Should Great Apes Be Given Legal Rights?
...rights, it mightjust persuade a judge in the US to grant similar rights to their Americancousins....Protestors Are Up In Arms Over Experiments That Give Chimps AIDS
...nds-particularly in the light of currentefforts to grant legal rights to chimps and other great apes (This Week, 13February, p 20). Prince hopes his letter to Science will provoke sufficientpublic outcry to prompt a moratorium on potentially terminal AIDSexperimentsinvolving chimps....New Biomaterial May Replace Arteries, Knee Cartilage
...Commercialization Program in fiscal year 1998. The grant and ATDC's businessadvice helped him start Restore Therapeutics. Georgia Tech, along with privateinvestors, hold equity in Restore Therapeutics. The company has six members. "Most professors are not business people," Ku said. "Without this so......trition. The research was supported by a grant from the Allen Foundation....Emu Meat Not A Popular Choice Among Consumers, Study Shows
...e American Dietetic Association, wassupported by a grant from the WorldWide Meat Co., a San Antonio-based companythat sells emu and ostrich. Participants rated beef and turkey higher than emu for tenderness,texture and overall acceptability. Beef was rated the highest for flavor, withturkey and emu...Knockout Mouse Reveals Genetic Mechanism In Defective Mammalian Ear Development
...ationfor Hearing Research, and by an institutional grant to The Jackson Laboratoryfrom the National Cancer Institute. Co-authors on the Nature Genetics paperinclude Yu Lan and Rulang Jiang of The Jackson Laboratory, Pamela J. Lanford ofthe Georgetown University School of Medicine, and Claire Lindsell and G...Common Prostate Cancer: A Different Process Altogether?
...l applications. The reported study was funded by a grant from theNational Cancer Institute. A patent is pending on the technology involved inthe study. Other researchers are Jonathan R. Brody, Jining Bai, Ph.D., andJonathan Pevsner, Ph.D....Researchers Find Fas Ligand Is Important In Blinding Disease
...hy, leading to vision loss. The researchers have a grant from the KiloFoundation to look at a potential role for FasL to inhibit new vessel growth indiabetic retinopathy. Kaplan and Ferguson also believe the interaction between Fas and FasLmay have implications beyond the eye, however. Already unde...Bees: Latest Weapon In Cancer Fight
...ntialcure for cancer has been funded by a $670,000 grant from the CommonwealthGovernment's Industry Research and Development Board. Participants in theproject, CSIRO, the Oncology Research Centre at the Prince of Wales Hospital(POWH) and CSL, will contribute further funds towards the $1.3 million project. ......training ranks third in the United States based on grant support from theNational Institutes of Health, the primary funder of biomedical research andtraining in the nation -- $175 million in federal fiscal year 1997. In addition,for the third consecutive year, the institution posted the highest annual grow...Aldo Leopold Leadership Program Selects First Cohort
...ciety of America and is supported bya $1.5 million grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Fellows chosen this year include: Andy Blaustein, Oregon State University Jim Clark, Duke University Gretchen Daily, Stanford University Andy Dobson, Princeton University Lisa Graumlich, Columbia U...Dartmouth Medical School Researchers Discover Heavy Metal Contamination In Northern Mexico
...an AmericanAcademy of Pediatrics resident research grant and a Helen's Fund grant from theDepartment of Pediatrics, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center....Whitehead Receives $7 million NIH Grant To Build High-Speed Sequencing Machines
...ical Research has received a three-year, $7million grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute ...reworking toward building a portable device with a grant from the NationalInstitute of Justice....Heat-Shock Vaccine Stops Bacteria Dead
...y funded by Peptor Ltd. and a Center of Excellence grant from the IsraelScience Foundation....Testing Restaurant Compost For Greenhouses
... tested. At Future Farms, a technology-assessment grant from New York state supportsresearch in food-waste recycling, according to farm operator Earl Hicks, whoblends horse manure with food from restaurants and grocery stores to create arich compost. Heat from carefully managed compost piles, which can r...Engineered Bacteria Scavenge Heavy Metals
...by aSuperfund Basic Research and Education Program grant from the U.S. EnvironmentalProtection Agency....A half-a-million-dollar grant could lead to better managment of Pacificsalmon. ... Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) grant wasawarded to Randall Peterman, school of resource and environmental management,Simon Fraser Univers...Story Tips: Engineering Students Pursue Cutting-Edge Research
...0-year-old junior from Northridge, Calif, used her grant toassist JohnsHopkins School of Medicine researchers, who are seeking a treatment forAlzheimer's disease. This team is studying drugs that could cause the body to produce more of asubstance called nerve growth factor. Spurring the body to produce mor...Stanford Chemical Engineer Chaitan Khosla Receives Alan T. Waterman Award From NSF
...e recipient receives a medal as well as a $500,000 grant overthree years for scientific research or advanced study in any field of science orengineering....Botanical Products Act Like Estrogen In Animals, Finds University Of Pittsburgh Team
... research is supported by a breast cancer research grant from theU.S. Army....