S.C. hospitals and universities form statewide health research collaborative
...sciences research, drive economic development, and improve the health status of the citizens of South Carolina. Making the announcement were Greenville Hospital System CEO Frank Pinckney, MUSC President Dr. Ray Greenberg, Palmetto Health CEO Kester Freeman, and USC President Dr. Andrew Sorensen. The inve...New Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health established
...years. The mission of the Woods Hole COHH is to improve public health through understanding how oceanic processes affect the distribution and persistence of human pathogens or products of toxin-producing organisms. The major research focus of COHH projects will be the distribution of biological organisms...A blueprint for US national ocean policy for the 21st Century
... Creating a new national ocean policy framework to improve decision-making. Strengthening science and generat...onal ocean policy framework must be established to improve federal leadership and coordination to enable agencies to address the ocean, land and air as one int...Rensselaer receives NIH grant to develop virtual surgery simulator
...Assistant Professor Suvranu De supports efforts to improve the realism of existing training by adding touch s...nautical, and Nuclear Engineering, also intends to improve the visual realism of simulator training by creating more lifelike visual perspectives, using a tech...New York microbiologists awarded research grants in antibiotic resistance and lyme disease
...earch on Lyme disease. The studies are designed to improve understanding of the disease and to examine new methods for testing, prevention and control. His award is for "Lyme Disease Diagnosis with Host Gene Expression Arrays." Dr. Schwartz will examine how cells from mice and humans respond to infection by ...SAGE-acious prediction of thyroid carcinoma
...ive classification of FTC versus FTA would greatly improve selection of optimal treatment strategies. In addition, it would reduce health care costs by allowing patients to pursue more aggressive treatments for FTC cases and avoid unnecessary surgery for FTA. Using SAGE to screen for differentially expressed...APS announces four 2004 Young Investigators awards
.... Gebb is also investigating several approaches to improve lung development in the high oxygen environment in hopes of improving the mortality and morbidity associated with premature birth. Dolly Mehta, Ph.D. University of Illinois The Giles F. Filley Memorial Award in Respiratory Physiology and Medicine...Brain areas identified that 'decode' emotions of others
...th behavioural and other types of interventions to improve these individuals' social skills."...ESA consults European science community on candidate Earth Explorer missions
... Earth Clouds Aerosols and Radiation Explorer to improve the representation and understanding of the Earth's radiative balance in climate and numerical weather forecast models by acquiring vertical profiles of clouds and aerosols, as well as the radiances at the top of the atmosphere. From a single platfor...MCG pursues markers to improve ovarian cancer treatment, diagnosis
...ition, a charitable organization formed in 2001 to improve cancer treatment in Georgia. Ovarian cancer is among the top five cancers diagnosed in women, and although survival rates can be as high as 80 to 90 percent when caught early, most cancers are found after the disease has progressed, because it's asym...HHMI commits more than $30 million to help reverse brain drain, beat infectious diseases
...an Thomas Egwang is working with his government to improve science education throughout Uganda....Salt-tolerant rice requires careful selection
...imal conditions, the best way for rice breeders to improve the rice harvest is to produce varieties whose performance is not fertiliser dependent. However, specifically modified varieties need to be developed for rice growing under saline conditions. Gambian researcher Baboucarr Manneh investigated variation...East Asian governments urged to harness market forces to improve environment, save money
...untries could save tens of millions of dollars and improve environmental compliance of industries by blending more market incentives into their traditional "command-and-control" legal and regulatory approach to environmental protection, according to a book launched today by the United Nations University. The...Scientists 'beef up' plant-dwelling bacteria to boost phytoremediation
...laborators in Belgium think they've found a way to improve the process: transfer genes from pollutant-degradi...conditions with elevated levels of pollutants, and improve the performance of plants used to remove these contaminants from the environment," van der Lelie sai...New database aids medical device exporters
...y of clinical measurements, which, in turn, should improve patient care, reduce technical barriers to trade and reduce costs for both IVD manufacturers and medical testing in general. The European Union recently issued new regulations on the sale of in-vitro diagnostic (IVD) medical devices such as those us...Global warming and the onward march of the pine
...other hand, expansion of mountain forests may also improve certain ecosystem services for human welfare, such as erosion control and increased water holding capacity in many high mountain water catchments." Dr Dullinger says that the findings will help the City of Vienna use pines to protect its drinking wat...American Society of Plant Biologists offers developing nations free access to science journals
...d training in low-income countries and in turn, to improve food security. Countries on the list generally have an annual per capita income of $1,000 (U.S. currency) or less. "Many agricultural libraries in developing countries had not received science journals for a number of years. By providing scienti...New software developed at Rensselaer predicts promising ingredients for new drugs
...The Rensselaer research team will continue work to improve drug discovery methods, which will be carried out in the new Rensselaer Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, a state-of-the-art facility scheduled to open in September 2004. ...For the sake of land and climate, coaxing soil to soak up carbon
...ying soil components and soil additives that might improve tyrosinase's natural ability to promote humification. He found that an alkaline, porous material called "fly ash," a byproduct of coal combustion, "speeds up the normal humification process by promoting the reaction of the quinones with the amino aci...UC San Diego bioinformatics experts help reconstruct the genomic makeup of our ancestors
... generation of researchers will be able to greatly improve the utility of rat models and thereby improve human health." The Brown Norway strain of rat sequence is the third complete mammalian genome to be ...