome sequenced by a consortium that included Ecker and other scientists throughout the world-to focus on the complex issue of how genes function. "Sequencing is just the beginning of understanding how any organism functions," said Ecker. "Once the Arabidopsis genome was sequenced,...UN development work guided from space
...uided by images from space. The ESA-backed UNOSAT consortium is providing an average of five new satellite-deri... development assistance. The provider is UNOSAT, a consortium funded by ESA's Earth Observation Market Development Programme, together with the Centre National po...Wildlife markets and disease transmission
NEW YORK (JULY 8) A consortium of scientists from the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society announced this week that one way to reduce the risks of future SARS-like diseases is to control wildlife markets. Specifically, markets selling wild animals for their meat not only t...Salk scientists identify pathway that determines when plants flower
...ave its entire genome sequenced by a multinational consortium that involved Salk professor Joe Ecker and other researchers-Chory and Cerdn identified the specific protein that triggers flowering in response to suboptimal light conditions. "We screened for mutant versions of Arabidopsis to identify the protein ...Indiana University to become NASA base for space biology studies
...strobiology Institute is an international research consortium with central offices located at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., the agency's lead center for astrobiology. Astrobiology is the search for the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe....Gene clustering helps rice plants fight pathogens
...ll the troops downstream to fight the pathogen." A consortium of eight different groups the rice chromosome 10 sequencing consortium representing various universities and institutes worked together to sequence and characterize chrom...Going with the grain: A tale of rice's smallest chromosome
...many genes as were predicted when an international consortium announced draft genome sequence in the same journal last December. An organism's genome consists of the entire genetic code held in its DNA. Of potentially greater significance, a detailed look at chromosome 10 shows that the genome map of rice is s...Twice as many predicted genes in 'finished' rice chromosome
...sequenced by a Chinese institute. The IGRSP public consortium announced in December 2002 that it had completed a...the Arabadopsis genome as part of an international consortium that published its results in Nature in December 2000. TIGR is also conducting research involving pi...Rutgers research takes aim at world hunger
...nt in support of maize genome research. Rutgers' consortium partners received their rice genome funding from N... of Agriculture and the Department of Energy. The consortium includes scientists from Rutgers, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, University of Arizona, Washington U...Double research boost for tissue engineering community
...tly awarded two biomaterial research projects to a consortium comprising the University of Brighton (School of P...ro that can be related to in vivo performance. The consortium has already begun work on an ASTM Standard Guide for the Physical Characterisation of Tissue Scaffol...Finicky snails provide new clues to the evolution of coastal ecosystems
...disciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO) - a consortium of marine scientists from Stanford, Oregon State University, the University of California-Santa Barbara and the University of California-Santa Cruz - funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Additional support was provided by the Andrew W. ...Science highlights of AAN Annual Meeting in Honolulu March 29 April 5
...lesterol-lowering drugs, were shown by a six-state consortium of researchers to be associated with a slight decr... risk for a second stroke was addressed by a large consortium led by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Th...UK-Canadian consortium commits $95 million to international health research project
...st Department of Medical Research. It is the first consortium of its kind, focusing its efforts on determining t...any GlaxoSmithKline. Established as a charity, the consortium will operate from research laboratories at the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford. T...Carnegie Mellon University chemists create versatile polymer brushes
...een cited more than 700 times. He heads a research consortium that interacts with 21 industrial companies from a.... The present consortium, built on the first ATRP consortium founded in 1995 with 11 international industrial organizations, aims to explore the polymer science ......the Infotonics Technology Center, a not-for-profit consortium of 20 universities and three major New York state optical companies: Eastman Kodak, Corning Incorporated, and Xerox. Binghamton researchers know that small-scale electronics manufacturing means big business. The range of research support and reliabil...