Lack of immune system protein prevents lupus-like condition in mice
...lupus, a condition that afflicts approximately 1.5 million Americans with arthritis, prolonged fatigue, skin rashes, kidney damage, anemia and breathing pain. In one of these models, exposing mice to a hydrocarbon oil known as pristane causes mice to develop a condition with many similarities to human lupus,...$1.6 million grant to Williams College
...s announced the award of a four-year grant of $1.6 million to Williams College. The award is part of a $606 million investment in undergraduate science by HHMI. To help colleges meet the challenges of keeping up wit...'Trap' crop saves Texas cross timbers melon production
... "Starting now (mid-June) our growers will ship a million pounds of watermelon a day," Whitney said. The project has been a success from a research perspective too, Mitchell said. It has brought to bear a diverse group of professionals to address a real-world problem directly affecting people's livelihoods...'Weed from hell' found in Texas
...sed from a couple of thousand acres to more than a million in six years, Redmon said. The weed has taken over hundreds of thousands of acres in Florida, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia and Louisiana. "Because TSA produces an unpalatable foliage that goes ungrazed by livestock, the plant can rapidly spread over p...Global competition closes Texas sawmills/paper mills
...2 to 2003, softwood consumption increased from 380 million cubic feet to 488 million; hardwood consumption from 70 million to more than 111 million, according to a U.S. Forest Service inventory. In the same time period: ...Milk consumption and calcium intake associated with lower colorectal cancer risk
...e countries. The studies included more than half a million individuals, among whom nearly 5,000 individuals were diagnosed with colorectal cancer during follow-up. Among all of the food sources of calcium that the researchers examined, only milk consumption was associated with a decreased risk of colorectal ...Spanish scientists develop powerful tool for exploration and integration of biological information
...funded ORIEL and TEMBLOR projects, converts the 14 million abstracts in the PubMed (National Library of Medicine) bibliographic database into a network of interlinked references to genes, proteins, mutations, diseases and (bio)chemical compounds. By using genes and proteins as hyperlinks between sentences an...RICE gets $1.1m from DOD to study neurofibromatosis
...." Stern's team has received a new four-year, $1.1 million grant from the Department of Defense Neurofibromatosis Research Program to develop the fruit fly model for neurofibromatosis and to test several key proteins it has already identified as playing a key role in NF. For example, the fruit fly NF1 gene i...Technology could enhance accuracy of breast biopsy
...acy. Now, with two grants totaling more than $1.2 million from the National Cancer Institute and National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, the group will test the probe during biopsies of about 250 patients. At project's end, the researchers will determine which light wavelength is best, ...Macrophages, not stem cells, correct liver disease by fusion
...osinemia in humans. Each mouse was injected with 1 million macrophages. The spleen, upstream from the liver, slowly releases the macrophages into the liver, which would otherwise wash cells away in its blood-rich environs. The result was "robust production" of functional hepatocytes.. "This means you can get...As humans alter land, infectious diseases follow
... causes malaria, a disease that claims more than 1 million lives annually, to diseases like SARS that are relatively new and, so far, limited. "There is no single smoking gun," says Patz. "The causes are interwoven into current unsustainable development practices. " The list of activities that contribute to ...Vacuum assisted deliveries are safe alternative to forceps
...acuumextraction and forceps deliveries for over 11 million singleton live birthsin the United States. The overall risk of death and birth injuries were similar between infantsdelivered by vacuum or by forceps, suggesting that vacuum extraction is atleast as safe as forceps.Furthermore, the relatively low rat...ALL survivors bear genetic damage from life-saving chemotherapy
...rage of 1.4 cells with HPRT mutations out of every million T cells, Finette said. The treatment for ALL consi...n phase of treatment, an average of 52 T cells per million cells contained HPRT mutations. By the final stage of treatment, an average of 93 of every million T...Only 21 states offer newborn screening tests recommended by March of Dimes
...in. In 2002, these states accounted for about 1.3 million of the approximately 4 million live births in the U.S. "This means that only about 32 percent of the babies born in this country a...New $9 million NSF grant to fund creation of center at LSU
A new $9 million research grant from the National Science Foundatio... Regents and the Louisiana EPSCoR program. With $3 million from the Louisiana Board of Regents Support Fund and $1.5 million from the participating institution...Creation of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration will boost clinical trials in UK
..." The UK Government has announced an initial $43.5 million (24 million) to establish new NHS research networks in five key areas - Alzheimer's, stroke, diabetes, mental health and children's medicine. "Clinical trial work in children - especially babies and the very young - is a particularly difficult and se...Donaghue Women's Health Investigator Program awards grants to three at Yale
...disease. From the program's seed grants of $3.6 million awarded to date, the granted scientists have gener...es, program investigators have received over $15.5 million of new external research funding for their laboratories, including many research and training grants...Chemical Society announces EPA awards for environmentally friendly technology
... contributed to the environment by eliminating 387 million pounds and 9.1 million gallons of hazardous substances, saving 440 million gallons of water, and reducing carbon dioxide em...Herpes tool allows researchers to customize Alzheimer's vaccine
...tion, Bowers has just been awarded a five-year, $1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study a closely related topic, the role of inflammation in the disease. Understanding how inflammation contributes to Alzheimer's will help Bowers and others create a vaccine best suited to treat or pre...Study: Artificial sweetener may disrupt body's ability to count calories
...ng sugar-free products increased from less than 70 million in 1987 to more than 160 million in 2000. During the same period, the consumption of regular soft drinks increased by more than 15 ga...