Stem cell research targets cerebral palsy
...egan his studies of stem cell transplants, parents nationwide have asked when the technique will be available to help children. "I tell them we are working hard and making progress, but it is slow and there may be clinical trials in several years," Dr. Carroll says. Although he thinks there is potential for ste...A changing landscape may have dire implications for birds
...rom human shaping of the landscape. "This mirrors nationwide results previously reported by Audubon," says Pidgeon. Now, Pidgeon has expanded the study to begin to examine how the pressures of housing growth and land cover change have altered bird populations during the past 30 years across the 48 contiguous U...Children's Hospital Boston receives more than $10 million to help make smallpox vaccine safer
...vision of Immunology will play a leading role in a nationwide research network, launched by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), that will investigate why atopic dermatitis predisposes smallpox vaccine recipients to EV. "Since 5 percent of kids and about 1 percent of adults have ...Most Americans not sure about the sources of high cholesterol
Dallas, July 14, 2004 - Results from a recent nationwide survey showed that most respondents did not know that high cholesterol comes from two sources, even though the respondents reported having high cholesterol. When asked about the sources of cholesterol, more than three-quarters of respondents (77 pe...Carnegie Mellon U. imaging study reveals sex-based differences that persist as mice enter adulthood
...I) technique. Carnegie Mellon is one of few groups nationwide with the capability to perform MRM. Koshibu, who did much of the data analysis, recently completed her doctoral work in the department of neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh while working at the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, a jo...APS awards more than $200,000 to middle and high school science teachers
...ince then, nearly 306 teachers and 191 APS members nationwide have participated in this expanding program. The program has consistently proven to help teachers increase their understanding of scientific research methods and the importance of biomedical research. It also has proven effective in helping teacher...Virginia Bioinformatics Institute researcher advances fight against sudden oak death disease
...ell as nurseries in 11 other states. As a result a nationwide quarantine has been placed on all imported shrubs from California. In 2002, VBI in collaboration with the DOE Joint Genome Institute began this $3.8 million project, which was funded by USDA, NSF, and DOE, to sequence all genes in P. Sojae and P. ram...NIH launches first center in Nationwide Chemical Genomics Network
...Chemical Genomics Center the first component of a nationwide network that will produce innovative chemical "tools" for use in biological research and drug development. "Providing public-sector researchers with this unprecedented opportunity will greatly broaden the scope of biological exploration," said NIH Di...Loyola decides to test new blood substitute in trauma patients at the scene of injury
... Level I trauma centers participating in the trial nationwide and the only one in Illinois. "If the blood substitute works the way we hope it will, it could be the first major advance since the introduction of saline, or salt water, to replace volume after blood loss, around the time of World War I," said Dr. ...Patent on beagle dogs cancelled
...sued nearly 500 patent applications on animals. A nationwide poll of U.S. adults commissioned by AAVS earlier this year found that two out of three people consider it unethical to issue patents on animals as if they were human inventions. Eighty-five percent of those surveyed were not even aware that governmen...Beagles win first round in fight for reprieve from patenting
..., it has granted nearly 500 patents on animals. A nationwide poll of U.S. adults commissioned by AAVS earlier this year found that two out of three people consider it unethical to issue patents on animals as if they were human inventions. Eighty-five percent of those surveyed were not even aware that governme......ew book, The UV Advantage, available in bookstores nationwide today. Dr. Holick is considered by many to be one of the nation's foremost authority on vitamin D. Dr. Holick said, "Today we face what is in fact a 'medically significant' epidemic of vitamin D deficient people. Forty to sixty percent of Americans ...Sediments in many Central Valley streams contain toxic levels of pyrethroid pesticides
...erkeley - A family of pesticides used increasingly nationwide in place of more heavily restricted organophosphate pesticides has accumulated in many creek sediments to levels that are toxic to freshwater bottom dwellers, according to a new study. The pesticides, called pyrethroids (pie-REE-throids), have been c...Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research helps implement global climate change initiative
...ciates. This southeastern partnership is part of a nationwide network of regional government-industry-academic partnerships focused on determining the most suitable technologies, regulations, and infrastructure needs for carbon capture, storage and sequestration in different areas of the country. These regiona...Bye-bye Bio 101: Teach science the way you do science
...llion to 20 recognized researchers at universities nationwide to find innovative ways to make undergraduate science teaching mirror the methods and rigors of research science at its best. If scientific teaching is going to replace lectures and "cookbook" labs in which the results are already known, the policy ...Colorectal cancer rates in African Americans equal with insurance parity
...untered by equal access to health care came from a nationwide study of colon cancer patients treated at VA Medical Centers. The study found that both the processes of care and overall survival were essentially the same for both blacks and whites in the VA system. Since most study participants were male, the fin...SensorNet proposed as system to protect millions nationwide
...n. Furthermore, it is possible to rapidly deploy a nationwide SensorNet system because much of the technology and infrastructure already exist. A communications center at ORNL is operational and shows real-time data from test beds in Washington, D.C., New York and Tennessee. Data on several monitors show vis...PNNL recognized for commercializing technologies
...gy. The PNNL technologies were among 24 recognized nationwide by the FLC this year. With 57 awards, PNNL has been honored by the FLC more than any other federal laboratory since the recognition program began in 1984. Electrodynamic Ion Funnel The PNNL-developed Electrodynamic Ion Funnel significantly improves...Federal grant supports advances in infant heart disease at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
...on. Children's Hospital is one of four centers nationwide that the NHLBI has designated a Specialized Center of Clinically Oriented Research (SCCOR) in Pediatric Heart Development and Disease. The Institute's SCCOR program is a new initiative designed to speed the process by which advances in basic scientif...Parkinson's disease genetic study progresses with $8 million grant
...grant for $6 million in 1998 initiated the largest nationwide study ever conducted on the genetics of the neurod...of Medicine and the principal investigator for the nationwide PROGENI study. The discovery of multiple genes that may have an impact on the onset of Parkinson's ...