K-State, other universities to study how climate affects plant evolution
...veral universities that will share an estimated $5 million federal grant to study how plants respond to environmental changes and how the genetic pathways underlying their responses evolve in different climates. "K-State is working with some of the premier labs in the world on this project, which is being fu...Information system to help scientists analyze mechanisms of social behavior
...sive." BeeSpace was one of six awards totaling $30 million announced today (Sept. 16) as part of the NSF's Fr... construction on Gregory Drive in Urbana. The $75 million state-of-the-art facility, which will open in mid-2006, will be home to 400 campus researchers in th...Cockroach-like robot leads new research effort
...otion. The grant is one of six totaling nearly $30 million through NSF's Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research (FIBR) program, which supports integrative research that addresses major questions in the biological sciences. "The hallmark of life is movement," said Robert Full, professor of integrative ...NSF announces six 'FIBR' awards to tackle some of biology's most challenging questions
...today announced six new awards totaling nearly $30 million over five years from its Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research (FIBR) program. Each of the five-year awards brings together scientists from many areas of biology and other fields to draw upon advances in genomics, ecology, enhanced information...Washington University in St. Louis leads group studying aging process
...is the principal investigator of a five-year, five million dollar project from the Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research (FIBR) program at the National Science Foundation (NSF). In this project, a team of interdisciplinary researchers plans to use a systems biology approach to delineate the genes and...Joslin researchers clarify mechanisms for beta-cell formation
...ly insulin injections to survive. An estimated 18 million Americans have type 2 diabetes, in which the pancreas doesn't produce enough insulin and/or the body is unable to use insulin properly (insulin resistance). Poorly controlled diabetes can lead to a host of complications, including heart attacks, str...Human chromosome 5 final sequence analysis released to public
...gest to be completed thus far, is made up of 180.9 million genetic letters the As, Ts, Gs, and Cs that compo...suggesting that before mammals and birds split 300 million years ago, the sex chromosomes had not yet evolved. After the split, mammals and birds developed the...Pioneering AIDS researcher to speak at UH
...e estimates expect the total case load to reach 10 million infected with HIV by 2010. Ho will talk about a DNA vaccine that has already reached phase-I human trial, as well as discuss two more vaccines under development. These vaccines under development are based on a viral strain common in Chinas southwe...AACR applauds NCI initiative on nanotechnology
...e for Nanotechnology in Cancer will provide $144.3 million over five years to bring together researchers, clinicians and public and private organizations to translate cancer-related nanotechnology research for the benefit of the patient. Nanotechnology refers to the interactions of cellular and molecular com...Genetic analysis rewrites salamander's evolutionary history
...n unbroken female chain going back perhaps 100-150 million years in plethodontid salamanders. By looking at mutations in the mitochondrial DNA, biologists can infer the pattern of evolution. "What is happening now is that by focusing on mitochondrial genes and adding particular nuclear genes, we really are t...Tufts University establishes $4 million dollar tissue engineering resource center
MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. With a $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Tufts University has established a Tissue Engineering Resource Center on its Medford/Somerville campus, officials announced today. The grant is funded through the NIH's National Institutes of Biomedical I...DuPont developing new protective suits for military, first responders
...ve. The U.S. government has awarded nearly $2.5 million to DuPont and its partners to assist in the develo...er Systems Center at Natick, Mass., awarded a $1.5 million cooperative agreement to DuPont scientists for the military application of the technology. Earlier ...Columbia research to examine gene influence on severity of peridontal disease, therapy response
...edisposition for response. A new three-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research will support research to determine whether different forms of periodontitis can be classified based on gene expression in inflamed gums. Periodontitis occurs when infection of the gu...Proteins show promise for mosquito control
...d Health Organization estimates that there are 300 million cases of mosquito-borne diseases annually. Malaria is the biggest killer, claiming a million lives a year. The two main approaches to future mosquito control, as Lan sees it, are genetic and ...Growth hormone and IBD: Reduction of intestinal inflammation, promotion of growth
... healing. About 10%, or 100,000 of the estimated 1 million Americans who suffer from IBD (either Crohn's Disease, or ulcerative colitis) are under 18, according to the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America. CCFA said IBD has been has been detected in infants as young as 18 months and can be particularly ...Case for IBD combination therapy comes from research at Baylor, MIT and Hebrew University
...urable and their causes are still unknown. About 1 million Americans suffer from IBD and research around the world on new therapeutic strategies against IBD is being reported at a conference sponsored by the American Physiological Society. On one thing most researchers agree on about IBD: it's very complex....PNNL lands $10.3 million NIH biodefense contract to unlock proteomes of salmonella and pox
...Northwest National Laboratory has received a $10.3 million biodefense contract from the National Institute of... award is the Department of Energy lab's third $10 million National Institutes of Health grant or contract in the past year and the second for Richard D. Smith...K-State's National Agricultural Biosecurity Center receives $1.3 Million from Department of Defense
.... -- The Department of Defense has awarded a $1.38 million two-year contract to the National Agricultural Biosecurity Center at Kansas State University. Through efforts by the National Agricultural Biosecurity Center and its three subcontractors, the project will develop content and software to help the nat...Charting the future in prostate cancer care: A call to action
...xpected to die from the disease. Today, about two million men are battling prostate cancer, and over the next decade, about three million more will be compelled to join the war. The need for new therapies is great, and since 1993, The Pr...Joslin Diabetes Center adds first affiliate in California at Irvine Medical Center
...with an institution in California. More than 18 million Americans have diabetes, which is the fifth leadin...hat is common among diabetes patients. "Over 1.5 million people in California have diabetes, and statistically, a third of them don't know they have the dise...