NIH awards $18.2m to The Burnham Institute to develop Center on Proteolytic Pathways
...t to building up the intellectual and instrumental infrastructure needed to close the gap between discovery and application of new knowledge. The Burnham's "Center on Proteolytic Pathways" is one of two new centers launching the "National Technology Centers Network and Pathways Directory" included in the "NIH Roadm...Scientists to prototype cyberinfrastructure for research and education access to ocean observatories
...asts of the United States, Canada and Mexico. That infrastructure will be a prototype for the use and automation of ...ormation Technology [Cal-(IT) 2 ]. "Our prototype infrastructure will be a large distributed data grid, driven by a variety of instruments, and we want it to be capa...$2.7 million grant to support creation of virtual zebrafish atlas
...ty. Cheng has envisioned the field using the atlas infrastructure as the foundation for development of a new approach to understanding biology that will address the problem of information overload. "We're calling this new approach Systems Morphogenetics," Cheng said. "This new, more integrated view of biology will...Joslin Diabetes Center adds first affiliate in California at Irvine Medical Center
... care to our patients and establish a high-quality infrastructure for our researchers," said Dr. Ping Wang, UCI endocrinologist and director of Joslin Diabetes Center at UCI. "Joslin Diabetes Center at UCI will become the focal point in California for developing innovative approaches to the prevention and treatmen...The birth of reproductive health: A difficult delivery
...is a pity because it fails to make use of valuable infrastructure and expertise already on the ground in places where AIDS hits hardest", says Dr El Feki. Such obstacles yield sobering statistics: 60 million unwanted pregnancies, 19 million unsafe abortions, and over half a million women dying from complicat...Chernobyl study: Risk of thyroid cancer rises with radiation dose
... simply establishing the working relationships and infrastructure to get the studies off the ground. "Within the first year of the 1986 accident, we were very interested in seeing if we could get involved and participate in long-term studies of health effects," Davis said. "But at the time of the accident, our gove...The future of HIV therapeutics is brightening, according to Gladstone Institutes Director
...munity not only for the key drugs but also for the infrastructure and training required to ensure their effective use."...Better living through urban ecology
...e will be investing 1 billion dollars in the sewer infrastructure project; nearly 1 million dollars of US Forest Service funds will support the restoration of the urban watershed. Both projects will yield results useful to managers and decision makers, as well as educators and community groups in the affected water...Congress to fund Sequim-based coastal security research effort
... commerce, coastal population centers and critical infrastructure within America's maritime borders." Karen Steinmaus, PNNL project manager for the effort, notes the program's initial research and development efforts will focus on improving the ability to rapidly acquire, analyze and interpret evidence from weapons...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, August 2004
...searchers now see the nation's electric power grid infrastructure driven by a complex combination of variables as diverse as rising demand, conflicting subsystems and societal pressures. Without a broader understanding of the interaction of those forces, a sandcastle power grid will be hard pressed to accommodate t...LSU Vet School receives $9.9 million for infectious disease research
..., or COBRE, program. COBRE aims to "build research infrastructure to enhance an institution's research capacity and competitiveness for NIH grants." The grant will last for five years and it can be competitively renewed for five or more years. "This center constitutes a strategic alliance between the School of V...Ottawa's leadership in biomedical and health research has paid off
... full advantage of Canada's expertise and research infrastructure and capacity, according to authors Dr. John Bergeron and Dr. Sean Taylor of McGill University. Funding for Canadian biomedical and health research grew from C$5.1 billion in 1999 to C$7.5 billion in 2003. The increased support was part of the federal...Proteomic research centers target bioterrorism agents, infectious diseases
...ogical data. The availability of an interoperable infrastructure and analysis tools through the Pathogen Portal (ToolBus/PathPort) project at VBI allows scientists to use this data to advance scientific research against bioterrorism agents and in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of emerging infectious dise...Researchers discuss revised Food Guide Pyramid and what it will mean for the food industry
...g for groups and subpopulations, and to provide an infrastructure upon which to systematically base food choices, noted forum speaker Dr. Marilyn A. Swanson, University of Mississippi. "As the child obesity rate continues to reach new heights, the Food Guide Pyramid can play a vital role in teaching children how...Report outlines steps needed to lessen smallpox threat
... CDC, it would not be possible to provide adequate infrastructure resources for any of the research efforts that are necessary to develop smallpox antivirals," he said....New lower-cost assay system equivalent to flow cytometry for accurate CD4+/CD8+ cell counts
...nd EasyCD8 do not require the dedicated laboratory infrastructure or large amounts of buffered water as sheath fluid that are required by conventional flow cytometers. The elimination of the use of sheath fluid also results in less bio-hazardous waste and further reduces the running costs of using the system. Daily...UCSD undergraduates participate in collaborative studies abroad on cyberinfrastructure
...ng. And Kondrick will work on modifying the NIMROD infrastructure to work with two computational chemistry codes, GAMESS and APBS, to carry out high-throughput chemistry calculations. Apart from Abramson, the students will also be mentored by UCSD Bioengineering vice-chair Andrew McCulloch, and two scientists from ...Creation of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration will boost clinical trials in UK
... be a further major boost to the clinical research infrastructure in this country, making it even more competitive internationally," said Dr. Trevor Jones, Director General of the ABPI. "It is especially important that the industry has been welcomed as a significant partner in the establishment of UKCRC and will be...UK small firms pay lip service to green issues
...ndfill taxes need to be combined with the kinds of infrastructure developments that make it easy for firms to be more environmentally proactive," says Andrea Revell....'Rolling Store' provides model for overcoming barriers to healthy foods and better health outcomes
... almost certainly include a limited transportation infrastructure in this rural area where the system of roadways is poor and only one bridge crosses the 215-mile stretch where the Mississippi River bisects the Delta. Unlike higher income families with better transportation, a substantial proportion of the poor in ...