Long-term effects of carbon monoxide poisoning are an autoimmune reaction
...er, Jie Zhang, and Phyllis Gimotty. This study was funded by the National Institutes of Health....Identifying tick genes could halt disease, bioterrorism threat
...co-principal investigator on the project, which is funded by the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. "The tick genome project will extend our search for molecules that are essential for ticks to feed and transmit pathogens," said Wikel, director of the Center for Microbial Pathogene...Rensselaer marks the opening of the center for biotechnology and interdisciplinary studies
...e the NMR and facilities within the center will be funded in part by a $22.5 million grant from the Gen*NY*sis program. This New York State biotechnology economic development program was championed by New York State Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno. Rensselaer also has been designated to receive $75...Men from early middle ages were nearly as tall as modern people
...he Global History of Health Project, an initiative funded by the National Science Foundation to analyze human health throughout the past 10,000 years. Steckel wants to continue looking at, and interpreting, fluctuations in height across thousands of years "I want to go much further back in time and look at ...Chernobyl study: Risk of thyroid cancer rises with radiation dose
...um for Research on the Health Effects of Radiation funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research. The researchers focused their efforts on western part of the Bryansk Oblast of Russia. This region, located about 66 miles northeast of Chernobyl, is the most heavily contaminated area in the Russian Federation. ...Study reveals first genetic step necessary for prostate cancer growth
...intervention that could save his life." The study, funded by the National Cancer Institute and the Prostate Cancer Foundation, was led by Lisette Maddison, Ph.D., a former graduate student of Greenberg's who is now a postdoctoral fellow at Oregon Health and Science University. Other coauthors were Brent Sut...Virginia Tech researchers to release findings on Smith River Project
...nd Wildlife Service Sport Fish Restoration Program funded the Smith River Research Project.Results from this study will provide fisheries managers, local citizens, anglers, and the Army Corp of Engineers with information to assist with decisions on how to best manage the Smith River, which is one of the sta...Critically endangered monkey species plummets more than 50 percent since 1994
... effort to improve management of the area, largely funded by the Frankfurt Zoological Society. In the other protected area, Pu Luong National Reserve, a larger number of rangers and excellent management are helping to save the two small remaining populations, containing a total of about 50 individuals. Join...Unicellular organisms contribute more nitrogen to ocean that reported earlier
...ruises -- have prompted a follow-up study recently funded by NSF. The scientists will continue to survey the Pacific Ocean, as well as the North Atlantic and the South Pacific oceans in two more research cruises in 2006 and 2007. In addition to collecting more detailed nitrogen-fixation rate measurements, t...Visiting African scientists collaborate with MBL scientists on infectious diseases
..., to the Bay Paul Center annually. This program is funded by The Ellison Medical Foundation of Bethesda, Maryland....Women who have donated eggs sought for national study
...mpleted in about 30 minutes. The research is being funded by the UW's Research Royalty Fund. The study is focusing on Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Diego San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C., which have the most prolific egg donation clinics in the ...Two warbler species find the West isn't big enough for both of them
...ingdom's national academy of science. The work was funded by the National Science Foundation, the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology and the Garrett Eddy Ornithological Endowment at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at the UW. In the spring of 2001 and 2002, Owen-Ashley and Butler...Decreasing toxins in brains of Alzheimer's patients keep cognitive deficits at bay
...cisco Medical Center and Enroe Inc. This study was funded in part by the Alzheimer's Association. Pratico has no financial interest in Enroe Inc. This release can also be found at: http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news ....Gold quantum dots have applications in biological labeling, nanoscale optics
... from the National Institutes of Health, which has funded a Roadmap Initiative Center in High Resolution Cellular Imaging to a team of Georgia Tech chemists and Prof. Tzeng at Emory University. "We will need to determine ways to functionalize these quantum dots so they will get across cell membranes, seek...PCB breakdown in rivers depends on sediment-specific bacteria, find Carnegie Mellon U. scientists
...s part of a large-scale, interdisciplinary project funded by the Packard Foundation to understand the environmental fate and persistence of PCBs. The project, "Effects of Sediment Biogeochemistry on the Environmental Fate and Persistence of Polychlorinated Biphenyls," is led by David Dzombak, professor of c...Virus known for its photo ops makes its movie screen debut
...ns will help us down that road." The research was funded in part by grants from the National Science Foundation, the International Human Frontier Science Program and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Rossmann's team is associated with Purdue's Markey Center for Structural Biology, which consists of lab...Scientists reinvent DNA as template to produce organic molecules
... of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. Their work was funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the National Institutes of Health, the Office of Naval Research, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, the Searle Scholars Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and fellowships from Br...Counting foxes before the last tally-ho
...cological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology and funded by the International Fund For Animal Welfare (IFAW...eople stopped hunting them. However another study, funded by IFAW and the RSPCA and published in Nature, showed that there was no change in fox numbers when h...Chemical engineers discover filtration system to help biotech industry
...y chromatography, costs have escalated. NJIT has funded this research to date. The next step is to seek outside funding because more work needs to be done. "We know the process will work with a mixture of two proteins. But, Sirkar speculated, will it work if the mixtures contain three or four proteins? ...Nucleic acid-amplification testing further safeguards nation's blood supply
...tentially deadly viruses, according to a new study funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), a component of the National Institutes of Health. Nucleic acid-amplification testing (NAT) has helped prevent the transmission of approximately five HIV-1 infections and 56 hepatitis C virus (...