RICE gets $1.1m from DOD to study neurofibromatosis
HOUSTON, July 6, 2004 -- More than 100,000 Americans suffer from the painful and debilitating genetic disorder known as neurofibromatosis, or NF, which causes tumors to grow in various types of nerve tissue throughout the body. But while the cause of the disease is well-known -- a mutation in the gene known as NF1 -- nagging questions remain about the biochemical processes that govern the illness...Dodging elephants, scorpions, mudslidesUF researcher tracks tigers
GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Of the estimated 7,000 tigers left in the world, scientists know the least about the roughly 2,000 thought to remain in Southeast Asia. ...Unstable or repressive political conditions in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar and Malaysia have long impeded Western biologists trying to study tigers there. Much of the big cats' habitat, meanwhile, consists of remote, extrem...Moffitt Cancer Center receives DoD funds to establish National Functional Genomics Project
The H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute has been awarded $3.2 million by the United States Department of Defense to establish the National Functional Genomics Project (NFGP), an innovative partnership between academia, government, and industry. The goal of the NFGP is to develop new technologies in molecular medicine to advance the early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cance.... HOUSTON, Sept. 16, 1998 -- The Department of Defense (DOD) should.consider applying several new technologies to cleaning up hazardous wastes,.researchers recommend in a report summarizing the results of a four-year.project. In some cases the technologies are faster, cheaper and more effective.than current methods.. Technologies studied in the project were aimed at soil and groun...