Duke Researchers Show "Editing" Can Fix Faulty Genes In New Approach To Gene Therapy
...ausing geneticdefects." The study was funded by a grant from the National Institutesof Health. Duke researchers Joshua Jones and Seong-Wook Lee also contributedto the work. Sullenger's strategy is based on the discovery, more thana decade ago, that instead of being simply a passive carrier of geneticinfo...DNA Techniques Allow Scientists To Become Pollution Detectives.
...ns." Tamplin and his research team, working with a grant from the U.S.Department of Commerce's National Estuarine Research ReserveSystem, studied pollution at two sites in Florida: Rookery Baynear Naples on Florida's southwest coast, and Apalachicola Bay,an oyster-harvesting area in North Florida. About 90...Genetic Alterations Linked To Cancer In Some Blood Samples
...SPORE (Specialized Program of Research Excellence) grant from the National Cancer Institute and by Oncor, Inc. of Gaithersburg, MD. Under an agreement between Oncor and The Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Sidransky is entitled to a share of sales royalty received by the University from Oncor. Under that ag...New Software Provides Quick Analysis of ion-Channel Activity
... researchers have received a four-year, $1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to enhance the programs and to move them from the current UNIX environment to Windows. The current version of the software may be downloaded from the World Wide Web at http://barrel.med.buffalo.edu Our softwa...Six-Year Drilling Project to Uncover One Million Years of Earth History
...e evolution of Hawaii's Mauna Kea volcano, under a grant awarded by the National Science Foundation. The $10.3 million, six-year Hawaii Scientific Drilling Program will be administered by the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology at the University of Hawaii, in collaboration with the Unive...KU Researcher Eyes The Rain Forest Through The Trees
... species can occupy." The lab was developed with a grant from the National Science Foundation's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research through the Kansas Science and Technology Advanced Research program. "In some countries there were incentives to cut down the forests and convert them to pi...Bigger Biology Tackled Through Keyboards
...ecently helped bring to campus a research training grant in nonlineardynamics in biology from the National Science Foundation. UC Davis is consideredamong the world's leading campuses in quantitatively oriented biology. Some of the general challenges faced by computational biologists includedealing with p...'BirdSource' Website For Citizen-Science Data
...tion of BirdSource comes, in part, from a matching grant by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to the National Audubon Society. The site will be co-managed by Audubon and by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. "BirdSource will provide the most current and comprehensive data on the distribution, mi...Vietnamese Chemist Finds New Use For Old Cashew Shells
...tle over a year under a NationalScience Foundation grant to stimulate U.S.-Vietnamesepartnerships. Mark is known worldwide for his polymer researchand is a member of UC's Polymer Research Center. Vu was workingas a research chemist in Hanoi before coming to UC to work on herdoctoral degree. The goal of the......Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator grant and an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellowship grant. "The big picture is this: We are very much like the plant mutants. Humans cannot make vitamin C, while most of the rest of the animal world can make their own," Last said. The way in wh......imself adouble-amputee, have invented equipment to grant Rickels'wish. Students Mili Ashar, Jay Humphries and Aaron Kim developed amechanism that allows Rickels to attach a power drill, power sawor power screwdriver to his prosthetic arms without help fromanother person. Rickels made his request to the non...Newly Identified Tomato Gene Appears Key To Fruit Softening
...the gene will be fundedby a UC Biotechnology-STAR grant ,which seeks to develop the commercial potential of UC research for California-basedcompanies....UW Smogmobile Offers Cleaner, Safer Alternative To Gas Or Electric Cars
... winch motor. But Hertzberg is seeking a follow-on grant to design a more efficient motor that could achieve two to three miles per gallon in an optimally designed vehicle. This would enable the smogmobile, using a 100-gallon tank, to match the average range for gas-powered vehicles of 250 miles between fi...Study Focuses On How Plants Help Toxic Pollutants Travel Around The World
...civil engineering atUB, has received a prestigious grant from the National Science Foundation tostudy the effects of temperature, humidity and ultraviolet light on thetransport through the atmosphere of persistent organic pollutants. The project, which has been funded with a $200,000 award over fou......research ranksfifth in the United States, based on grant support from the National Institutesof Health, the primary funder of biomedical research in the nation -- $149million in federal fiscal year 1996. In addition, for the second consecutiveyear, the institution posted the highest growth rate in its rese...Researchers To Investigate Years Before Menopause
...ive cycles begun in the 1930s and a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Penn State researchers hope to shed light on the years before women reach menopause and investigate how their health and reproductive histories affect the patterns of change. "Anything that tak...Scientists To Study Effects Of Global Warming On Wetlands
... The project is being supported by a $1.2 million grant from the NationalScience Foundation to the three participating universities. Of that amount,$255,384 will go to Michigan Tech, with the University contributing anadditional $99,775 in matching funds....New Mechanism To Explain Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Identified
...e exposure." This study was supported by a grant from the National Institute ofEnvironmental Health Sciences and a contract from the Health Effects Institute.......ealth, is a process whereby investigator-initiated grant applications are received and reviewed through the standard NIH peer review process. Highly meritorious applications that fall just outside an Institutes funding resources and are within the research interest of the ODS can be nominated by NIH Insti...