Pacific Northwest National Laboratory gets $10 million from NIH to build virtual lung
...titute, is PNNL's second this past year in the $10 million range. Last October, the lab was awarded more than $10 million to establish a national resource center for proteomics research. ( http:// www.pnl.gov/news/2003/03-...Probing the surface of white blood cells to enhance immune system medicine
...ate this promising tool through funding from a $12 million Centers of Biomedical Research and Excellence (COBRE) grant awarded by the NIH in 2003. The researchers will continue their work in hopes of determining the proteins that assemble lymphocyte microvilli. Identification of these proteins would provid...Better living through urban ecology
...lars 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- and sewer-sheds. Michael...Highlights of American Chemical Society national meeting in Philadelphia, Aug. 22-26
...jor cause of worldwide mortality, killing almost 1 million people annually. Despite the availability of a vaccine, interference from maternal antibodies and parental concerns about vaccine safety have resulted in continuing outbreaks. Researchers at Emory University in Atlanta have developed a series of prom...Study of flu patients reveals virus outsmarting key drug
...pandemic of 1918 was a global tragedy, claiming 21 million lives - more than died in battle in World War I. One billion people - nearly half of the earth's population at the time - were infected. The new study of Japanese children portrays what might happen in a pandemic as the immune system of a child, neve...Environmental costs of home construction lower with wise choice, reuse of building materials
... is significant, Lippke says, because building 1.7 million houses using wood-, steel- and concrete-frame cons... consumes as much energy as heating and cooling 10 million or more homes a year. Better material selection and house design could reduce energy use during home...Study in Science reveals recreational fishing takes big bite of ocean catch
... Maryland, and Virginia) in 2002. "With over ten million saltwater recreational anglers in the U.S., and recreational fishing activity growing as much as 20% in the last 10 years, their aggregate impact is far from benign," says co-author Will Figueira of Duke University, currently at the University of Tec...Washington University in St. Louis plays key role in sequencing moss genome
...to be the first land plants that evolved about 450 million years ago, predating the flowering or seed plants by some two hundred million years. Although this non-vascular plant lacks structures such as flowers, seeds, true roots, stems ...University of Pittsburgh receives $10 million grant for head and neck cancer
...cer Institute (UPCI) has received a five-year, $10 million Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) federal grant to examine innovative treatment strategies designed to improve survival outcomes for patients with head and neck cancer. The grant, awarded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), is th...Researchers uncover secrets of immune system's munitions factory
... recognize antigens. These mutations occur about a million times more frequently than spontaneous mutations in other genes. In this process, known as somatic hypermutation, AID selectively "damages" the DNA strand, prompting the DNA repair system to create the mutations. AID also triggers class switch recomb...UC Irvine scientists to develop vaccine to combat bioterrorism threat from deadly bacteria
...errorism. The research will be supported by a $5.8 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health. B. pseudomallei , which is resistant to many antibiotics, causes melioidosis, an infectious and deadly disease that affects humans and ...Meteorites supplied Earth life with phosphorus
...'s approximately one phosphorus atom for every 2.8 million hydrogen atoms in the cosmos, every 49 million hydrogen atoms in the oceans, and every 203 hydrogen atoms in bacteria. Similarly, there's a single ...Listen up! Mice may hold key to restoring human hearing loss
...balance disorders, which currently affect about 28 million Americans, Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) principal investigators Jeffrey Corwin and Stefan Heller are working this summer to make large numbers of mouse stem cells "grow" into inner ear sensory hair cells--acoustic receptors that are a critical ...JGI announces community sequencing program portfolio
...e among the first plants to colonize the land, 450 million years ago. They predate the flowering plants by some 200 million years of evolutionary time. "Mosses can do many of the things that the flowering plants have forgott...OneWorld Health compiles comprehensive state of infectious diarrhea treatments, potential solutions
...orld's children, responsible for approximately two million deaths each year. Even more shocking, diarrhea contributes to the death of four to six million people of all ages every year around the globe. The Institute for OneWorld Health, the first nonprof...Carnegie Mellon scientists reveal ways of studying, resolving PCB contamination in US rivers
...dredging, which is estimated to cost at least $500 million along the Hudson River alone. (See full release on Eurekalert, "Carnegie Mellon University Researcher Tests New Tools for Protecting Anacostia River Ecosystem from PCBs")...Congress to fund Sequim-based coastal security research effort
SEQUIM, Wash.--A $4.2 million Congressional appropriationwill fund a new coastal...lympic Peninsula over the next few years. The $4.2 million is for fiscal year 2005, and comes on top of a $1.7 million Congressional "earmark" secured this sum...PCB breakdown in rivers depends on sediment-specific bacteria, find Carnegie Mellon U. scientists
...state New York collectively released more than one million pounds of PCBs into the water, not knowing that these pollutants could linger for thousands of years. While U.S. production ceased in 1978, PCBs continue to endanger waterways across the United States from historic and ongoing uncontrolled releases. ...Why damaged DNA gets a case of the bends
...gy and computation. PNNL employs 3,800, has a $600 million annual budget, and has been managed by Ohio-based Battelle since the lab's inception in 1965....Clemson University spin-off uses corn to make plastics, provide cleaner air
... materials. Their research attracted more than $13 million in sponsored research during the center's first th...S.C. Commission on Higher Education and granted $5 million in matching funds for an endowed faculty member. The faculty position is a cornerstone of Clemson's ...