Researchers Find Unexpected Feature In Plankton Nervous System
...of the oceans. The copepod research is funded by a grant from the National Science FoundationDivision of Integrative Biology and neuroscience. UH's electron microscopefacility is supported by the National Institute of Health's Research Centers inMinority Institutions Program....Fortified Drink For Pregnant, Lactating Women
...rient Initiative of Canada has provided a $165,000 grant to MichaelC. Latham to conduct a two-year study of 350 pregnant women. He will seek todetermine the effectiveness of a simple drink in improving the iron and generalnutritional status of pregnant and lactating women in Tanzania. The drink ismade by...The Origins Of Hereditary Breast Cancer -- Studies With Knock-Out Mice Reveal Underlying Mechanisms
...ons of the germ line.Dr Kay-Uwe Wagner, a research grant holder of the DeutscheForschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), is a member of a group of scientists led byChu-Xia Deng and Lothar Hennighausen at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).By using an animal model this group has now elucidated the mechanism underl...Male Moth's Sperm Protects Females
...upported in part by a National Institutesof Health grant and by Johnson & Johnson Fellowships in Chemical Ecology toRossini and González. Related World Wide Web sites: The following sites provide additionalinformation on this news release. Some might not be part of the CornellUniversity comm...Vanderbilt Researcher: Human Brain Has Great Sense Of Timing
...ilt Vision Research Center, founded in 1989 with a grant from theNational Eye Institute. "I'm investigating human visual perception," heexplained. "Vision - and in fact all of perception - happens quickly andeffortlessly, yet the steps involved are extremely complicated. This complexityis revealed when eng...Discovery Of A Molecule That Controls Bile Acids May Lead To New Cholesterol Drugs
...s from Tularik Inc. in San Francisco. A grant from the Robert A. Welch Foundation funded the work....Symposium Probes Impact Of Toxins On Development
...ronmental Health SciencesCenter and is funded by a grant from the National Institute for EnvironmentalHealth Sciences (NIEHS). It is the first national event sponsored by the new UWcenter, directed by pharmacy professor Colin Jefcoate. "In the past five to 10 years, there has been an explosion of work inde...Researchers Discover Fast Efficient, Controllable Way To Study Molecular Interactions
...chemistry. A National Institutes of Health grant funded the study.......mes S. McDonnellCentennial Fellowship - a one-time grant that honors the 100th anniversary ofMcDonnell's birth - ranged from astrophysics and cosmology to human genetics.Kruglyak, one of two winners in genetics, accepted his award in April inWashington, D.C. The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is an...New mechanism for regulating gene expression discovered
...rn University. This study was supported by grant number GM 51836-01 from the NationalInstitutes of Health and also by Just Cause, a Chicago-based cancer charity.......al Investigator, Hildegund Ertl, MD, was awarded a grant bythe Mary L. Smith Charitable Lead Trust for her research on HIV-1 vaccines. Anthony Wlazlo, PhD, and Dariusz Kowalczyk, MD, researchers in Dr. Ertl'slaboratory, earned fellowships from the Cancer Research Foundation of Americafor their development ......esearch Center wasamong the five recipients. Each grant recipient will receive $1 million tosupport resear...nd higher education,today announced the first five grant recipients under its recently establishedDistinguished Young Scholars in Medical Research Program. ...$6.75 Million to extend primate studies of diet and aging
...paredto the body of work done in rodents." The new grant will enable scientists to continue studies in rhesusmacaques, a much-studied and long-lived animal whose genetic andphysiological characteristics parallel those of humans. The work is beingconducted in several groups of primates whose calorie intake ...Purdue helps Indiana companies with pollution dilemma
...ee training. The consortium is funded by a $90,000 grant awarded to thechamber last year by the Indiana Department of Commerce. Purdue engineers recently had some good news for the consortium, which ismade up of about 30 companies. The engineers found that factories may be able toreduce their emiss...W.M. Keck Foundation gives USC $110 million
...he support ofoutstanding researchers. A $3 million grant in 1991 to create an ambulatory care center at the...ology in the School of Engineering. A $5.6 million grant to the USC-based Southern California Earthquake Center in1997, to establish a region-wide global pos...UI researchers advance potential, potent way to stimulate human immune system
...I Diabetes and EndocrinologyCenter, which receives grant support from the NIH....Meditation decreases blood pressure
... study was conducted in preparation for a research grant project entitled"Stress Reduction: Prevention of High Blood Pressure in African AmericanYouth," currently supported by the National Institutes of Health....Biology, engineering jointly train students in neuro-mechanics
...e Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) grant from the National Science Foundation will enable s...rs with greater interdisciplinary competence. The grant will support research, courses, travel to conferences in this field and funds to bring the "stars" o...Keck Foundation supports research at the edge
...mmon interests, has received a $2-million two-year grant from the W.M. KeckFoundation of Los Angeles to explore a new direction in science, the creation ofnew physical materials based on biological templates. The goal is to exploit the complexity and diversity found in biological systemsin order to develop...Genetic resistance to chemically-induced diabetes in mice linked to elevated antioxidant levels
... Institutes of Health, as well as an institutional grant from theNational Cancer Institute....