Aspirin prevents polyps in colon cancer patients
...d Leukemia Group B (CALGB), a consortium of clinical trials centers, involved 719 patients with a history of colon cancer at three dozen participating institutions from 1993-2000. "While other research has ...Science champion William T. Golden makes historic $5.25 million gift to AAAS
...pment, Mr. Golden purchased the property, formed a consortium of environmentalists and university contacts, and leased it to them for $1 per year. Harvard University and Mr. Golden established an endowment for Black Rock Forest. Subsequently, the Nature Conservancy donated 107 acres of adjoining forestland to f...Marine biologists probe 'black box' mysteries of the sea
...iplinary Study of Coastal Oceans (PISCO) – a consortium of marine scientists from Stanford, Oregon State University (OSU), the University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) and the University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC). Established in 1999, PISCO's mission is to conduct scientific research that leads...International functional genomics study looks for genes that cause drug tolerance and dependence
...ter is currently a recipient of two major national consortium awards in this new field, a $1.5 million grant given to 15 Biotechnology Centers by the National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). Most recently, Doernbecher's research team and OHSU's Center for Research on Occupational an...UT Southwestern researchers say overdoses of acetaminophen cause most cases of acute liver failure
...d by liver function failure. In 1997, Lee formed a consortium of liver centers, called the Acute Liver Failure Study Group, to increase research in this area. The scientific collaboration has made it possible for investigators to study the disease in greater depth. Two former UT Southwestern researchers Drs. G...Sea squirt DNA sheds light on vertebrate evolution
...002 issue of the journal Science, an international consortium of researchers reports on the draft sequencing, as...and analysis of the genome of C. intestinalis. The consortium is led by the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute (JGI); the Department of Molecular ...The mouse genome and the measure of man
...unning success for a publicly funded international consortium that is already acting to stimulate biomedical res... degree of accuracy. Earlier this year, the mouse consortium announced that it had assembled the draft sequence of the mouse and deposited it into public databas...New books show social side of weather and climate
...s.html?ProductID=350 . NCAR is managed by UCAR, a consortium of 66 universities offering Ph.D.s in atmospheric and related sciences, with primary sponsorship of the National Science Foundation....CAST releases report on environmental impacts of grazing systems on our nation's resources
...ltural Science and Technology (CAST), a non-profit consortium of food and agricultural scientists, will brief the media on the release of its Issue Paper: "Environmental Impacts of Livestock on U.S. Grazing Lands" on Tuesday, Nov. 12 at 2pm at the Indiana Convention Center, Indianapolis, IN. Released at the com...Rutgers-led consortium awarded $6.5 million by NIH for genomic research
...mlining methodologies and developing new ones, the consortium expects to reduce the cost per structure from about $300,000 to $10,000 or $20,000. The primary techniques currently used are X-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), both of which provide 3-D representations of prote...Space Shuttle returns first soybeans grown on Space Station in commercial farming experiment
... which also has grown plants on the Station, and a consortium of industries, are partners on the experiment. "This is the first in a series of Space Station plant experiments that will study the role of gravity in producing lignin, a substance that affects the strength of plant stalks and stems," said Louis Sto...Geoenvironmental Research Park is launched
...ecome a world-leader in this technology." The full consortium of partners involved in the project from the outse...Chemicals Ltd, Excel Fibre Technology Ltd, and the consortium of Welsh environmental science companies - The Hafren Group. TRL's Regional Manager for Wales, Dr Jo...Next generation genome map to be announced
...National Institutes of Health and an international consortium of researchers from Canada, China, United Kingdom, Japan, Nigeria, and the United States will announce a public-private effort to create the next-generation map of the human genome. The International HapMap Project will identify genetic variation th...International consortium launches genetic variation mapping project
...SHINGTON, Oct. 29, 2002 An international research consortium today launched an approximately $100 million publi...y comparing genetic differences among individuals, consortium members believe they can create a tool to help researchers detect the genetic contributions to many ...DuPont part of science-based consortium receiving U.S. Dept. of Energy 'Bio-Refinery' grant
..., Oct. 28, 2002 DuPont is part of a science-based consortium that will receive $19 million in matching funds fr...micals from renewable resources such as corn. The consortium includes DuPont, Diversa Corporation, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Michigan State Unive...Genome of potential bioremediation agent sequenced
...ederickson, who heads the Shewanella Foundation a consortium of researchers that is part of the Energy Department's Genomes to Life program says the whole genome sequence "provides an essential foundation for the systems-level analysis" that the Federation has started. "It is enabling scientists to make globa...Scientists decode mosquito/malaria parasite genomes
... the founders of the international mosquito genome consortium and helped steer its work. A study led by an EMBL senior scientist, Peer Bork compared the mosquito genome with that of the fruitfly Drosophila. They discovered that almost half of the more than 13,000 genes of Anopheles are also found in Drosophila,...Parasite, mosquito genomes complete malaria picture
... collaboration established in 1996. Besides NIAID, consortium support came from the Wellcome Trust, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the U.S. Department of Defense. Sequencers worked at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville, MD, the Stanford Genome Center in Palo Alto, CA, and the Wellcome Trust...Scientists decipher genetic code of malaria parasite
...ribution to the age-old battle against malaria, a consortium of scientists including The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) announced today that they have deciphered the complex genetic code of the parasite that causes the deadliest form of the disease. Malaria is one of the world's most devastating infect...Colorado U. to fly hardware, experiments on space shuttle, space station
...utical industries, he said. BioServe is part of a consortium collaborating on the plant experiments on the spac...tory, Weyerhaeuser and UPM-Kymmene of Finland. The consortium is flying a model plant species, Arabidopsis thaliana, a member of the mustard family. The research...