$16.3M grant will fund program to develop mouse models for neurological research
...und also in humans. A major goal of the NIH-funded initiative at The Jackson Laboratory is to address this so-called "phenotype gap" in using mice for the study of human neurological disease. Key to the program is a powerful genetic tool known as genome-wide mutagenesis. By treating mice with a chemical -- ENU...Putting medical research on-line to give patients the information they need
... with a few notable exceptions, yet to support the initiative fully. Next week's conference at the New York Academy of Medicine, Freedom of Information: The Impact of Open Access on Biomedical Science, will bring together some of the world's leading scientists, publishers and librarians to discuss open publishi...NYU announces establishment of a center for comparative functional genomics
...r Comparative Functional Genomics. This major new initiative will use state-of-the-art tools of biology, mathematics and computer science to determine the function of novel genes that are being uncovered in genome sequencing projects. The Center will investigate evolutionary relationships between species and...HHMI awards $15 million to scientists outside United States
...ingdom (4); Uruguay (1) and Venezuela (1). The initiative is HHMI's first international competition to focus on scientists working on a specific research topic rather than in a particular geographic region. HHMI's international program has previously awarded $53 million in grants to scientists in 19 countri...ASPP publishes major plant biology textbook
...try & Molecular Biology of Plants. ASPP cited the initiative as a huge contribution from and to the plant biology community. Spearheaded by Drs. Bob B. Buchanan, Wilhelm Gruissem, and Russell L. Jones, all professors at the University of California at Berkeley while the book was under development, this project...Parents' escape drinking evokes children's negative response to alcohol smell
...o Keep Children Alcohol Free, a multiyear outreach initiative spearheaded by state Governors' Spouses, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and NIH's Offices of Research on Women's Health and Minority Health. Today's report strongly ties very early ...Tiny sampling device promises big results for detection and analysis of chemicals
...s by two millimeters. Already part of Sandia's initiative to build a hand-held "chemistry laboratory," it potentially can be integrated with other micro chemical detectors, including a mass spectrometer or an ion mobility spectrometer. The tiny size will allow chemical testing using small hand-held inst...Winners of the DFG Bioinformatics Initiative
...n the development of new medicaments. The Tubingen initiative can already boast a well-established study course in bioinformatics, too. Bioinformatics was chosen as a priority area by the Tubingen scientists themselves. Now it is to be extended with the support of DFG funds, which are going to be used to set up...... National Institutes of Health (NIH) is heading an initiative to catalog the HLA gene complex and explore its differences among populations worldwide. Nearly $20 million over five years will go to the International Histocompatibilty Working Group (IHWG), a network of almost 200 laboratories in more than 70 cou...Program shown to help non-alcoholics reduce drinking 66%
...ese people, who had called our office on their own initiative because they were concerned about their drinking, we might also be able to help those who have had a brush with the law because of their drinking," Klykylo says. The majority of people with alcohol problems - that is, drinking habits that can put the...Stanford researchers win National Science Foundation grants for information technology research
...ere selected from more than 1,400 proposals. "This initiative will help strengthen America's leadership in a sector that has accounted for one-third of U.S. economic growth in recent years," said President Bill Clinton. "High technology is generating jobs that pay 85 percent more than the average private-sector...NIGMS Structural Genomics Awards scale up protein structure studies
...Medical Sciences (NIGMS) has developed a major new initiative to determine the structures of thousands of proteins over the next decade. Work toward this goal will be divided into two phases: a five-year pilot stage and a subsequent five-year full-scale production phase. The initial phase begins with today's...Argonne leads new Midwest Center for Structural Genomics
...each year for five years. The center is part of an initiative to determine the structures of thousands of proteins over the next decade. Structural genomics is a new field dedicated to a broad understanding of protein structures and functions in relation to gene sequences. It grew out of the Genome Project, the...Five New York City research institutions collaborate to study 3-D structures of proteins
...gator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. "The initiative is aimed at developing a comprehensive mechanistic understanding of human and microbial physiology at the molecular level. This strategy should lead us to medically relevant data more quickly." The human genome sequencing project was often portrayed...Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lab receives $6 million grant to decipher protein structures
...y human DNA. The grant is part of a new, ten-year initiative launched by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) - part of the National Institutes of Health that funds a significant amount of basic biomedical science. On Sept. 26, NIGMS awarded nearly $150 million to seven projects around th...Major new initiative to resolve structure of protein families
...s over the next decade. The initial phase of this initiative has started with the awarding of seven new grants,... these fold families. Under the protein structure initiative being launched by NIGMS, the seven grant recipients will each work with representative protein popul......and adhesives. The award is the result of an initiative by the federal government to investigate the biotechnology potential of oceans. The MMS selected LSU and the University of California at Santa Barbara as the two universities to lead this effort. Both universities held signing ceremonies and press ...NHLBI launches genomic applications initiative -- $37 million awarded in initial effort
..., and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has launched a major initiative to advance genomic research related to heart, lung...heart, lung, blood, and sleep functions. The NHLBI initiative will apply and expand upon the data and technologies developed to map and sequence the human genome....Lawrence Livermore Lab, UC Davis Cancer Center ink alliance to develop integrated cancer program
Collaboration is latest initiative between the national lab and UC Davis Health System SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the UC Davis Cancer Center have agreed to collaborate on an integrated cancer program that will bring together the advanced biomed......ralias agriculture. The federal governments recent initiative will look for ways to tackle both, but some players are already well ahead of the game. Plants can process a vast amount of water. In a process called transpiration, they suck water up through their roots and expel it from their leaves through st...