High levels of sex hormones doubles risk for breast cancer in postmenopausal women
...Breast Cancer Collaborative Group is international consortium that includes epidemiologists from the United States, England, Italy, and Japan. The group conducts research on the relationship of endogenous hormones to breast cancer development. Each of the nine cohorts in which the association of sex hormones ...International rice genome project progressing ahead of schedule
...Genome Sequencing Project (IRGSP), a multi-country consortium of research institutes working to publish the complete rice genome sequence. The IRGSP has recently adopted a new strategy aimed at completion of the rice genome by late 2002, six years ahead of the original estimate of 2008, according to a recent ...Research institutions, NCSA, HP join Gelato Federation
...institutions in the Gelato Federation, a worldwide consortium focused on enabling open sourceLinux-based Intel Itanium Processor Family computing solutions for academic, government and industrial research. The formation of the Gelato Federation was announced March 12 by HP. Gelato will work to develop scalabl...International consortium to create sequence-ready map of the cattle genome
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. An international consortium of U.S., Canadian and French scientists has begun ...e UI. Once this initial stage is completed, a new consortium will produce a draft sequence of the entire cattle genome. Sequencing the cattle genome will help sc...Rock-eating microbes survive in deep ocean off Peru
...or Deep Earth Sampling (JOIDES). JOI consists of a consortium of major US institutions with marine science programs. The National Science Foundation (NSF), a U.S. government agency, supplies 65 percent of ODP's $46 million annual budget, while 21 international partners contribute the remaining 35 percent of the...University of Southern Mississippi $6 million grant will aid coastal waters research
...Nine universities in the Gulf region have formed a consortium with the USM College of Marine Sciences to conduct..." said Marius Brouwer, program director of the new consortium and professor in the USM marine college's Department of Coastal Sciences. "Our charge is to de...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, January 2002
...ause of its large scale and because it allowed the consortium to qualify for $12.7 million from the National Institutes of Health. The strategies and procedure developed by the ORNL team also will ensure the efficient transfer of mouse stocks into the new pathogen-free mouse facility being built at ORNL. The cu...Rutgers helping Finns explore arctic microbes
NEW BRUNSWICK/PISCATAWAY, N.J. A Finnish consortium aided by Rutgers has launched an $800,000, three-y...ts, and to build a regional biotech industry. The consortium also plans to develop ways the microbes can be used to biodegrade and clean up toxic organic contami...Purdue leads center using pollution-busting plants, microbes
...n the environment. The Purdue-based center, with a consortium of eight universities, will focus on bioremediatio..., Nebraska and Iowa. The other universities in the consortium are Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, the University of Cincinnati, Michigan Stat...Researchers discover 'thermostat' that regulates bone density
... 2001, issue of the journal Cell, an international consortium of 62 clinicians and scientists led by Howard Hugh...sis, said Warman. Warman and his colleagues in the consortium will now concentrate on exploring the effect of genetic variants of LRP5 in other populations of pat......cipate in a federally funded, $37 million research consortium to study how individual genetic makeup affects one... various environmental exposures.The Seattle-based consortium will exploit the combined strengths of the Hutchinson Center and University of Washington in DNA-mic...Gene-rich pufferfish DNA decoded
...genome has been taken by an international research consortium with the completion of a draft sequence of the gen...by the whole genome shotgun sequencing method. The consortium which sequenced the Fugu genome was led by the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute (J...USF creates national patient safety center to study fall-related injuries, medication errors
...Pharmacy; and the Tampa Bay Alliance, a non-profit consortium of community-based health care providers. The USF grant was announced earlier this month by Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson as part of a $50-million federal investment by the to address the estimated 44,000 to 98,000 patient death......ational initiative undertaken by the EQS center, a consortium led by Syracuse University that was awarded $15.9 million by the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR) in May of 2001. The EQS center combines the expertise and resources of Syracuse University, the Metropolitan...Rutgers scientists mapping DNA links to complex diseases
...to its sponsor, the SNP Consortium. The nonprofit consortium is a collaboration of the pharmaceutical industry,...ment of genetics will analyze data provided by the consortium to create a map of the interaction among some 2,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms or SNPs. SNPs a...New study to compare digital, film mammography in massive $26.5 million effort to save womens lives
...r Institute has awarded a $26.5 million grant to a consortium of researchers at 19 institutions in the United States and Canada. Clinical scientists, statisticians, physicists and others will compare the new digital mammography to standard film mammography in a project eventually involving almost 50,000 women. ...NIAID awards grant to rapidly sequence the malaria mosquito genome
...a parasite to people. As part of an international consortium of A. gambiae researchers and genome sequencing ce...les sequencing program is part of an international consortium that began in 1999. Early that year, the World Health Organization joined NIAID, the Pasteur Instit...Monsanto and researchers celebrate first anniversary of sharing rice genome sequence data
...Genome Sequencing Project (IRGSP), a multi-country consortium of research institutes working to publish the complete rice genome sequence. The IRGSP recently confirmed that its members have significantly accelerated their timetable for complete publication of the sequence, in large part due to the use of Monsan...Scientists call for development of ecological forecasting
DURHAM, N.C. -- A broad consortium of scientists has proposed a concerted effort by r.... In an article in the July 27, 2001 Science, the consortium wrote: "Planning and decision making can be improved by access to reliable forecasts of ecosystem st...Scientists map the complete genome of an important agricultural bacterium
...of S. melilotis main chromosome was conducted by a consortium of six European research institutions funded by the European Union and headed by French researcher Francis Galibert, a lead co-author of the Science study. A second genetic element called pSymB was mapped by a research team headed by Science lead c...